The Guardian • gas
Issue #2042
GREEN NOTES
One of the biggest con jobs foisted on the Australian public and the planet is Chevron’s $81 billion Gorgon “clean gas” project in WA. It...
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Issue #2176
US attacks on Venezuela, the neighbours respond
The islands of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) are only 11 km from Venezuela. In 2025 the T&T government allowed the US military access to its...
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Issue #2135
Trump attacks Alaska’s tribal sovereignty
US President Donald Trump’s flurry of Executive Orders has had a lot of attention since 20 January, with Executive Orders affecting Diversity Equity and Inclusion...
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Issue #2137
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: Syrian interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa announced the formation of an “independent committee” to investigate armed clashes and massacres that killed more than 1,300 people,...
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Issue #2187
Elon Musk undoing Tesla benefits with AI power plants
If you’re still using the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now called X, you probably know that there’s an AI service attached, called...
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Issue #2001
Gas project threat to delicate ecosystem
Where there are profits to be made, irrespective of the damage they may cause, corporations will seek them. This is the situation with the new...
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Issue #2064
GREEN NOTES
Over 900 health professionals from across the country have signed a joint letter speaking out against fracking the Beetaloo Basin and the Middle Arm gas...
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Issue #2174
GLOBAL BRIEFS
BRAZIL: President Lula da Silva has announced the creation of two new higher education institutions – the Federal Indigenous University (UNIND) and the Federal University...
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Issue #2090
GLOBAL BRIEFS
PAKISTAN: The Cabinet Committee on Energy has approved the beginning of the construction of an 80 km segment of the 800 km long pipeline from the...
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Issue #2060
DINGO
The Queensland Palaszczuk government’s refusal to back down over its deeply unpopular approval of Blue Energy’s Central Queensland gasfield shows it cares neither for communities,...
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Issue #2058
GREEN NOTES
Anna Pha UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a warning in the strongest terms that countries must start phasing out oil, coal and gas –...
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Issue #2057
WEASEL WORDS
Certainty Like many other weasel words, certainty is used to ask for things it would be impolite to ask for directly. The gas industry are...
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Issue #2105
Peter Dutton & the nuclear shit show
We watched in horror as Peter Dutton and a whole cavalcade of Coalition ministers rolled out their nuclear nightmare in a blatant attempt to keep...
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Issue #2129
LA fires a warning of things to come
Global Climate Scientists have confirmed 2024 was the world’s hottest since records began, eclipsing the previous record set in 2023 and raising the alarm that...
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Issue #2182
How to fund tax cuts for battlers
New research by The Australia Institute reveals rural and regional electorates, particularly those currently held by the National Party, would be the largest beneficiaries of...
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Issue #2176
GREEN NOTES
Global coal demand rose in 2025, reaching a record high of 8.8 billion tonnes, with an increase of 0.5 per cent expected for 2026. This...
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Issue #2053
Govt’s toxic plan for Timor Sea
The Federal government has announced plans to dump undisclosed amounts of radioactive material, oil, and other toxins into the Timor Sea, just 155 kilometres from...
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Issue #2012
The sun will shine, the wind will blow
Australia is on the brink of a total collapse of its domestic energy market amid a crisis that has been decades in the making. If...
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Issue #2151
Consequences
The Mid-North Coast of NSW recently experienced record breaking flooding, after experiencing back to back extreme weather events in the last few years. Such disasters...
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Issue #2186
‘Our members are united’ – Offshore Alliance stands firm for workers
The Offshore Alliance – Australian Workers’ Union (AWU)/Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) – has applied to the Fair Work Commission for a Protected Action Ballot...
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Issue #2058
DINGO
Forest fire warnings have been issued in northern European countries as the “high risk” of summer wildfire season spreads up the continent. A lack of...
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Issue #2188
GREEN NOTES
The Indonesian province of West Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is a classic example of Marxist dependency theory, in which the region occupies...
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Issue #2053
NT: Gas industry gets biggest slice
The Territory and Federal governments appear to have prioritised spending on roads that will benefit the fracking industry at a time when many of the...
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Issue #2187
Make Santos pay
As gas giant Santos held its annual general meeting in Adelaide, new polling revealed nearly three in four South Australians believe gas companies should be...
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Issue #2084
GREEN NOTES
Thanks to concerted organising and campaigning by environmentalists, Traditional Owners, farmers, communities and individuals there were some wins in 2023. Progress is far too slow,...
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Issue #2097
DINGO
The government of Papua New Guinea continues to reject Australia’s attempt to force it to abandon its relations with China. Twenty years ago, the then...
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Issue #2057
DINGO
A major survey conducted by McKell, the Transport Workers Union and TEACHO sheds light on the harsh reality faced by food delivery, rideshare, and AmazonFlex...
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Issue #2100
DINGO
As promised last week Dingo will begin each Bytes with one of the targets of US wars of aggression and intervention beginning from the end...
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Issue #2125
DINGO
ExxonMobil is using Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in an Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to sue the Netherlands over the early shutdown of gas production in...
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Issue #2170
NSW Hunter gas project a new low for Minns and Santos
Lock the Gate Alliance has condemned “in the strongest terms possible” NSW Premier Chris Minns’ threats to grant coal seam gas company Santos permission to...
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Issue #2189
Fossil fuel freeloaders
As new polling shows majority of Australians support increasing taxes on the profits of large oil and gas corporations, one in three large fossil fuel...
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Issue #2099
Gas Strategy: path to oblivion
Humanity faces two major existential threats: climate change and nuclear war. The Albanese Labor government has already fuelled the threat of nuclear war with AUKUS...
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Issue #2148
Labor’s carbon bomb
With the elections safely out of the way, Labor’s Environment Minister Murray Watt dropped a bombshell, announcing the approval of an extension of Woodside’s North...
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Issue #2168
DINGO
The Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) has joined with colleagues in Australia and Timor-Leste to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the ‘Balibo Five.’ Greg...
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Issue #2167
DINGO
600,000 people recently took to the streets of London for Palestine. A reassertion of solidarity with a people facing genocide. A rebuke to PM Keir...
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Issue #2186
Time to stop giving away gas
If you drink beer, congratulations, you’re the backbone of the Australian economy! After all, that’s how politicians and the media describe the gas industry. The...
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Issue #2105
EDITORIAL
Do you ever get déjà vu, the feeling that you’ve been through something before? Sometimes, that’s because you have been through it before. So it...
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Issue #2151
DINGO
Protests rocked the host city, The Hague in the Netherlands at the recent NATO summit, as peace campaigners protested at the militarisation of Europe. “Let’s...
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Issue #2183
Tax profiteering gas companies
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) has called on the federal government to immediately place a 25% war profits tax on all Australian gas exports. The...
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Issue #2148
DINGO
Big tobacco keeps scheming. In Britain, a Tory peer proposed delaying plans for a ban on heated tobacco after enjoying a paid-for trip abroad to...
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Issue #2145
Greenwashing to continue
Australia’s biggest gas company has two main priorities. One is to keep increasing its production and sale of gas. Another, according to Australian expert Ketan...
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Issue #2178
Fire season: Albanese adds petrol
Australia is breaking records, but not the sort to be proud of. Some parts of Australia recorded their highest temperatures ever this January. South Australia’s...
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Issue #2154
Renewables, not gas powering clean energy
Asked what his legacy would be, Anthony Albanese said “action on climate.” Since being elected his government has made over 30 coal and gas approvals,...
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