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Christopher Wright
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Yes…definitely the new Energy Secretary of the USA
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Christopher Wright @chrisisalwright.bsky.social · Nov 17
I wouldn’t worry about this guy too long. Several sources tell me he is flakey and non committal
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#BREAKINGNEWS Australia has just given preliminary approval to extend the life of the North West Shelf, the country's biggest and oldest liquefied natural gas plant for decades. This raises serious questions about Australia's climate agenda.
May 28, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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🔥🌍 We don't need new global pledges - we need new ideas of how to support and maintain economic opportunities at the forested margins of society - or inequality and drought might simply consume our forests

www.independent.co.uk/voices/defor... @the-independent.com
Deforestation pledges will go up in flames if we ignore inequality
With wildfires reaching new and disastrous heights, we need an end to global pledges – and more opportunities for people to make a living by protecting valuable ecosystems, writes Chris Wright
www.independent.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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2 parts tech, 1 part tariffs, add a pinch of protectionism.

That seems to be the price recipe for EVs - set to make up 1 in 4 cars sold this year

But could this transition happen faster? Should it? And is there a fairer, middle-way?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/elect... @the-independent.com
The electric car market is booming. So why are prices still so high?
Protectionist policies in the West mean that we are not gaining the benefits of the boom in electric vehicles, says Chris Wright
www.independent.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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🌍 A seismic shift in Australian politics has just opened the door to the most significant opportunity for Australia's domestic and perhaps its role in international climate action in over a decade.

Read more: www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr...

@the-independent.com #auspol #Canada #NetZero
Might Australian and Canadian voters be heralding a new Western alliance?
After a landmark victory for Australia’s centre-left Labor Party, and Mark Carney’s recent success in Canada, the influence of the current US administration may have reached its limit, says Chris Wrig...
www.independent.co.uk
May 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Australia's two parties are still neck-and-neck ahead of the next election, but when it comes to energy policy, they’re worlds apart.

The outcome could shape the country’s climate future for decades. 🌏⚡ #auspol #climate

www.independent.co.uk/voices/austr...
Australia must choose between climate change reality and Trump-style denial
When it comes to energy, the country’s opposition leader Peter Dutton is apeing the White House’s moves, says Chris Wright
www.independent.co.uk
April 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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After one year of Australia's Safeguard Mechanism, there are three key questions to ask:

1. Has it created a real incentive to reduce emissions?
2. Can we trust the data?
3. Is it set up to improve over time?

My take on the challenges: reneweconomy.com.au/coal-mine-em...

#ClimatePolicy #AusPol
Coal mine emissions reporting methods remain a major blight on Safeguard success
The Safeguard Mechanism is a good policy. But if it is going to succeed, it must start with accurate reporting from the coal sector.
reneweconomy.com.au
April 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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I think we are really only scratching the surface of how incredible renewables + storage can be as a revenue source for so many small businesses

www.independent.co.uk/voices/solar...
Solar energy just saves you money – but with AI, could it make you money?
This week’s new energy trade fairs brought together some of the most unexpected innovators in green technology – and proved to Chris Wright that if you show people where the money is, they’ll gladly w...
www.independent.co.uk
March 31, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Good to clarify why Trump was in such a rush to leave
March 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent.

“It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.”

@kyivindependent.com
Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky
It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...
kyivindependent.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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The NSW gov is considering extending Tahmoor coal mine’s 1 million tonnes of CO2-e per year

But who would they even be extending it for?

If ever there was a time to hit pause, this would be it! #auspol

reneweconomy.com.au/who-will-tak...
Who will take on the emissions of Australia’s most polluting coal mine if Gupta sells?
Sanjeev Gupta is looking to pass the Tahmoor coal mine to its ninth owner for an asking price of $800 million. But who is going to step in and take responsibility for its emissions?
reneweconomy.com.au
February 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Global thermal coal markets are moving - and Australia could be in for a rude awakening if we don’t prepare for big shifts in years to come

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...
Global coal demand holds, but drops among our biggest buyers
While the demand for coal reached another peak last year, the industry’s growth looks to be concentrated in just a handful of countries.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
February 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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So interesting how scary a built-in fossil fuel decline can be for a government seeking to manage debt repayments

And how much simpler the climate challenge would be without further expansionary spending
Ahead of COP30, Brazil's Lula pushes for oil drilling in the Amazon
Months before COP30, Brazil's president Lula da Silva seeks the expedited approval of a controversial oil drilling project in the Amazon.
www.climatechangenews.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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We passed ‘peak aid’ in 2022 and won’t be going back under Trump. The same is probably true for #climatefinance

Question is, what do we push for now?

www.independent.co.uk/voices/usaid...
If Trump thinks we’ve reached peak aid, it’s not looking good for climate finance
The aid industry will never be the same after Trump’s freeze on USAID spending, writes Chris Wright. While this will undoubtedly leave critical short-term gaps, some hope it might also lead to longer-...
www.independent.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Dear America,
THIS 👇 is what you should've done. #DonaldTrump #USPolitics
February 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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So stranded fossil fuel sponsorship risk is now a thing?
February 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Is this maybe even too Australian?
February 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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This is just embarrassing, and your music critic should be embarrassed.

I recommend instead people read

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The subversive genius of Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance
The Compton MC might have just given us the biggest rap performance ever
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February 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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NSW coal has a bigger global climate impact than…France!

The numbers shocked me too #auspol #nsw

reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-has-coal...
NSW has coal mine methane emissions in its sights. But will the industry respond?
The NSW EPA’s new guide for “Large Emitters” puts the coal industry’s methane crisis in its sights. The big question is, how will the coal mining industry respond?
reneweconomy.com.au
February 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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If unchecked, crypto could be used to trade away national sovereignty, undermine energy security and destabilise the climate – all at the same time

www.independent.co.uk/voices/crypt...
Bitcoin just made Trump billions. But how much will it cost all of us?
If unchecked, crypto could be used to trade away national sovereignty, undermine energy security and destabilise the climate – all at the same time, warns Chris Wright
www.independent.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Australia could be poised to reap the benefits of $billions in stranded clean energy capital looking for the most fertile soil to invest in #auspol

reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m...
Australia’s moment: How Trump’s fossil turn can supercharge our energy revolution
The transition to renewable energy and clean transport is a gold rush – and with the US electing to sit this one out, it’s time for our second Eureka moment.
reneweconomy.com.au
January 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The British stole stuff from all around the world and they wont give it back. But they also left statues of colonisers everywhere too…

Can we give those back now too? #auspol
January 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Blake shelton keeping receipts!!

What an awesome push back on lazy journalists at the #ausopen

Just became my new favourite (non Aussie) tennis player www.foxsports.com.au/tennis/austr...
‘Embarrassing and disrespectful’: Aus Open star left ‘shocked’ in stunning spray over interviewers
‘Embarrassing and disrespectful’: Aus Open star left ‘shocked’ in stunning spray over interviewers
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January 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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“I am terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country” - James Baldwin
My biggest fear as Trump takes office: moral apathy
As America faces unprecedented political and environmental challenges, the nation’s moral compass seems to be faltering. Chris Wright explores the implications of this moral decline in the age of Trum...
www.independent.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Labor is sitting on the edge of a historic opportunity: No New Coal Mines

Stop whispering it and lets do it!

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science...
Labor can, and should, take this promise on coal to the election
A proudly stated, clearly defined 'No New Coal Mine' policy is absolutely within the grasp of Labor ahead of the next election.
www.thenewdaily.com.au
January 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM