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#petrostate

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Like Saudi Arabia, the United States is an indispensable nation — whether for defense, energy or investment.

The Trumpist project is not about “Making America Great Again” in any traditional sense; rather, it is about reshaping America at least in part in the image of a modern petrostate — one that leverages energy wealth, luxury development and financial capital to exert influence on the global stage.

The future of this model of political economy is in flux. Saudi Arabia has begun work on flamboyant megaprojects like a golden cube in Riyadh large enough to hold the Empire State Building and a would-be city in the desert comprising two continuous 100-mile-long mirrored skyscrapers. But oil prices need to stay high for the kingdom’s checks to clear — and the costs are not only monetary. ITV reported that data suggest over 21,000 workers have died since Vision 2030 began in 2016. The shimmering sci-fi city of the promotional videos and prospectuses has so far yielded only a single unfinished seaside resort three times over budget, for a total cost of $4 billion. The techno kingdom’s future vision looks ever more like what The Wall Street Journal called a “dance of mutual delusion” with consultants and starchitects dazzling the monarch just enough to keep extending their contracts.

Mr. Trump’s “everything everywhere all at once” strategy of deregulation and extraction, combined with inflated promises and incoherent trade policy, suggests a similar sense that time is of the essence — and could work against him."

nytimes.com/2025/03/15/opinion

The New York Times · Opinion | Does Trump Want America to Look More Like Saudi Arabia?By Quinn Slobodian
#USA#Trump#SaudiArabia
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Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽

Dear Canada, Petrostate Alberta has been criminally negligent in securing funds from the petro oligarchs to properly clean up the tar sands. Alberta will foist this bill onto Canada, just like the orphan wells funds that Trudeau foolishly gave to the UCP...who gifted it to their favorite oilman in Calgary.

Canada, you're being played by conservative fascists that don't work for you despite your vote for them.

Wise up already.

macleans.ca/economy/why-canada

MACLEAN'S Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back | used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won’t save the country. BY ROSS BELOT
#CdnPoli#AbPoli#Oilgarchy
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DoomsdaysCW

Rueben George "We Are People of the Water" Voices from the Salish Sea

Faced with the economic smallpox of oil pipelines, Rueben George says hold tight to your spiritual intention

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews, November 20, 2024

SEATTLE -- "They never stopped fighting. Even when they cut off his grandfather's finger as a child in residential school because he couldn't speak English, even when they put them in jail for protesting the Trans Mountain pipeline, they never stopped fighting. Even when the appeals court decided that shipping the dirty tarsand oil was more important than the survival of the Orca whales, they did not surrender.

"'Even though we're almost extinct, we are still here," said Rueben George, səlilwətaɬ, Tsleil Waututh Nation.
'We're People of the Water. That's our First Mother,' George said at the Salish Sea Assembly in Seattle.

Read more:
bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11

#TransmountainPipeline #SalishSeaAssembly #ResidentialSchools #ReaderSupportedNews #WaterIsLife #WaterDefenders #LandBack #DefendTheSacred
#BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism
#ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest #PetrolState #PetroState #Oiligarchy #ResidentialSchools #StolenChildren #CulturalGenocide #RuebenGeorge, #TsleilWaututhNation

bsnorrell.blogspot.comRueben George "We Are People of the Water" Voices from the Salish SeaCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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Carbon Tracker

Hosting of the 3rd climate COP in a row by a #PetroState is eroding confidence in the UNFCCC process. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 president Ilham Aliyev struck a surprisingly combative tone during his opening speech when he called #FossilFuels a “gift from God” buff.ly/3Cvs6PA #COP29

euronews · ‘Dark times’: Climate activists on why they’re still fighting at COP29Cutting through the noise at COP29, Luisa Neubauer and Asad Rehman tell us what brings them to Baku.
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Rev.Hans@SacredBodies.ca :mstdnca:

WTF Premier Smith?
Dear neighbours in the beautiful province of Alberta, your leadership is failing you. You could be well on the way to being a renewable energy rockstar. Your Premier, however, is committing you to petro state decline.
A friend in BC.
“The Alberta government is withholding the results of another public survey, this one on the answers to its engagement on renewable energy development on agricultural land.”
#energy #petrostate #leadershipfail #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/polit

edmontonjournalAlberta withholds results of public survey on renewable energy and agriculturePostmedia requested the results of the survey soon after it closed in August but received more than 300 pages of entirely redacted documents
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DoomsdaysCW

Coast #Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the #SalishSea Assembly in #Seattle

By #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews at #Indybay, Nov. 8, 2024

"The defenders are battling the dirty energy #corporations poisoning the land, water and air in western #Canada and #WashingtonState, and the waters of the Salish Sea. The rivers from British Columbia in Canada and Washington State come together in the Salish Sea on their journey to the #PacificOcean.

"The dead birds floating in the Alberta tar sands #TailingPonds, the #ManCamps linked to missing and murdered Indigenous girls, and the increased oil tankers in the Salish Sea -- are all parts of the dirty oil business of the Trans Mountain pipeline pouring out of Alberta's dirty tar sands in Canada, bound for #OilTankers in the Salish Sea.

"The destruction, and theft of land, is a continuation of the #genocidal residential school system. Native children were kidnapped, ripped from their families, and incarcerated in the abusive schools operated by Canada and the churches.

