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AGelbert NOTE: This goes WAY BEYOND the 🦕🦖 Koch Brothers.


So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. Matthew 7:12

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Big Oil's Wartime Dividend Bump To Wall Street
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2022, 03:29:19 pm »
BailoutWatch

Apr 05, 2022

😈 Big 🦖 Oil's Wartime Dividend Bump To 😈 Wall Street

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Amid high gas prices and war in recent month, the US's largest oil and gas companies have seen profits soar. These 20 companies, who received billions in taxpayer dollars during the coronavirus crisis, are passing newfound profits off to Wall Street in the form of massive dividend payouts. Eighteen of the companies reviewed in the report linked below increased their dividends in the past year. Eleven of the companies increased their payouts by at least 100%, some from zero, since the first quarter of 2021. On top of record quarterly dividend payouts, five of the company's past further profits onto shareholders in the form of variable dividends.

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Some time ago, I read Gulliver's Travels. There is a passage there that applies NOW to, not just to the 👿 Alito legalese doubletalking, word salad, sophistry laden legerdemain, but the ENTIRE Judiciary system in the United States (and most other countries too). Read it and consider how long ago it was written (i.e. 1726). Sure, it was satire, but I am 100% certain that he meant every word of it as the sad truth of the matter:


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Gulliver then turns to the subject of England's legal system. The man in the right, he explains, is always at a disadvantage because lawyers are not comfortable unless they are arguing for the wrong side. In short, lawyers are the most stupid of all Yahoos; they are enemies to knowledge and to justice.

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Swift attacks the legal profession by quoting many legal terms. The Houyhnhnms have no such words; natural virtue requires no lawyers. Besides being a satiric end in itself, this fun with words prepares us for the discussion of European social institutions.

History is laced with nationalistic propaganda (i.e happy talk and bold faced, feel good lies):

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History, Swift infers, is the tool of politics; it is misread and miswritten for selfish reasons. In the service of politicians, history lies — about virtue, wisdom, and courage.

Swift draws on a theory that Bernard Mandeville made popular in his Fable of the Bees. 🎩😈 Mandeville held that private vices increased 💰 business; thus private vices were public virtues 🙄. In Swift's view, private vices are no excuse for money-making; they constitute a vicious circle. To him, . private vices are public vices

We REALLY NEED, like YESTERDAY, to completely condemn the Alitos of this world to insignificance. As long as their 😈🦍 SOCIAL DARWINIST world view dominates our society, We-the-Homo saps have no future.

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🚩 An update on the new climate 💰🦖😈 bill
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2022, 03:31:25 pm »
August 23, 2022

Collin Rees, Oil Change International info@priceofoil.org to me

 

Dear Anthony,

This is a different type of email for us — there’s a critical action to take, but we also want to share our take on the new “climate bill” signed into law by President Biden last week: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). There’s a lot to unpack, and the news headlines only tell part of the story.

Here’s the short version:

The Inflation Reduction Act was signed into law last week, finalizing a rushed, closed-door negotiation between Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin with essentially no opportunity for input from anyone else. While the IRA includes some important investments in renewable energy, the bill embraces a deadly ‘all of the above’ energy strategy and is riddled with hundreds of billions of dollars in fossil fuel giveaways and lifelines to the oil, gas, and coal industries.

The IRA massively expands federal subsidies for ‘carbon capture and storage’ (CCS), an unproven and dangerous technology to prolong 🦖😈 Big Oil’s 🦍 influence by capturing the carbon emitted from fossil fuel power plants and other sources. In reality, the overwhelming majority of that carbon is used to extract more oil, increasing emissions and threatening communities. The IRA also legally mandates the selling-off of millions of federal lands and waters for fossil fuel production, before any federal lands can be leased for clean energy development.

Perhaps worst of all, only a small portion of the funds in the IRA will reach people most in need — a far cry from President Biden’s professed ‘Justice40’ commitment to spend 40% of climate spending on impacted communities. These fossil fuel giveaways will be particularly destructive to Indigenous and Alaska Native communities, BIPOC communities in the Gulf South, coastal communities and communities near federal lands — yet none of these groups were consulted in the legislative process in negotiating the IRA.

To top it all off, reporting has revealed that in negotiating the IRA, 😈 Manchin obtained a commitment from 🐍 Schumer to attempt to pass a separate piece of so-called ‘permitting reform’ legislation in September. In reality, ‘permitting reform’ is code for a wishlist of Big Oil’s top priorities 🦖 — the bill would greenlight the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) by exempting it from necessary permits, gut the National Environmental Policy Act and other bedrock environmental laws, and remove safeguards that have protected environmental justice communities for decades.

Here’s where you come in. The IRA is now law, but there’s still time to stop this disastrous fossil fuel side deal (the leaked draft appears to have been written by the American Petroleum Institute). Join us in urging leaders in Congress like Senator Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to stop this brazen giveaway to the fossil fuel industry and kill Manchin’s dirty side deal.

We won’t stop working to halt the worst parts of the Inflation Reduction Act — it’s more important than ever that we remain vigilant against dangerous distractions like carbon capture subsidies. But now is a crucial time to stop Manchin’s fossil fuel side deal in its tracks. We’ll be developing a plan over the next several weeks to pressure other members of Congress to stand up to Senator Manchin and publicly voice their opposition to these fossil fuel giveaways.

Regardless of what happens in Congress, we won’t stop pressuring President Biden to declare a climate emergency, accelerate funding for renewable and just energy systems, and reject new fossil fuel infrastructure projects.

