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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 6h

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 7h

📢 🚨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 Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 7h

📢 🚨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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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 5h

Fossil fuel industry is behind the UK's CCS push, but while oil & gas firms are pro-CCS in public they're sceptical in private 😈 revealing the wider "strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions"

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 7h

📢 🚨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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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 7h

➕🚗🏭 new calculations show that if all new gas plants with CCS currently proposed by industry were to go ahead - even at a 90% capture rate - they could emit 2.4-5 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions annually, the same as adding 1.3-2.6 million petrol cars per year in the UK.

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

🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3h

🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
@labourlewis.bsky.social
@mpwatch.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
@adrianramsay.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
@fionaharvey.bsky.social

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InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 7h

📢 🚨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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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 1d

#BigOil behemoth and #HyNet #CCS partner #Eni has been fined €336million for rigging fuel prices. In 2022, it leaked 80,000 litres of oil into the #IrishSea. Eni isn't a fit and proper company, yet its pocketing huge taxpayer subsidies. Why #DESNZ?

Eni among six oil companies fined €936mn over fuel price collusion

Italy’s competition watchdog imposes one of biggest penalties by a national regulator in Europe

www.ft.com

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 1d

I'm glad Greta Thunberg is out of that Israeli prison. I think with pain and rage of all the Palestinians who remain in that prison because Israel wants to erase them from their own land.

Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

"The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults & made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 1d

"The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults & made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

7/ A crucial paper by Isak Stoddard, @kevinclimate.bsky.social, @stuartjritchie.bsky.social @wimcarton.bsky.social et al. stress that a key reason for past climate inaction is a lack of sufficient societal action on carbon reduction is the 'scarcity of plausible imaginaries'.

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

Despite three decades of political efforts and a wealth of research on the causes and catastrophic impacts of climate change, global carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise and are 60% higher ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone else been dealing with some serious headline whiplash recently?

Even for those of us who follow #climate and #energy matters closely, it can be hard to know what the hell is going on!

So here's a thread to help climate communicators get a grip on how to deal with this 🧵

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

Once again the Govt show they are loosing the argument and expose the utter fragile insanity of their intransigence to do the right thing on #Gaza (stop arming the genocide)

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

This is a brilliant demolition of Kemi Badenoch's nonsense about the Climate Change Act by @fionaharvey.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As Tories vow to scrap ‘failed targets’, how do their climate claims stack up?

We fact check Kemi Badenoch and her party after she promised to repeal Climate Change Act if they win power

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

Zack Polanski’s response to the Manchester terror attack has been a masterclass in mature statesmanship.

Soulful, human, eloquent, empathetic, nuanced, confident and focused on healing.

And bold. It has shone in contrast to so much weaponising or ill thought through commentary.

Thank you Zack. 💪

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 5d

Complete loons. They deserve their plummeting polls.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Legal win 🚨

UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.

First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 5d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 4d

#ClimateChange ➡️ #wildfires

@tomshakespeare.bsky.social @raymodraco.bsky.social @drandrewboswell.bsky.social @climatehuman.bsky.social

Dr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 5d

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

www.science.org

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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 3d

The end of environmental democracy.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

“As a Jewish person… I’m very disturbed and appalled and grieving for what’s happened in Manchester yesterday, I’m also grieving for the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered, displaced, and starved in Gaza” - Zoe explained on BBC R4 why she supports DOJ.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Banner drop on Westminster Bridge ahead of the mass silent vigil taking place in Trafalgar Square today.

The banner says "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

As the genocide escalates in Gaza, and our rights to oppose it are under threat, we must resist.

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