DoomsdaysCW<p>The Rise and Fall of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuScale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuScale</span></a>: a nuclear cautionary tale</p><p>Kelly Campbell<br>October 29, 2024</p><p>"A decade ago, NuScale, the Oregon-based small modular nuclear company born at Oregon State University, was on a roll. Promising a new era of nuclear reactors that were cheaper, easier to build and safer, their Star Wars-inspired artist renditions of a yet to be built reactor gleamed like a magic bullet.</p><p>"As of last year, NuScale was the furthest along of any reactor design in obtaining Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensing and was planning to build the first small modular nuclear reactor in the United States. Its plan was to build it in Idaho to serve energy to a consortium of small public utility districts in Utah and elsewhere, known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAMPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UAMPS</span></a>. </p><p>"This home-grown Oregon company was lauded in local and national media. According to project backers, a high-tech solution to climate change was on the horizon, and an Oregon company was leading the way. It seemed almost too good to be true. </p><p>"And it was. </p><p>"Turns out, NuScale was a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HouseOfCards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseOfCards</span></a>. The UAMPS project’s price tag more than doubled and the timeline was pushed back repeatedly until it was seven years behind schedule. Finally, UAMPS saw the writing on the wall and wisely backed out in November, 2023.</p><p>"After losing their customer, NuScale’s stock plunged, it laid off nearly a third of its workforce, and it was sued by its investors and investigated for investor fraud. Then its CEO sold off most of his stock shares. </p><p>"NuScale’s project is the latest in a long line of failed nuclear fantasies. </p><p>"Why should you care? A different nuclear company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/XEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XEnergy</span></a>, now in partnership with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonCorp</span></a>, wants to build and operate small modular <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> reactors [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SMRs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SMRs</span></a>] near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ColumbiaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ColumbiaRiver</span></a>, 250 miles upriver from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandOR</span></a>. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BillGates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BillGates</span></a>’s darling, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Natrium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Natrium</span></a> reactor in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wyoming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wyoming</span></a> is also plowing ahead. Both proposals are raking in the Inflation Reduction Act and other taxpayer funded subsidies. The danger: Money and time wasted on these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> divert public resources from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewables</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyEfficiency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyEfficiency</span></a> and other faster, more cost-efficient and safer ways to address the climate crisis. </p><p>"A recent study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis concluded that small modular nuclear reactors are still too expensive, too slow to build and too risky to respond to the climate crisis.</p><p>"While the nuclear industry tries to pass itself off as 'clean,' it is an extremely dirty technology, beginning with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMining</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UraniumMilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UraniumMilling</span></a> which decimates <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLands</span></a>. Small modular nuclear reactors produce two to thirty times the radioactive waste of older nuclear designs, waste for which we have no safe, long-term disposal site. Any community that hosts a nuclear reactor will likely be saddled with its radioactive waste – forever. This harm falls disproportionately on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LowIncome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LowIncome</span></a> communities.</p><p>:For those of us downriver, X-Energy’s plans to build at the Hanford Nuclear Site on the Columbia flies in the face of reason, as it would add more nuclear waste to the country’s largest nuclear cleanup site. </p><p>"In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oregon</span></a>, we have a state moratorium on building nuclear reactors until there is a vote of the people and a national waste repository. Every few years, the nuclear industry attempts to overturn this law at the Oregon Legislature, but so far it has been unsuccessful. This August, Umatilla County Commissioners announced they’ll attempt another legislative effort to overturn the moratorium. Keeping this moratorium is wise, given the dangerous distraction posed by the false solution of small modular nuclear reactors. Let’s learn from the NuScale debacle and keep our focus on a just transition to a clean energy future–one in which nuclear power clearly has no place." </p><p><a href="https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/10/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuscale-a-nuclear-cautionary-tale/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oregoncapitalchronicle.com/202</span><span class="invisible">4/10/29/the-rise-and-fall-of-nuscale-a-nuclear-cautionary-tale/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLied</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hanford</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeHeat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeHeat</span></a> Bakes US, 160+ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Global</span></a> Groups Demand 'Real' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a></p><p>Reject <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a>, such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalGas</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MegaDams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MegaDams</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geoengineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geoengineering</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bioenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioenergy</span></a>, forest offsets, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonTrading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonTrading</span></a> schemes, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearEnergy</span></a>, biodiversity credits, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCapture</span></a> and storage.</p><p>Jessica Corbett<br>Jun 23, 2025</p><p>Excerpt: " 'While <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>governments</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> push us deeper into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChaos</span></a>, movements around the world are rising,' she noted. 'From every corner of the Earth, women leaders are coming together with solutions and strategies to defend our planet and our communities. We call on governments and financial institutions to heed their voices and ensure effective and equitable policies—from Bonn to Belém and beyond. We must rise boldly, because climate change is not waiting for politics. Our movements are not bending. We are not breaking. We are defining and building a healthy and just future for all.'</p><p>"The new call to action points out that 'last year, the world breached this threshold with global average temperatures exceeding 1.5ºC above preindustrial levels. This alarming milestone is not yet a permanent breach of the Paris agreement guardrail, which refers to long-term warming, although scientists predict that 2024 will be the first of a 20-year period reaching 1.5ºC warming.'</p><p>" 'Although the pathway is drastically narrowing, the International Energy Agency affirms that the goal of the Paris agreement is still attainable,' the publication continues. 'Scientists assert that limiting global warming to 1.5ºC will require significant and urgent action from governments and financial institutions.'</p><p>"Specifically, the coalition outlined 10 broad actions for governments and financial institutions, beginning with urging both the public and private sectors to end fossil fuel expansion and extraction, and to 'reject false solutions, such as natural gas, mega-dams, geoengineering, bioenergy, forest offsets, carbon trading schemes, nuclear energy, biodiversity credits, and carbon capture and storage.'</p><p>"The collective also called for accelerating a just transition, promoting women's leadership and gender equity, protecting the rights of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>, safeguarding <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a>, preserving oceans and freshwater, advancing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodSecurity</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>, implementing the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightsOfNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightsOfNature</span></a>, providing robust climate finance, and cutting off financial institutions' support for 'harmful projects and redirecting resources into climate solutions.' "</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-solutions" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/climate-</span><span class="invisible">solutions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Klimatkris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Klimatkris</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/Heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heatwaves</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</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/CapitalismKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalismKills</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateSolutions</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a></p>
Lash<p>Once and for all.</p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/BlueSky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueSky</span></a> is a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FalseSolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolution</span></a>.<br>Just like 'Climate Smart Agriculture' or Redd+ is. </p><p>None of these are meant to solve any issues. <br>All these are ways and means to stop anyone from challenging corporate power. All these are ways to maintain the status quo. </p><p>So fall for real solutions. <br>Chuck <a href="https://social.coop/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a>.</p>
Mark Burton<p>"They roll back environmental and social protections: pulling out of agreements on climate mitigation, desperately promoting a building boom, directing expenditure to the military, promoting non-solutions such as nuclear power, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage, all in the name of GDP growth, for they know no other god."</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ElitePanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElitePanic</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>: United Nations <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP16</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> Conference in Colombia</p><p>October 22, 2024</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CaseyCampHorinek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaseyCampHorinek</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ponca" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ponca</span></a>, is at COP16 in Cali, Colombia today. "The Ponca Nation is on the ground here at COP16 in Colombia, trying to raise up the issue of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a> to the climate conference, like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CarbonCredits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonCredits</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityCredits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityCredits</span></a> that are killing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a>.' She said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> must be phased out. </p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoncaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PoncaNation</span></a> is among the nations of the world that have followed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecuador</span></a>'s lead and recognized the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightsOfNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightsOfNature</span></a> by law.<br>Casey Camp-Horinek, Ponca, spoke today on false solutions, including carbon credits which allow <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> to continue and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollute</span></a>. 'Don't give them permission to murder.'"</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10/live-from-united-nations-cop16.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/10</span><span class="invisible">/live-from-united-nations-cop16.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightsofNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightsofNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeaceWithNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeaceWithNature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/COP16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>COP16</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WECAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WECAN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectOurPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectOurPlanet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GBF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GBF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KMGBF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KMGBF</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BiodiversityProtection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BiodiversityProtection</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNBiodiversity</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Dine%CC%81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Diné</span></a> Youth at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorldWaterWeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldWaterWeek</span></a> in Sweden 2024 </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesa</span></a> youth travel to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week to share the need to protect our water in the face of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. </p><p>by Adrian Herder, Media/Community Organizer, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a> <br>adrian@tonizhoniani.org</p><p>FLAGSTAFF, Arizona – "On Friday, August 23, 2024, members of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/To%CC%81Nizho%CC%81ni%CC%81A%CC%81ni%CC%81" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TóNizhóníÁní</span></a> traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, for World Water Week 2024, an international leading conference on global water issues organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute. Earlier this year, Tó Nizhóní Ání was invited to attend World Water Week 2024 and asked to be on a panel on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenColonialism</span></a>. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sa%CC%81mi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sámi</span></a> national youth organization, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sa%CC%81minuorra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sáminuorra</span></a>, organized this panel. Given this panel's <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> youth focus, Tó Nizhóní Ání took this opportunity to fund raise and send a delegation of Diné (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Navajo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Navajo</span></a>) youth from the Black Mesa region to represent and speak on this topic. </p><p>"During the panel on Green Colonialism, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JarenNumkena" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JarenNumkena</span></a>, Diné youth from Black Mesa, spoke on his upbringing as a farmer, the history of his family as a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a>-impacted community member, and the proposed projects on and near Black Mesa, such as the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMesaPumpedStorageProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMesaPumpedStorageProject</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HydrogenPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HydrogenPipeline</span></a>. As our nation moves to alternative forms of energy, we must do so in a way that does not use or impact our water on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NavajoNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NavajoNation</span></a>, which is why we need <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> energy."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/dine-youth-at-world-water-week-in.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09</span><span class="invisible">/dine-youth-at-world-water-week-in.html</span></a> </p><p><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/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</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/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoMiningWithoutConsent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoMiningWithoutConsent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LithiumAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PeabodyEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeabodyEnergy</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/ProtectTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtectMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtectMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a></p>
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p>Hmmm - and yet we have well proven technologies to get us away from burning carbon and generating GHGs - but I guess investors are hoping to score big (and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Manchin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manchin</span></a> contingent fighting to protect their investments)</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/29/unproven-climate-solutions-spending" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/business/artic</span><span class="invisible">le/2024/aug/29/unproven-climate-solutions-spending</span></a></p><p>Too many <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/FalseSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FalseSolutions</span></a> to the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ClimatecCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimatecCrisis</span></a></p>
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