RaymondPierreL3<p>Will these rorts never end? How much longer are we going to transfer wealth to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> in their efforts to dig up Australia and line the pockets of Corporates and the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MiningMagnates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningMagnates</span></a> ?</p><p>“The ruling opened the door for other local governments to scrutinise miscellaneous license holders, a move which the mining sector said could cost it $55 million a year.”</p><p>The WA govt is yet again caving in to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MiningSector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiningSector</span></a> demands. There’s no end to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Grifting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grifting</span></a> here. No end to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ProfitScrounging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProfitScrounging</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/StateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StateCapture</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WAPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WAPol</span></a> </p><p>Read more:</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/wa-government-exempt-miners-paying-rates-supreme-court-decision/105605200" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/wa-</span><span class="invisible">government-exempt-miners-paying-rates-supreme-court-decision/105605200</span></a></p>
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RaymondPierreL3<p>Had a gut full of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> industrialists and corporate grifters. How long is our govt going to let this drag on? Every fucking year, with every policy geared to renewables, these bastards sing the same song and, lo and behold, govt folds and ensure these leeches extract more and make more profits on the back of every Australians. FFS, isn’t time <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> showed some balls here? (Excuse the French). <br> <br>How hard can it really be to put a short leash on the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> ? Really, how hard can it be?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/an-impending-gas-shortfall-in-eastern-australia-this-is-just-gas-market-groundhog-day" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/02/an-impending-gas-shortfall-in-eastern-australia-this-is-just-gas-market-groundhog-day</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>abcfeeds</span></a></span> </p><p>What more does the govt need to clamp down on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> and their clever tax avoidance schemes? We (all of us) are being played for fools by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> corporations.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'Planet Wreckers': 4 Rich Nations Plotting Nearly 70% of New Oil and Gas Over Next Decade | Common Dreams</p><p>This is not just hypocrisy," said one climate campaigner. "It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>."</p><p>Brett Wilkins<br>Jun 16, 2025</p><p>"Four wealthy nations—the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>—account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilChangeInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilChangeInternational</span></a> on Monday, the first day of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BonnClimateChangeConference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BonnClimateChangeConference</span></a> in Germany.</p><p>"Oil Change's analysis, titled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetWreckers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetWreckers</span></a>, notes that if those four <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalNorth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalNorth</span></a> nations stopped their planned new oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere, where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.</p><p>" 'A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis,' Oil Change International global policy lead Romain Ioualalen said in a statement Monday.</p><p>"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/oil-chan</span><span class="invisible">ge-report-planet-wreckers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrillBabyDrill</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fracking</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drilling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CanadaPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadaPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PetroState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PetroState</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThanksBigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThanksBigOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilUpTheSwamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilUpTheSwamp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossillFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossillFuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoJobsOnADeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoJobsOnADeadPlanet</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@Michael_Collins" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Michael_Collins</span></a></span> <br>The corporatisation of the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/tertiarySector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tertiarySector</span></a> is paying its dividends in the most egregious way. The neoliberal thinking that education can be run like a business and that markets would somehow nurture and develop educational institutions (in the economic sense) is shown, well and truly, to be a delusion. </p><p>The sector needs to be fully funded from the public purse and left to its previous collegiate form of governance. Funding could be made available from the ‘rapping of the land’ by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> and a sensible PRRT increase （together with cuts in tax examption allowances for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> Exporters）。</p><p>Gumption is all that is required from our govt。</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@ApaulD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ApaulD</span></a></span> <br>This is shocking. I’m at a loss for words.<br>Not the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> i voted for。<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Watt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watt</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>abcfeeds</span></a></span> <br>Yeah, well…money talks real loud sometimes. Still, WTF?<br><a href="https://aus.