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[..once dismissed as a lost cause, a battle against a powerful landowner & a planning system loaded against nature, has now become one of the most significant turnarounds in UK conservation campaigning.. ..successful campaigns highlight what can be achieved when communities mobilise..]

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Ambitious claims about potential production from a shale gas discovery in Lincolnshire have been described as “so misleading as to be ridiculous”. drillordrop.com/2025/02/28/q...

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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

submitted 5 days ago • 478 comments

We've a total of ten likely votes this evening in HoL. I'm hosting a guest so slightly losing track, but five votes so far. Three won against the Govt. Nearly 500 peers voted on one of them. It's getting very hard to predict votes! Govt are packing in new peers every wk, but it's not helping so far.

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[Cuadrilla was ordered by Council & regulator.. to plug & abandon site’s horizontal shale gas wells by December 2024. The site, suspended in Aug 2019 after fracking-induced earthquakes, must be restored to farmland by June 2025] Pictures: equipment enters frack site drillordrop.com/2025/02/24/p...

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Peaceful protest is a fundamental democratic right which must be defended The decision in @libertyhq.bsky.social’s important case will affect all of us & is due any time now. This is why I’m standing shoulder to shoulder with them and I hope you will too youtu.be/qk5aiRXRuU0?...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

⚡MP Watch has two campaigns running: ⚡one on Carbon Capture and Storage & ⚡a second on widening the public debate about how to organise our vital water system ⚡we also support our constituent groups 👛 We need your help to continue this work. Please donate here: buy.stripe.com/9AQ9DK83jdrS...

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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

submitted 12 days ago • 75 comments

This was a long time coming! I've been asking the Government probing questions about the supposed independence of #LordWalney 's advice since October. He advised government to treat climate protesters as extremists, while having clear financial links to oil and gas companies 🤔 #LordWalney16

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

The volatile prices of fossil fuels launched the cost of living crisis a few years ago. Kicking our addiction to expensive fossil fuels will make us less dependent on autocrats like Putin, lower our energy bills and give us a healthier future - it's a win-win-win!

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[“Not surprisingly, the activities & operation of the premises use large amounts of electricity & with tariffs rocketing.. a solar-panel installation was seen as most efficient option to bring down costs in long term”]

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["It's all well and good meeting a few of them every now & then, patting them on the head & making noises about how hard they're working to sort everything out.. When figures alone prove how badly they're able to finalise cases; unless victims want to sell themselves short for a quick settlement."]

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A new deal on water needs not only to look at the structure of the water industry but to deal with: 🌊agricultural run off 🌊forever chemicals 🌊flooding We need a huge rethink, & the water crisis gives us the opportunity to do that For the lowdown click on our briefing below. #OurWaterOurWay

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🏃 I am taking the UK Govt and fossil fuel companies BP & Equinor to court on carbon capture and storage ❓Why? 🎬WATCH: youtu.be/n5SasZ5MHn8?fe… This case goes to UK Court of Appeal ON March 4th and 5th 2025 Want to help, READ & PLS SHARE: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/net-zero-teesside/

submitted 110 days ago • 10 comments

[Produced water is pure poison: heavy metals & radioactive materials, inc Radium 226, (half-life 1,600 years). For every barrel of oil, about a barrel & half of produced water is dumped back. “sacrifice zones” -high rates of miscarriages, preterm births/defects, chronic rashes, persistent asthma..]

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Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

submitted 19 days ago • 1184 comments

Mythologizing the virtues of business leaders and the erroneous idea that capitalism is an engine of societal advancement promoting merit and creativity, elevating us all, is no different from any of the other lies promoted by the powerful to enslave and pacify those they are exploiting.

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

In our waters but... Rosebank's oil is overwhelmingly for export, won't reduce bills or improve UK energy security [..when assessing the environmental impact of extracting fossil fuel, the emissions from burning it must be considered too.]

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The government gave ok for Thames Water to raise another £3bn debt at 9.75% interest, just to stay in business. Customers pay for it with higher bills. @greenjennyjones.bsky.social speaks in support of the campaigners who went to court to stop the bail out and to put water in public hands.

