Imagine roadless nature!
Rescinding The Roadless Rule

Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging

"...The U.S. Congress will act soon on a proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule, which was enacted in 2001 and safeguards some 58 million acres of public land in 39 states from new road development." >>
https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/general/congress-to-consider-roadless-rule-rescission

"Nearly a year ago, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the long-contested 2001 Roadless Rule, which bars road construction on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land...The administration and timber trade groups argue roads provide access for wildfire suppression and forest management work aimed at reducing fire risk." >>
https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/environment/2026/05/28/public-rollout-of-roadless-rule-repeal-delayed/

"The Roadless Rule also protects taxpayers from shouldering the high costs of building and maintaining roads in the Forest Service system. Rescinding it would expose taxpayers to billions in new liabilities from subsidized roads, money-losing timber sales, increased wildfire risks, and harm to our forest health." >>
https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/house-committee-considers-bill-to-repeal-roadless-rule/
#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #roads #RoadConstruction #harm #destruction #logging #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #trends #AnglosSphere #forestry #RoadlessRule #conservation

L’Ukraine, les minerais critiques et l’extractivisme nu

L’étude (Deberdt et BIllon, 2026) montre comment l’Ukraine est devenue un terrain de rivalité impériale autour des minerais critiques, entre guerre, spéculation et chantage géopolitique. #Extractivism #CriticalMinerals #Ukraine #Geopolitics #ResourceImperialism #USA #Trump L’article de Raphael Deberdt et Philippe Le Billon propose une lecture très claire de la politique américaine récente : sous Trump, l’accès aux…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/05/28/lukraine-les-minerais-critiques-et-lextractivisme-nu/

Australian environmental standards?

Australia’s old environment laws were a box‑ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too >>
https://theconversation.com/australias-old-environment-laws-were-a-box-ticking-exercise-sadly-the-new-ones-could-be-too-283069

"We're facing a deforestation crisis here in the Territory, with the bulldozers rolling in on the world's last intact tropical savanna, while the federal government looks away."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/claravale-land-clearing-judicial-review-environment-minister/106714566
#EPBCAct #biodiversity #conservation #BoxTicking #laws #WeakStandards #regulation #nature #offsets #extractivism #fastTack #deforestation #TropicalSavanna

Greenwashing BHP - Bloody Huge Polluter/Bloody Huge Profits
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/bhp-leaked-documents-climate-emissions-cuts-delay-electric-truck/106706762

#4corners tv expose 25-05-2026
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners

(Note “Abolish the ABC” is political party (& hate group) One Nation policy and conservative LNP Coalition want ABC #privatisation … the publicly owned statutory broadcaster is taxpayer funded.)

#Capitalism #climatecrisis #Extractivism #fossilfuels #oligarchy

#AmericanPrestige welcomes #TheaRiofrancos for a great interview about her book #Extraction: The Frontiers of #GreenCapitalism

https://americanprestigepod.com/episodes/7058544218
#energyTransition #greenwashing #environment #lithium #lithiumMining #extractivism #geoeconomy #politicalTheory #degrowth #ecosocialism #ecomarxism #books @bookstodon

Australia’s environmental degradation

"One must ask why the federal government is so comfortable continuing to ignore the wishes of most Australians, and continuing to condemn our life-sustaining environment and wildlife to profound decline and destruction?"

"Experts in biodiversity and environmental law have found major flaws in the draft national standard for matters of national environmental significance.’..Market-driven nature repair projects will not help address this deficit."

"It would be a betrayal of Australia’s most important public good to settle for the mere appearance of action – we deserve the promised serious investment in our collective future." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/australias-green-wall-street-is-failing-to-launch-threatened-species-deserve-better-than-the-nature-repair-market
#biodiversity #ecosystems #wildlife #EPBCAct #FastTack #degradation #NatureMarkets #regulation #EnvironmentalNeglect #extractivism

Mining harm and liability

"Brazil’s worst environmental disaster unleashed a wave ​of toxic sludge that killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests and polluted the length of the Doce River. BHP cannot appeal against ruling it is liable for 2015 dam collapse" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/07/royal-commission-antisemitism-budget-cost-of-living-jim-chalmers-anthony-albanese-tax-islamic-state-families-syria-ntwnfb

Mariana dam disaster >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_dam_disaster

BHP found liable in transnational claim over Brazil’s Fundão dam collapse >>
https://www.hrlc.org.au/case-summaries/municipio-de-mariana-v-bhp-group/
#mining #extractivism #liability #disaster #pollution #rivers #watercourses #contamination #environment #harm #MiningWaste #TailingsDam