An American company called NIHT Inc has partnered with local people in P.N.G. to put an end to deforestation in the region, but all they are doing is ripping the locals off.

Carbon credit fraud.

WTF! Of all the stupid ideas going about Swiss company Glencore now wants to pump power station pollution down into our ground water.

Groundwater concerns grow as Glencore pushes ahead with plan to store waste CO2 in Great Artesian Basin.

How about Glencore takes its pollution and pumps it under Switzerland instead.

That is just desperately bonkers!

They must just get smacked down for that wild attempt...


One to follow up on...

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Martin

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And then there's this fracking stupidity.

CSIRO under fire over 'nonsense' report on fracking offsets for Beetaloo Basin greenhouse gas emissions.

The CSIRO is defending a report on the prospect of offsetting massive new greenhouse gas emissions from developing the Beetaloo Basin, in the face of calls for the findings to be reviewed or thrown out.

The report, which was published on Friday, found it would be technically possible to offset emissions from developing the basin south-east of Darwin, but only if a number of challenges were overcome.

In the meantime, the Northern Territory government is preparing to announce whether it will allow full-scale fracking to go ahead and has promised all domestic emissions from the basin will be offset if it does.

Offsetting a small-scale fracking industry would use up 10 per cent of all carbon credits available annually in Australia, the authors found.

They also said it would require the use of "nascent" carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which is not yet proven to work at scale.

The costs of offsetting the emissions were not calculated and it was assumed that the bulk of Beetaloo gas would be exported from Darwin.

However, the offsets calculations underpinning the report have been labelled "wildly unrealistic" by whistleblower and former head of the Clean Energy Regulator's offsets integrity committee, Professor Andrew MacIntosh.

In a follow-up interview, Professor MacIntosh said that, while he had collaborated with and greatly respected the work of many CSIRO researchers, "in this case, something has gone wrong".

He said the amount of pollution the report estimated could be offset using a range of abatement methods — such as revegetation of certain land categories — was "demonstrable nonsense".

"They've come forward with estimates [for the amount of emissions that can be offset] that are grossly inflated," he told ABC Radio Darwin....

Big Oil and their big B.S..

Whistleblower says 'Santos lied to all of us' over severity of oil spill, marine deaths off WA coast.

A former Santos employee has accused the Australian oil and gas company of covering up the extent of an oil spill he believes killed dolphins off the Western Australian coast.

The claims, made by an anonymous whistleblower, were tabled by independent Senator David Pocock in federal parliament on Thursday.

In their statement, the whistleblower said they had been working for Santos in March last year when they witnessed a 25,000 litre spill of condensate – a light form of oil – near the Lowendal Islands, about 300 kilometres off the coast of Karratha.

The oil spill was caused by a tear in a subsea hose used to load an oil tanker moored off Santos' Varanus Island gas processing facility.

The statement said multiple dead dolphins, including a pup, "were found floating in the centre of the spill" while in other areas, "sea snakes writhed in agony".

Using parliamentary privilege at Senate estimates, Mr Pocock also tabled photos and videos showing oil in the water and dolphins floating belly-up in the sea.

The whistleblower said he was "shocked" to learn about Santos' response a month later, when they stated the spill had caused "negligible harm to the environment".

They said employees raised the company's public comments internally, and senior Santos executives knew, or should have known, it was acting "contrary to its internal code of conduct and values and, possibly, the law".

But despite expecting "the situation would be rectified," the company later denied any responsibility for the dolphins' deaths....

It's about time that this company was made to pay up or be closed down.

I'm not surprised by this report at all.

Koch-owned chemical plant evades detection of its toxic emissions at a terrible health cost to the public.

A giant chemical plant in Port Arthur, Texas, has “spent years running from the Clean Air Act” by developing ways to evade detection of spikes in dangerous emissions, according to a new investigative report.

Oxbow Calcining, a company owned by William “Bill” Koch, used data from an air monitor installed near the plant to alter its emissions temporarily in ways that gamed – and may have broken – environmental protection laws, the report states.

The voluminous report was published at Grist.org, a non-profit online magazine founded in 1999 for environmental news and commentary.

