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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 12h

Før måtte oppmerksomhetssøkende figurer gjøre noe for å få oppmerksomhet. En stunt, noe overraskende.

Nå gir media attention-seekers oppmerksomhet, uten at disse gjør noe nytt. Fordi pressen er like opptatt av oppmerksomhet for oppmerksomhetens skyld, uansett om den er fortjent eller bra.

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Naturvernforbundet @naturvernforbundet.no · 13h

Høsten blir en syretest for grønt samarbeid på Stortinget, sier miljøorganisasjonene, som kommer med miljøkrav til partiene i forkant av statsbudsjettet.
I morgen klokken 10 kommer Regjeringens forslag til statsbudsjett for 2026 - vi følger med!

Miljøorganisasjoner med krav før statsbudsjettet

Høsten blir en syretest for grønt samarbeid på Stortinget, sier miljøorganisasjonene, som kommer med miljøkrav til partiene i forkant av statsbudsjettet.

www.adressa.no

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Johan Sæbø @jsaebo.bsky.social · 1d

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

National politics in Britain is based on the idea that there are important people who matter and scum people who don’t matter at all, so naturally it is easy to transfer that to international matters.

David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 15h

Did a rough count of the column inches devoted at the front of today's Guardian to Israeli vs Palestinian hostages. It's 3:1. The ratio of those released is 1:10 (20 vs 2,000), which means that each Israeli hostage received roughly 30 times as much regard as each Palestinian.

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 1d

Today in Bxl, Big Polluter event #ICMSummit25 is promoting carbon capture & storage as a get-out-of-jail-free card for fossil fuels, no matter how unlikely, costly or risky www.linkedin.com/showcase/icm...

Listen to #PeopleNotPolluters like Eni, Equinor & #CCS lobbies like ZEP ⬇️ #FossilFreePolitics

Screenshot of the 'Our current members' page of the website of Zero Emissions Platform (ZEP), one of the co-organisers of the ICM Summit, showing its energy company members, with the logos of fossil fuel companies including Equinor, Eni, Repsol, Shell, ExxonMobil, BP and TotalEnergies.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 15h

Trodde først dette var et falskt bilde. Men, nei, det er bare en helt stereotypisk illustrasjon på hvor mye palestinske liv er verdt sett med vestlige øyne. Ingenting som tydeligere bekrefter at Israel er vår settlerkoloni.

Sven Egil Omdal @svenni.bsky.social · 16h

Dette er Aftenpostens prioritering: 20 frigitte israelere får fire sider, inkludert hele forsiden. Bilde av samtlige. De er individer. 1700 frigitte palestinere får to små avsnitt, uten navn eller bilde. De er en underordnet, uviktig masse. Slik bidrar Aftenposten til å forsterke maktforholdet.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

LOOK WHAT JUST WENT LIVE ON @drilledmedia.bsky.social

(you may recognise one of the names on a future episode.....)

pca.st/2uawcd8j

My mates @dickon.bsky.social + Klimakultur put this entire series together, and I am so excited to consume it all --->>>

The Black Thread, Ep 1 | Meet the Norwegians

pca.st

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

Equinor spent a decade offering hollow promises with CCS then dropping them, and now its hollow promises for electrification are seeing the same fate.

Ultimately, the company's main climate harm come from the products it sells, not how it manufactures them for sale.

www.nrk.no/vestland/res...

Equinor will drop two projects with power from land
High costs are causing Equinor to shelve plans to electrify the Snorre A and B fields in the North Sea off Florø.
The company states this in a letter sent to the Ministry of Energy, which E24 has seen.

Equinor is currently carrying out electrification projects on the Snøhvit, Troll, Oseberg and Njord fields.

Electrification is controversial because it takes up power resources on land.

On Monday, the Center Party submitted a representative proposal to the Storting to stop all further electrification of the shelf with power from shore.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 1d

New analysis by @influencemap.bsky.social has found that #BigOil majors have systematically lobbied the government to adopt a costly and emissions intensive energy policy agenda dependent on #CarbonCaptureAndStorage and the continued reliance on fossil fuels.

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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 de...

influencemap.org

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5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social @5080nyhetskanalen.bsky.social · 1d

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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 1d

Hånda opp i været de som vil ha kommunikasjonsråd fra hun som sto bak den mesterlige håndteringen av egen mastergradskandale

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires... Killings have mercifully stopped for now in Gaza, but there must now be a refusal to normalise... a return to a status quo in which we all keep on pretending that Palestinian life is viable under the authority of Israel."

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

Sheer banality of evil stuff here

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Vestens dekning av Israels tvungne «fred» viser hvordan europeisk imperialisme hadde blitt dekket av døgnlange medier. Fokuset er ro for okkupanten. De får gå tilbake til normalen, der folkeretten brytes i et mer hverdagslig tempo enn folkemordet (som nå blir glemt). Ingenting vesentlig skal endres.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Norske Yara er Europas største enkeltforbruker av fossilgass pga. kunstgjødselproduksjon.

På tide at Yaras avhengighet på fossilt og forurensende virksomhet fikk litt kritisk oppmerksomhet. #GlobalFertilizerDay

Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 1d

⚠️ Big Ag has a dirty secret. More than half of fertilizers are made from fossil fuels. Industry claims we need fertilizers to feed the world — but we can feed the world without fossil fuels.
👉Read more in “Frack to Fork”https://bit.ly/4nYirn7
#GlobalFertilizerDay

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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 1d

"Sønn, vi har bestemt oss for å skilles. Beklager, men slik ståa er nå gir det skattemessige fordeler"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

It is slightly funny that Türkiye and Australia are fighting over COP31 hosting rights while their biggest gas companies team up to see who be the worst climate criminals

naturalgasintel.com/news/woodsid...

Woodside’s 16.5 Mt/y Louisiana LNG Project Gains Turkish Support in HOA
Jacob Dick photo
By Jacob Dick on October 02, 2025 at 9:05 a.m.
Published in:
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Filed under:
Infrastructure
International
LNG
Woodside Energy Group Ltd. is looking to place a significant portion of the capacity of the first phase of its Louisiana LNG export project under contract as a part of a tentative supply deal with Türkiye’s state-owned pipeline company.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 1d

Noe trist og ironisk i at vi måtte nå vippepunkter for å få en nyhetssak om klima som nevner årsaken bak klimakrisa:

- Bruk av fossil energi hovedårsaken til klimakrisen. Men verdens land, Norge inkludert, planlegger nå kraftig økning i produksjon av olje, gass og kull.

Første klima-vippepunkt nådd: – En ny virkelighet

Jorda har blitt så varm at de tropiske korallrevene ikke vil klare seg, ifølge forskere i ny, stor rapport. Samtidig kan klimaet nærme seg flere «vippepunkter».

www.nrk.no

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Mathias Kilsti Hals @kilstihals.bsky.social · 2d

«Nyvalgt stortingspolitiker mottar stortingsgodtgjørelse hun ikke selv har vært med å vedta engang»

Nettavisen vet så syyyyykt godt hva de gjør når de bruker Frøya til en sånn sak

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

There’s been footage of this constantly, throughout

Sky News
@news.sky.com
Drones capture staggering images of Gaza devastation - as people find nothing left

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 2d

Hvorfor må jeg til britiske aviser for å lære at personene som ble bortvist fra sentrum før kampen i går var israelske? Ikke et ord om det i norsk presse.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 4d

So grossed out by the lack of critique of the Peace Prize among Norwegian commentators in years like this when the prize's support for US (imperial) interests is so incredibly explicit 🫣

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