RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116453455095944748
Corporate energy giants (mostly foreign not Australian): “endless funding for lobbying and spin, but resistance when asked to pay a fair return on public resources.”
WHY? IS? IT? SO? 🤔
#AusPol #energyCompanies #lobbying #notPayingFairTaxes #AustralianResources #socialLicense #advertising #arrogance
"My mother went to high school with a top divorce attorney, so I ended up getting a payout. That attorney taught me a lesson that stood me in good stead for all my subsequent divorces: the partner who files for divorce first wins the case. It means you have your ducks in a row and you’ve snapped up the best attorney. That sounds a little heartless, but you can’t get around the fact that, in America, marriage is unavoidably about money."
You can make a 6 digit income that is mostly tax free from support payments, especially if the children you leverage have different fathers..."unavoidably about money" and the harms that follow blatant injustice. My ex has been partying for two decades and counting.
Does Tina Smith’s Boundary Waters Legislation Change the Outlook?
Yesterday, Senator Tina Smith introduced legislation to protect the Boundary Waters and make permanent the Biden administration’s 20-year moratorium on copper and nickel mining in the Rainy River Watershed. It was a rare spot of welcome news.
Smith’s Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act appears to be closely modeled on Representative Betty McCollum’s bill, which is currently wending its slow way through the House.
Both bills set out reasonable positions that appeal to a strong majority of voters. Neither bill is likely to become law anytime soon. As Smith told MPR:
I understand that it will be hard to get this through Congress, given the current political makeup of Congress. But I think it’s important to put a marker out there and give us all something to work towards.
In other words, don’t bet on anything significant happening before 2026 or 2028, or long after that, and bear in mind that any legislation along these lines will face stiff opposition and counter-legislation.
Just a couple of months ago, Representative Pete Stauber reintroduced his Superior National Forest Restoration Act. Despite its name, the bill doesn’t do much to restore Superior National Forest. Stauber aims to undo the Biden moratorium. The only things he’s out to restore are his Chilean patron’s cancelled mineral leases.
So, at best, the 119th Congress is likely to end in a standoff on this issue.
In the meantime, Boundary Waters litigation is still before the DC District Court of Appeals. The last entry in the docket showed Interior Secretary Doug Burgum asking for a 90-day abeyance, during which time, he informs the court, he plans to conduct a farcical exercise in foregone conclusions and hand the Boundary Waters over to the Chilean mining company.
The court still has not answered that 7 March request. It was predicated on what Burgum calls “a meaningful likelihood that the contours of the issues presented in this case will change.” There’s no question about that. Now, however, it appears that they may not change in the direction Burgum and Antofagasta anticipate.
Smith’s legislation sets out a marker, as she says, and Congress, not Trump’s kleptocratic crony, has the greater constitutional authority and should have the ultimate say. This Congress may choose to abdicate its constitutional authority; and confidence placed in politicians is always confidence misplaced. But even the most hardened cynic would have to acknowledge that with Smith’s legislation on the table next to McCollum’s, the long-term outlook has changed a little, and so have the business risks associated with Antofagasta’s approach to its Twin Metals project.
Now there’s a chance — nothing more than that, but a chance all the same — that Antofagasta could see any services Secretary Burgum hastily and corruptly performs on its behalf eventually undone by statute.
#ANTO #administrativeState #congressionalAuthority #corruption #DougBurgum #politicalAuthority #politicians #risk #socialLicense #Water
Revealed: the bumper profits taken by English private nursery chains | Childcare | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/mar/12/private-nursery-chains-profits-england
#England
#Childcare
#Nurseries
#Profits
#Pay
#Wages
#ValueForMoney
#JosephRowntreeFoundation
#Hunt
#JRF
#SocialLicense
#Unison
"The single most important effect of #divestment isn’t about the money at all, but something stranger and more diffuse: It takes away the “#SocialLicense” of the #FossilFuel industry.
It makes extractive companies seem socially irresponsible and unworthy of public investment. It makes people think twice about working for such firms. It helps pressure corporate financiers to take #climate seriously, something that really will keep the planet livable."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/10/climate-change-divestment-fossil-fuels/675635/
It's just straight up public relations & #SocialLicense and if Canada throws 50 billion dollars at it that's money we'll NEVER get back. Alberta #OilAndGas should just spend its own money, they're making more than ever before.
PODCAST: https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/alberta-net-zero-by-2050-pathway-to-nowhere-248398/
#CarbonCapture #CarbonCaptureAndStorage #abpoli #cdnpoli #CCS #CCUS #ClimateChange #yyc #Alberta
Alberta's tar sands giants have a shiny new ad campaign with a dubious plan to keep the bitumen flowing
#CarbonCaptureAndStorage is a rearguard action from a sunsetting industry seeking to maximize profits doing business as usual, all the while acting like they're doing something to save us from the wildfires & smoke we now breathe that they can no longer just outright deny
It's just straight up public relations & #SocialLicense and if Canada throws 50 billion dollars at it that's money we'll NEVER get back
https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/episode/alberta-net-zero-by-2050-pathway-to-nowhere-248398/
#yyc #CCS #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli #CarbonCapture #CCUS
Alberta's tar sands giants have a shiny new ad campaign with a dubious plan to keep the bitumen flowing
"More that 1,300 #offshore workers are to stage a 48-hour #strike in a dispute over pay.
The scale of corporate greed in the offshore sector has to be challenged.
This is not exclusively about #pay but also working rotas, #holidays, and offshore #safety."
Does the #FossilFuel industry deserve to keep its #SocialLicense to operate?
"The Statistical Review provides detailed data on global oil, gas and coal production and consumption."
"Led by BP's Chief Economist Spencer Dale in recent years, the report was expanded to include data on renewable energy and even minerals used for batteries."
But BP is looking to discontinue it, for being "bad PR".
BP <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/BP.L" target="_blank">(BP.L)</a> is considering ending the publication of its Statistical Review of World Energy, over 70 years after it first published the benchmark report, as the energy major focuses on its shift to renewables, the company told Reuters.
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