Click here to urge Congress to reject this dirty side deal and protect environmental justice communities. We’ll be in regular contact over the upcoming weeks with additional actions to pressure Congress and President Biden to act swiftly to weaken the fossil fuel industry’s stranglehold on our political system and ensure that Indigenous, BIPOC, and frontline community voices are leading our energy transition.

Thank you,

Collin Rees
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Oil Change International
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Pollution
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2022, 06:10:52 pm »
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Updated: August 31, 2022 By: Kristina Zagame  Edited By: Karsten Neumeister (graphics by AGelbert)

The Supreme Court’s Environmental Report Card: Which 😈 Justices are 🦖Failing?


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In assigning our “Eco-Grades,” we looked at the top 40 environmentally related cases decided by the Supreme Court since 1992 (when the longest-serving justice, Clarence Thomas, began his term) in order to evaluate the environmental track record of each justice.

With more failures than passing grades, it seems our justices have some studying up to do.

Supreme Court Justice                             Starting Year        Eco-Grade
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.                         2005                        F
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas                     1991                        F
Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito                        2006                        F
Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor                     2009                        A
Associate Justice Elena Kagan                            2010                        A
Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch                       2017                        F
Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh                 2018                        D
Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett                  2020                        D
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson             2022                      TBD



Full article:
https://www.ecowatch.com/supreme-court-environmental-report-card.html



📢 "With half of the members of the extreme right supermajority on the Supreme Court having been nominated by a president who had lost the popular vote by 2.7 million votes and confirmed by senators who represent well less than half of the voters in the country, the court’s recent decisions move our country perilously close to minority rule."
BY PAUL BLAND 08/23/22 5:30 PM ET

Congress needs to modernize the 🦕 Supreme Court and bring it into the 21st century


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In the last four years, my organization, Public Justice, has won three victories at the U.S. Supreme Court. Two of those victories were unanimous, and two of them were written by justices who had been nominated by Republican presidents. So one might think, given the court’s recent tendency to side with us in important cases, that everything is just fine. If so, you’d be wrong.

Instead, our view is that the nation’s highest court has  veered off the rails in troubling and extreme ways. Far from acting in a restrained, careful way, the court has recently issued drastic and extreme opinions that are harmful to American society. ... ...

... the 🦖 Court invented a new doctrine (not based in any serious reading of the text of the Constitution) sharply limiting the ability of the federal government to protect the environment, address the climate change crisis or limit pollution.

And this builds upon other decisions in recent years that undermine democracy, such as Citizens United v FEC (which paved the way for billionaires to spend far more of their money on elections, multiplying their power) and Shelby County v. Holder (where the court greatly undermined the Voting Rights Act). And the list goes on.

With half of the members of the extreme right supermajority on the Supreme Court having been nominated by a president who had lost the popular vote by 2.7 million votes and confirmed by senators who represent well less than half of the voters in the country, the court’s recent decisions move our country perilously close to minority rule. Each of the extreme decisions described above is badly out of touch with the views of the majority of the American people, and this fact is reflected in the court’s plummeting public approval rating.

And  they’re clearly not done yet. ... ...

The court has taken a case which raises the possibility that a heavily gerrymandered state legislature could overturn a presidential election 😵 in which a candidate the state legislative majority disfavors wins the clear majority of the votes. ... ...

It is now clear that the court badly needs reforming and modernizing. That’s why we at Public Justice are calling on Congress to take action. First, the court should be expanded to 13 justices .  And second, term limits should be implemented, capping service at a maximum of 18 years . ... ...

Expanding the court should not be the end of Congress’s work to modernize our judicial system, however. ... ...

In the past, justices have seemed to struggle to understand such basic modern concepts as text messaging, social media and other modern-day devices and issues, despite being asked to make weighty and consequential decisions about them. Term limits would also help address the growing problem of justice being held as a political prisoner based on who happens to be president when a sitting justice decides to retire or dies. Absent death, justices increasingly step down when they believe a president who shares their philosophy will nominate their replacement. That hardly helps keep the court above the political fray; indeed, it drops our most important legal body right in the middle of political hurricanes. That was never meant to be the case.

Full TRUTH FILLED 🗽 article:
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3612817-congress-needs-to-modernize-the-supreme-court-and-bring-it-into-the-21st-century/


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Agelbert NOTE: Reposted due to pertinence to present political dirty deals and severe climate events.



December 11, 2021

Big Oil’s new strategy: Profit today, fight again tomorrow

Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the 🦖 oil and 🦕 gas industry remains 🐍 formidable.

By Naomi Oreskes ✨ and Jeff Nesbit 👍 -December 11, 2021

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This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story.

Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. After all, it has made consuming its products seem like a human necessity. It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. And it has done all this, in part, by thinking ahead and then acting ruthlessly. While the rest of us were playing checkers, its executives were playing three-dimensional chess.

Take this brief tour of the industry’s history, and then ask yourself: Is there any doubt that these companies are now plotting to keep the profits rolling in, even as mega-hurricanes and roaring wildfires scream the dangers of the climate emergency?

The John D. Rockefeller myth

Ida Tarbell is one of the most celebrated investigative journalists in American history. Long before Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein exposed the Watergate scandal, Tarbell’s reporting broke up the Standard Oil monopoly. In 19 articles that became a widely read book, History of the Standard Oil Company, published in 1904, she exposed its unsavory practices. In 1911, federal regulators used Tarbell’s findings to break Standard Oil into 33 much smaller companies.

