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#woodside

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RaymondPierreL3

If federal and State #Labor were truly worried about the cost of energy as well as the pace of energy transition funding to meet #NetZero , there are more effective and timely ways to address these issues than granting extension to #Woodside ‘s #Gas exploitation in an fragile environment,

1) tax #FossilFuelExtraction industries appropirately (a la Denmark)
2) use tax income to fund electrification and renewables (including storage)
3) legislate reserve gas for domestic use, price-capped to mitigate #costofliving pressures
4) properly support regional areas in local job creation (use that greedy corporate zeal to make some lasting changes in regional Australia).

No extension of gas exploitation was required and the #Corporate #grifters can go an f** themselves.

#Auspol
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Tony Cartledge

What #auspol needs to affect real change - curing wealth inequality, closing the gap, climate change - will only come after several elections When the Lib/Lab duopoly betrays the country again like the #Woodside debacle, voters will start to decentralise guv with more #independents We really need a fairer power-sharing parliament, as in proportional representation, but that would require constitutional change and that's a big ask. It's much easier to force the duop into sharing via #independents

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EndemicEarthling

This week, the freshly re-elected #Albanese Labor government scandalously approved a forty-year extension on the operational life of the gas hub, a move that not only threatens the priceless petroglyphs, but represents permission for #Woodside (the massive gas company that basically runs the state of Western Australia) to profit off a #CarbonBomb that will, once extracted and burned, add somewhere between four and six billion tonnes of climate-wrecking ocean-acidifying carbon dioxide to the active carbon cycle. The cumulative climate pollution from the life of this one project will thus considerably exceed the sum of Australia's projected national domestic emissions for the next decade or more.

Of all the legacies of this Labor government, this decision (alongside giving the green light to dozens more coal and gas projects) will ultimately be the most impactful. The carbon released for the short-term profits of a wealthy few will contribute to massively disrupting and degrading the habitability of the planet for everyone, continuing to shape life on Earth for at least the next forty thousand years.

/web/20250529055300/theguardian.com/australia-news

#Auspol #FossilFuelIndustry #DirtyEnergy #DirtyEnergyDirtyPolitics #FossilGas #Murujuga #BurrupHub #NorthWestShelf #Woodside #ALP 2/2

The Guardian · No one committed to Paris goals can seriously argue Woodside’s LNG project should operate until 2070By Adam Morton
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BlueThulium

#Auspol, apropros the #Woodside decision.

I don't think #Labor realises (or more likely cares) that a big reason they have a majority is #TheGreens voters.

I did some super squirrely math with the 2PP and each electorate's first preference results. (Very likely some mistakes due to excel data manipulation)

If we assumed the Greens first preference votes just didn't happen, through informal votes or protest etc, Labor could potentially have 19 fewer seats based on 2PP numbers.

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“It’s been a fascinating journey to watch the discussion, particularly among #YoungPeople who have this very ideological, almost zealous view of, you know, #FossilFuels bad, #renewables good, that are happily plugging in their devices, ordering things from [online fast-fashion stores] Shein and Temu – having, you know, one little thing shipped to their house without any sort of recognition of the energy and carbon impact of their actions …

So that human impact and the #consumer’s role in driving energy demand and emissions absolutely is a missing space in the conversation.”

We just had an election, but who makes the decisions and blames #ClimateEmergency on other, younger, powerless individuals?

#Labor / #LaborParty / #WoodSide / #MegONeill / #Oligarch / #AusPol <theguardian.com/australia-news>

The Guardian · The Woodside boss’s attacks on my generation are blatant scapegoating – and we see straight through themBy Guardian staff reporter
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