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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3d

🔴The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won’t Tell You About

Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK’s transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues @donnachadhmc.bsky.social

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The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About

Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy

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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 3d

Extraordinary. A Labour government is now demanding we include a climate-wrecking, democracy-defying corporate court system in our trade deal with the Gulf.

Given most companies don’t even care about it, this is virtue signalling to the most irresponsible capitalists.

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Rocky Rex @rockyrex.bsky.social · 3d

Based on a famous UK TV comedy sketch (the original involved John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, and Ronnie Corbett)

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 4d

This is HUGE

A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”.

It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image.

www.clientearth.org/latest/press...

Historic win against greenwashing as Court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers on net zero

View the press release

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 8d

15,000 scientists warn of socio-economic collapse. Yet nearly half of Brits think climate change won’t affect them.

This gulf in perception is why we’re staging the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis.

Has your MP confirmed they’ll be there? #TimeToStepUp #NEB

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

www.nebriefing.org

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Sarah Finch @sarahfinch.bsky.social · 16d

UK MPs “overwhelmingly overestimate the time period humanity has left to bend the temperature curve”, according to new research published this week.

Is your MP one of these? They need to attend the National Emergency Briefing on 27 November

Go to: www.nebriefing.org to send them an invitation

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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📢📢Bottom line: until GGR policy is decoupled from fossil and aviation interests, we’re not solving the problem — we’re subsidising it.

#CCS #BECCS #GGR #ClimateCrisis #NetZero #Drax #Aviation

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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✈️✈️And aviation?

The Review suggests using GGRs to offset flight emissions. That’s a disastrous misuse.

GGRs should clean the atmosphere, not license more airport expansion.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d

Airport expansion will put UK’s net zero goal in ‘serious jeopardy’, MPs warn

- Committee urges ministers to set out measures to reduce carbon emissions *before* work starts on new runways

#climatecrisis
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Airport expansion will put UK’s net zero goal in ‘serious jeopardy’, MPs warn

Committee urges ministers to set out measures to reduce carbon emissions before work starts on new runways

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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🐘🐘Whitehead does call for less biomass imports BUT avoids elephant in room

Drax — the UK’s biggest single emitter — is being rebranded as a BECCS project, claiming to be “carbon negative” while burning imported forest biomass.

It’s climate greenwash, not GGR
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Stop Burning Trees Coalition @stopburningtrees.bsky.social · Sep 26

New research finds the Drax AI Data Centre would burn 2.5 MILLION tonnes of wood up to 2030, and then rising to 5 MILLION tonnes going forward

If approved, it means years more of Drax's dirty tree burning at the cost of forests, communities & our planet

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/fears-d...

Fears Drax-powered AI centre may 'burn a tree every time it is used'

A new data centre which will get its energy from Drax power station "could end up burning a tree every time it is used", opponents say.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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🍃🍃Even worse, compressors and CO₂ storage for GGR could be powered by grid renewables.

🏭🏭But decades of fossil-industry lobbying have locked the UK into a model that keeps the clusters running on fossil gas.

That’s not climate leadership — it’s capture by incumbents
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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 19d

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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So while Whitehead calls for faster CCUS expansion, he never counts the carbon cost of that dependence — the upstream methane, the shipping emissions

... and the billions in public subsidies now landing on consumer bills.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · Mar 31

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Did you know the Govt have already allocated subsidies for over £59bn for carbon capture? See: tinyurl.com/DESNZ-SUBS

With @goodlawproject.bsky.social, I'm challenging a £10bn subsidy recently awarded to a new fossil fuel plant with carbon capture. Read more 👇

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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The Review treats GGRs as a standalone solution — whilst saying GGR depends on the UK CCS network, it treats the downsides as externalities

That network is not clean. Every UK cluster is built around fossil-fuel anchor projects burning methane-heavy LNG.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · May 1

CCS can't be a solution, when as planned by UK Govt it is front loaded with massive fossil fuel dependence on LNG - linked to very high methane emissions outside UK territory.

