Australia exports massive amounts of gas, but the gas giants pay peanuts thanks to a broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) full of loopholes.
The govt collects MORE from students (HECS), nurses & teachers than from these super-profitable fossil fuel companies!
Fix the PRRT & make them pay their fair share – billions for public services & climate action!
Sign the petition now:

#auspol #climateaction #taxtherich #gascartel #fossilfuels

https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt

Coal power is finally retreating in the world’s two largest markets. For the first time since 1973, both China and India saw coal generation drop in 2025 thanks to a relentless clean energy boom. We are witnessing the beginning of the end for the coal era.
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​ #climateaction #renewables #coaldecline #cleanenergy #coal #fossilfuels

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s

Coal power is finally retreating in the world’s two largest markets. For the first time since 1973, both China and India saw coal generation drop in 2025 thanks to a relentless clean energy boom. We are witnessing the beginning of the end for the coal era.
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​ #climateaction #renewables #coaldecline #cleanenergy #coal #fossilfuels

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

"Oil dominance as a signal"

Good analysis of the oil-Venezuela situation from the Polycrisis folks

https://buttondown.com/polycrisisdispatch/archive/its-about-oil-no-it-isnt-yes-it-is/

#oil #FossilFuels #Venezuela #uspol #trump #polycrisis #geopolitics

Australia exports massive amounts of gas, but the gas giants pay peanuts thanks to a broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) full of loopholes.
The govt collects MORE from students (HECS), nurses & teachers than from these super-profitable fossil fuel companies!
Fix the PRRT & make them pay their fair share – billions for public services & climate action!
Sign the petition now:

#auspol #climateaction #taxtherich #gascartel #fossilfuels

https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

Report: Aipac donor "could reap billions of dollars from a reshuffle in Venezuela’s oil assets."

Republican donor Paul Singer "has made a cut-rate offer to buy a string of Venezuelan-owned refineries in US"

Singer can now finalise a deal that would see his investment firm "gain control of a network of US-based oil refineries at a steeply discounted price."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aipac-donor-cusp-reaping-billions-us-abduction-maduro

#USImperialism #USPol #Europol #Venezuela #Press #FossilFuels #Racism .

"And the oil companies and tech broligarchs coveting them probably have more in common with the 20th century’s United Fruit Company and sugar barons than they think."

#Trump #Venezuela #Greenland #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #EconomicElites #TechBros #oil #FossilFuels #BigOil #SiliconValley #broligarchy
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@inquiline great piece, that puts many alarming but solidly proven findings in one place!

not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics. And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour

leading to

lobbyists are fighting to protect the ability of plastics producers to keep on producing

and

Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of the growth in oil demand by 2030, and nearly half of the growth by 2050. Needless to say, the petrochemical firms’ sustainability agenda consists of advocating for recycling, rather than production curbs

emphasis mine, since

Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled

and then they detail several known harms from plastic itself, from human health to choked animals.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/plastic-planet/

#oil #plastic #fossilfuels #politics #oilAndGas #polycrisis

@inquiline great piece, that puts many alarming but solidly proven findings in one place!

not all oil is burned. A lot is simply feedstock for the petrochemical industry to churn out plastics. And the industry has long seen plastics as its saviour

leading to

lobbyists are fighting to protect the ability of plastics producers to keep on producing

and

Petrochemicals—the sector of the oil and gas industry that produces materials and inputs downstream of petroleum—is expected to account for more than a third of the growth in oil demand by 2030, and nearly half of the growth by 2050. Needless to say, the petrochemical firms’ sustainability agenda consists of advocating for recycling, rather than production curbs

emphasis mine, since

Less than 10 percent of all plastics that go into waste streams are recycled

and then they detail several known harms from plastic itself, from human health to choked animals.

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/plastic-planet/

#oil #plastic #fossilfuels #politics #oilAndGas #polycrisis

Dictators need external wars to consolidate and preserve power. #putin #netanyahu #trump #venezuela

Let’s be the #unitedstates that we’re all mourning the loss of. Let’s #impeach this motherfucker and send a lesson to all usurping motherfuckers everywhere.

Down this way lie #technofeudalism and #climatechange fueled fiefdoms, policed by an #ai #surveillancestate , as the fight for #fossilfuels escalates and the world burns, so we might as well stop waiting for a savior and save ourselves.

Dictators need external wars to consolidate and preserve power. #putin #netanyahu #trump #venezuela

Let’s be the #unitedstates that we’re all mourning the loss of. Let’s #impeach this motherfucker and send a lesson to all usurping motherfuckers everywhere.

Down this way lie #technofeudalism and #climatechange fueled fiefdoms, policed by an #ai #surveillancestate , as the fight for #fossilfuels escalates and the world burns, so we might as well stop waiting for a savior and save ourselves.

Despite gloomy headlines, 2025 saw climate progress with cleaner grids, falling cement demand, rising EV adoption, solar industry shifts, and batteries stabilizing electricity markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/29/world/positive-climate-news-you-this-year/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #climatechange #2025 #evs #solar #carbonemissions #cement #fossilfuels

Some reporting on excellent news about:

the physics professor who became Uruguay's energy secretary, and within five years had the country on 98% renewable energy.

and economically it was a smash hit

the cost of electricity production decreased by roughly half compared to fossil-fuel alternatives, and the country attracted $6 billion in renewable energy investments

Going forward,

He hopes to help 50 countries move to renewables over the next ten years. He said, "We want to prove that an energy transition can be possible in different geographies and can work in different national energy and political contexts."

https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601

#goodNews #Uruguay #energy #fossilFuels #renewables #solar

"The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of the warming is due to human activity."

https://apnews.com/article/epa-climate-change-censorship-fossil-fuels-1c83071f9eea81e8e31ebad0c4444775

#PublicHealth #environment #climate #FossilFuels #energy #EPA #USpol