Two-Thirds of Conservative Endowment Fund Directors Are Linked to Fossil Fuels and Polluting Industries

https://www.desmog.com/2023/08/23/two-thirds-conservative-foundation-endowment-fund-directors-linked-fossil-fuels-polluting-industries/

Two-thirds of the directors who run the #Conservative #Party’s multi-million-pound #endowment #fund have interests in #fossil #fuel firms or #polluting #industries, DeSmog can reveal. The Conservative Party Foundation Limited was founded in 2009 with the purpose of raising and managing “legacy funds to support the long term finance of the Conservative Party”.

Financial interests of its directors include #Shell, #BP, consultancies that work for fossil fuel giants and #petrostates, and the construction multinational #JCB.

@JulianOliver Remember the IPCC is a conservative document signed off by #PetroStates

Charleston gets early win in climate change lawsuit vs. ‘Big Oil’

By Clare Fieseler cfieseler@postandcourier.com

Jul 8, 2023

"A federal judge has given the city of Charleston an early win in its climate change lawsuit against '#BigOil' by ruling the case will stay in #SouthCarolina, where the city wants the issue fought.

"U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel agreed on July 5 that Charleston’s bid seeking to make #FossilFuel companies pay for #climate damages could proceed in state court, where it was initially filed.

"City officials welcomed the decision, which some legal experts say creates a more favorable stage in arguing that the multiple #oil and #gas companies which have operated in the U.S. for decades knew of the #environmentally #hazardous affects of their products.

"'We agree wholeheartedly with him,' said Chloe Field, a city spokeswoman. 'It is time to move towards trial in the Court of Common Pleas where we filed this case nearly three years ago.'

"In 2020, the city of Charleston filed the lawsuit against two dozen major #oil and #pipeline companies, alleging their products and the spread of misinformation about #FossilFuels have caused #ClimateChange leading to repetitive and disastrous #flooding in the city.

"Nationwide, almost two dozen state and local governments are pursuing similar litigation against oil companies seeking climate-related damages. The only government in the South to file such a case is the city of Charleston."

https://www.postandcourier.com/environment/charleston-gets-early-win-in-climate-change-lawsuit-vs-big-oil/article_0d3088b0-1c50-11ee-80c2-4326bd224f41.html

#PetroStates #HexonExxon #ExxonKnew #ShellKnew #BPKnew #LockUpTheRealCriminals #Corporations

So, it's okay to destroy #Indigenous heritage sites, pollute the planet, and appoint corporate lackeys to advisory boards -- but if you protest and cause disruption, you could face arrest?

The Australian #climate #protesters cast as extremists

By Hannah Ritchie, BBC News Sydney, July 19, 2023

"In May, after several #ExtinctionRebellion protests, the South Australia government introduced a A$50,000 maximum fine and three months jail for anyone 'recklessly' obstructing public spaces, while laws passed in New South Wales last year created a two-year maximum prison sentence for acts disrupting major roads or facilities.

"#England, #Wales and parts of #Canada and the #USA have also adopted similar laws aimed at blocking disruptive climate activism.

"In Western Australia, climate protesters say they have been 'disabled' by intimidating raids, strict bail conditions and orders which give authorities access to their devices and ban them from communicating with peers.

"According to Ms Grix, these tools were originally intended to deal with gangs and drug dealers.

"'To apply [that]... to climate defenders, who are protesting about environmental concerns, seems to be a massive overreach,' she says."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66185377

#PetroStates #HexonExxon #ExxonKnew #ShellKnew #BPKnew #LockUpTheRealCriminals #Corporations #Mockingjay #Protests #ClimateActivism

An interesting overview of #Alberta and #Petrostates in general.
“nothing will change in Alberta’s petrostate until its citizens embrace representative taxation (and pay their own way), shut down the oil revenue roller coaster and save for a rainy day. Or months of wildfires.”
#Canada #cdnpoli #Energy #Saskatchewan

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/05/24/Only-Path-To-Change-In-Alberta/

Mike Coffin: “It's critical #oil & #gas-exporting #petrostates diversify away from reliance on these export revenues. They must ensure central funds, whether directly, or via ongoing subsidies, are not wasted chasing revenues from an industry in terminal decline" https://www.energymonitor.ai/tech/renewables/will-saudi-arabia-ever-make-good-on-its-solar-ambitions/

Europe may be (trying to) slowly weaning itself off #hydrocarbons but the good times are still rolling in for the #Gulf #Petrostates..

Welcome to a new era of #petrodollar power from #TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/04/09/welcome-to-a-new-era-of-petrodollar-power

Attaching a few more hashtags to this wonderful discussion with #KimStanleyRobinson on #SeldonCrisis. #ChatGPT #Bing #GeoEngineering #Mars #Space #Decarbonization #QuantitativeEasing #PlanetarySettlement
#GreatManTheory
#Psychohistory #SpaceX #Petrostates https://youtu.be/luKBg-Ig_u0

Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “Global South” solidarity (which scarcely even applies here: this is a Global North state in economic terms) are emphatically *not* the only possible political positions. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism

Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “Global South” (which scarcely even applies here: this is a Global North state in economic terms) solidarity are emphatically *not* the only possible political positions. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism

Sure, there’s an orientalist discourse about Qatar (just as there is about all of West and South Asia). But there’s also a postcolonial, left, and queerfeminist lens at work in the critiques of ultra-capitalism, migrant labor exploitation and deaths, petro-states, and the absence/limited nature of queer, trans, and women’s freedoms. Western orientalism and uncritical “non-Western” (which scarcely even applies: this is a Global North state in economic terms) solidarity are emphatically *not* the only possible political position. #poco #petrostates #migrantrights #lgbtqrights #postcolonialism #critiquebeforesolidarity #orientalism