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XR Merseyside
@xrmerseyside.bsky.social
We're in the midst of catastrophic climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. We must take action now.
Is there no end to the welfare sponging of filthy rich oil giants?

Shell & Equinor's joint venture is to let Shell write off profit against Equinor's losses,costing the UK £1.3B in taxes

Ask Rachel Reeves to investigate this illegal "loss buying"

#StopRosebank

actionnetwork.org/letters/disr...
Disrupt the deal: Shell and Equinor's £1.3 billion tax grab
Two of the biggest climate villains of our time have teamed up to pull off what could be a £1.3 billion tax dodge. Demand Rachel Reeves intervene, investigate this deal, and plug this massive hole in ...
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This cause is close to home for us in Merseyside and Teeside - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...

This is £21B of corporate subsidy / welfare. And let's not forget that this CCS *adds* CO2 to the atmosphere - what is the point of that?

#HyNot #BlueHydrogenIsNotGreen
Tell chancellor Rachel Reeves to stop funding carbon capture and storage
Dear Rachel Reeves, In your statement to the House of Commons in July last year, you announced a £22billion black hole in public finances. Three months later, the government pledged £22billion of pub...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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MEDIA LIBERATION day was 5th November, so Rebels were busy warning the population against billionaire brainwashing and
malignant media.

MEDIA REVOLUTION.ORG

✊ BE BRAVE. BE A REBEL.

💜 Please like, follow and share on your social media channels.

love & rage

SEE YOU ON THE STREETS.
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Banks are using money we lend them to profit from destroying the environment. (Attached post)
#BetterWithoutBarclays (and Santander, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest)

www.switchit.green to deprive them of our support.
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Drax continues to source its fuel from old growth forests and whole trees despite fines and claiming it's stopped both of these practices.

Stop the £ million per day taxpayer subsidies until Drax can demonstrably keep its promises.

#AxeDrax

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Carla Denyer has started a petition to Racel Reeves "End tax breaks for oil and gas giants and support workers instead"

The more we support it the better chance it has of succeeding. You can read more and sign the petition here:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
End tax breaks on oil and gas
Sign the petition to stop the giveaway and demand a fair jobs plan needs major people power right now.
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This article makes a horrifying read (but is recommended nonetheless).
The headline is followed by a list of millions more deaths attributable to fossil fuel use, and an accounting of the vast annual subsidies to fossil fuels. We're mad.

#NoMoreFossilFuels

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“We all know what the lobbyists want,” Guterres said. “It’s to increase their profits, with the price being paid by humankind."

The Truth!

COP30 Climate Justice marches around the UK and the world on 15th November. Be there. climatejustice.uk/cop30/global...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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This could be a tipping point for decision makers across the UK: we're holding a National Emergency Briefing on the Climate and Nature crisis for national leaders at Westminster Central Hall, and you can help!...🧵
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Carbon capture as it's being proposed and implemented will *add* CO2 to the atmosphere - how can that help achieve Net Zero?

(Even if 90% of CO2 from a fossil fuel source were captured (actual results are more like 50%) 10% is emitted. We need green solutions, not blue, grey, whatever)

#Hynot
September 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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We all got that scary phone alert yesterday.

Wildfires. Floods. Extreme weather.

The UK govt knows the climate 💩 is about to hit the fan.

So do the billionaires — who are quietly building bunkers. 🧵
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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💡🔥 AXA & AIG’s offices were lit up across 10 cities worldwide to launch our phase of action 8-22 September.

We are exposing the truth: Big Insurance is fuelling climate chaos + genocide.

From Manchester to Johannesburg, Paris to Auckland: insurers of destruction can’t hide.
#InsureOurSurvival
September 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Shell submits new climate assessment for Jackdaw gas field after a successful legal challenge by Greenpeace.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles...

