Why does the Albanese Government treat Japan’s energy security as more important than our own?

Let's hope someone asks Japan's Ambassador when he speaks at the National Press Club today!

My piece at @thepointau.bsky.social
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This should be required viewing especially as govts trip over themselves to buy US LNG.

🚨 Venture Global just announced it secured >$15M to proceed with construction of the CP2 liquefied natural gas export project.

"CP2 is a threat to the health + safety of my community + an assault on everything I hold dear," says Louisiana community leader @roishetta.bsky.social. bit.ly/4kYWC57

📣 🧵 Today, Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs filed a formal complaint against the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing LNG Canada, a massive fracked gas project built without their consent on unceded territory in so-called British Columbia.
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I just wrote to the Japanese financiers who are funding fossil fuel expansion in the US to urge them to put climate & communities over corporate profits. Join me:
act.oilchange.org/letters/tell...

President-elect Lee Jae-myung can turn the page on the previous government’s “blocker” role on #climate. For true energy security & affordability, he should join in ending international finance for fossil fuel projects and shift this public finance to renewable energy. oilchange.org/news/reactiv...

Japanese and Alaskan climate advocates are coming together to tell Prime Minister Ishiba to refuse pressure to invest in Trump's pet project, Alaska liquified natural gas (LNG). The project is expensive, impractical, and would be ruinous for our climate.

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The Trump administration’s targeting of funders and donation platforms is a blatant attempt to isolate civil society and silence dissent.

We won't back down. The only way we win is if we keep fighting.

Australia is selling its gas to Japan so cheaply, that Japan is selling it again to other countries!

But Big Gas wants us to think we have a shortage problem, not an export problem.

🎤 Yuki Tanabe at the Australia Institute's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2025 #auspol

🚨 Historic Climate Ruling in #SouthKorea! The first climate litigation victory is making waves.

The Constitutional Court ruled climate policies fail to protect future generations🌍⚖️

With #Japan facing scrutiny over fossil fuel financing, #climate lawsuits will rise.
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Standing Rock Grassroots leader Waniya Locke on the verdict in Energy Transfer's lawsuit against Greenpeace:

"It's an attack on Indigenous communities, clean water, our climate, and everybody’s right to protest. " bit.ly/41GtFTN

Today, Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba announced a deal to increase imports of US LNG.

But financing US LNG poses serious risks for Japan, harms communities near LNG projects, and jeopardizes a liveable future. bit.ly/42MhhUl

I just wrote to the Japanese financiers who are funding fossil fuel expansion in the US to urge them to put climate & communities over corporate profits. Join me:
act.oilchange.org/letters/tell...

January 24th marks three years since Vietnamese climate leader Bach was sentenced to prison for his environmental advocacy. It’s also another Tết Lunar New Year spent apart from his family. Please share this video to #StandWithBach. youtu.be/LtCKP8On14w

Gulf South activists Manning Rollerson & Sharon Wilson are in Tokyo to tell Japanese financiers to stop bankrolling LNG destruction along the US Gulf Coast.

"We will not stop fighting until our communities are safe from harm." #STOPLNG #FossilFreeJapan

www.commondreams.org/opinion/gulf...

Enough is enough!
Gulf South activists Manning Rollerson/Sharon Wilson confront financiers in Japan over $35B+ LNG financing. Our communities won't be sacrificed for fossil fuels @commondreams.org @marketforces.org.au @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social
#STOPLNG
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1/ 🛑We are in solidarity with ReCommon and Antonio Tricarico in the face of oil giant Eni’s escalating attacks against civil society.