They don’t care
Geoff Davies reminds us of the contempt with which the fossil fuel industry treats the planet, and its residents. Add the new administration in the USA to those fossil fuel magnates and the full catastrophe is revealed. Trump’s pick for Energy secretary Wright is critical of clean energy “liberal and left wing groups” for their “top down approach”. He happens to have interests in Australia’s Beetaloo Basin. It is hard to see how Wright’s company Liberty Energy, backer of Empire Energy, in partnership with Tamboran, is not the exemplar of a “top down approach”. They received $28.7 million in ‘grants’ from 2021 to 2023, ostensibly under the Australian R and D tax incentive scheme (which did not allow exploration) but in reality were exploring for gas in preparation for fracking. Empire CEO told the ABC “the activity in question is not exploration to discover gas, but rather undertaking R and D activities with the purpose to generate new knowledge to determine how that gas can be extracted”. Perhaps the “new knowledge” is that decisions on fracking and every other ff project is indeed “top down”: fossil fuel companies rule.
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