Japanese companies have been lobbying to lock in fossil gas production and its enabling infrastructure, even as they resell Australian cargos while they're still on the water for geopolitical advantage. I pulled the camera back to look at how they've done it for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

For a limited time, my iconic t-shirt (yes, I'm joking) is now available as part of various @drilledmedia.bsky.social Patreon memberships. Support great climate reporting and tell Schmelon to kick rocks at the same time? Win-win www.patreon.com/cw/Drilled

Japan has quietly become a major source of climate obstruction over the past decade. Here @roycerk2.bsky.social looks at a new @influencemap.bsky.social report that shows how effective Japanese LNG execs lobbying of Australian politicians has been drilled.media/news/japan-a...

The Trump administration can claim Venezuelan oil is up for grabs all they want; companies that opt to trade in illegally seized or produced oil can still be held accountable in a court of law, a UN expert tells @ninalakhani.bsky.social drilled.media/news/hopenhaym #Venezuela #climate

Great @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode with historian Fressoz drilling into the energy transition narrative. He also talks about the IPCC and CCS used by actors as the US government to protect a growth agenda and fossil companies profits. Check it out! drilled.media/news/Drillin...

It's hard to feel like anything but punching Nazis matters right now, so we @drilledmedia.bsky.social have been busy connecting the dots between climate and everything we're seeing around the world. Today: repression of protest w/ @berglundoscar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbF...

I just found this podcast "Lawless Planet" thanks to @drilledmedia.bsky.social for the recommendation! Check out episode "Surveillance and Sabotage on the Dakota Access Pipeline" "Post 9-11 tactics used on American activists all spurred by a private security firm deputized by a fossil fuel co."

Mega infrastructure projects that include high-capacity gas and coal plants and entail large land acquisitions, all financed via foreign loans. A ground report from Bangladesh about the various perils. For @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/japan-b...

Japan is not getting nearly enough attention in the global media for locking in fossil fuels in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania. Here, @rishpardikar.bsky.social looks at the latest megaproject Japanese development agencies are pushing in Bangladesh drilled.media/news/japan-b...

The US plan to seize Venezuelan oil violates a landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice. Last year, the court determined that all countries must prevent or remedy harm to the climate. By @ninalakhani.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social

For those (like me) trying to rapidly catch up on 150 years of imperialist plunder and petro-corruption in Venezuela, you could do a lot worse than this good run down from @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/venezue...

If you haven't read these excellent @drilledmedia.bsky.social explainers on US oil company interests in Guyana and how they relate to the US invasion of Venezuela, I think you should. drilled.media/news/guyana-... drilled.media/news/venezue...

Super fun to talk about the US-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle with @kendrawrites.com for SciAm's Science Quickly pod: www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

When you look at what the Trump administration was doing and saying in the months leading up to its invasion of #Venezuela it's very clear that it was doing the bidding of oil majors, but not in the way most folks are talking about. drilled.media/news/venezue...

"The Trump administration’s oil grab and plans to expand Venezuelan production flouts last year’s landmark climate ruling from the International Court of Justice" @ninalakhani.bsky.social's first piece for @drilledmedia.bsky.social: drilled.media/news/Venezue...

"I think capitalism follows the model of fire. And so when a fire reaches a certain size, and this is something you're painfully familiar with, it is unstoppable." My conversation with @johnvaillant.bsky.social at last year's @byronwritersfest.bsky.social is now live with @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

lol oh no don't give Exxon exactly what they want. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

The U.S. takeover of Venezuela's oil industry violates various aspects of international law, including those related to climate change, leaving the U.S. government open to litigation for environmental harms, @ninalakhani.bsky.social writes @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/Venezue...

In her first piece for Drilled, our new global climate justice reporter @ninalakhani.bsky.social looks at how the U.S. invasion of #Venezuela and takeover of its oil industry intersects with the International Court of Justice's climate ruling last year drilled.media/news/Venezue...

Lost in the holiday shuffle: the Army Corps released its LONG awaited final environmental impact statement for the Dakota Access Pipeline www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Media/News-R... Check out my 2023 podcast episode for @drilledmedia.bsky.social on why this is so backward drilled.media/news/drilled...

Important insight from @amywestervelt.bsky.social on @drilledmedia.bsky.social providing context for recent US actions in #Venezuala. If you believe #Madurocapture is about drugs, you probably also argue the Civil War was about "States Rights." Some people have a thing for convenient untruths.

Targeting Venezuelan oil felt so much like a move from 25 years ago to me, but I couldn’t figure out exactly why. This combined with the repost from yesterday from @drilledmedia.bsky.social about Guyana is starting to paint a picture.