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GutlessGovt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GutlessGovt</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Gee, I was just posting about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/subsidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>subsidence</span></a> the other day...! Different places have different reasons for it to occur, but the worst is happening in Texas -- and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> extraction is part of the problem there!</p><p>Big US cities are sinking. This map shows where the problem is the worst.</p><p>by Doyle Rice</p><p>Excerpt: "How does groundwater extraction cause subsidence?</p><p>"Generally, according to a statement from Lamont-Doherty, it happens as water is withdrawn from aquifers made up of fine-grained sediments; unless the aquifer is replenished, the pore spaces formerly occupied by water can eventually collapse, leading to compaction below, and sinkage at the surface.</p><p>"In Texas, the problem is exacerbated by pumping of oil and gas, the study says."</p><p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/08/big-us-cities-are-sinking-which-city-is-sinking-fastest/83492473007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usatoday.com/story/news/nation</span><span class="invisible">/2025/05/08/big-us-cities-are-sinking-which-city-is-sinking-fastest/83492473007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SinkingBuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SinkingBuildings</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SinkingCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SinkingCities</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration fast-tracks <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> projects, angering <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalists</span></a></p><p>By Mary Cunningham<br>Updated on: April 25, 2025</p><p>"The Trump administration said it will accelerate permit approvals for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drilling</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> production and transportation on public land, fast-tracking a review process that would normally take years. </p><p>"In announcing the emergency procedures Wednesday, the Department of the Interior, which oversees the management of federal lands and natural resources, said the permitting process will now take up to '28 days at most' — a drastic departure from the current one- to two-year timeline. </p><p>"The government agency said the move is in response to President Trump's January 20 declaration of a national energy emergency. In an executive order on the first day of his second term, the White House said it would 'eliminate harmful, coercive 'climate' policies that increase the costs of food and fuel.' [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>, caused by harmful oil, gas and coal, will take care of that! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FAFO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAFO</span></a>!]</p><p>"The speedy permitting policy opens the door for the U.S. to expand oil and gas projects and for Mr. Trump to make good on his promise to "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillBabyDrill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrillBabyDrill</span></a>" — a common refrain on his campaign trail. The new guidelines will apply to a wide range of energy projects, including crude <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalGas</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a>.</p><p>"The U.S. leads the world in oil and gas production, with an output of 20 million barrels of oil a day and accounting for roughly a quarter of global gas production, according to the International Energy Agency.</p><p>"The DOI said it would use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/emergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emergency</span></a> authorities under the National Environmental Policy Act, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndangeredSpeciesAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpeciesAct</span></a> and the National <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HistoricPreservationAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricPreservationAct</span></a> to expedite the permitting process.</p><p>" 'The United States cannot afford to wait,' Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said in a statement on Wednesday. 'President Trump has made it clear that our energy security is national security, and these emergency procedures reflect our unwavering commitment to protecting both.'</p><p>Environmental advocates rebuked the announcement, saying that in addition to adverse environmental impacts on public land and water sources, the expedited procedures will strip away community members' ability to weigh in on projects happening in their own backyards. Experts say the move is expected to draw legal challenges." </p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-drilling-mining-permitting-process-shortened/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/news/trump-drillin</span><span class="invisible">g-mining-permitting-process-shortened/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDrilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDrilling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredSites</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeRefuge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadKingTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MadKingTrump</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>White House plans for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilAndGas</span></a> face hurdles – including from Trump and the industry </p><p>President Donald Trump says he wants to grow oil and gas production and advance the goal of what he calls U.S. 'energy dominance'</p><p> The Conversation<br> Apr 24, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: "In one of his first executive orders after retaking office on Jan. 20, 2025, Trump declared that the U.S. would develop Alaska’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/petroleum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>petroleum</span></a> resources 'to the fullest extent possible.'</p><p>"The Biden administration had banned oil leasing in three areas of Alaska. One was all but 400,000 acres in the coastal plain portion of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArcticNationalWildlifeRefuge</span></a>. Another was a 13-million-acre swath of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, a massive parcel of federal land west of the refuge. The third area was 44 million acres of the offshore coastal portion of the northern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeringSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeringSea</span></a>, based on concerns for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TribalRights</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MigrationRoutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MigrationRoutes</span></a> of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineMammals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineMammals</span></a>.