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BREAKING NEWS: Alberta landowner blocks access to MAGA oil well for non-payment. More below ⬇️ #alberta #abpoli

5 things to know about Gaza's worsening food crisis Malnutrition has reached alarming levels in Gaza, aid officials say, with hunger now reportedly affecting civilians as well as journalists, doctors, and other personnel on the ground.

This is genocide. If you refuse to call it by its name even now, you're ignorant or worse.
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“There’s no doubt that in the grand scheme of things, oil is a sunset industry. We can debate how far the sunset is away, but companies need to recognise that — and increasingly they are”

Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why. Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he’s sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.

If anyone ever listens to Matt Yglesias again, it's political malpractice: newrepublic.com/article/1944...

The only electricity generating capacity in the American pipeline is renewable.

This is evil.

NYT: As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.

Nobody could have predicted this:

Where are all the "campus free speech defenders" now that people are actually being rounded up and arrested for speech in support of Palestinian lives? Awfully quiet.

The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil The significance of the Trump administration’s arrest and threat to deport the Palestinian activist cannot be overstated

The US assault on free speech is not going to end with Mahmoud Khalil

Shell tied new Nigeria offshore investments to approval for oil asset sale Approval for exit from operation at centre of decades of criticism over environmental impact marked sharp turnaround

Shell resorts to economic blackmail to escape its decades of toxic legacy in the Niger Delta. They will not get away with it.
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Pushing companies 'over the edge': Oil and gas insolvencies surge to three-year high A downturn in natural gas prices is behind a 3-year record high surge in insolvencies among oil and gas producers. Read for more

Canada is experience a growing number of orphaned oil & gas wells, leaving creditors & service companies in the lurch & damaging rural economies. Same thing playing out here in the petrostate to the south. Would love to see more coverage like this. financialpost.com/commodities/...

Seems like we may want to tax the rich?

Nearly 4 lobbying meetings a DAY, every weekday. Just bananas.

CSOs, Concerned Stakeholders To Tinubu: Halt Shell, Others’ Divestments In Niger Delta - FOREFRONT NG Divestments, Halt, Niger Delta, others, Shell ShareA coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), community leaders, and concerned citizens from across  on Monday, December 16, 2024 called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to as a matter of...

Shell is again trying to escape its legacy of toxic pollution in the Niger Delta. The polluter must pay.

The national regulator has said Shell can't leave until they pay up, but Nigeria's president is under tremendous pressure from Shell to overrule this decision.

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Pushing companies 'over the edge': Oil and gas insolvencies surge to three-year high A downturn in natural gas prices is behind a 3-year record high surge in insolvencies among oil and gas producers. Read for more

The oil and gas industry is, as usual, trying to dump its cleanup obligations on the taxpayer. They're stiffing a bunch of small businesses and rural municipalities in the process. Just shameful.

Polluters must pay. financialpost.com/commodities/...

I’m so excited to share I’ve been selected for the 2024 #climatebreakthroughaward to build a globally coordinated Indigenous climate initiative. I’m honored to be part of the 2024 cohort with Kimiko Hirata, Alex Doukas, and Tero Mustonen. Learn more about the award at climatebreakthrough.org

There is a load of decent scholarship on this, not all of which agrees on elasticity of demand for oil and gas, but it's not simply a 1:1 substitution.

If you think it's as simple as "someone else will just produce it" I don't know what to tell you. Not how oil & gas markets work in practice; possibly at the root of your dismissiveness of concerns over permitting reform?

If you think Erik is a grifter, you've fully lost the plot. Get some perspective.

Deploying renewables fast is a necessary *but not sufficient* condition for avoiding disaster. I think this is the point on which we disagree.

Agree to disagree! If there's no pathway to do it in one of the wealthiest countries in the world that's historically benefitted the most from fossil fuel production, there's no pathway anywhere and we are headed for disaster no matter how much transmission you build.

I'm not trying to toot my own horn, but I've helped shift tens of billions *annually* in catalytic public money toward clean energy. I love renewables!

The truth is if we only promote RE and fail to kneecap fossils, we're still screwed – big picture, climate science is unequivocal on this.

This is true, but if you're intellectually honest in this way, it's not as easy to punch left like @mattyglesias.bsky.social seems so keen to.

In what sense? Because I implied that making an argument about fossil fuel production in the US is simplistic if you're not considering elasticity of demand? Please enlighten me.

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Your reading comprehension isn't as good as you think it is because you obviously missed the point way back in this thread.

And respectfully, anyone who believes incumbents aren't waiting to game the hell out of indiscriminate reform doesn't understand the dangers of an energy addition vs. energy transition. Making oversimplified arguments like "if we don't produce it here someone else will" doesn't serve your case imo.

I'd trade credentials with you all day long but it's not really my thing. What I'd say is that regardless of where one comes down on permitting reform (and my position is nuanced), arguing w/ Erik on coal leasing in the PRB as if you have more insight into it than he does is a fool's errand.