Though the monitor was installed by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the beneficiary of its data was the company, the report found. When dangerously high levels of emissions would be detected, Oxbow knew what to do.

“Every time the wind blew in the direction of the monitor and the readings ticked upward, Holtham and other Oxbow employees were alerted,” Grist reported. “Then they improvised ways to decrease the brownish-yellow sulfurous plume spilling out of the smokestacks, stopping the company from running afoul of the law.....

Glencore is in the news again for all the wrong reasons.

Coal giant Glencore pushes for law change to prevent 'legal challenges' to carbon project.

Leaked briefing notes reveal major coal miner Glencore has been lobbying for legislation changes to allow the expansion of a controversial carbon capture and storage project in the Great Artesian Basin.

The documents also reveal Glencore is seeking a law change that would force landholders to host infrastructure, including pipes carrying ammonia, on private property.

Glencore, via its subsidiary, Carbon Transport and Storage Corporation (CTSCo), is planning to store waste CO2 in an aquifer in the Great Artesian Basin as part of a trial carbon capture and storage project in southern Queensland.

Despite claiming water at the site, about 400 kilometres west of Brisbane, was "saline" and "unsuitable" for agriculture, Glencore's own water samples showed the water was safe for livestock use....

Now if fossil fuel loving SloMo and his crooked mob were still in charge they would've sneaked those changes through, thankfully we got rid of them and maybe Glencore should follow.

Bob Brown Foundation, Sea Shepherd Global say Chinese krill super trawlers 'ploughing' through whale pods.

Two environmental groups are calling for krill fishing to be outlawed, saying Chinese super trawlers are endangering pods of whales in the Southern Ocean.

The Bob Brown Foundation and Sea Shepherd Global have travelled to waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, tracking super trawlers fishing for krill.

The groups filmed the trawlers operating near some whales, and said the Shen Lan and Long Fa so-called "fish factory" super trawlers were "ploughing right through" large pods.

"Krill is the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem," Bob Brown Foundation campaigner Alistair Allan said.

"They deserve total protection, not super trawlers hoovering them out of the ocean."

Krill is fished for products including fish farm feed and health supplements.

Norway, China and Korea are among the countries using super trawlers in the krill fishery....

This is long overdue to shine the spotlight on the Chinese greed overfishing everything to extinction wherever they go.

Vacuum cleaning out all the krill is horribly wasteful for use as mere fertilizer or as food for fish farms...


Can political persuasion and public opinion moderate the excesses?...

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1 group trying to return our inland waterways back into good health while rejuvenating the land have faced 15yrs of red tape hurdles. :-(

Regenerative farming project to restore Mulloon Creek stalled by planning problems.

Regenerative farming in Australia is being held back by bureaucratic red tape, according to one of the nation's leading farm advocacy groups.

The not-for-profit Mulloon Institute was named by the United Nations in 2015 as one of five global demonstrators of sustainable, productive and profitable farming.

But its flagship research initiative has stalled because of planning laws.

The group's Mulloon Creek Rehydration Initiative aims to install 90 creek-bed structures along 50 kilometres of degraded catchment in the southern tablelands region of New South Wales, south-west of Sydney.

The so-called "leaky weirs" slow water flow, promote more biodiversity and spread groundwater into the surrounding floodplain.

Lawyer Matt Egerton-Warburton said the group was spending up to 10 times more on planning approvals than building the structures. Fewer than half of the planned leaky weirs have been approved after more than 15 years.....

What were they thinking?

Group shares eerie photos of disastrous man-made reef off coast of Florida: ‘500,000 tires left sitting at the bottom of the ocean’.

The Osborne Reef is an artificial reef project situated off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was one of many attempts in the 1970s and 80s to mimic the environmental benefits of coral reefs using old tires, but it has become an environmental disaster.....

One might have expected that after forty or fifty years the tyres would b covered in a lot of plant/animal life, but the headline picture suggests a pretty sterile area. What would be interesting would be to see pictures of the outer perimeter of the area (but I doubt that it would be much different to the centre).
We have known for many years how toxic old tyres are to many of the plants & animals at the bottom of the food chain and how difficult old, partially decayed, tyres are to recycle in an environmental manner.