</p><p>"Trump moved quickly to reverse all these bans, describing them as an 'assault on Alaska’s sovereignty and its ability to responsibly develop (its) resources for the benefit of the Nation.' And Trump went farther, expanding the available land by an additional 6 million acres in the petroleum reserve and another 1.1 million acres of the wildlife refuge.</p><p>"All those areas are home to many different types of wildlife, as well as Indigenous groups."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://ictnews.org/opinion/white-house-plans-for-alaska-oil-and-gas-face-hurdles-including-from-trump-and-the-industry" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ictnews.org/opinion/white-hous</span><span class="invisible">e-plans-for-alaska-oil-and-gas-face-hurdles-including-from-trump-and-the-industry</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountryToday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianCountryToday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousAlaskans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousAlaskans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WildlifeRefuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WildlifeRefuge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDrilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDrilling</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Returning land to tribes is a step towards justice and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a>, say <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> </p><p>by Emily Weyrauch, December 1, 2020</p><p>"Last month, the Elliotsville Foundation gave back 735 acres to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PenobscotNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PenobscotNation</span></a>, a parcel of land that connects two Penobscot-held land plots. While this return of land is a significant milestone in terms of the work of conservation groups in Maine, it also reflects a larger shift in thinking about land ownership, from property and caretaking toward <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousStewardship</span></a>. </p><p>"Before European settlers arrived, the land in Maine was stewarded by the Wabanaki people—a confederacy of five nations including Penobscot, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Passamaquoddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Passamaquoddy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mikmaq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mikmaq</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abenaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abenaki</span></a>. </p><p>"Early treaties between Indigenous tribes and settlers were signed, but not upheld. Early Maine court cases set the precedent for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandTheft</span></a>. The state legally prohibited treaty obligations from being published in its constitution. Ever since the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act, the state government has significantly limited tribes’ sovereignty and access to ancestral lands. Now, the Maine legislature is preparing to take up a bill that would make 22 law changes to the 1980 act to promote Wabanaki sovereignty and correct the impacts of the 40-year-old piece of legislation that placed Wabanaki people in a separate category from other federally-recognized tribes. </p><p>"Currently, a vast majority—90 percent—of land in Maine is privately owned, unlike in states like Nevada, Utah and Idaho, where the vast majority of land is owned by the U.S. government. Less than one percent of Maine land is owned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanaki</span></a> people. </p><p>"To many Indigenous people, the legacy of white-led conservation groups in Maine and nationwide represents a failure of true environmental stewardship.</p><p>"'Across the country, land conservation groups and land trusts participated in depopulating, cutting off Indigenous access to certain lands and resources,' said Dr. Darren Ranco, associate professor of Anthropology and coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine.</p><p>"Dr. Ranco said that the history of environmental protection in the U.S. starts in the 19th century and focuses on two movements: conservation and preservation. </p><p>" 'On the one hand, you have people saying, ‘You want to use the public lands wisely’ — and that often led to extreme forms of exploitation through oil and gas contracts. The other side of it was, ‘Let’s just keep it wild and preserve it as-is, as a wild space,' " said Dr. Ranco, who is a member of the Penobscot Nation. 'Ironically, both of those approaches in the 19th century sought to displace Indigenous people.'</p><p>" 'A lot of the [conservation] practices in the past actually marginalized native people, and didn’t allow for their voice to be heard, and discouraged their voices,' said Suzanne Greenlaw, a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maliseet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maliseet</span></a> forestry scientist and PhD student at the University of Maine.</p><p>" 'The native approach is very much in the center—we do harvest, but we harvest in a sustainable way that actually forms a relationship with the resource,” said Greenlaw, who conducts research on the sustainable harvesting of sweetgrass by Indigenous people.</p><p>"In fact, the way that Indigenous people understand land is markedly different from western ideas of ownership.</p><p>" 'The idea of private property puts us in this framing where the land, the water, and the air, and the animals, and everything else—all our relations—are meant to serve us, they are things below us, things to dominate and control and take ownership over,' said Lokotah Sanborn, a Penobscot activist.</p><p>" 'For us, it would be absurd to say ‘I own my grandmother,’ or ‘I own my cousin,’ or ‘I own my brother.’ You don’t talk about things like that. And so when we’re talking about land ownership, it’s that same idea —these are our relations, these are things that hold a lot of significance to us,' said Sanborn.</p><p>"While the planet’s Indigenous people make up less than five percent of the global population, they manage 25 percent of its land and support 80 percent of global biodiversity, research shows.</p><p>" 'We’ve been led down this path toward climate catastrophe and the extinction of millions of species, all to drive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a>,' said Sanborn. 'If we wish to reverse these things, we need to give land back into the hands of Indigenous peoples and to respect our ability to protect those lands,' said Sanborn.