"'We can't drink water from there any more,' said Jean, who lives close to the Alberta tar sands in her homeland. 'I was born into this destruction.

"'Thousands of birds are dead in the tailing ponds.'"

bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/11

#WaterDefenders #LandBack #DefendTheSacred
#BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism
#ReaderSupportedNews #IndigenousActivists #IndigenousActivism #IndigenousNews #Resistance #MotherEarth #PacificNorthwest #WaterIsLife #PetrolState #PetroState #Oiligarchy #ResidentialSchools #StolenChildren #CulturalGenocide #MMIW #MMIWG

bsnorrell.blogspot.comCoast Salish Water Warriors: Voices for the Water at the Salish Sea Assembly in SeattleCensored News is a service to grassroots Indigenous Peoples engaged in resistance and upholding human rights.
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DoomsdaysCW

'Dying of thirst' as climate-driven floods mix with oil

Maura Ajak & Stephanie Stafford

"Herders scooping murky water from a small pond in grasslands in South Sudan are well aware of the dangers they face if they drink it.

"'The water is dirty because this place has oil - it has chemicals in it,' says their chief, Chilhok Puot.

"Nyatabah, a woman from this community raising cows in the heart of oil fields in Unity State, adds: 'If you drink it, it makes you pant and cough.

"'We know it's bad water, but we don't have anywhere else, we're dying of thirst.'

"A former oil engineer, David Bojo Leju, has told the BBC World service that flooding in the area is washing #pollution into water sources.

"Large swathes of the state have been under water for several years after unprecedented #flooding, which scientists say has been worsened by #ClimateChange.

"Mr Bojo Leju says the floods are a 'disaster' and that pollution from mismanaged oil facilities is a 'silent killer' spreading across the state.

"South Sudan is the world’s youngest country and one of its poorest, with a government hugely dependent on oil revenue.

"Unity State, a major oil-producing state, has always experienced seasonal flooding. But in 2019, #ExtremeRains brought a deluge that engulfed #villages, #grasslands and #forests. Year after year of intense rainfall followed. The water built up, trapped on the clay soil.

"At the worst point in 2022, two-thirds of Unity State were submerged, according to the UN World Food Programme (#WFP) - even now, it says about 40% is still under water."

Read more:
bbc.com/news/articles/c4gpmx7z

www.bbc.comClimate change: Floods 'spreading oil pollution' in South SudanWith swathes of South Sudan submerged, a whistleblower warns water sources are being polluted by oil.
#PetroState#GPOC#UnityState
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DoomsdaysCW

A ‘Cop of peace’? How can #authoritarian, #HumanRights-trashing #Azerbaijan possibly host that?

"The #ClimateCrisis is just as much about protecting human rights as it is about protecting the #Climate and #biodiversity. You cannot claim to care about #ClimateJustice if you ignore the sufferings of oppressed and #colonised people today. We cannot pick and choose whose human rights to care for, and who to leave behind. Climate justice means justice, safety and freedom for everyone."

by #GretaThunberg, November 11, 2024

"Cop meetings have proven to be #greenwashing conferences that legitimise countries’ failures to ensure a livable world and future and have also allowed authoritarian regimes like #Azerbaijan and the two previous hosts – the #UnitedArabEmirates and #Egypt – to continue violating human rights.

"#Genocides, #ecocides, #famines, #wars, #colonialism, rising inequalities and an escalating #ClimateCollapse are all interconnected crises that reinforce each other and lead to unimaginable suffering. While #humanitarian crises are unfolding in #Palestine, #Yemen, #Afghanistan, #Sudan, #Congo, #Kurdistan, #Lebanon, #Balochistan, #Ukraine, #NagornoKarabakh / #Artsakh, and many, many other places, humanity is also breaching the 1.5C #GreenhouseGas emissions limit, with no signs of real reductions in sight.

"Instead, the opposite is taking place – last year, global emissions reached an all-time high. #Heat records have been shattered, and this year is 'virtually certain' to be the hottest year ever recorded, with unprecedented #ExtremeWeather events pushing the planet further into uncharted territory. The destabilisation of the biosphere and the natural #ecosystems we depend on to survive is leading to untold human suffering and further accelerating the #MassExtinction of flora and fauna."

Read more:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Archived version:
archive.ph/wip/M0xcU

The Guardian · A ‘Cop of peace’? How can authoritarian, human rights-trashing Azerbaijan possibly host that?By Greta Thunberg
#COP29#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong#CorporateColonialism
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Pat

As Jasper, Alta., tries to rebuild from wildfire, residents scramble to find winter housing

The predicted and expected astronomical cost of ignoring climate change and the disasters it causes is coming home to roost all over the world.

Penny wise pound foolish is not just a saying .

#Cdnpoli #USpoli #Uspol #Abpoli #PetroState #Pollution #Climate|Change #Climate

cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ja

CBCAs Jasper, Alta., tries to rebuild from wildfire, residents scramble to find winter housing | CBC NewsAfter a wildfire destroyed a third of Jasper, different levels of government have stepped in to house some residents who can get the town up and running before the winter tourism season. But that means other residents who want to be in town for work have to find their own place to stay.
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