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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 12h

“As of September 2025, no CCS projects are operational in the UK.” Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) needs renaming as Oil’s Greenwashing. Fossil fuel companies have been running a scam to keep us burning fossil fuels despite the fact it’s destroying life!

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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 dependent on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and the continued reliance on fossil fuels.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13h

There's good reason why the oil and gas industry lobbies so hard for carbon capture - because it's the one 'climate solution' that wouldn't necessarily require shutting down the oil and gas industry

But it doesn't work. They need to be shut down

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 14h

📢 🚨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...

influencemap.org

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 14h

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s brilliant.

Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 14h

Labour are also fascists now, they’ve been bought & paid for by dirty money. 2 child cap, stopping protest, Gaza, PIP, Winter Fuel, Brexit, the list is long & incontrovertible evidence of the fact. Blind loyalty can’t change the truth albeit rancid truth.

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 15h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social has by far the most progressive & socialist policies. @greenparty.org.uk don’t believe in starving children with a benefit cap or helping to kill children for that matter. You’re obviously a decent person, we should, myself included, assess the truth, it matters.

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 15h

I hate it but Starmer’s nearly as bad as the last lot. He needs to go if Labour are to avoid a crushing defeat, he’s a Tory in disguise & ignores Labour members wishes. But that’s not the worst of it, he needs to be prosecuted in The Hague to ascertain the truth of his illegal support for genocide.

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 15h

I don’t see how else it can be done. 🇬🇧 voted to leave without another referendum the accusations are obvious to anyone, even me 😎🇪🇺

Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 16h

If that was true they’d at the very least have another referendum.

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 16h

We all work within a system predicated on greed, short-term profit, exploitation and environmental destruction, designed to make a tiny minority richer than Croesus

Capitalism is an obscenity that will be terminated by the climate catastrophe it has caused

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t forget the 6 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla who are still being held captive by the terrorists genocidal
Israeli regime. Netanyahu needs to know that we are still watching - it’s the only way to restrain his cruelty. globalsumudflotilla.org/sos/l

SOS - Global Sumud Flotilla

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer should join the EU , it’s Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Bleeding Obvious 🇪🇺🤷‍♂️

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer says the government is in talks with the EU about steel tariffs amid reports that Europe is about to introduce massive 50% tariffs on steel from outside the bloc, including from the UK

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 1d

#SpotTheScammer

@bisanowda789.bsky.social another ghoul impersonating Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda, using pics stolen from her verified Instagram account.
www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan...

Instagram

Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not rocket science but Labour clearly don’t understand. Brexit was brought to us by a rancid bunch of lying racist money grabbing grifters. It’s costing us £100bn annually & ruining our economy, society, environment, food security & freedoms. Staying out is stupid & not what we want.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 1d

Another wave of aid to break Israeli siege. The 'Gaza Sunbird" along with the Thousand Madleens & Gaza Freedom Flotilla are close to Gaza. All eyes on Gaza. solidarity with everyone working to end the genocide. Watching & sharing updates strengthens crews’ protection
thousandmadleens.fr/tracker/

Flotilla Tracker – Thousand Madleens & Freedom Flotilla Coalition – Thousand Madleens France

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Over a week since I left X.

I did miss it a bit over the weekend, but, the positive impact has been immense.

Who knew walking away from a place where you got called a “filthy communist” or “sick homosexual” multiple times a day could be so good for your mental health.

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

Alt: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)

Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly beholden to lobbyists, staggeringly ignorant and dismissive of the natural world: Rachel Reeves might not look or sound like Donald Trump, but she is behaving very much like him. This government is even more of an ecological hazard than the Tories were.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 1d

Why oh why don’t we trust politicians, I just can’t work if out? I wonder how much this cost Israel in “donations” to Labour? Our whole system has been corrupted by dirty money & we must change it. Why for example are offshore banks legal? They only have 1 purpose, tax fraud!

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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 1d

📹 Tyndall Centre's Asher Minns took questions from pupils in Hertfordshire on subjects from transport and wildlife to climate anxiety and their own contributions. Have a watch via ITV Anglia:

www.itv.com

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not “un British” to protest against the genocide of Palestine Mr Starmer. What is un British is taking bribes from Israel, calling them donations & helping to facilitate the murder & starvation of children. In fact it’s fucking evil!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Keir Starmer asks students not to join protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.

I'll sack activist judges to tackle pro-migrant bias, says
Jenrick
Shadow justice secretary says there should be no place for judges tweeting political opinions 'subverting impartiality of the judiciary'
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 1d

Why oh why don’t we trust politicians, I just can’t work if out? I wonder how much this cost Israel in “donations” to Labour? Our whole system has been corrupted by dirty money & we must change it. Why for example are offshore banks legal? They only have 1 purpose, tax fraud!

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