</p><p>"This growing recognition of Wabanaki <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stewardship</span></a> is part of the mission of First Light, a group that serves to connect Wabanaki people with conservation organizations who seek to expand Wabanaki access to land. Currently, 50 organizations are participating, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineAudubon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineAudubon</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheNatureConservancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheNatureConservancy</span></a>.</p><p>"Lucas St. Clair, president of the Elliotsville Foundation, participated in First Light’s year-long educational program before fulfilling a request by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JohnBanks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnBanks</span></a>, Natural Resources Director for the Penobscot Nation, to return the 735-acre property to the Penobscot Nation. This comes four years after the foundation gave 87,500 acres of land to the federal government for the establishment of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. St. Clair said the foundation currently holds 35,000 acres of land.</p><p>" 'In the grand scheme of things, this is not a lot of land,' said St. Clair, about the foundation’s recent transfer of 735 acres. 'It was more about justice, relationship-building and awareness.'</p><p>" 'You see this move toward Indigenous knowledge and practices of management and conservation that have existed for hundreds of years, and this possibility with land conservation groups and Wabanaki people having a more central role in understanding and managing the lands is coming to the fore,' said Dr. Ranco. </p><p>"And while organizations undergo the learning and transformational processes that precede giving back land, and as the legislature and courts are taking up questions of Wabanaki sovereignty and stewardship, people are working on the ground everyday to re-imagine relationships with land.</p><p>"Alivia Moore, a Penobscot community organizer with the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EasternWoodlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasternWoodlands</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rematriation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rematriation</span></a> collective, said that a crucial part of the work of expanding Indigenous access to land in Maine is recognizing and restoring the history of matriarchal Indigenous societies.</p><p> " 'To restore land to Indigenous <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/matriarchies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>matriarchies</span></a> is to make sure that everybody has what they need on and from the earth. There’s enough for everyone,' said Moore</p><p>"With <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EasternWoodlandsRematriation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EasternWoodlandsRematriation</span></a>, Indigenous people are growing their connections to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RegenerativeFoodSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RegenerativeFoodSystems</span></a>. Whereas cultural use agreements are more formal ways Indigenous people can access resources from the private land of people and organizations, Moore said other relationships can form and strengthen even informally. </p><p>"Years ago, a white farmer offered land to Indigenous women to use for farming to restore their connection to the land. That has been an ongoing relationship that became one of mutual exchange of information and resources, shared learning and shared meals, said Moore.</p><p>"The movement to give land back to Indigenous stewardship is not confined to a single organization, legal battle, or project. For Indigenous people—and a growing number of environmental organizations—it is a step toward justice and a sustainable future.</p><p>"'Land back is not just about righting past wrongs. The point of land back is that it’s the future, if we wish to adequately address and avoid further global devastation from climate change,' said Sanborn."</p><p><a href="https://mainebeacon.com/returning-land-to-tribes-is-a-step-towards-justice-and-sustainability-say-wabanaki-environmental-activists/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mainebeacon.com/returning-land</span><span class="invisible">-to-tribes-is-a-step-towards-justice-and-sustainability-say-wabanaki-environmental-activists/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiConfederacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiConfederacy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wabanakik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wabanakik</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WabanakiAlliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WabanakiAlliance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a></p>
older<p>great <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@globalvoices" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>globalvoices</span></a></span> story moving between the individual impacts and the govt-corporate massive profit making decisions <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/extractiveindustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extractiveindustries</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Sulawesi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sulawesi</span></a></p><p><a href="https://globalvoices.org/2025/04/07/how-chinas-investment-in-indonesias-nickel-industry-is-impacting-local-communities/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">globalvoices.org/2025/04/07/ho</span><span class="invisible">w-chinas-investment-in-indonesias-nickel-industry-is-impacting-local-communities/</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Dutton under pressure to give MPs ‘anything to sell’ to voters as cost-of-living budget looms <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/20/dutton-under-pressure-to-give-mps-anything-to-sell-to-voters-as-cost-of-living-budget-looms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/mar/20/dutton-under-pressure-to-give-mps-anything-to-sell-to-voters-as-cost-of-living-budget-looms</span></a>?<br> <br>How dare the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Noalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Noalition</span></a> comment on subsidies largess from the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> govt’s budget which are focussed on alleviating the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a>-of-living-crisis when a decade of $LNP govt saw massive subsidies to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> and tax breaks for the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/wealthy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealthy</span></a>. Does the electorate really have that short a memory?</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRide</span></a> Prepares for Sacred Journey 2025</p><p>"We do not sell our <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> or profit off of her, Mother Earth is here to take care of us and teach us our natural ways of Life! I pray we all stand to protect our Mother,” - Josh Dini, Sr., Walker River Pauite Tribe, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtector</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerHorseRider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerHorseRider</span></a> and a member of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIM</span></a> Northern Nevada.</p><p>By Prayer Horse Ride, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a></p><p>SCHURZ, Nevada -- "The Prayer Horse Ride is getting ready to begin our 4th annual sacred journey March 21st – April 2nd, across Nevada in the ancestral lands of the Numu (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Paiute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paiute</span></a>) and Newe (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shoshone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shoshone</span></a>), through Yerington, Fallon, Wadsworth, Nixon, Lovelock to McDermitt, and ending near Orovada, honoring <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeeheeMuhuh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeeheeMuhuh</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThackerPass</span></a> in the McDermitt Caldera). </p><p>"Those Riders, Walkers, and Runners carry the prayerful energy with each community. They'll move forward to raise awareness regarding water usage and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanGraves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanGraves</span></a> Protection and<br>Repatriation Act concerns about <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a> mining in Peehee Mu'huh and within the McDermitt Caldera.<br> <br>"The Ride also raises awareness of several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndangeredSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndangeredSpecies</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FishLakeValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FishLakeValley</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TecopaBirdsBeak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TecopaBirdsBeak</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TiehmsBuckwheat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TiehmsBuckwheat</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TuiChub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TuiChub</span></a>), a place Newe gathered foods and medicines, held sacred ceremonies, and where a proposed lithium boron mine would violate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanIndianReligiousFreedomAct</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/prayer-horse-ride-prepares-for-sacred.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/prayer-horse-ride-prepares-for-sacred.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForMyronDewey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForMyronDewey</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopperMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopperMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacredPlaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacredPlaces</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenWashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenWashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIWG</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrayerRide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrayerRide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectThackerPass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectThackerPass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Here we bloody go again. I gotta say, kudos to the fossil fuel industries for staying on message which flies in the face of all empirical evidence gathered so far on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CCS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCS</span></a> .</p><p>“Louise Morris from the Australian Marine Conservation Society said the organisation was seeking a “fast no” to the project from the department and responsible minister.</p><p>“This proposal for carbon dumping is high cost and high risk,” she said.</p><p>“Carbon pollution dumping in the ocean is a proven failure. Globally from other projects operating in the ocean – they have all failed to capture their projected emissions, have run radically over budget and we have seen leaks of CO2.” </p><p>Source: </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/10/woodside-ccs-proposal-bury-co2-under-scott-reef" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/jan/10/woodside-ccs-proposal-bury-co2-under-scott-reef</span></a>?</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Why is violence against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDefenders</span></a> getting worse? Five things to know</p><p>Maxwell Radwin<br>11 Sep 2024</p><p>"In January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico.</p><p>"The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement.</p><p>"In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted by armed men and interrogated for days about their work fighting construction of a new airport in the Philippines.</p><p>"All across the world, environmental defenders continue to experience censorship, threats, physical attacks, kidnappings, disappearances and even death because of their work fighting climate change, deforestation, pollution and other environmental issues.</p><p>"Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 1,500 environmental defenders have been killed for their work, according to Global Witness, a human rights and environmental NGO. The figures for 2023 look like more of the same. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 in 2022. And those figures are considered a low-end estimate."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-is-violence-against-environmental-defenders-getting-worse-five-things-to-know/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-</span><span class="invisible">is-violence-against-environmental-defenders-getting-worse-five-things-to-know/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWitness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mongabay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mongabay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Logging</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Phillipines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Phillipines</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DemocraticRepublicOfCongo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticRepublicOfCongo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicOrderAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicOrderAct</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HR9495" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HR9495</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RSN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSN</span></a>: The Deadly Fight for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalJustice</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Honduras</span></a></p><p>The assassination of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Honduran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Honduran</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterDefender</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JuanL%C3%B3pez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JuanLópez</span></a> offers a chilling reminder of the threats local leaders face in the most dangerous region in the world for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a>.