Following the war in Ukraine, the fossil fuel industry has been making use of the public’s and political disorientation and fear of energy insecurity to push the increased reliance on fossil fuels that is deepening our entanglement in the extractive system.
Instead of using the opportunity to reduce consumption and expand renewable energy sources, governments are moving to enable the expansion of new fossil fuel infrastructure, with the industry, their lobbyists and financiers, working hard to ensure that they are the ones to pick up the alternative supplies.
This threatens the much needed phase out of fossil fuels and will lock us in fossil fuel projects well into the future, destroying any chance to keep global average temperature rises below 1.5 degrees.
We aim to undermine the social licence of gas: it is dirty, toxic, not needed and not wanted.