Mastodawn

The political system - #Capitalism - has decided #fossilfuels profits matter more than climate stability, than the #GreatBarrierReef, than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet.

https://overland.org.au/2026/04/the-67-billion-climate-betrayal-how-australias-record-fossil-fuel-subsidies-fund-global-destruction/

Australians for Prosperity - Coal Australia* - Energy For Australians ( #Plutocrats )
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/energy-for-australians-accepted-1m-coal-australia-independent-claims

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#New Hope #Peabody #Yancoal #Whitehaven

The $67 billion climate betrayal: how Australia’s record fossil fuel subsidies fund global destruction - Overland literary journal

The contradictions aren't failures of implementation. They're the predictable result of a political system that has decided fossil fuel profits matter more than climate stability, more than the Great Barrier Reef, more than Pacific Islander lives, and more than the future habitability of the planet.

Overland literary journal

BellingenNSW 4h ago

Coal

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work? >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/australia-emissions-increasing-coalmines-climate-policy-analysis

"An “independent, community-driven association” that ran anti-Labor adverts during the last federal election was entirely funded by a coal industry lobby group."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/19/energy-for-australians-accepted-1m-coal-australia-independent-claims
#coal #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #lobby #pollution #offset

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

The Guardian

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬4h ago

#Cancer Haunts Neighbors of #Canada’s #OilSands Wastelands
Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated #mining waste into the river system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/health/canada-oil-sands-fort-chipewyan-alberta.html
https://archive.ph/sxMsp
#fossilfuels

Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system.

The New York Times

World news | The Guardian 5h ago

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/19/australia-emissions-increasing-coalmines-climate-policy-analysis #GreenhouseGasEmissions #AustraliaNews #AustralianPolitics #ClimateCrisis #CarbonOffsetting #FossilFuels #Mining #Coal #Environment #Energy

Australia’s coalmine emissions are increasing. Is this how a major policy to cut climate pollution is meant to work?

The Albanese government overhauled policy and promised significant pollution cuts – but carbon offsets are still being used as an excuse

The Guardian

datum (n=1)6h ago

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@JEmphatically/116426991448848981

Would YOU be comfortable drinking just one teaspoon of pipeline fluid? How about four?

That's how much was in this SINGLE SPILL, per Canadian.

That's 2/3 cup of pipeline fluid per Albertan. Imagine slugging that back!

#CDNPoli #Canada #fossilFuels #Alberta #ABPoli

Gail Waldby ❌👑7h ago

#FossilFuels #OilLeak #Alberta #AlbertaCanada #Canada #WaterPollution

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bf6v75afdogdhklovayjpk3y/post/3mjozaickp22d

Bongolian 10h ago

How big oil is cashing in on Iran war: $30M/hr. The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies made more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian.

The conflict pushed the price of oil to an average of $100 a barrel in March, leading to estimated windfall war profits for the month of $23bn for the companies.

#fossilfuels #ClimateChange #billionaires
https://www.theguardian.com/news/video/2026/apr/15/how-big-oil-is-cashing-in-on-iran-war-the-latest

How big oil is cashing in on Iran war – The Latest

The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies made more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Lucy Hough speaks to Damian Carrington, the Guardian’s environment editor

The Guardian

Akshay 11h ago

Analysis of why the fossil fuels shock could drive the electric age…but only if we choose it over mean reversal.

“China already has the factory capacity to more than double 2025 sales of solar, batteries and EVs. What was once seen as “overcapacity” is now just capacity.”

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-new-twin-fossil-shock/

#FossilFuels #Electrification #Climate #Energy #Renewables #China #OilCrisis #EnergyCrisis

The New Twin Fossil Shock | Ember

How the energy crises of the 2020s speed up the electric age

Ember

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Gert-Jan Kroese 15h ago

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social deep, very deep in his heart he must still be a liberal democrat (from Queens) who, by steadfastedly saying stupid, offensive & authocratic stuff on a daily basis, in the end might move the dial to make ‘us’ live green. Posthumously, some in future may even say this was his true #artofthedeal. Regardless, he today is and remains a vile human being. #trump #renewableenergy #fossilfuels

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Casdeiro 16h ago

@muellertadzio This is what I've been trying to warn about since a long time (after many others). See: https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/download/we-detritivores/ = the English version of my 2013 essay. More versions at http://detritivoros.com/

#WeDetritivores #FossilFuels #Food #Hunger #Collapse