</p><p>by Giada Ferrucci / NACLA<br>22 October 24</p><p>"On September 14, 2023, Juan Antonio López, a prominent environmental defender, anti-corruption activist, and community and faith leader in Tocoa, Honduras, was murdered. He was in his car after attending a religious event at a local Catholic church when an unidentified hitman shot him multiple times. Due to previous death threats and harassment linked to his defense of the Guapinol River, López had received precautionary measures from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the same measures that failed to protect fellow environmental defender Berta Cáceres from being killed in 2016.</p><p>"López’s assassination has sent shockwaves through the region, a chilling reminder of the violence and impunity that threaten environmental activists across Latin America and globally. His murder also reflects a disturbing pattern of attacks on those who dare to challenge economic and political powers in Honduras, a country that consistently ranks as one of the most dangerous in the world for environmental activists. These risks are especially pronounced in highly militarized areas like the Aguán Valley, where López lived, a resource-rich epicenter of land grabs and conflicts along the north coast. Dozens of Aguán environmental defenders have been systematically targeted, threatened, and murdered for more than a decade.</p><p>In 2023, 18 environmental defenders were killed in Honduras, the highest number per capita of any country in the world, according to Global Witness. Among the victims were three fellow Guapinol defenders: Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos, Jairo Bonilla Ayala, and Oquelí Domínguez Ramos. In López’s case, authorities have arrested the alleged hitman and an accomplice.</p><p>"The Honduran state’s failure to protect López despite IACHR protective measures speaks to the broader issue of impunity and lack of political will to safeguard those who defend natural resources and human rights in the face of powerful economic interests. His murder also highlights systemic corruption, recently laid bare by scandals involving drug traffickers and high-profile political figures. In short, López’s assassination is part of a wider global crisis of relentless violence and persecution targeting activists who stand up to mining, logging, and other extractive industries."</p><p>Read more / support:<br><a href="https://www.rsn.org/001/the-deadly-fight-for-environmental-justice-in-honduras.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rsn.org/001/the-deadly-fight-f</span><span class="invisible">or-environmental-justice-in-honduras.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IACHR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IACHR</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Logging</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuapinolRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuapinolRiver</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BertaC%C3%A1ceres" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BertaCáceres</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AlyMagdaleno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlyMagdaleno</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dom%C3%ADnguezRamos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomínguezRamos</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JairoBonillaAyala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JairoBonillaAyala</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oquel%C3%ADDom%C3%ADnguezRamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OquelíDomínguezRamo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> Hold <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationalDayOfMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalDayOfMourning</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Thanksgiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thanksgiving</span></a></p><p>"'Thanksgiving' is a white-washed holiday designed to conceal its true origins of violence, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandTheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandTheft</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForcedAssimilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForcedAssimilation</span></a>," - <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousEnvironmentalNetwork</span></a>. </p><p>Jessica Corbett<br>Nov 28, 2024</p><p>"In contrast with Thanksgiving celebrations across the United States on Thursday, Native Americans held a National Day of Mourning, promoted accurate history, and championed Indigenous voices and struggles.</p><p>"Despite rainy conditions, the United American Indians of New England held its 55th annual National Day of Mourning at Cole's Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Kisha James, who is an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and also Oglala Lakota, shared how her grandfather founded the event in 1970 and pledged to continue to "tear down the Thanksgiving mythology."</p><p>"The past influences the present" and "the settler project" continues with racism, misogyny, and anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, James told the crowd. "The Pilgrims are not ancient history."</p><p>"James took aim at fossil fuel pipelines, oil rigs, skyscrapers, corporations, the U.S. military, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of immigrants, and declared that "no one is illegal on stolen on land." </p><p> "Jean-Luc Pierite, a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana and president of the board of directors of the North American Indian Center of Boston who helped organize this year's gathering, told USA Today that "while we are mourning some tragic history but also contemporary issues, we are also expressing gratitude for each [other] and building this community space."</p><p>"Coming together as a community for a feast and to express gratitude—that's not something that was imported to this continent because of colonization," Pierite said. "Indigenous peoples have had these practices going back beyond, beyond colonial contact."