• Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest is attending the COP28 climate conference in the United Arab Emirates.
  • He says energy bosses should have their heads “put up on spikes” for not committing to phase out fossil fuels.
  • It comes as some companies, including the national oil company of the UAE, defy calls for a wind-down of fossil fuel use.

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And he took particular aim at the oil and gas bosses who were dismissing the calls, describing them as “selfish beyond belief”.

He said their actions were jeopardising the lives of millions of people in overwhelmingly poor countries who were at risk of “lethal humidity”, or an inability to cool themselves down. “If you can’t cool yourself you’re actually an oven burning around 100 watts all the time,” Dr Forrest said.

"If you can [sic] get rid of that heat energy, you cook.

"And when these deaths occur — and they’re occurring now, but when they occur at much larger-scale — I want these so-called people who are very smart to be held to account.

“It’s their heads which should be put up on spikes because they wilfully ignored and they didn’t care.”

  • @sqgl@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I keep demonstrating that there is no wind or solar to use in WA. That then leaves only fossil fuel sources like G A S.

    G A S

    Are you just trolling?

    That is the greenwash you have either been sucked into or are trying to gaslight us with.

    Twiggy has shown no intention of using renewables. The whole point for him is to use the stranded assets of the COVID gas led recovery (another scam).

    • @Nath@aussie.zone
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      11 year ago

      When has anything ever been about WA? The very link you posted said he was doing his green hydrogen experiment in QLD.

      I don’t see any connection in this new link you’ve spewed up. It appears to be about a mothballed gas pipeline. You think it’s a bad thing if he finds a use for this pipeline? Would you prefer that he build another pipeline? This pipeline appears to be in NSW, I don’t get its relevance.