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#Shell 's PR is full of lush forests & “nature based solutions.” Meanwhile they're busy destroying our planet alongside other #BigOil producers #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #ClimateLitigation #EndFossilFuels #EndPlasticPollution
Cloud Carrier proposes gas-fired power station to power Moss Vale AI data centre. New data centres should be banned from requiring fossil fuels to operate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
One reason climate reporters are pushed out of the newsroom: their editors refuse to allow them to tell the truth about the problem.
Case in point: only 8 percent of all corporate broadcast climate segments in 2025 mentioned fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change.
How would the Iran crisis play out in a world powered by renewables not fossil fuels? theconversation.com/how-would-th...
Another reason to get off of fossil fuels and get behind public transit, cycling, walkable communities and more.
The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
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“Powerful actors linked to the fossil fuel industry and ... Russian information operations ... systematically question renewable energy sources and the European Union’s climate policy”
The Disinformation Machine Behind Czech and Slovak Anti-Wind Farm Campaigns
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Everything you think you know about EV charging is going to become obsolete. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 insideevs.com/news/789094/...
"The sprint to clean energy is the only way to get off the volatile international fossil fuels markets, cut bills & deliver energy security"
Fair play to Starmer - this is exactly right. Meanwhile, Badenoch & Farage would have us hooked on more fossil fuels
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Handouts to oil and gas firms while people face likely bill hikes.
Reckless and irresponsible at a time when we should be doubling down on renewables not cutting tax to fossil fuel fuel giants.
We need a plan to protect people from the coming price shock.
It's not working out well for BP today.
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@andrewdessler.com on huge govt subsidies for #FossilFuels. US spends over $81bn every yr to protect oil supply🛢! Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) calculates about 1/5 of US Dept of Defense base budget exists at least partly to keep oil flowing via vulnerable choke points like #StraitOfHormuz
Text excerpt from NYT article linked in second skeet saying: “Most of the profits are flowing to the very affluent Americans, who are not subject to this cost-of-living crisis anyway because they’re so rich. They’re getting richer, and everyone else is dealing with inflation,” said Gregor Semieniuk, associate professor of University of Massachusetts Amherst who led the study. The United Kingdom responded to fossil fuel companies’ bumper year by adding a windfall tax designed to capture some of the excess profits and use the money to ease the burden on households facing higher bills. Semieniuk’s team calculated what would have happened if the U.S. government redistributed the portion of the fossil fuel industry’s 2022 profits that exceeded its 2021 returns. They found that the move would send $1,715 to every American household, which, they argued, could have helped ease the burden of inflation on lower-income households.
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Research on the oil and gas crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 showed that the gains of the boon on energy producers were not equally shared.
The wealthiest 1 per cent of the US population eventually received more than 50 per cent of energy companies’ windfall from that particular surge in prices, according to a paper published in September 2025.
“If anything [the US has] become a more powerful exporter and producer of fossil fuels since 2022. And of course, their oil majors are active globally. So I think [US shareholders] are poised to take advantage even more [now],” said Gregor Semieniuk, a professor at the University of Massachusetts who was one of the authors of the research. “Wealth distributions don’t change overnight.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zzkt72yllokx7rstuph6rlrw/bafkreigrlauo2i24owltmckxgpdt4gyzzwwu6hvotpslz57hqdbodogxba)
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Who stands to profit as energy prices are rising due to the escalating war in the Middle East? NYT and FT quoting our research on the 2022 energy crisis! Spoiler: in the West it's mainly affluent shareholders.
High time to dust off the discussions on excess profit taxes & strategic price controls.
Who profits from an energy crisis in the wake of the war on Iran?
The 1%.
Thanks @nytimes.com @hclairebrown.bsky.social for covering our research.
Link to coverage: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/c...
Link to our article:www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Just to add that everyone's going to foot the fossil energy bill - especially those already marginalised in our societies - not only in energy costs, but in climate shocks.
In fact, Iranians themselves have long been suffering massive droughts made worse by the climate crisis.
Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders, and investors get rich. Read our deep dive: oilchange.org/blogs/trumps...
A new report from @americanprogress.bsky.social reveals that the US subsidizes fossil fuels more than renewable energy sources. “Policymakers must stop forcing Americans to pick up the tab for dirty fossil fuel production that is harming Americans’ health and environment.”
✍️The climate crisis isn’t a tech problem — it’s a system problem.
👨Jason Hickel (ICTA-UAB researcher): capitalism keeps fossil fuels profitable and blocks the transition.
The alternative? Economic democracy 🌍
www.filmsforaction.org/articles/wha...
@jasonhickel.bsky.social
International Energy Agency reduced its forecast for US renewables growth by nearly 50 % because of Trump removing tax incentives and blocking new wind projects, but increased forecast India by 10 %, citing increases in the capacity of onshore wind and solar generation.
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Energy independence is consistently one of the most powerful pro-Net Zero arguments among voters.
They back renewables over fossil fuel as the solution and it's not particularly close.
Bit baffled that Govt is not hammering this more loudly in light of Iran. Pushing at an open door.
The dictator Putin sees a blackmail opportunity in the gas crisis Trump has created with his war on Iran.
The EU must stand firm, and stick with the plan to end Russian gas imports.
Europe must end dependence on fossil fuels - especially gas - for energy.
Our future security depends on it!
the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz
As the Ukrainian campaign @razomwestand.bsky.social say "Fossil fuels fund war. Clean energy builds peace."
If we want a free, secure and peaceful Europe, we must end our dependence on imported fossil fuels.
razomwestand.com
Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.
A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.
“We all know it’s fracking, so treat it as such. It’s banned; therefore, it should not be approved" says Councillor Steve Mason.
Fossil fuel firms claim a 'proppant squeeze' is different from fracking & therefore not banned in the UK.
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You can read the analysis of peer-reviewed research on the impact of fracking on people's health by Physicians for Social Responsibility, here:
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The sections referenced above are from pages 36 & 38.
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Introducing fracking in the UK is often justified on the grounds it would lower people's electricity bills. London School of Economics has stated, in the UK, fracking is unlikely to lower energy bills:
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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British Geological Survey map of parts of the UK that would be suitable for fracking
Reform UK has pledged to open the UK for fracking if elected. Below is a British Geological Survey of areas with potential for fracking in the UK.
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And they told us renewable energy was unreliable technology dependent on foreign governments.
"According to shipping data released on Sunday, at least 150 tankers, including crude oil and liquefied natural gas carriers, have dropped anchor in the open waters of the Persian Gulf beyond the Strait of Hormuz, while dozens more were on the other side of this narrow passage.
#StraitOfHormuz is "critical terminal for global #OilAndGas shipments & its closure could trigger a major surge in global energy prices." Oil prices already risen to 6 month high before Sat's strike on Iran
We urgently need full transition to renewable energy
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