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One might have expected that after forty or fifty years the tyres would b covered in a lot of plant/animal life, but the headline picture suggests a pretty sterile area. What would be interesting would be to see pictures of the outer perimeter of the area (but I doubt that it would be much different to the centre).
We have known for many years how toxic old tyres are to many of the plants & animals at the bottom of the food chain and how difficult old, partially decayed, tyres are to recycle in an environmental manner.

Sadly those loose tyres are constantly on the move so nothing has time to attach to or anchor them down. :-(

I thought that we did well in places here with 4 bins (and they're still talking about the 3rd out here in the countryside), but this country take that to extremes. :-O

.Australia has been put to shame by this country which takes recycling to extreme levels. They even have a rule for what days you can recycle glass.

Bin night is pretty simple here in Australia with two, three or maybe four bins to separate rubbish into. Spare a thought then for the people living in Germany where rubbish has to be sorted into up to 20 different bins. And with hundreds of humorous skits posted online by foreigners showing the trouble caused by using the wrong bin, it seems the process is taken very seriously.

“Recycling in Germany is more complicated than you might think,” reads the line on one video.

In it a man arrives in the bin area of his apartment complex and scratches his head as he’s faced with dozens of different coloured bins.

“I’ll guess I’ll just put it in this one,” he says, dumping his bag inside one until someone chases out behind him listing very quickly how he has to put certain things in the blue bin, others in the white and so on. He’s also reminded there’s no glass bottle recycling allowed in Germany on Sunday because it’s too noisy.....

Well done to them working on their excess with more excess.

Cheers.

Our just outed fossil fuel loving state government silently approved more environmental vandalism to go ahead just before they got kicked out.

Mining giant Santos given approval to re-activate four coal seam gas wells in NSW.

And then this turns up out of the blue as well.

Santos confirms Cooper Basin pipeline explosion, as protesters converge on company AGM.

This irresponsible company really needs to go.

Is there no place on this planet that's safe from humanity?

A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

As a crucial deadline looms for a new frontier of mining in the deep Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islanders are worried the controversial practice could go ahead before proper regulations are in place.

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) will begin accepting applications for industrial-scale deep-sea mining in Pacific waters in July.

Cook Island resident Alanna Smith said any damage to ocean ecosystems would be devastating for her country, where the sea is central to life....

And that's just 1 island country of many against this move. And who in the world

And who gave this organisation the authority to commit vandalism? Was a world wide vote of people taken?

Was a world wide vote of people taken?

Yes, profit won. It always does.

What?

Have the Russians secretly lost another secret nuclear sub??


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Martin

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Holy crap! :-O

Scientists discover a dangerous chemical hiding on the ocean floor.

Southern California’s coast could be in serious trouble after dangerous amounts of toxic chemicals from discarded industrial waste were found to be seeping into ocean water according to a new study.

For years the coastal area of California had been used by industrial companies in the state as a place to dump their chemical waste, including one company that ditched tens of thousands of barrels containing a dangerous insecticide known as DDT.

In 2020, The Los Angeles Times revealed the discovery of the barrels by University of California Santa Barbara scientists who found the dangerous chemical by chance while studying methane leaks in the area around Santa Catalina Island.....

Holy crap! :-O

Scientists discover a dangerous chemical hiding on the ocean floor.

Southern California’s coast could be in serious trouble after dangerous amounts of toxic chemicals from discarded industrial waste were found to be seeping into ocean water according to a new study.

For years the coastal area of California had been used by industrial companies in the state as a place to dump their chemical waste, including one company that ditched tens of thousands of barrels containing a dangerous insecticide known as DDT.

In 2020, The Los Angeles Times revealed the discovery of the barrels by University of California Santa Barbara scientists who found the dangerous chemical by chance while studying methane leaks in the area around Santa Catalina Island.....

Is this story going around yet again? First I heard of this was back when DDT was banned in 1972 and the government decided dumping it in the ocean was an acceptable disposal method. Then people forgot. Comes back every decade, to be forgotten again.