Standard Oil postcard from 1914. Scanned by Steve Shook (CC BY 2.0)

David had slain Goliath. The U.S. government had set a monopoly-busting standard for future generations. John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil’s owner, lost. The good guys won — or so it seemed.

In fact Rockefeller saw what was coming and ended up profiting — massively — from the breakup of his company. Rockefeller made sure to retain significant stock holdings in each of Standard Oil’s 33 offspring and position them in different parts of the U.S. where they wouldn’t compete against one another. Collectively, the 33 offspring went on to make Rockefeller very, very rich. Indeed, it was the breakup of Standard Oil that tripled his wealth and made him the wealthiest man in the world. In 1916, five years after Standard Oil was broken up, Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire.

Say it ain’t so, Dr. Seuss!

One of the offspring of Standard Oil was Esso :o (S-O, spelled out), which later launched one of the most successful advertising campaigns in history. It did so by relying on the talents of a young cartoonist who millions would later adore under his pen name, Dr. Seuss. Decades before authoring the pro-environment parable The Lorax, Theodore Geisel helped Esso market “Flit,” a household spray gun that killed mosquitoes. What Americans weren’t told was that the pesticide DDT made up 5% of each blast of Flit.

When Esso put considerable creative resources behind the Flit campaign, they were looking years ahead to a time when they would also successfully market oil-based products. The campaign ran for 17 years in the 1940s and 1950s, at the time an unheard length of time for an ad campaign. It taught Esso and other Standard Oil companies how to sell derivative products (like plastic and pesticides) that made the company and the brand a household name in the minds of the public. In its day, “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” was as ubiquitous as “Got Milk?” is today.

At the time, the public (and even many scientists) didn’t appreciate the deadly nature of DDT. That didn’t come until the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring. But accepting that DDT was deadly was hard, in part because of the genius of Geisel, whose wacky characters — strikingly similar to the figures who would later populate Dr. Seuss books — energetically extolled Flit’s alleged benefits.

Geisel later said the experience “taught me conciseness and how to marry pictures with words.” The Flit ad campaign was incredibly smart and clever marketing. It taught the industry how to sell a dangerous and unnecessary product as if it were something useful and even fun.

Years later, ExxonMobil would take that cleverness to new heights in its advertorials. They weren’t about clever characters. But they were awfully clever, containing few, if any, outright lies, but a whole lot of half-truths and misrepresentations. It was clever enough to convince the New York Times to run them without labeling them as the advertisements that they, in fact, were. Their climate “advertorials” appeared in the op-ed page of the New York Times and were part of what scholars have called “the longest, regular (weekly) use of media to influence public and elite opinion in contemporary America.”

Controlling climate science

Big Oil also saw climate change coming. As abundant investigative reporting and academic studies have documented, the companies’ own scientists were telling their executives in the 1970s that burning more oil and other fossil fuels would overheat the planet. (Other scientists had been saying so since the 1960s.) The companies responded by 😈 lying about the danger of their products, 😈 blunting public awareness, and lobbying against government action. The result is today’s climate emergency.

Less well known is how oil and gas companies didn’t just lie about their own research. They also mounted a stealth campaign to monitor and influence what the rest of the scientific community learned and said about climate change.

The companies embedded scientists in universities and made sure they were present at important conferences. They nominated them to be contributors to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the U.N. body whose assessments from 1990 onward defined what the press, public and policymakers thought was true about climate science. While the IPCC reports, which rely on consensus science, were sound, Big Oil’s scientific participation gave them an insider’s view of the road ahead. More ominously, they introduced the art of questioning the consensus science in forums where every word is parsed.

The industry was employing a strategy pioneered by tobacco companies, but with a twist. Beginning in the 1950s, the tobacco industry cultivated a sotto voce network of scientists at scores of American universities and medical schools, whose work it funded. Some of these scientists were actively engaged in research to discredit the idea that cigarette smoking was a health risk, but most of it was more subtle; the industry supported research on causes of cancer and heart disease other than tobacco, such as radon, asbestos and diet. It was a form of misdirection, designed to deflect our attention away from the harms of tobacco and onto other things. The scheme worked for a while, but when it was exposed in the 1990s, in part through lawsuits, the bad publicity largely killed it. What self-respecting scientist would take tobacco industry money after that?

The oil and gas industry learned from that mistake and decided that, instead of working surreptitiously, it would work in the open. And rather than work primarily with individual scientists whose work might be of use, it would seek to influence the direction of the scientific community as a whole. The industry’s internal scientists continued to do research and publish peer-reviewed articles, but the industry also openly funded university collaborations and other researchers. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, Exxon was known both as a climate research pioneer, and as a generous patron of university science, supporting student research and fellowships at many major universities. Its scientists also worked alongside senior colleagues at NASA, the Department of Energy and other key institutions, and funded breakfasts, luncheons and other activities at scientific meetings. Those efforts had the net effect of creating goodwill and bonds of loyalty. It’s been effective.

The industry’s scientists may have been operating in good faith, but their work helped delay public recognition of the scientific consensus that climate change was unequivocally man-made, happening now, and very dangerous. The industry’s extensive presence in the field also gave it early access to cutting edge research it used to its advantage. Exxon, for example, designed oil platforms to accommodate more rapid sea-level rise, even as the company publicly denied that climate change was occurring.

Don’t call it methane, it’s ‘natural gas’

Methane is an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, yet it has received far less attention. One reason is that the oil and gas industry has positioned methane — which marketing experts cleverly labeled “natural gas” — as the future of the energy economy. The industry promotes methane gas as a “clean” fuel that’s needed to bridge the transition from today’s carbon economy to tomorrow’s renewable energy era. Some go further and see gas as a permanent part of the energy landscape: BP’s plan is renewables plus gas for the foreseeable future, and the 🦖 company and other 🦕🦕🦖🐍 oil majors frequently invoke “low carbon” instead of “no carbon.”

Except that methane gas isn’t clean. It’s about 80 times more potent at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide is.

Flaring at oil and gas wells release methane into the air. Photo: WildEarth Guardians, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

As recently as a decade ago, many scientists and environmentalists viewed “natural gas” as a climate hero. The oil and gas industry’s ad guys encouraged this view by portraying gas as a coal killer. The American Petroleum Institute paid millions to run its first-ever Super Bowl ad in 2017, portraying gas as an engine of innovation that powers the American way of life. Between 2008 and 2019, API spent more than $750 million on public relations, advertising, and communications (for both oil and gas interests), an analysisby the Climate Investigations Center found. Today, most Americans view gas as clean, even though science shows that we can’t meet our climate goals without quickly transitioning away from it. The bottom line is that we can’t solve a problem caused by fossil fuels with more fossil fuels. But the industry has made a lot of us think otherwise.

There’s little chance the oil and gas industry can defeat renewable energy in the long term. Wind, solar and geothermal, which are clean and cost-competitive, will eventually dominate energy markets. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, GridLab and Energy Innovation have found that the U.S. can achieve 90% clean electricity by the year 2035 with no new gas and at no additional cost to consumers.

But the oil and gas industry doesn’t need to win the fight in the long term. It just needs to win right now so it can keep developing oil and gas fields that will be in use for decades to come. To do that, it just has to keep doing what it has done for the past 25 years: Win today, fight again tomorrow.

A spider’s web of pipelines

Here’s a final example of how the oil and gas industry plans for the next war even as its adversaries are still fighting the last one. Almost no one outside of a few law firms, trade groups, and congressional staff in Washington, DC, knows what the [size 24pt]🦖[/size] Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is or does. But the oil and gas industry knows and it moved quickly after Donald Trump became president to lay the groundwork for decades  of future fossil fuel dependency.

FERC has long been a rubber stamp for the oil and gas industry. The industry proposes gas pipelines, and FERC approves them. When FERC approves a pipeline, that approval grants the pipeline eminent domain, which in effect makes the pipeline all but impossible to stop.


Eminent domain gives a company the legal right to build a pipeline through landowners’ properties, and there is nothing they or state or county officials can do about it. A couple of states have successfully, though temporarily, blocked pipelines by invoking federal statutes such as the Clean Water Act. But if those state cases reach the current Supreme Court, the three justices Trump appointed — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney-Barrett — are almost certain to rule in the industry’s favor.

Oil and gas industry executives seized upon Trump’s arrival in the White House. In the opening days of his administration, independent researchers listened in on public trade gatherings of the executives, who talked about “flooding the zone” at FERC. The industry planned to submit not just one or two but nearly a dozen interstate gas pipeline requests. Plotted on a map, the projected pipelines covered so much of the U.S. that they resembled a spider’s web.


Dakota Access Pipeline being installed between farms, as seen from 50th Avenue in New Salem, North Dakota. Photo: Tony Webster, (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Once pipelines are in the system, companies can start to build them, and utility commissioners in every corner of America see this gas “infrastructure” as a fait accompli. And pipelines are built to last decades. In fact, if properly maintained, a pipeline can last forever in principle. This strategy could allow the oil and gas industry to lock in fossil fuel dependency for the rest of the century.

In hindsight, it’s clear that oil and gas industry leaders used outright climate denial when it suited their corporate and political interests throughout the 1990s. But now that outright denial is no longer credible, they’ve pivoted from denial to delay. Industry PR and marketing efforts have shifted massive resources to a central message that, yes, climate change is real, but that the necessary changes will require more research and decades to implement, and above all, more fossil fuels. Climate delay is the new climate denial.

Nearly every major oil and gas company now claims that they accept the science and that they support sensible climate policies . But their actions speak louder than words. It’s clear that the future they want is one that still uses fossil fuels abundantly — regardless of what the science says. Whether it is selling deadly pesticides or deadly fossil fuels, they will do what it takes to keep their products on the market. Now that we’re in a race to a clean energy future , it’s time to recognize that 🦖🐘🦕🐍 they simply can’t be trusted as partners in that race. We’ve been fooled too many times.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/12/11/big-oils-new-strategy-profit-today-fight-again-tomorrow/

The 🦕🦖 Hydrocarbon 👹 Hellspawn Fossil Fuelers DID THE Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, Government corrupting, human health depleting CRIME. Since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks, they are trying to AVOID DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!  Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on! 
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October 7, 2022

I survived the 🦖 rig 💥 explosion that caused the 🦖 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This is what I saw.

It’s been 12 years since the oil spill caused by 👿 British 🦖 Petroleum devastated the Gulf. A people’s history of this disaster has yet to be told.

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This stuff is all out there for all of us to see. It is not hidden. We know what these 🦕😈🦖🐍 companies and our 🦖 governments are doing to the planet.


