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Category: Climate Emergency

  • Kwasi Kwarteng’s secret meetings with Saudi oil firms revealed

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    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/11/kwasi-kwarteng-secret-meetings-with-saudi-oil-firms-revealed-by-foi

    The chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, held undisclosed meetings with senior executives of Saudi Arabian firms when he was the business secretary, documents acquired by the Guardian show.

    The meetings occurred in January, when Kwarteng visited the kingdom for a two-day trip under his previous ministerial role.

    Documents released using the Freedom of Information Act (FoI) show Kwarteng held undisclosed meetings with the chief executive of Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil producer; the chief executive of Sabic, the world’s fourth largest petrochemical company; and the chair of Alfanar Group, an industrial conglomerate.

    However, transparency disclosures from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy did not contain any reference to meetings during the period Kwarteng was in Saudi Arabia when originally published.

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    I seem to remember someone saying that it’s difficult to tell politics and big oil apart …

  • UK defies climate warnings with new oil and gas licences

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63163824

    The UK has opened a new licensing round for companies to explore for oil and gas in the North Sea.

    Nearly 900 locations are being offered for exploration, with as many as 100 licences set to be awarded.

    The decision is at odds with international climate scientists who say fossil fuel projects should be closed down, not expanded.

    They say there can be no new projects if there is to be a chance of keeping global temperature rises under 1.5C.

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  • Just Stop Oil protests and arrests continue at Whitehall

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    Video report of Just Stop Oil protests at Whitehall by GBNews

    Just Stop Oil protests and arrests are continuing at the UK Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, London. There were 54 arrests on Tuesday, 25 today. Just Stop Oil are calling on the UK government to end new oil and gas.

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/06/just-stop-oil-activists-arrested-after-glueing-themselves-to-road-in-whitehall

    Twenty-five supporters of Just Stop Oil have been arrested after blocking traffic in central London, on the sixth consecutive day of protest by the group.

    At about midday on Thursday, two groups of protesters with the climate activist campaign walked into the road and stopped traffic at the roundabout by Trafalgar Square.

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    Supporters of Just Stop Oil have vowed to block the streets of Westminster every single day until the government agrees a halt to all new oil and gas projects. The latest arrests bring the number of arrests related to their protests to more than 100 since Sunday.

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  • Memo to the UK Conservative Party

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    SUBJECT: Your new leader

    HTF did she do PPE? HTF did she present a budget without consulting her cabinet over it?

    She’s in the grip of the IEA and other insane Tufton Street think-tanks.

    You’re on course for a serious clash. We need climate action immediately, we need no new oil and gas now. We don’t have time to feck about, the World is burning.

    We can’t tolerate you having a bonkers, insane totally divorced from reality leader who has the infantile approach that things will happen simply by wishing them to be true. Put reins on her.

  • Macron warns France of ‘the end of abundance’ and tough times ahead

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    France: Macron warns of tough times ahead

    https://www.france24.com/en/france/20220824-macron-warns-french-of-tough-times-ahead-end-to-energy-price-cap

    After a summer marked by drought, massive wildfires and the war in Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a stark speech on Wednesday at the first cabinet meeting following the summer holiday break, warning of tough months ahead as the world faces a possible “end of abundance”.

    “I believe that we are in the process of living through a tipping point or great upheaval. Firstly because we are living through… what could seem like the end of abundance,” said Macron, 44. 

    The speech appeared designed to prepare the country for what promises to be a difficult winter ahead, with energy prices rising sharply and many families struggling with inflation.

    “The moment we are living … may seem to be structured by a series of crises, each more serious than the other,” Macron said, referring to the drought, fires and storms that have hit France during the summer as well as the Ukraine war and disruptions to global trade.

    “Freedom has a cost,” Macron said, urging his ministers to be ambitious and the French to accept new policies adapted to current circumstances. “The battles we have to fight … will only be won through our efforts.”

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