Starmer ignored this and has put £22bn into CCS against advice of scientists, see www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3d

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🚨 🚨 Whitehead Review on Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGRs) now out

It’s meant to help the UK decarbonisation path — but it has some serious blind spots.

Here’s why 👇

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 4d

Independent Review of Greenhouse Gas Removals, for UK government, by Dr Alan Whitehead

"Without GGRs we cannot meet net zero"

Also says GGR should compete with SAF to decarbonise aviation

www.gov.uk/government/p...

Greenhouse gas removals (GGRs): independent review

An independent review of Greenhouse Gas Removals to consider how options can assist the UK in meeting our net zero targets, out to 2050.

www.gov.uk

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Henry Adams @henryadamsuk.bsky.social · 3d

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...

Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 4d

New research for the Briefing shows the project companies, Total and CNOOC, have been forced to lend money to their own project.

The project sponsors are self-financing almost 90% of the #EACOP in the face of large scale rejection from the banking sector.

www.banktrack.org/article/tota...

TotalEnergies financiers beware: EACOP is eating up money, nature and livelihoods

A new analysis shows that the developers of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, led by France’s TotalEnergies, are being forced to self-finance the project almost entirely. The analysis,…

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BankTrack @banktrack.bsky.social · 4d

TotalEnergies financiers beware: the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is eating up money, nature and livelihoods.

Our #EACOP Finance Risk Briefing is out now. #StopEACOP

www.banktrack.org/article/tota...

Image of protesters holding cardboard signs, calling on banks not to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Text reads: New Risk Briefing Oit Now. Over budget, delayed and dangerous, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline limps on. Download the paper at banktrack.org.

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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 3d

🎉Historic Court win🎉

The greenwashing adverts of fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies have been ruled illegal, in a case taken by
@amisdelaterre.org, @greenpeace.fr & @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social with our support. 1/4

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Ayoub Khan, "This morning Jewish community leaders stood outside Villa Park saying they too support the banning of Maccabi"

Lisa Nandy, "It is disingenuous to say you respect cohesion and inclusion when you are seeking to divide and exclude"

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 6d

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 6d

Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm

Conservationists argue president’s oil expansion plans clash with his image as a global leader on climate change

www.theguardian.com

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 7d

📢 To decarbonize not only the power sector but also the steel sector, we are calling on banks to reduce financing for fossil fuels and to significantly increase financing for sustainable alternatives enabling a ratio of at least 6:1 to be achieved by 2030.

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 7d

The steel sector is currently responsible for 11% of global CO2 emissions, mostly because of the use of metallurgical coal in its production.

Decarbonizing this sector is a priority, and the technologies to do so already exist. They require large amounts of electricity.

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 7d

🦋 Butterfly effect: by aligning their support to the energy system with the needs of a net-zero trajectory, banks would help decarbonize more than just power supply.

Indeed, to happen at the needed pace, #steel decarbonization requires that a sufficient supply of sustainable power is available.

No fossil-free steel without sustainable power: banks must step up - Reclaim Finance

By failing to support the development of sufficient sustainable power supply, banks are jeopardizing the decarbonization of the steel sector as a whole.

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 20d

➡️ A few facts about Glencore:

- Glencore is currently pursuing 17 thermal and met coal mining expansions around the world.

- It has recently been found to downplay its climate impact in its reporting by considerably underestimating the methane emissions of the Hail Creek mine in Australia.

Financing Glencore: European banks still backing coal expansion - Reclaim Finance

This report investigates how European banks’ policy loopholes enable Glencore to continue securing substantial funds.

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Reclaim Finance @reclaimfinance.org · 20d

🔴 Barclays and Citi helped Glencore issue a €500 Mn bond yesterday.

The banks thus enable Glencore to pursue its coal expansion plans, despite all their social and environmental impacts.

📢 They must stop supporting companies with coal expansion plans like Glencore, including through bonds.

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