#LarissaWaters: “I think #Labor wanted to avoid the scrutiny.

Of the fact that they, within 2 weeks of re-winning government, approved the biggest #gas plant in the southern hemisphere that would have more emissions than all of our #coal-fired power stations put together over 10 years, an absolute #carbonbomb.

The fact that they’ve ticked off on more than 30 other coal and gas projects since they took government, the fact that they’re currently trying to rewrite our environmental laws to fast-track coal and gas approval.

And the fact that there’s an #algalbloom that’s driven by a marine heat wave that’s caused by #climatechange on the beaches of #Adelaide.”

#COP31 #auspol

Federal government approves #Woodside’s massive #NorthWestShelf #extension with protections for rock art.

The extension to 2070 of one of the world’s biggest #gas export projects, the Govt saying it has agreed to conditions to protect more than 1m pieces of ancient #WorldHeritage listed #indigenous #rockart that sit adjacent to the site.

Climate campaigners have described Woodside’s North West Shelf extension as a “#carbonbomb” that is incompatible with global climate goals. #auspol

City of London banks have poured $100bn (£75bn) into companies developing “carbon bombs”.

‘Nine #London-based banks, including #HSBC, #NatWest, #Barclays and #Lloyds are involved in financing companies responsible for at least 117 #CarbonBomb projects in 28 countries between 2016 – the year after the landmark Paris agreement was signed – and 2023’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/uk-banks-put-75bn-into-firms-building-climate-wrecking-carbon-bombs-study-finds

"#Canada is on the path to detonating the world’s sixth largest “#CarbonBomb” thanks to new and planned liquefied natural gas (#LNG) export facilities on the northwest coast of British Columbia.

“We’re long-term greedy,” Anatol Feygin, a vice president at the gas company Cheniere said this week in a webinar about the global LNG market. “We want these assets to run for decades and decades and think that they should.” "

https://www.desmog.com/2024/01/26/lng-canada-may-detonate-worlds-6th-largest-carbon-bomb-expert-warns/

Air pollution from Canada’s tar sands is much worse than we thought
Oil operations release vast quantities of damaging particles and noxious compounds.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/air-pollution-from-canadas-tar-sands-is-much-worse-than-we-thought/

#FossilFuels #CarbonBomb #CarbonMegaBomb #DirtyFuels #Pollution #AirPollution #GroundwaterPollution #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #Carbon