</p><p>This year's event in Plymouth included speeches about the suffering of Palestinians—as Israel wages a U.S. government-backed war on the Gaza Strip that has killed at least 44,330 people, injured 104,933, and led to a genocide case at the International Court of Justice—and of people impacted by extractive industries.</p><p>"The message from Indigenous peoples internationally has been consistent: that we need to center the development of traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and move away from fossil fuel extractive economies," said Pierite. "At this time the world needs Indigenous peoples." </p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/native-americans-hold-national-day-of-mourning-on-thanksgiving" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/native-a</span><span class="invisible">mericans-hold-national-day-of-mourning-on-thanksgiving</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeLeonardPeltier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeLeonardPeltier</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SettlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SettlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeGaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeGaza</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestBank</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DayOfMourning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DayOfMourning</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MMIWG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MMIWG</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TwoSpirits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TwoSpirits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoPipelines</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsAreNeverWrong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsAreNeverWrong</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a>.<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousKnowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousKnowledge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PostFossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostFossilFuels</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LoveYourMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LoveYourMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistWhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistWhiteSupremacy</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Murders, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/megaprojects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>megaprojects</span></a> and a ‘new Panama Canal’ in Mexico</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> suspect murders of 15 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> community members are linked to their opposition to a proposed megaproject.</p><p>By Eoin Wilson<br>Published On 13 Jul 2020</p><p>Mexico City, Mexico – "The murders bore all the hallmarks of drug cartel executions. Fifteen victims – all members of the Ikoots Indigenous community – had been beaten, shot, and their bodies burned in a field just outside Huazantlan del Rio, a village in the municipality of San Mateo del Mar in Oaxaca, southern Mexico, in late June. An as-yet-unknown number of people were also 'disappeared'.</p><p>"At first the local government, headed by Mayor Bernardino Ponce Hinojosa, blamed the killings on a shadowy figure and an unnamed organised-crime group. Officials also acknowledged intra-community grievances and political infighting, caused by dissatisfaction with municipal elections and tension over last October’s mayoral election, which Ponce Hinojosa won.</p><p>"San Mateo used to be governed by an Indigenous 'popular assembly', which made decisions by consensus and served on a one-year rotation. But in 2017, this changed to a ballot-based electoral approach, leading to tensions that increased after the mayor’s disputed 2019 win.</p><p>"The Ikoots, most of whom consider the popular assembly to be the legitimate source of authority in the region, allege that the vote was fraudulent. They also accuse the mayor and a local businessman of being complicit in the wave of violence, sources told Al Jazeera, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.</p><p>"Meanwhile, a collective of 15 civil society and teachers’ organisations, the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE), has accused the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) – one of Mexico’s most violent and territorially-ambitious cartels – of committing the murders.</p><p>"The allegations came in the same week that the CJNG was accused of the attempted assassination of Mexico City’s chief of police in an ambush with heavy weapons in which three people were killed.</p><p>"Although CNTE gave no evidence to support its accusation, many in San Mateo believe the claims because the cartel had already been active in their Istmo region, which boasts a wealth of mineral resources and a strategic location.</p><p>"The Istmo (or Isthmus in English) spans the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz at the narrowest point between the Pacific and the Atlantic. It is the site of the controversial 'Interoceanic' or 'Transistmico' corridor project, initiated by the government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and opposed by many Indigenous communities."</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2020/7/13/murders-megaprojects-and-a-new-panama-canal-in-mexico" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/features/2020/7/</span><span class="invisible">13/murders-megaprojects-and-a-new-panama-canal-in-mexico</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ikoots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ikoots</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MegaInfrastructureProjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MegaInfrastructureProjects</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonIntensive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonIntensive</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MegaCorridors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MegaCorridors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SDGs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDGs</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CIIT</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfMexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IMFLoanSharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMFLoanSharks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SacrificeZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SacrificeZones</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalErasism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalErasism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDegradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDegradation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalSurvival" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalSurvival</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oaxaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oaxaca</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Veracruz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Veracruz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousCulture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InteroceanicCorridor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InteroceanicCorridor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TransistmicoCorridor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransistmicoCorridor</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Istmo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Istmo</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsthmusOfTehuantepec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IsthmusOfTehuantepec</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tehuntepec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tehuntepec</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From