The US has excess of propane and exports 2/3rds of production. The drive to export to Africa is part of the move away from aid to trade. The UN and int agencies face unprecedented funding crises putting millions at risk , the US has decided this is the time to cash in. 2/3

@semafor.com has a piece on the US push for more propane exports to Africa, built around the shift to "clean cooking" - that is, using gas instead of charcoal or wood. It is "technically" cleaner, but it is also a captive market for fossil fuels masked as green development 1/3

Housing or data centres - either way, drought is killing British development faster than local opposition can

With Burnham keeping Mahmood as Home Secretary, and presumably the "hostile" approach to immigration, the news the Greens in local govt are planning on refusing to cooperate and act against companies that do should be bigger news. tinyurl.com/mvy6u3c5

I only need one more subscriber to make it to my summer target of 150 - it could be you! --> nicholasbeuret.substack.com (that is the total extent of my ability to self promote)

Called it -> nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/jobs-jobs-...

"Jobs, jobs, jobs" It’s the ultimate political shield for fossil fuel giants and anti-green campaigns alike. But how much of this rhetoric is factual, and how much is just using workers as Human Shields for Capital? tinyurl.com/mj3cf6f9

Meanwhile...

More North Sea oil and gas licences won't create jobs or revive industry. It's not just the geological reality of a declining field, but the process of extraction that has changed. i.e., its automation, not net zero

New weekly round up, now with added heatwave doom! Surging deaths and early harvests BUT also pushes by Unite the Union and the Green Party on working temperatures. Reform's failure to oppose climate action, and commodity traders making bank from El Niño tinyurl.com/mry52wxt

"An average of 80,000 people visited A&E every day in June for the first time ever, as record temperatures hit the UK" “summer is now putting the NHS under just as much pressure as winter, with staff facing an onslaught of demand" - NHS national medical director Professor Frankie Swords

The release of the latest Statistical Review of World Energy is a reality check on the climate transition. While we debate whether 'net zero' costs or create jobs, we need to come back to why we need to reduce emissions. We're on track for 3C tinyurl.com/5d4wymfy

Direct action gets the goods - NIMBYs of the world unite!

New Weekly round up! On the Left wing wind farm protest movement of Brazil; airlines crashing out over carbon credits; and on China's total dominance of shipping and green shipping fuels, and the US-led rearguard action that is doomed to fail. tinyurl.com/6pcxb7wk

A big part of the push for more oil and gas comes from right wing newspapers - support for the sector is anything but “organic” tinyurl.com/ktxsjcrb

"Sharon Graham, the leader of the UK’s second biggest union, Unite, is to face a challenge as general secretary over claims the union is not doing enough to challenge the rise of Reform UK." tinyurl.com/4bxk5r97

"Hedge fund Moreton Capital Partners is targeting $500 million for a special-purpose vehicle to trade multiple commodities impacted by the "super El Niño" weather phenomenon. Co-founder Les Finemore says the market is "seriously mis-pricing" the risk of El Niño"

New weekly round up! Unite the Union epically failing on climate change by blocking members from protesting fuel poverty, on microplastic hedgehogs, Slough as a data centre experiment, and why the government should have passed legislation to install solar panels on car parks! tinyurl.com/yarvs2rs

VW is cutting 100,000 jobs. This isn’t a story of Chinese subsidies, or even (entirely) about EVs. It’s about the end of a particular arrangement in global value chains. And Europe is steadily being displaced. On the collapsing capacity of Europe —> nicholasbeuret.substack.com/p/the-collap...

But while they came out against Miliband, the UK's largest union is in support. Their opposition aligns not with the working class but the bosses who also oppose Miliband. During a historical heatwave their pro-oil stance will do nothing other than hurt the unions.

As @ewangibbs.bsky.social never tires of pointing out, its not the government that’s caused a decline in both oil and gas production and workforce. And its geology, not ideology, that led to the peak of production.

Both Unite and GMB have come out against Miliband because he opposes new oil and gas wells. That is despite most union members, and most ppl, supporting net zero. Is it just to stop more job losses, when so few green industry jobs are being created?

In response to a lethal heatwave, it's parents and head teachers who are acting to protect students, not the govt. 20% of kids have been taken out of school by parents, while dozens of schools have shut. The Education Sec has said schools should stay open 1/2

Things are going well on their local anti-climate crusade I see... tinyurl.com/2dknxun3

This shifts climate security from a public cost-benefit analysis, protecting people based on need, to a calculus of private returns. Under this model, investment only flows where it can generate profit via insurance contracts, government schemes, & nature credits 2/3

Faced with austerity and a massive climate adaptation funding gap, the UK is turning to private finance to fund flood defences. The new Coalition aims to build a £1 billion market by 2028, turning nature-based flood solutions into financial assets tinyurl.com/merjka25 1/3

GMB and Unite want to drill for oil. Less than 1% of workers are employed in those sectors. But 90% of the pop use healthcare, and 23% are in education. Climate action is both pro-worker and pro-bloody-everyone action 2/2

While two of the biggest unions in the UK are opposing net zero, two of the largest employment sectors are suffering under climate impacts Hospitals and schools are in heat-crisis They employ 1 in every 7 workers 1/2

... Unite's gen sec is focused on opposing climate policies and net zero. And it seems as though Miliband will cave an let more North Sea fossil fuel extraction take place. Union bosses are not 'the working class', and Unite's priorities shouldn't be ours. 2/2