From Just Have a Think.
The fossil fuel propaganda machine has been extremely effective in recent years at highlighting what it suggests are the terrible environmental harms being perpetrated on mother nature by those horrible people making solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and anything else that dares to carry the label ‘renewable’. But the big boys of big oil, gas and coal are not so quick to point out the damage done by their own products, are they? So, let’s take a look.
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Reference Links:
Human Rights Watch : Mountain Top Mining
WPSU – Coal mine ‘acid mine draining’
New Scientist article debunking US govt emissions claim
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2490579-us-says-co2-emissions-arent-harmful-climate-science-shows-otherwise/
ITOPF Article on oil spills
https://www.itopf.org/knowledge-resources/data-statistics/oil-tanker-spill-statistics-2024
US govt data on pipeline leaks
https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/data-and-statistics/pipeline/pipeline-incident-20-year-trends
Reuters report on gas pipeline accidents
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-natural-gas-pipeline-accidents-pose-big-unreported-climate-threat-2024-03-08
Centre for Biological Diversity – America’s dangerous pipelines
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/americas_dangerous_pipelines/
FracTracker – pipeline leaks
EPA guidance on abandoned mine drainage
https://www.epa.gov/nps/abandoned-mine-drainage
Centre for Biological Diversity – Mountaintop Removal
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/mining/mountaintop_removal
IRENA Renewable Energy Statistics 2025
https://www.irena.org/Publications/2025/Jul/Renewable-energy-statistics-2025
EIA stats on US capacity additions
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65964
IEA projection for 2026
https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-mid-year-update-2025/executive-summary
Visual Capitalist chart of world power
World Health Organisation – air pollution stats
https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/air-pollution
Our World in Data – Air pollution deaths map
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/pollution-deaths-from-fossil-fuels
Our World in Data – Accidents and deaths per terawatt hour
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
IMF – fossil fuel subsidies
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion
USA not attending COP30
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/29/climate/us-fires-climate-negotiators-cop30-china
Methane emissions from Australian mines
Single Queensland coal bore emits as much methane as 10,000 cars, new study shows
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