I think we tend to push that stuff down so that we can get through our days, because the reality is just too monstrous to confront, but we have to confront it. We have to. We are really and truly running out of time here. Yes, nature can heal from one-off industrial disasters, but when perpetual disaster becomes the mere price of doing business, and when that business takes priority over everything else, not even mother nature can recover from that. And the proof of that is all around us.


As always, we’ve included links in the show notes to this episode for listeners who want to read more on the topics that are discussed in the episode. And I want to encourage folks to do that, because I also don’t want to give the impression that one two-hour conversation between me and Leo can possibly cover everything that needs to be covered here, and I didn’t want to put that impossible burden on Leo, either. I also knew and understood going into this recording that talking about the day of the explosion, the chaos on the rig, the deaths of his brothers and fellow workers, and the traumatic aftermath, all of that is extremely difficult for Leo. I wanted to give Leo the space to tell the story through his eyes the way he wanted it to be told, and I didn’t want to push him for more than he was willing to give.

So if you’re looking for gory details and a drawn out play-by-play of the explosion, I’m going to let you know right now that you’re not going to find those in this conversation. But I hope and pray that people listen regardless, because everything Leo says is so important and I am so grateful to him for talking with me, for honoring his fallen coworkers, and for speaking the truth. This is his story.

Leo Lindner:  My name is Leo Lindner, I live in South Louisiana. And after a brief stint working at a university, it inspired me to try to make more money, and I went to work for a mud company called MI. And I spent 10 years with the company, and spent my last five years on the Deepwater Horizon, and I was on the rig the night of. And my career ended after the explosion. I went out to the DD III to help drill the relief well to try to actually stop Macondo from leaking. And that’s where I decided I had had enough, I couldn’t go back, because I saw a lot of the same faces, same kinds of people on the DD III that were on the Horizon, good guys, and struggling with the same things those guys struggled with, and I just couldn’t be a part of it anymore.

Maximillian Alvarez:  Well Leo, it’s such an honor to get a chance to chat with you, man. I really, really appreciate you taking time to hop on a call with me. As listeners can hear, we’ve got a lot to discuss here. We all remember where we were and what we were feeling when we watched the catastrophe at Deepwater Horizon. And I genuinely can’t even imagine what it was like for you and the other folks who were on the rig that day.

But in a lot of ways, this is still part and parcel of what we try to do on this show, is to remind people that it was flesh and blood human beings making that rig work, it was flesh and blood human beings with lives and backstories and families who experienced that horrific tragedy, like yourself. And so even though we’re going to be talking about some extremely heavy and catastrophic stuff today, I do want to follow our usual Working People format where we get to know more about you, and we can talk to you about how you got into doing this work, what it was like doing that work before, as you said, you couldn’t do it anymore. And so again, I just really want to thank you for coming on and being willing to chat with us and speaking out about this. I genuinely appreciate it.

Leo Lindner:  I’ve got to tell you Mr. Alvarez, I really appreciate you talking to me today.

Maximillian Alvarez:  Thank you brother, and that means a lot. And yeah, you’re a fascinating guy, so I want to get to know more about you. You said that you [inaudible] –

Leo Lindner:  Well, now you set it up, now it’s just going to be disappointing. [Max laughs] No, just kidding.

Maximillian Alvarez:  And did you grow up in Louisiana?

Leo Lindner:  My parents were from North Louisiana. My dad’s actually from Victoria, Texas, they moved there. My grandfather worked in the oil field, and we moved down South. My father got a job at a paper mill. So I grew up in Lafourche Parish, went to Cut Off Elementary, that was the name of the town. And so yeah, I spent my life in South Louisiana.

Maximillian Alvarez:  Now keep in mind you’re talking to a Southern California boy, so apologies if my questions are really stupid.

Leo Lindner:  [inaudible].

Maximillian Alvarez:  Well, when you describe this, are we talking one of those parishes that you need to get on a boat through the Bayou to get to? How South Louisiana are we talking here?

Leo Lindner:  Sure, yeah, we walked on the alligators to go to school. No –

Maximillian Alvarez:  [both laugh] I knew it.

Leo Lindner:  No, no. Lafourche Parish, it’s a very long parish, actually, Port Fourchon is at the very tip of it at the Gulf of Mexico. And it’s very influenced by both shrimping and the oil field. Those were the two main ways to make a living. But no, no alligators, no swamp going to school, nothing like that, nothing that exciting.

Maximillian Alvarez:  And what was it like… So how old were you, and what was it like moving from Texas to Louisiana at that point?

Leo Lindner:  Well it was different because I didn’t have the accent. The Cajun kids made fun of me because I said dee instead of dah. But that’s okay. I mean, it was good to grow up down here. It’s just, I always felt like a little bit of an outsider, but I think everyone feels that way at some point.

Maximillian Alvarez:  Yeah, that’s the great joke of adolescence and childhood is everyone feels like an outsider when no one’s on the inside, really.

Well, what did you… I guess paint me a picture here. Did y’all have a big family? And what was it being a kid in that environment? Did you have friends whose parents were shrimpers, and what did you guys do for fun?

Leo Lindner:  Oh, yeah. Well we lived in a very rural place, but it ran like a straight line. But if we walked a few acres west, we hit the 40 Acre Canal, and it was full of woods. We did hunting and fishing, that kind of thing. And I grew up with a set of neighborhood kids that were really cool. I was always friends with the older kids, really.

But no, growing up in South Louisiana, it was a positive experience, I suppose. But it was always under this kind of shadow of… Because people were very poor, even though a few people had it really good working in the oil field or whatever. If your dad owned Rouses, which is a big supermarket, you were okay. If your dad owned a boat company, yeah, you were really hot. We had a guy like that, he drove to school in a Ferrari, if you can imagine, in the ’80s, a kid driving school Ferrari. But his dad owned a boat company.

But for the working class people it was really tough, it was really tough. The prospects were tough. So the culture here, it sees itself as very working class, but it’s also got a kind of mean spiritedness to it, because people are desperate, because people want to… If you don’t have money, you don’t feel like you’re a person or whatever. So there’s a kind of conflict there. The working people don’t feel like they’re comrades, they don’t feel like they have stuff in common, they feel like they’re in competition with each other.

Maximillian Alvarez:  Yeah, I mean that is all too familiar. I was smiling when you were talking about it, because that’s something that I always try to impress upon people when I talk about growing up in Orange County, California. Everyone knows the TV shows like The OC and Laguna Beach and stuff. And so when they come there they’re like, oh, you’re all rich and live in mansions on the beach? Well not exactly, right? I mean –

Leo Lindner:  [laughs] No, those are the ones who get the TV show, right?

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https://therealnews.com/i-survived-the-rig-explosion-that-caused-the-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-this-is-what-i-saw
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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2023, 10:22:52 pm »

The GOP and Big Oil can't escape blame for climate change

By Dana Nuccitelli

Mon 6 Aug 2018 06.00 EDT

SNIPPET 1:

The New York Times magazine blames ‘human nature ,’ but fingers have already been pointed at the true culprits. 👉 🐉🦕🦖

SNIPPET2:

In the key 1983 press briefing, Nierenberg basically lied about the climate report’s findings, claiming it found no urgent need for action. Nierenberg’s false summary made headlines around the world and stymied climate policy efforts for years to come. Only after 1985 when the discovery of ozone depletion captured worldwide attention was climate change able to ride its coattails back into serious policy discussions.

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Culprit #2: the fossil fuel industry 🐉🦕🦖

In his unfortunate Prologue, Rich also describes the fossil fuel industry as “a common boogeyman.” He argues that the fossil fuel industry didn’t mobilize to kill the 1989 Noordwijk negotiation. That’s true, because it didn’t have to; had the treaty even succeeded, it would have just been the very first step in global efforts to cut carbon pollution.

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Immediately after the Noordwijk shot came across its bow, the fossil fuel industry launched a decades-long, many-million-dollar campaign to undermine public trust of climate science and support for climate policy. For example, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) fossil fuel industry group formed in 1989. By the time the 1992 Rio Earth Summit rolled around, these polluter industry organizations began heavily investing in disinformation campaigns to undermine international and domestic climate policies. Speaking about the Rio summit, Bush 🦀 sounded like Donald Trump 🦀, saying:

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I’m not going to go to the Rio conference and make a bad deal or be a party to a bad deal.

Bill Clinton proposed an energy tax to try and meet the treaty goals anyway, but the GCC invested $1.8m in a disinformation campaign, and Congress voted it down. The GCC then spent $13m to weaken support for the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, and the Senate voted 95-0 to pre-emptively declare its opposition to the treaty. Since then, Exxon alone has given $31m to climate-denying organizations.

📢 It’s been three decades since 1989 😠

The fossil fuel industry is one exceptionally wealthy, influential, and powerful ‘boogeyman.’ As Rich notes in his Epilogue, it’s also been quite successful:

More carbon has been released into the atmosphere since the final day of the Noordwijk conference, Nov. 7, 1989, than in the entire history of civilization preceding it

Apparently at a private dinner the night before his piece was published, Rich described the fossil fuel industry as being “guilty of crimes against humanity.” It’s a shame that his story took on such a different tone. As Benjamin Franta, PhD student in the history of science at Stanford summarized it:

One common mistake in this NYT magazine piece is the idea that companies like Exxon somehow changed from “good” (doing research in the 1970s and ‘80s) to “bad” (promoting denial in the ‘90s and 2000s). Exxon’s own memos show that the purpose of its research program was to influence regulation, not to solve the climate problem per se. The industry-organized disinformation campaign that emerged at the end of the 1980s was in response to binding policies that were just then being proposed. If such policies were proposed earlier, it stands to reason that the industry response would have occurred earlier as well. To say that industry disinformation isn’t the whole story is to knock down a straw man: the fact remains that it is a major--and perhaps the most important--part of the story.

In the alternative universe where the Bush administration didn’t sabotage the Noordwijk climate treaty, the fossil fuel industry would still have crippled global climate policies through its misinformation campaign and by purchasing the Republican Party’s climate denial complicity. 1989 was a missed opportunity, but the fossil fuel industry and GOP can’t escape responsibility for the ensuing three decades of climate failures.


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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/aug/06/the-gop-and-big-oil-cant-escape-blame-for-climate-change-dana-nuccitelli


The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE Clean Energy  Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human health depleting CRIME,   but since they have ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are trying to AVOID   DOING THE TIME or     PAYING THE FINE!     Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!   
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🦖 Fox Follows @LibsofTikTok to 👿 Attack Black Climate Scientist who Dared to Discuss White Supremacy

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Dr. Puritty has a PHD in 🔬 Biological Sciences from UC San Diego, she completed her bachelor’s degree at Howard University (one of the top universities in the country, with other distinguished alumni including Thurgood Marshall and Kamala Harris), and she is the first author of multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals. Not only that, but she also understands what many others apparently do not: Climate change is rooted in the intertwined and mutually-reinforcing evils of capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy.

