Wide Spread Fuel Contamination in Florida. Hours before Hurricane Idalia makes landfall @CITGO
distributed millions of gallons of gasoline contaminated with diesel leaving vehicles & generators inoperable. Affected gas stations lie dead center to the hurricane projected path.
https://twitter.com/Matt_Gambone/status/1696499250895401195
The City of Sydney and City of Melbourne have been relying heavily on cheap Chinese and Turkish carbon offsets to get to net zero. Does it make sense to pay foreign governments for projects which they would operate regardless?
The City of Sydney is relying on lower-cost overseas carbon credits to maintain its carbon-neutral certification. Most of the carbon credits that the city relied on in 2022 came from a Turkish wind farm and those in 2021 from a solar project in China.
Effectively, ratepayers of Australia’s most densely populated local council are paying a Chinese government corporation to keep the Three Gorges dam running in central China, as well as wind turbines spinning in Turkey.
The projects in question produce offsets in a way that the Clean Energy Regulator doesn’t recognise for Australian Certified Carbon Units (ACCU).
ACCUs are Australia’s gold standard carbon credits used to meet government-mandated emissions reduction targets. There is no recognised methodology for ACCUs to be produced from renewable energy generation.
In 2022, 62% of offsets came from the Kavakli Wind Power Plant located in Turkey’s Balikesir Province. An additional 17% came from wetland conservation projects in Indonesia, and clean burning cookstoves in Nepal.
In 2021, 89% of the City of Sydney’s offsets, some 11,549 tons worth of carbon dioxide, were sourced from the Three Gorges New Energy 100MW Solar Power Project located in Gansu, Central China.
The solar power project is run by the Chinese state-owned China Three Gorges Corp.
How it works
Audrey van Herwaarden, a corporate environmental performance analyst at the Australian Conservation Foundation, said “The difference is that there are carbon offsets which are additional offsets and there are carbon offsets which are avoidance offsets.”
“Offsets produced from renewable energy projects are avoidance credits. They are offsets from a project, such as a renewable project like a solar farm, which avoids emissions from fossil fuel generation.”
It doesn’t appear as though the program that the City of Sydney relied upon in 2021, the Three Georges Solar project, needed any assistance from the international carbon market. In 2021, the state-owned company raised $US3.5 billion by issuing 8.571 billion shares.
A spokesperson for the city of Sydney told MWM “We have been measuring, reducing and offsetting all of our operational greenhouse gas emissions since 2007. In 2011, the City was certified carbon neutral by the Australian Government and was the first local government in Australia to be carbon neutral.
The latest data shows organisational emissions were 77% below 2006 levels. This was achieved through energy savings, fuel switching and renewable energy and does not include offsets. We are on track to achieving our target to reduce emissions by 80% by 2025.”
https://michaelwest.com.au/the-price-of-green-city-of-sydney-pays-chinese-turks-to-get-net-zero/
First COVID Deaths Were Fully Jabbed, Australian State Records Reveal
In light of a court case launched by a group of doctors challenging the Queensland government's COVID-19 vaccination mandates, records have revealed that the first deaths in the Australian state were individuals who were fully vaccinated.
A list of the state’s first 183 COVID-19 deaths from the pandemic's start on March 13, 2020, until Jan. 27, 2022, produced by Queensland’s chief health officer in an affidavit, indicates it was known to authorities as early as Jan. 2022 that the vaccines may not be preventing deaths.
The list shows that the first locally acquired COVID-19 death was one in their 80s and another in their 30s, with both having received two doses of the vaccine in December 2021 and January 2022, respectively.
While Queensland recorded seven deaths early in the pandemic, these cases were acquired outside of the state and before vaccine rollouts began.
Queensland's border opened in December 2021 after 80 percent of the state population vaccination was reached. By Dec. 31, 2021, nearly 90 percent of the population over 16 were fully vaccinated.
Queensland's Workplace Mandates
The case, which was launched against the state, calls for the September 2021 directive requiring employees in public health and aged-care facilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to be revoked.
A specialist from the case, psychiatrist Peter Parry, said that in the three decades of his career, he had never been subject to disciplinary action until now.
“I graduated from medical school 40 years ago and in all that time have never had a single complaint about me presented to a medical board or AHPRA,” he said.
The reason he chose to decline the COVID-19 vaccines was because these are “not normal vaccines.”
“We hope, by bringing evidentiary material and expert witness testimonies before the Supreme Court, that the Justices will look at the evidence and rule in our favour. If successful, large numbers of experienced nurses, allied health, and doctors will be able to return to assist an overstretched Queensland public health system,” he added.
In addition to enforced work mandates, Premier Annastacia Palazczuk barred the unvaccinated from accessing services and freedoms such as hospitals, disability services, aged care, libraries, and hospitality venues.
This was enforced by proof of vaccination requirements at venues, which the Queensland government said was to keep Queenslanders safe.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/first-covid-deaths-were-fully-jabbed-australian-state-records-reveal
https://www.doctorsagainstmandates.com/updates/first-applicant-story/