🚨BREAKING: fossil fuel reps met government ministers 500+ times in Labour’s first year in power.
💀 That’s two meetings every working day, overshadowing the meetings held with climate and social justice groups by three to one.
❌ Big polluters like Shell, BP and Equinor are stakeholders in an unjust system. They’re keeping profits and prices high, wages low and climate action dangerously slow. Our politicians should be booting them out the door of Westminster, not giving them a backstage pass!
🤙Share this story and join our online mobilising call on 26th November, 6-7PM to learn more and take action. We can’t let industry lobbyists continue to crowd out communities, workers, scientists, activists. Everyone who should really be shaping our climate and energy policies. Sign up at the link in bio.
📢🚫Disrupt the fossil fuels powering ongoing genocide and daily military violence in Palestine!
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We must work collectively to disrupt fossil fuel extraction, ongoing genocide and the slow violence of settler colonialism.
🚨 We call on movements across the world to use non-violent direct action and shareholder activism to resist extraction, colonialism and genocide.
This toolkit was co-produced by a coalition of grassroots groups and allies.
Help us share it as widely as we can.
🔗 Toolkit available in Link in bio!
Scotland has the wind. 🌬️
Scotland has the workers. 👷
So why aren’t we seeing the benefits?
We’re calling on the next Scottish Government to back publicly-owned renewables. Scotland’s energy wealth should support communities, not corporate shareholders.
Follow @OurPower.Scot and join the movement.
#OurPower #RenewableScotland #CommunityEnergy #ScottishPolitics #EnergyTransition
BREAKING ⚡: We’re calling on the next Scottish government to make sure people in Scotland get a fair share of our renewable energy wealth.
Scotland’s renewable energy should benefit all of us, not just big corporations. We’re here to make sure that happens!
We’re backing the movement for:
♻️ Community-owned renewables
🍃 A public stake in offshore wind
🏭 Renewable manufacturing based in Scotland
Let’s make sure that Scotland’s energy stays in Scotland and benefits our communities.
#OurPower
✨ An update from our team: while we navigate a tricky funding situation, we are having to put Fossil Free Parliament on pause for a little while.
🔥 As we figure out the next steps, we wanted to share a few of the wins we’ve already had together against the fossil fuel lobby. Please share the video to help us celebrate!
💗 And in the meantime, please stick with us for further updates — and keep the pressure up by supporting the many brilliant organisations that are continuing the fight against fossil power.
Ghosts of Progress
Tuesday 24 March, 7–9pm
Oxford House Chapel, Bethnal Green
A screening and conversation on oil, empire and the archive.
Join us for an intimate evening of film, sound and shared discussion exploring how oil has shaped ideas of “progress” and how archival practice can help challenge those stories.
The event centres on The Contract, a work-in-progress archival film by @christinadaniellebartson , developed with @platform1983 and supported by @aceagrams Council England and @thedocsociety
The evening will include a short screening, excerpts from composer Nicolas Bavière’s developing sound design, and a facilitated conversation with activists from Platform and Energy Embargo for Palestine.
It will be a reflection on fossil fuels, imperialism, representation and climate justice — and ask how dominant narratives of progress can be rethought.
Wheelchair accessible via lift.
Wine, snacks and non-alcoholic drinks provided.
Hosted in collaboration with @platform1983
Join our incredible team of collaborators for Ghosts of Progress, an evening of film & conversation about oil, empire, and archives.
The night is anchored by a work-in-progress screening of select scenes from my feature-in-development, The Contract — an archival film investigating the ghosts of empire embedded in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. We’ll talk about the research behind the project, the ways fossil fuel capitalism has shaped our political imagination of “progress,” and what it means to challenge these (completely fucked) narratives.
The film is developed in collaboration with Platform and supported by @aceagrams and @thedocsociety . The evening will include a short screening, excerpts from composer @one_eyed_hound ’s evolving sound design (built from sound recordings from oil fields in the 1950s), and conversation.
