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We Might Need More Stuff to Burn

Hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences to boost British energy independence and grow the economy
Hundreds of new oil and gas licenses will be granted in the UK, the Prime Minister has confirmed today (Monday 31 July).
Australian government launches offshore petroleum exploration permits for 47,000 sq km of ocean
Resources minister says exploration ‘central to alleviating future domestic gas shortfalls’ but Greens slam ‘mockery’ of climate target
Biden Administration Oil, Gas Drilling Approvals Outpace Trump’s
Center for Biological Diversity: Massive Fossil Fuel Expansion Undermines U.S. Climate Commitments
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CCS: Just A Hustle

World’s biggest carbon capture plant performing below expectations as critics pan ‘ludicrous’ technology
The future of carbon capture technology is up in the air as United States oil and gas giant Chevron admits to an Adelaide audience that its flagship project is running at just a third of capacity six years after opening.
South Australia tells gas industry the state is ‘at your disposal’
SA energy minister tells industry ‘we are here to help’ while federal resources minister Madeleine King promotes carbon capture and storage
Food & Water Watch Launches Dynamic Digital Resource Hub to Refute Dangerous Carbon Capture Hype
“Our Carbon Capture Scam web hub gives people an opportunity to take action and fight back against CCS, and for a truly clean, renewable energy future.”
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Climate Change Denial from Sky News

Ep 13 – Sky News ‘misleading’ – Media Watch
Media regulator ACMA says Sky’s Outsiders program breached accuracy and fairness guidelines four times when reporting on climate science in 2021.
Sky News Australia’s Outsiders breached industry code for accuracy on climate science, media watchdog finds
Acma investigation highlights four segments on Sky News Australia that tried to play down the threat to Great Barrier Reef
Scientific theory ‘never beyond being questioned’: Rowan Dean responds to Rudd’s complaints
Sky News host Rowan Dean says it is no secret he is a climate sceptic as the “science on anything is never settled”. Mr Dean’s comments after former prime minister Kevin Rudd put forward 80 complaints to the Australian Communications Media Authority regarding a climate sceptic segment on 10 episod…
How Sky News Australia turned watchdog’s rebuke over climate denial into an ‘exclusive’ story | Weekly Beast
Regulator finds commentator Rowan Dean broke accuracy and fairness rules, but Sky puts its own spin on things. Plus: is SBS moving to western Sydney?
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They Can’t Make This Stuff Up

Occidental Makes a Billion-Dollar Climate Moonshot—So It Can Keep Pumping Oil
Oil giant says its billion-dollar bid to capture greenhouse gas will give it leeway to invest in fossil fuels
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Maybe The Turning Point Is Near

Exxon in the classroom: how big oil money influences US universities
Students at Princeton describe unease that Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links
In Landmark Pledge, British Lawyers Say They Won’t Act in the Interest of Fossil Fuels
The litigators refuse to represent new coal, oil and gas developments or prosecute peaceful climate protesters
EU fossil fuel car ban gets final green light
The 27 EU member states gave final approval Tuesday to a ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2035, after Germany dropped a last-minute blocking effort.
It’s not perfect, but the Labor-Greens climate deal should limit emissions and fossil fuels. That matters | Adam Morton
The agreement delivers important changes to the safeguard mechanism. But there is still a lot of work to do