All the way back in April 2022, Dr. Puritty posted an educational TikTok in which she made this complex topic more accessible. Referencing the popular book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, she likens capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy to the three heads of a monstrous dog guarding a trap door, behind which lies the mystical philosopher’s stone. In Dr. Puritty’s analogy, “the fart of this dog” symbolizes carbon dioxide, and the philosopher’s stone represents the solution to climate change.

Dr. Puritty states, “White scientists are telling us that the reason that every time we send someone in to get the Sorcerer’s Stone, the cure to climate change, from under the trap door, is to make the room smell less like farts, instead of to get rid of the dog entirely.” In other words, we should be focusing on the source of the issue, which is capitalism, colonialism, and white supremacy, rather than making futile efforts to somehow eliminate climate change without addressing these oppressive systems that constitute the inequitable, 🦖 fossil-fueled 😈 status quo.

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"... 📢 physics doesn’t grade on a curve." -- Bill McKibben 👍
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2023, 08:52:39 pm »
Bill McKibben from The Crucial Years <billmckibben@substack.com>

Jan 31, 2023, 8:14 PM

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Feb 15 2023

Industry-driven Affordable Heat Act is deceptive

This commentary is by Suzanna Jones 👍, a resident of Walden.

A new report has just been issued, revealing that the 🎩 rich are disproportionately responsible for carbon emissions. The evidence shows that the wealthiest among us, termed the “polluting elite,” are responsible for the vast majority of carbon emissions.

Peter Newell, a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex who has extensively studied emissions sources, says this report shows that patterns of consumption — especially by the wealthy — need to be targeted if we are to address the climate crisis.

Here in Vermont, the Affordable Heat Act is being considered by the Senate. The stated goal of the bill is to reduce Vermont’s carbon emissions. It is an industry-driven measure that, if passed, will use market forces to induce Vermonters to abandon heating sources other than electric, with the costs unjustly passed on to homeowners and small businesses. Once again, a tremendous burden is placed on working and poor people. :(

The bill is built upon a credit trading scheme, which, like the Renewable Energy Credits, obfuscates emissions on paper while allowing polluting and profiting to proliferate. Nowhere in the bill is reduction in energy use directly encouraged.  >:(

Well intentioned as it may be, this bill would further our dependence on a profit-driven system that is failing us (power outages, anyone?) while largely neglecting the real needs of the biosphere. It enables us to believe we are addressing climate change, while we deceive ourselves about the necessary economic sacrifices we all must make.

The Senate is mandated to follow the emission reduction goals set by the Global Warming Solutions Act. However, the metrics used by that act are selective and questionable. This needs to be remedied before lawmakers consider any legislation where carbon emissions are concerned.

There are two primary methods of carbon accounting: sector-based and consumption-based. Sector-based carbon accounting measures emissions only by activities that occur within Vermont. If we purchase something made in Vermont, the emissions connected to it are accounted for.

But if we purchase something from California or China, the emissions to produce it and transport it to Vermont are ignored. Consumption-based accounting, by contrast, considers the total carbon embedded in products and services that Vermonters use, no matter their origin.

What difference does it make which accounting system is used? The state of Oregon has conducted a study concluding that its consumption-based emissions are almost 50% greater than their sector-based emissions. It's safe to assume that number would be at least that or even higher in Vermont because we import so much of what we consume, and export relatively little.

Sector-based accounting, in other words, leaves consumption out of the picture — so some people can still get on a plane in July to go skiing in South America unaccounted for and guilt-free. It also makes it appear that local products emit carbon while imports don’t. All of this is absurd.

What can be done to meaningfully reduce emissions? This is challenging for a number of reasons. Conventional economists tell us that a healthy economy needs to grow, and policymakers actually encourage consumption as a way to keep GDP increasing. But it's becoming clearer that GDP growth doesn't correspond to a rising quality of life — often the opposite is true.

Alternative measures like the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) would enable policymakers to choose paths that improve well-being without increasing consumption. Although measuring Vermont’s GPI annually was mandated by the Legislature in 2012, it has never been implemented.

Another hurdle to reducing consumption — especially among the polluting 🐷 elite” — is that the wealthy wield more political power than the rest of us. Their interests often align with the corporations and developers that, in many cases, are the source of their wealth. Campaign donations and hired lobbyists ensure that the consumption machine runs unimpeded.

Calculating our emissions using a consumption-based method would at least make it clear that our emissions depend not just on what fuel we use to heat our homes and power our vehicles, but on our overall levels of consumption. Policymakers could make more effective decisions with the appropriate information. The Global Warming Solutions Act should revise its metrics.

A more fundamental problem is that we rarely look at the crises we face from the perspective of the biosphere. If the goal is to stop the negative impacts of modern life on the climate, then it is modern life, or “progress,” that we should limit, no matter how challenging that is to our sense of entitlement.

We need a conservation ethic — one which encourages us to drastically reduce our overuse of, and impact on, everything. Instead, we try to protect our comfortable modern existence, which depends on an 💵😈🎩 economy based on 💰🐘🦕🦖🐍 growth, extraction and exploitation . And that is what’s killing ☠️ the planet.