At some point I'll put together some cleaner, more coherent thoughts but if you enjoyed this live read of Royce Reads Bad But Annoyingly Influential Books, check out my fact check of pro-nuclear influencer Isabelle Boemeke (who ripped copied the style used in Abundance) in @drilledmedia.bsky.social:

This is not an outlier: Texas is regressing back to pre-CWA/CAA environmental disasters because TCEQ doesn't enforce the law. I reported for @thexylom.com @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news a 2022 Christmas oil spill that blanketed Corpus Christi Bay with yellow globs:

By me: It’s easy to feel powerless about climate chaos. Here’s what gives me hope - my swan song for @theguardian.com, at least for now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

Glad to see other journalists running with this document that we at @drilledmedia.bsky.social uncovered for our podcast SLAPP'd. Here's the episode where we first delved into it: drilled.media/podcasts/dri... And the doc: drilled.media/documents/1e...

For what it's worth, the "podcast" in which the deposition referred to was discussed is @drilledmedia.bsky.social which also does more than podcasting. @alleenbrown.bsky.social is also a journalist.

🚨New from @fieldnotes.co + @drilledmedia.bsky.social: Energy Transfer has deployed a decade-old astroturf group it secretly funds in a bid to stop @greenpeace.org from suing it in Europe for intimidation: fieldnotes.co/reporting/en...

Huge shout out to @alleenbrown.bsky.social, since her amazing @drilledmedia.bsky.social SLAPP'd podcast laid foundation for this investigation. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...

Meanwhile, @fieldnotes.co finds that a front group the company set up and funds filed one of the amicus briefs in support of Energy Transfer's move (without declaring the association) 🙃 drilled.media/news/SLAPPd-...

The arrogance of US fossil fuel companies on full display: Greenpeace Intl (not a US entity!) filed an anti-SLAPP vs Energy Transfer in the Netherlands & Energy Transfer is asking a U.S. court to interfere @alleenbrown.bsky.social reports for @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/SLAPP-u... 🧵

We're thrilled to announce that Nina Lakhani will be joining Drilled as senior global climate justice reporter in January, based in Mexico City. We've long admired her incredible ability to tell the human stories of the climate crisis and can't wait to collaborate!

I'm delighted that episode 5 of the COPOut Podcast (with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com) is now available at @drilledmedia.bsky.social! Tune in at Drilled: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c... Or check out all of our episodes here: cece.american.edu/cece-launche...

"Some neighbourhoods are completely buried under mud, and each one brings more despair" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...

For those unfamiliar, this involves: - Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew - Burning them for energy - Capturing the carbon that results from burning - Transporting the carbon - Injecting it underground - Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least

Albanese basically just blurting out ExxonMobil / Woodside Energy talking points - but because it's Albanese, it doesn't get debunked in the article text. youtu.be/iclIVwl8KIA?...

Given that the words "information integrity" were followed by, effectively, science denial in the #COP30 text, that is not a win but rather a co-opting of the language folks are trying to use to fight climate disinfo. drilled.ghost.io/there-can-be...

1/2. “The COP of Truth cannot ignore science. 75% of carbon emissions come from fossil fuels. Today we are not even allowed to discuss pathways for a just and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.” Colombia at the close of #COP30.

Read @roycerk2.bsky.social to find out how #cop30 ended One of Australia’s best journalists, covering an issue that is still not getting enough attention #climate

To give you an idea about just how eventful the end of COP30 was, I wrote and rewrote this entire 2000 story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social three times over a period of about six hours as it was all happening.

The #COP30 text commits to following the science and embracing information integrity while stripping away all mention of fossil fuel phaseout @roycerk2.bsky.social reports. drilled.media/news/COP30-w...

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Good time to at least begin to understand MRV for CDR since we seem to think sequestering hundreds of giga tonnes of CO2 is no big deal #COP30

From Portuguese: “This report is part of the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" series, a partnership between The Intercept Brazil and the award-winning project @drilledmedia.bsky.social, which investigates the forces preventing the world from advancing effective climate policies.”

Esta reportagem faz parte da série Show do Milhão, uma parceria do Intercept Brasil com o premiado projeto @drilledmedia.bsky.social, que investiga as forças que estão impedindo o mundo de avançar em políticas climáticas eficientes. Leia na íntegra: www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a...

NEW: I have been told "negotiations are ongoing". And, as far as I am aware, there has been no reporting in Turkish media announcing a win on the COP31 bid, as you would expect. Again, this is not to say the report won't be proven true by events but so far, there's been no confirmation either way.

Pumped for this @intercept.com.br + @drilledmedia.bsky.social collab looking at Brazil's corn ethanol boom (and the role the U.S. has played in it). First story now, in English on our site &Portuguese on the Intercept Brasil site: www.intercept.com.br/2025/11/17/a... drilled.media/news/ethanol...

At #COP30 last week, India highlighted the impossibility of 1.5C and the reliance on CDR for overshoot scenarios. Interview with @glenpeters.bsky.social about Paris Agreement temperature goals, where we need to go and how to get there. drilled.media/news/cop30-g...