We’ll be joined by activists from @platform1983 and @energyembargoforpalestine who are organizing against fossil fuel capitalism & leading the way in this work.
Wine, snacks & non-alcoholic drinks served
Wheelchair accessible via lift
Bring your friends, lovers, comrades
DM me for details / RSVP via link in my bio
🎬 Ours ~ againn will tour Scotland to spark vital conversations about ownership, justice and public power in our energy system.
We’re hiring an Impact Coordinator to help us reach dozens of communities across Scotland.
Apply by 1 Feb 2026. Application pack in bio.
🤨 Investing £22billion of public money in a technology with a track record of failure is NOT going to help the UK achieve its climate goals, or create good green jobs. Here’s why:
💨 The UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage plans will actually increase our emissions. More than half of planned CCS+gas projects involve building NEW gas plants, which could emit up to to 5 million tons of CO2 annually. That’s the equivalent to 2.6 million more petrol cars!
💸 If this CCS investment creates the promised 4,000 jobs (big IF!), that works out to £5million per job!
🥵 Our energy bills will rise to pay for the £408 billion investment necessary for CCS to work. The government’s own Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Treasury for not properly assessing the financial impact of CCS on the public.
Fossil fuel lobbyists are pushing hard for CCS to protect their polluting profits, when our money would be much better spent on cheap, safe renewable energy like wind and solar. What do you think? Let us know in the comments!
🤑 Would you donate to save the fossil fuel industry?
No, we wouldn’t either, but that doesn’t matter. £22 billion of UK taxpayers’ money is going towards an emissions-reduction tech that’s actually a lifeline for oil and gas companies.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) promises to capture and store industrial emissions, but…
⛔ It has a track record of failure: after 15 years, there are still no operational CCS projects in the UK. 80% of CCS projects worldwide have failed or been shelved (@priceofoil )
🫰 It’s absurdly expensive. If CCS is ever going to make a difference, up to £408 billion will need to be invested (@fuelpovertyaction )
💀 It could lock in polluting fossil fuel use for decades. More than half of proposed gas CCS projects in the UK involve building new gas power plants, leading to more emissions, not less (InfluenceMap).
Despite being largely intended for industries that are hard to decarbonise, like cement and steel, the biggest lobbyists for CCS are oil and gas companies. They’re sucking up public money meant for climate initiatives while actually carrying on with business as usual.
😡 Share this if you’re as scandalised by this waste of your taxes as these folks are!
🚨 We’re hiring!
Platform is looking for a freelance Impact Coordinator to promote Ours ~ againn, a new documentary about community and public power in Scotland’s energy system.
📅 40 days across March–Sept 2026 📍 Remote (Scotland-based, travel required) 💷 £250/day 🎬 Support community screenings, build partnerships, shape national impact
⚡️Join us! Apply by 1 Feb 2026
Link in bio
💨 Carbon capture and storage: the oil and gas industry scam you’re paying for
Last year, the UK government committed £22 billion to carbon capture and storage – a technology that promises to capture industrial emissions and store them underground.
Sounds good? There’s a catch…
💰It’s incredibly expensive: this £22 billion is just a fraction of what’s needed to make a real impact. Meanwhile, renewables like wind and solar that actually work are getting cheaper.
🫠 It has a track record of failure: after 15 years and millions invested, there are still no operational UK projects. 80% of CCS projects worldwide have failed or been put on hold (@priceofoil ).
So why the huge investment?
💀 Fossil fuel industry lobbying.
Oil and gas companies are the biggest CCS advocates because it lets them continue business as usual while pretending to reduce emissions. The majority of speakers at this conference, for example, represented fossil fuel companies like BP, Shell and ExxonMobil.
Meanwhile, the government’s decision to invest billions in CCS followed a surge in fossil fuel lobbying, and every meeting Ed Miliband had about CCS between the general election and the investment announcement was with oil and gas reps.
😤 Share if you think it’s absurd that our money is funding a technology that extends fossil fuels!
#ccs #fossilfuellobbying #voxpops