Facing this is our greatest challenge.
https://vtdigger.org/2023/02/15/suzanna-jones-industry-driven-affordable-heat-act-is-deceptive/

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Hydrocarbon Hellspawn: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Pollution
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2023, 01:23:36 pm »


February 24, 2023

Today is the one year anniversary of Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine. Amidst the tragedy and humanitarian crises, the last year has really driven home just how dangerous the fossil fuel industry truly is. The very same oil and gas companies that have financed Putin’s regime – via huge stakes in Russian oil and gas projects – used the instability caused by the war to rake in unprecedented profits.

Below is a powerful piece about the anniversary of the war written by one of my colleagues, Andy Rowell. It brings the fossil fuel industry’s role in the war into stark focus, and makes a clear case for today’s anniversary to be a wake-up call to end our dependence on war profiteering fossil fuel companies.

In solidarity,
Elizabeth Bast

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Today is a gruesome milestone. A year after Russia’s brutal and bloody invasion of Ukraine, the ripples of war have spread across the globe. Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, along with over a hundred thousand Ukrainian and Russian soldiers. Millions of Ukrainians were displaced from their homes and homeland. Meanwhile, one hundred million people worldwide have been forced into extreme poverty by spiraling energy and food costs.

The invasion was fundamentally fossil-fueled, although Putin predictably blamed the U.S., Europe and NATO for the war. Putin could only invade sitting on a massive stockpile of petrodollars to fund his war chest. Revenues from oil and gas projects backed by European and U.S. companies financed Vladimir Putin’s regime to nearly USD 100 billion since 2014. In a briefing published last March, OCI and other groups highlighted how European and U.S.-based corporations have “spearheaded large oil and gas projects that filled Putin’s coffers.”

Eight companies — BP, Shell, Wintershall Dea, ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, Equinor, OMV, and Trafigura — have been responsible for over USD 95 billion to the Russian government via their stakes in Russian oil and gas projects and companies since 2014. BP alone was responsible for 80% of this total.

The war has been highly lucrative for the fossil fuel industry as it has raked in vast, eye-watering profits. An analysis by Global Witness assessed the 2022 annual profits of five of the largest oil and gas companies: Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and TotalEnergies. Together, “their total profits add up to $195 billion in 2022, nearly 120% more than the previous year, and the highest level in the industry’s history,” said Global Witness.

Such profiteering has been widely condemned. In June last year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the oil companies “have humanity by the throat”, in what was described as a blistering attack on the industry. Last October, US President Joe Biden accused the sector of “war profiteering”, adding: “Their profits are a windfall of war, a windfall for the brutal conflict that’s ravaging Ukraine and hurting tens of millions of people around the globe.”

The US LNG industry has also been quick to exploit the war, looking to ramp up exports and locking in European consumers to decades of gas consumption. In the first eleven months of last year, U.S. LNG exporters boosted shipments to Europe by more than 137%, according to an analysis by Reuters.

However, Europe’s LNG demand drove global spot prices to all-time highs. Such has been the growth and profiteering that the US is set to become the world’s largest LNG exporter this year. Cheniere, the largest producer of LNG in the US, saw its cash flow increase from $1.75 billion in 2021 to an estimated $6.53bn last year. However, the volatile high LNG prices and supply disruptions have “earned LNG a reputation as an expensive and unreliable fuel source, undermining the prospects for demand growth in key markets,” according to one analysis.

As oil and gas companies revel in their excess profits, hundreds of millions have suffered the consequences of rising energy and food costs. According to the UN, the cost of food rose by 50% last year.

But that is not all. The devastating effect on the environment of Ukraine has also been labeled the “silent victim” in this war. Some estimates put the ecological damage around USD 50 billion. An estimated two million hectares of forest have been destroyed. A hundred and sixty nature reserves, 16 wetlands and two biospheres are threatened by destruction. And an unknown number of birds and animals have been killed too. There are growing calls for the Russian government to be tried for crimes of ecocide.

There are many lessons from the war. But one is very simple. As my colleague, Lorne Stockman, Research Co-Director at OCI, says: “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago is a wake-up call to stop dependence on unstable and war-driven fossil fuels, and instead transition to reliable renewable energy. Oil companies are fueling and profiting from this crisis while the rest of the world has suffered dire consequences.”

Stockman adds: “The world needs a managed phase-out of fossil fuels and a just transition towards renewable energy before it’s too late.”

AGelbert COMMENT: It's the Social Darwinism, stu__d!

The Polluter Ideology (SEE: Social Darwinism), is the "justification" the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn have for their war profiteering, price gouging, polluting, profit over people and planet modus operandi. The pernicious influence of Social Darwinists continues to be an existential threat to all of us. "Greed is Good", "Might is Right", "Losers Finish Last", "It doesn't matter how you play the game, but whether you Win or Lose" (etc. you get the morally bankrupt Social Darwinist "Evolutionary Advantage" of "Apex Predators" Idea).


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Although the transition to 100% Renewable Energy sources is not taking place at the speed required to avert immense climate havoc and millions of human deaths, never mind all the mammalian vertebrate species the fossil fuelers and their bought and paid for politicians are dooming to extinction, I think we will get there much sooner than the hydrocarbon hellspawn expect. Here is a quote from around 2016 of a great journalist from Truthout (who sadly died in 2022 of a heart attack) that encapsules the fact that, though we supporters of a 100% Transition to Renewable Energy have caring, reason, logic and common sense on our side, the polluters will fight us all the way.
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"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it to the new paradigm without dying right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt
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