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June 20, 2025 at 09:08AM
By Paul Homewood
The Greenies are throwing their toys out of the pram because Texas is planning to build dozens of new gas power stations.
Power Magazine reports:
A nonprofit environmental group said at least 130 natural gas-fired power plant projects are planned in Texas over the next few years as part of that state’s effort to meet growing demand for energy. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), in a report published June 11, said the projects would provide more than 58 GW of new generation capacity, while noting that many of the proposed facilities may not move beyond the planning stage.
The group noted the build-out is supported by the Texas Energy Fund, a taxpayer-supported program created by state lawmakers that provides grants and loans for construction of power generation projects. The fund was created in the wake of the February 2021 Uri winter storm, when as estimated 10 million Texans lost power, prompting officials to look at how to avoid future blackouts caused by extreme weather or other events.
The group in its report said it “has created a statewide inventory of proposed gas power plant projects … using information from a wide variety of publicly available sources, including the Energy Information Administration, Global Energy Monitor, ERCOT [Electrical Reliability Council of Texas, the state’s grid manager], application documents for the Texas Energy Fund, permit documents from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, trade publications, and news articles.” The report focused not only on the construction of new gas-fired projects, but also on the environmental impact, saying the new facilities would, if built, emit an estimated 115 million tons of greenhouse gases (GHG).
Full story here.
How dare Texas want reliable power!
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June 20, 2025 at 08:30AM
By Robert Bradley Jr.
“[Climate activists] should continue to spray paint stuff, block traffic, disrupt speeches, shows and performances, throw food and much, much more.” – Dana R. Fisher and Hajar Yazdiha (below)
Climate disobedience has quieted. The Progressive Left is in shock at the Trump Administration’s dismantlement of Deep-state Climatism. And there is little news from the UK, a hotbed of alarmism with their economy being sacrificed in return for no effect on global climate.
This was not the call from the beginning of this year. Consider “Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)” by Dana R. Fisher and Hajar Yazdiha, which began:
In 2024, they spray painted Stonehenge, held “die-ins,” teach-ins and other actions in front of Citibank HQ, blocked the entrance to the Department of Energy and spray-painted planes on a private airfield. As these performative and disruptive tactics have spread, so too has the criminalisation and repression of climate activists.
A false analogy to the civil rights and women’s rights movement was then made:
But climate activists are not the first radical activists to be demonized and repressed…. Like the struggle for civil rights, the climate movement is fighting to get its battle cry for systemic changes to be heard over the entrenched interests that are clinging to the status quo. So too might the climate movement — and its sympathizers — lean into its efforts to ruffle feathers and wake people up.
Fisher and Yazdiha conclude:
In other words, it should continue to spray paint stuff, block traffic, disrupt speeches, shows and performances, throw food and much, much more.
“Saving the world is not for the faint of heart,” the article ends.
Peter Kalmus Joins In
Climate zealot Peter Kalmus wrote in the New York Times, [“As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles” (January 10, 2025)]: “I moved my family away two years ago because, as California’s climate kept growing drier, hotter and more fiery, I feared that our neighborhood would burn.” But did he also understand the role of the Green, DEI ideology in setting up the state for failure? Why was all-things-climate a priority over modern forest management?
Kalmus blames Big Oil to end with vitriol:
Nothing will change until our anger gets powerful enough. But once you accept the truth of loss, and the truth of who perpetrated and profited from that loss, the anger comes rushing in, as fierce as the Santa Ana winds. [2]
Timothy Martin Conviction
Swift penalties for climate-inspired crimes are sending a message. In response to a 2023 defacement of an art exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, a federal jury recently found Timothy Martin guilty with a long jail sentence possible. Martin’s accomplice, Johanna Smith, spent 60 days in jail and paid a fine and additional money for restitution. Declare Emergency claimed to be behind the vandalism. [3]
Martin’s plea carried little weight:
When I was asked to do this action, it was a no-brainer. Yes, because I come from an art background and the little dancer [the defaced object] is so, so beautiful and she represents the children of the world that are under major threat because of the climate emergency. So, I could not resist the opportunity to turn her beautiful, vulnerable, symbolic self into a message [against] fossil fuel.
Cooler heads and law-and-order are prevailing to the benefit of consumers, taxpayers, and a greener, more productive world. The time for anger and futile, wasteful mitigation policies is over. It is adaptation time.
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[1] Dana R. Fisher is director, Center for Environment, Community & Equity; professor in the School of International Service; and author of “Saving Ourselves: from Climate Shocks to Climate Action.” Hajar Yazdiha is assistant professor of sociology, University of Southern California.
[2] Kalmus declares: “I feel I need to do everything I can to shift society toward climate emergency mode. I’ve tried a lot of different forms of activism, but civil disobedience has been by far the most effective, in my experience. Shifting social norms quickly requires taking risks! Now is the time to become an activist and take some risks. I’ve yet to meet a climate activist who regrets it.”
[3] Declare Emergency urges “resolute nonviolent climate action” on the premise that:
millions of people will starve to death in the coming decades, as elites fill our atmospheric “gas chamber” with fossil fuels for power and profit. Our food systems will break down. Billions will be forced out of their homes and countries. This means war, starvation, slaughter, and rape on a global scale. And the collapse is coming here, too.
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June 20, 2025 at 08:04AM
Net zero obsessed Ed Miliband will have to look again at his claim that two previously approved North Sea exploration projects would be ‘environmental vandalism’. Oil giants are now waiting for the green light after spending £millions setting up the projects.
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Ministers have opened the door to approving drilling at two controversial North Sea oilfields, as new guidance on how energy firms should account for future emissions was released, reports The Guardian.
Michael Shanks, the energy security minister, said on Thursday the guidance would “offer clarity on the way forward for the North Sea oil and gas industry”, after a supreme court ruling in 2024 that blocked drilling.
In January, a judge at Edinburgh’s court of session found that permissions given to Equinor, the lead developer at the Rosebank site, and Shell, which is in charge of Jackdaw, were unlawful because they did not take into account the full scope of carbon emissions they would produce.
The judge ruled that the applications should have accounted for the carbon produced by burning the oil and gas produced at the fields, not just that produced by the drilling.
The new guidance is aimed at applications for projects in North Sea oil and gas fields that are already licensed, and sets out how environmental impacts of oil and gas should be assessed.
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If Equinor and Shell do reapply, Miliband could have to play a quasi-judicial role in deciding whether to grant permission to begin drilling. The Labour manifesto rules out granting new licences for new fields, but ministers say that does not apply to Rosebank and Jackdaw, which already have their licences and are now awaiting environmental consent to begin drilling.
Government sources say the Treasury is pushing hard to allow the new developments as it focuses the government’s economic policy on growth. But many Labour MPs want Miliband to rule them out if there is a risk they could lead to the UK breaking its climate commitments.
Labour is under pressure from the Conservatives and Reform to drop its net zero target altogether. Miliband said this week that he and other green energy enthusiasts would “win [the] fight” against climate sceptics.
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