David Tong

Global industry campaign manager at @priceofoil | Board member at @greenpeace | Likes bikes, just transitions & renewable energy | he/him || Views my own

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

🚨 A devastating new @BBCWorld investigation has obtained internal Shell documents revealing the company knowingly operated a major pipeline in Nigeria for years while it was causing widespread pollution. #ShellKnew

[Russel Norman @RusselNorman]

We now know that within the Prime Ministers Office there was a political lobbying pathway operating via the PM's Chief Policy Advisor's private email. Fonterra says it was told to send the lobbying docs via this pathway. It may still be operating via other staffers private email addresses.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

“What really hurts them is the suburbs. We need to target them, flatten them and completely destroy them.”

Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben Gvir called on the army to “flatten” Beirut's suburbs “to the ground”, a direct incitement to mass civilian destruction.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@CNN The world you were after is “invasion”

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@verminlionel @st_bourke A private company closing Marsden Point has nothing to do with LNG imports (because it refined imported oil, not domestic gas).

Ending new exploration in 2018 is irrelevant to our gas shortage, as there’d been no new find in a decade + it’d be 15 years from a find to production.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

Let's be blunt for a moment here: Taxing people's electricity use to subsidise an uneconomic LNG terminal is like taxing fruit and vegetables to subsidise a cigarette factory. https://t.co/GBY4tsqTJm

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@Diddlefingerz We … don’t need it though? The only real unsolved problem is the dry year problem. Short term firming is more or less sorted.

Multiple other options exist that this government ditched for political reasons. Biofuels at Huntly. Pumped hydro storage.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@pungaohiko It takes ~15 years from exploration starting to production, even if there is a find, which there hasn’t been since before Key’s government.

Stopping new exploration is nothing to do with the gas shortage.

“Clean” LNG doesn’t exist.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@labourcartel Diiiiiiicksssss

[Oil Change International @PriceofOil]

Unless leaders change course, fossil fuel investment will rise + clean energy stagnate. Fossil fuel executives make billions from war + suffering, while it's energy insecurity+ higher bills for us. Renewable energy is faster to build, cheaper + more secure
https://t.co/oXG8hJarRW

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@henrycooke Good line – but a weird one to say for someone with rabbit blood all over her hands.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

Governments can step in to tax, regulate, and even end these war profiteers and climate arsonists.

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

Big oil and gas companies are war profiteers. As people die, they make bank.

Read full >> https://t.co/abOW8TrNEI

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

Our governments can intervene. Polling shows that taxing these windfall war profits and taking back these companies' dirty conflict cash is hugely popular in several wealthy headquarters nations. https://t.co/DBZR49UbwG

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

@JosephMooneyMP So ... you think retrospective legislation is bad, but only when the other guys do it?

[David Tong @Davidxvx]

Lawyers confirm New Zealand's current govt plans to subsidise an LNG terminal (by taxing your power bill) + subsidise new oil & gas exploration risks breaches of ACCTS & NZ's free trade deals with the UK + EU, and may compromise our COFFIS membership. https://t.co/0WcbPvGg0x