the Bretton Woods Project: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forests</span></a></p><p>"Finally, the [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldBank" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldBank</span></a>] ’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forest</span></a> policy and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeakSafeguards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeakSafeguards</span></a> on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestProtection</span></a> have also been observed to infringe the rights of local communities and have failed to protect one of the planet’s most important ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonSinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonSinks</span></a>’ (see Observer Spring 2017). CSOs have called for the Bank to open up its Forest Notes – which are meant to guide the interface between its lending and forests – to consultation (see Observer Winter 2017-2018). CSOs have also been highly critical of one of the forest initiatives the Bank manages, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), a climate investment fund that supports Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) projects. A March 2017 post in REDD Monitor called the FCPF, 'the most cost-inefficient tree-saving scheme ever,' owing to high administrative costs between fiscal years 2009-2015 absorbing 64 per cent of FCFP’s $55 million expenditure. More generally, the Bank’s overall approach to lending has undermined the protection of vital natural ecosystems in borrower countries. As noted by Bruce Rich in his influential 2013 book, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction, 'When one examines the failures to conserve ecosystems, or to mitigate environmental impacts of development, one finds that failed governance at all levels is almost invariably at the root. …Many of [the Bank’s] problems are associated with a dysfunctional institutional culture in which the relentless pressure to move money out the door, even in violation of the Bank’s own policies and rules, often overrides all other considerations.'"</p><p>2017: World Bank policy lending undermines climate goals</p><p>"One of the main problems is the Bank’s refusal to adequately assess the social and environmental risks of their policy loans" - Harlem Mariño, Derechos, Ambiente y Recursos Naturales</p><p>6 April 2017 </p><p>"A late January report by US-based NGO Bank Information Center (BIC), together with partners in Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique and Peru, claimed that the Bank is undermining its climate commitments by supporting investment incentives for coal, gas and oil projects through its development policy financing (DPF) mechanism. DPF accounts for approximately a third of all Bank funding and provides resources for programmes of policy and institutional reforms that are agreed by the Bank and the borrowing government (see Update 82). The report argued that the Bank’s financing through DPF contradicts the internationally agreed and Bank-supported goal of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2°C, which according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change would require that at least two-thirds of existing fossil fuel reserves are left in the ground.</p><p>"BIC’s report looked at the Bank’s DPF measures in four countries: Egypt, Indonesia, Mozambique and Peru. It found that DPF introduced subsidies for coal in all countries, apart from Peru. For example, the report argued that Bank-supported subsidies for coal infrastructure have helped Indonesia become one of the world’s top coal exporters. It found some DPF support for renewable energy, but argued that the Bank could do more given that all countries examined have potential to develop renewable energy. For example, while Peru’s DPF provides subsidies to public-private partnerships to develop oil and gas infrastructure, it does not include plans for solar or wind power projects." </p><p><a href="https://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/04/world-bank-policy-lending-undermines-climate-goals/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brettonwoodsproject.org/2017/0</span><span class="invisible">4/world-bank-policy-lending-undermines-climate-goals/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FCPF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FCPF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/REDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>REDD</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecosystems</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectTheForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDestruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDestruction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDegradation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDegradation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalImpacts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Egypt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mozambique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mozambique</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveIndustries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveIndustries</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Exploitation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exploitation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalImpacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalImpacts</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParisAgreement</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParisClimateAgreement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParisClimateAgreement</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IMFLoanSharks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IMFLoanSharks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a></p>
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