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[email protected] chair explaining what pretty much all non-invested scientists say about carbon capture: ⛔️ Don't use it an an excuse to expand the fossil industry ⛔️ Don't use it for electricity generation. I beg the CCC to make this official—say it out loud that the emperor has no clothes.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

#ItsJustNotCricket

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When we analysed UK methane emissions, we found the second highest levels of this potent greenhouse gas were in the area around Drax. Yet we're subsidising this as part of tackling climate change? Time to think again about biomass burning? watershedinvestigations.com/home/find-ou...

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Any trade deal Trump offers Starmer is going to include opening up the NHS even further to US private health firms. Unfortunately, this Labour government is all too likely to accept such terms.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Parliament's Public Accounts Committee is not exactly a hotbed of radical environmentalists. So when it warns that the government's carbon capture scheme is a high-risk punt on very dubious technology for which consumers will pay the bill... committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...

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Excellent explanation from leading AI expert Geoffrey Hinton, who thinks AI’s already conscious—benefits but also v serious risks. Good to see Andrew Marr not trying to dumb it down. No mention in this clip of the energy and water use issues, but maybe it was discussed.

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Yesterday, I stood with climate campaigners to protest the Govt’s dithering on the Rosebank oil field. They promised a liveable future, yet they are backing major airport expansion, blocking vital protections for nature and looking to allow huge new oil projects.

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😡Shocking but unsurprising - a new report shows the Water firms use the same tactics as Oil and Tobacco to deny, distract, and deflect the blame for the sewage crisis. They're misleading you. They're ripping you off. They need to be taken into public ownership. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Equinor , the company behind the new Rosebank oilfield , say they are halving their investment in renewables . Inevitable when you have Starmer & Reeves briefing the press that they still blindly back new oil and gas . Criminal . www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

Calling those interested in oil & gas and Scope 3 emissions. Did you know that first formal assessment of GHG from burning oil since my landmark win in the Supreme Court is about to take place? It's for the Biscathorpe oil site which had permission quashed...

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[As in ‘Finch’ case.. carbon emissions from use of the oil had not been taken into account when planning was granted on appeal. Now case gone back to Planning for redetermination.. the first time application for fossil fuel production will be considered following the landmark Supreme Court judgment]

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Listening & finding some parallels. Stalker has pursued me (real-world + online) since 2015. It started at a time when my relations with police were challenging (I actively oppose fracking).. in court it was suggested that I was tough enough (?!) "But you're an activist - you're used to this.."

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This is a really solid investigation into something that laid the groundwork for where we are today. Yet, it’s almost quaint compared to what Elon is doing now

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Yes. Exactly this.

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Keir Starmer is facing a growing internal backlash over the potential approval of a giant new oilfield, after Treasury sources indicated Rachel Reeves was likely to give it her backing. MPs describe a “breaking point” in relations. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Been reading through the Government's new Land Use Consultation. Here's the juiciest bits I've seen so far! An excellent, bold proposal to spare 9% of England's least-productive land for nature & carbon - restoring peat bogs & regenerating woods - & changes to ag land use over a further 10% /1

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

The approval of the Rosebank oil field has been overturned in a landmark ruling. 🚫🛢️ This decision reinforces the legal and moral case against new fossil fuel projects and sends a strong signal to investors. 🧵👇

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Huge #climate news: the Rosebank & Jackdaw judgment, reinforcing Finch but, more importantly, finding the private financial interest in developing the fields could not justify continuing the projects despite the unlawfulness (text of judgment in my LinkedIn post) www.linkedin.com/posts/estell...

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NEW A green light for two major oil and gas projects, Rosebank and Jackdaw, has been quashed by a Scottish court Due to a legal challenge by environmental groups against the planning decision Big moment Follows Supreme Court ruling on Sarah Finch case (see: www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...)

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Rosebank has been ruled unlawful and the oil field’s approval has been overturned. 🎉🎉 The government will have the chance to remake the decision after their oil & gas consultation concludes in spring 2025.

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Here is more on the perils of methane climate impacts from ill-considered globalized mega-projects using LNG (liquified fossil gas). Looks like a good and much-needed lawsuit, in the UK. (And GREAT animations in this short video - kudos.)

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We, the people, need to be able to choose policy outcomes, not political leaders. Too often (all the time?) they legislate in favour of a growth economy (from which only the already rich benefit) rather than in favour of us. Citizens Assemblies would achieve that.

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There is “material uncertainty” over the finances of companies in the Cuadrilla oil and gas group, annual accounts have revealed. drillordrop.com/2025/01/27/u...

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