#ClimateAction
Shell submits new climate assessment for Jackdaw gas field
Oil giant Shell had to review its assessment after a judge ruled the Jackdaw field was permitted unlawfully.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Reform UK are yelling “drill, baby, drill” 🙄 But fracking is reckless & won’t even cut bills (quite apart from the climate damage). Time to end this nonsense. Tell Ed Miliband: BAN FRACKING permanently
#NoNewFossilFuels
#KeepGasInTheGround

Add your name:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...
Keep fracking out of Britain!
I live in Lincolnshire, and a new gas field has been found nearby. Reform UK are already shouting “drill, baby, drill,” and fracking isn’t banned - it’s only paused. That means they could start drilli...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Make.them.Pay

Boycott Fossil fools
Saturday 25 Sept
March & Rally

Central London
With @makepolluterspay.bsky.social
Get 🚉 from Brighton with us ✊🏿🌍💚
Repeat after me. A habitable planet is more important than the profits of a few fossil fuel companies.

Pass it on.

#ActOnClimate
August 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Good News!
The Economist reports that the green transition is racing ahead in the global south (outstripping Europe). It's driven by economics
- renewable energy is cheaper
- and it's home grown releasing valuable foreign currency that was used to import oil

www.economist.com/finance-and-...
The green transition has a surprising new home
Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling
www.economist.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A thoughtful and well researched report on why burning wood for power (and heat) is a poor choice.
For instance,
- if you think biomass is renewable, maybe you're right, but it takes 60-120 years for the emitted CO2 to be recaptured. In the meantime its an emitter. We can't afford that.
Burning wood for energy has long been touted as sustainable, but is it? Natalie Johnson, Research & Policy Officer at Global Action Plan plan presents the case that it's time for a rethink when it come to forest fuels.

Follow the link for full article:
www.globalactionplan.org.uk/news/wood-bu...
Wood burning: it’s time for a rethink
Burning wood has been long touted as a ‘sustainable’ alternative to other methods of producing energy, however, the tides may be starting to turn as more people wise up to the issues with wood…
www.globalactionplan.org.uk
August 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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We've applied for a judicial review of the government decision to allow fossil fuel giant #Eni to store carbon dioxide in #LiverpoolBay using #CarbonCaptureAndStorage as part of the #HyNet scheme. We're working with @leigh-day.bsky.social on the legal proceedings.
HyNot takes government to court over carbon storage in Liverpool Bay - HyNot
HyNot, a campaign group opposed to the HyNet scheme, has applied for a judicial review of the government’s decision to grant permission to Italian oil and gas giant Eni to store carbon dioxide in Live...
www.hynot.uk
August 20, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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“Drought in England is no longer a warning. It is a clear signal that climate collapse is unravelling our water, food and natural systems right now."

#climatecrisis
#drought

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
How can England possibly be running out of water?
While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible
www.theguardian.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
It's good to know that someone gets it.
#TellTheTruth

Miliband addresses MPs, telling them the UK is getting hotter and wetter with three times the number of days above 30°C.

He says heat waves have led to 10,000 excess deaths in England over past 4 years.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Tories’ energy policy shows they are ‘anti-science, anti-jobs, anti-future’ Miliband tells MPs – UK politics live
Energy secretary says it is not clear if opposition have any net zero policy
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Well done these 5,000 people who met with their MPs yesterday to demand more climate and nature action.
They are the tip of the iceberg - almost everyone wants action (see photo). It's OK to talk about it - you are not alone.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands meet their MPs to show huge demand for climate action
Mass lobby in Westminster kicked off with giant image on white cliffs of Dover stating ‘89% of people want climate action’
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A great call to replace conifer plantations with native woodlands simply by replanting with native trees in the normal cycle of forest management.
🌳 Native woodlands can replace conifer plantations if we act now.

Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands.

Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? I have.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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“you can’t claim to solve an intractable political problem by invoking imaginary scientific solutions.”
@jamesgdyke.info
The climate centre is barking mad
The climate movement will fail if it doesn't respect both political and physical realities
jamesdyke.substack.com
June 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Creative protest opportunity...

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.
It would be great if we all suggested the same 5 names:
BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell.

Met Office page is: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Name our Storms
www.metoffice.gov.uk
June 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM