The Clean Energy Council (#Australia)
https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/
Has released a quarterly report.
It probably is not surprising that _progress_ continues, in spite of all the reactionary noise and generic FUD being desperately flung at fans of all types.
While grabbing the report I discovered their fact Sheets:
https://cleanenergycouncil.org.au/for-consumers/fact-sheets
Which are much more digestible :)
#CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergyTransition #Engineering #SocialLicence #Science
Victorian Govenment and VicGrid need to wake up to reality:
The trauma caused by Coal Seam Gas, that led to #LockTheGates is still raw.
Force and ‘law’ isn’t going to help gain access.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-11-18/vni-west-access-denied-by-farmers/106020096
#AusPol #AusBiz #VicPol #VicLaw #AgChatOz #SocialLicence
Trust.
And the destruction of trust.
Folk used to trust their doctor, bank manager, school principal, ...
Now consumers have no trust.
Pay more for a service?
Who'd trust the corporation not to offer crap-level service and grab the increased profits.
(Gee is #Telstra really considered better service?)
Remember "good corporate citizens" from 15 years ago?
And what they've shown themselves to be since?
"#SocialLicence" has gone.
#CulturalCapture has got corporations defining us.
smh
So when I' a Billionaire ...
I will make many of these right down to the decentralised model and local industry objectives.
#Wind #Solar #BigBatteries #Decentralised #SocialLicence
#Tassy #Tasmania #NotWaiting
Headlines you won't see, but ought to: "Today's celebration of health and fun brought to you by the purveyors of death and planetary ecological breakdown."
#Sportwashing is the practice of sanitising the reputation of a government or corporation through sponsoring sporting events, associating their organisation with the significant public goodwill attached to sports.
A new report by a climate research group called the New Weather Institute calculates that #DirtyEnergy megacorporations have collectively spent at least US$5.6b in such deals.
From the report: “Fossil fuel companies are seeking to associate their product, whose #AirPollution alone is estimated to kill over 5 million people a year, with sport’s immense #SocialCapital and positive health impacts.
“They do this for many of the same reasons that #tobacco companies sponsored sport before it was largely banned – to portray themselves in a positive light and normalise their activities in the eyes of billions of sports fans.
“These types of sponsorship deals buy so-called ‘social licence’ to operate, in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health.”
#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #FossilFuelledFascism #SocialLicence #advertising
See also #greenwashing
Restoring tropical reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and Small Island Nations and avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism
"Between1820 and 1930, over 50 million Europeans colonised a relatively small number of countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South American countries such as Argentina and Uruguay."
The" traditional owners of the land saw this process as an invasion whereby the invaders not only occupied their land and sea country but set out to actively re-model their traditional ecosystems...Colonisers justified the persistent push to import the familiar plants and animals from the homeland given the unfamiliarity of newly colonised landscapes and climates, as well as their lack of knowledge of how to harness the local flora and fauna for food, fibre, clothes and transportation."
"Colonisers proactively sought to make their new home like their old home based on their Western concept of what a ‘natural’ landscape should look like. Cattle and sheep were widely introduced and distributed across the new nation...Acclimatisation Society commenced in 1862 and was operating up until 1956 to introduce new crops to the colonies...This rural industry development caused the significant flow-on effect of biodiversity loss. In Australia alone, twenty species of mammals have been declared extinct, and nearly half of marsupial and monotreme species are now on the extinct, endangered or vulnerable list ..."
Now for the coral reef restoration projects>>
Gibbs MT, Gibbs BL, Newlands M, Ivey J (2021) Scaling up the global reef restoration activity: Avoiding ecological imperialism and ongoing colonialism. PLoS ONE 16(5): e0250870. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250870
#reef #coral #restoration #biodiversity #FossilFuels #GreatBarrierReef #Pacific #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #governance #EpistemicInjustice #IndigenousKnowledge #LocalStakeholders #SLO #EcologicalImperialism #tourism #SocialLicence #LogicOfElimination #extinction
The health and condition of the world’s reefs are in steep decline. This has triggered the development of fledgling micro-scale coral reef restoration projects along many reef coastlines. However, it is increasingly recognised that the scale and productivity of micro-scale coral gardening projects will be insufficient to meet the growing global threats to reefs. More recently, efforts to develop and implement restoration techniques for application at regional scales have been pursued by research organisations. Coral reefs are mostly located in the unindustrialised world. Yet, most of the funding, and scientific and engineering method development for larger-scale methods will likely be sourced and created in the industrialised world. Therefore, the development of the emerging at-scale global reef restoration sector will inevitably involve the transfer of methods, approaches, finances, labour and skills from the industrialised world to the unindustrialised world. This opens the door to the industrialised world negatively impacting the unindustrialised world and, in some cases, First Nations peoples. In Western scientific parlance, ecological imperialism occurs when people from industrialised nations seek to recreate environments and ecosystems in unindustrialised nations that are familiar and comfortable to them. How a coral reef ’should’ look depends on one’s background and perspective. While predominately Western scientific approaches provide guidance on the ecological principles for reef restoration, these methods might not be applicable in every scenario in unindustrialised nations. Imposing such views on Indigenous coastal communities without the local technical and leadership resources to scale-up restoration of their reefs can lead to unwanted consequences. The objective of this paper is to introduce this real and emerging risk into the broader reef restoration discussion.
Tweet from Meta's chief AI scientist hit a nerve back in Australia
#Ethics #ArtificialIntelligence #Responsibility #SocialLicence
The Guardian is reporting that Fossil fuel interests have signed more than 500 sponsorship deals with Australian arts, sport, education and community organisations, prompting accusations they are “engineering a social licence to operate” in the face of growing public pressure and opposition to coal, gas and oil.
Woodside Energy, Santos and BHP among top companies with numerous sponsorships.
#fossilFuels #Greenwashing #SocialLicence #BHP #WoossideEnergy #Santos
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/fossil-fuel-interests-revealed-to-have-signed-more-than-500-sponsorship-deals-with-australian-bodies
Thanks to @roycekurmelovs for writing about fossil fuel sponsorship in the Guardian, discussing the list of Australian sponsorships I've been collating.
"Fossil fuel interests have signed more than 500 sponsorship deals with Australian arts, sport, education and community organisations, prompting accusations they are “engineering a social licence to operate” in the face of growing public pressure on coal, gas and oil."
The list is non-exhaustive and I'm always updating it - so if there are inaccuracies, or things I've missed - feel free to let me know.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16SSOx_z6mGOwbLwhOgJ0AbPyKMGFSW5_kUMmClfSA1s/edit?usp=sharing
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