Andy Rowell
Writer & investigative journalist: Big Oil, climate, tobacco, lobbying, & bribery. Author of Green Backlash, The Next Gulf, A Quiet Word, & Don't Worry It's Safe to Eat. Contributing Editor @oilchange.bsky.social/ and Visiting Fellow Uni of Bath
- No shit, Sherlock.. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
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- when dinosaurs ruled..
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- Willful destruction of our future by Trump and his Maga-madness www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...
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- Nice one Desmog - its time @iealondon.bsky.social was forced to disclose its dirty funders - for too long its acted as hacks for hire undermining democracy for its corporate clients..
- US Senator calls for an inquiry over potential "insider trading" by Venture Global bosses after a Guardian investigation.. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Here is video featuring Ken's daughter Noo; Ken's brother Owens and Nnimmo Bassey and others, on the 30th Anniversary and why the struggle continues @georgemonbiot.bsky.social oilchange.org/blogs/shell-...
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- Reposted by Andy Rowell🔴 BREAKING: Analysis from @oilchange.bsky.social and @corporateeurope.org reveals €17+ billion of public funds poured into #CCS in Europe since 2001. After decades of failures, fossil fuel ties keep influencing the EU Commission at the #ICMForum. Read more 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/fa...
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- One of the great environmental correspondents, with whom I had the privilege of working. And great to see Paul still warning about the snake-oil salesmen from the nuclear industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- It it walks like a SLAPP and quacks like a SLAPP, it probably is a SLAPP
- And so it goes on - the poor die whilst the fossil fuel industry condemns us to an unlivable future
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- In Solidarity and remembrance with the Ogoni 9: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUq...
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- 30th Anniversary of the murder of the Ogoni 9. @oilchange.bsky.social has a new film out - launching today with a webinar at 12PM UK time. zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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- read and weep: www.ft.com/content/2df1...
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- And yet Namibia is ramping up oil exploration and production, which will exacerbate the climate crisis and the drilling also threatens the iconic Okavango Delta too. newlinesmag.com/reportage/oi...
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- Groundbreaking research reveals estimated military and conflict-related climate reparations owed by Israel & its allies to the Palestinians since the Nakba is US$148 billion, with Israel responsible for $103 billion & US responsible for $40.8 billion. www.palclimateinstitute.org/media/milita...
- nice one @guyshrubsole.bsky.social
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- it had to be done...
- Beware wolves in sheep's clothing. How rich millionaires fund Reform
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- A poetic article on the toxic legacy of the nuclear industry at Trawsfynydd in North Wales - nation.cymru/feature/lett...
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- Shell, the corporate coward, is trying to run away from its responsibilities in Nigeria ... #shellguilty
- As well as climate deniers, all the usual pro-tobacco lobbyists are there trying to get a new generation addicted to tobacco under the banner of "free choice." Not sure how having a tobacco lobbyist from Japan Tobacco International at a party conference complies with UK's FCTC's legal obligations.
- Predictable gathering of climate denying dinosaurs, incl. dark money groups like Heartland Institute & Institute of Economic Affairs, who have been peddling climate nonsense for decades - many of them, I wrote about in Green Backlash, published 25 years ago www.routledge.com/Green-Backla...
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- Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs ever known. The industry needs to addict new generations to nicotine to replace older smokers dying from a lifetime of addiction. Its no surprise - even predictable - that young people who vape go on to smoke. As ever the harm reduction crowd remain silent
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- Reposted by Andy RowellDemocracy for Sale has been working w/ @38degrees.bsky.social on a campaign to cap political donations in the UK. Our petition is now at over 49,700 signatures!! 🎉 Can we get it to 50k and send a really strong message? Please share! Ta you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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- Big Oil was never a part of the climate solution. It was only ever interested in profit: www.ft.com/content/8675...
- The cynical systematic silencing of the truth-tellers by labelling them as terrorists. 186 journalists in Gaza now murdered www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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- Good old Blighty - excelling in bribery once more... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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- This clip would work as satire worthy of a grotesque Spitting Image puppet ...
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- Read and weep. The fossil fuel barons who funded the climate denier Trump set to win again: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
- BP changed its name to Beyond Petroleum in 2000, now its BP going Back to Petroleum in 2025. Its shows the last 25 years have always been one big PR con. The oil giant was never serious about #climatechange
- while you swim in sh*t www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- The UK is increasingly being gripped by record heat; the Met Office says extreme weather is UK's new normal; region after region is declaring a hosepipe ban due to low rainfall & climate denying dinosaurs at Reform want to scrap climate pledges - pure insanity www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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- The trouble with climate denial is you cannot hide from the increasingly extreme weather events happening on a daily basis. So the Trump Administration can be stuffed full of deniers by that won't stop another Texas flooding disaster, it will just make it more likely www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/c...
- More on the dirty downside of our increasing AI-addiction
- You will never sink a rainbow
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- No words... cleantechnica.com/2025/07/06/d...
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- Or we could just stop our addiction to fossil fuels..
- Another cynical SLAPP suit by Big Oil. Solidarity with Antonio and Italian NGO ReCommon against Eni. “Eni is trying to silence dissent. It’s an international strategy that fossil companies use to limit the environmental movement.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- A complete draconian assault on democracy & right to non violent protest by a government led by a once quite radical lawyer who defended London Greenpeace. By the same definition then groups like Greenpeace could be proscribed too - a dangerous day for democracy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Stop Big Oil polluting academia....
- In a sane world we would be taking radical climate action, driven by the science. Most of southern Europe is already under an extreme heat alert & its going to get worse unless we stop pumping fossil fuels - instead the opposite is happening, climate denial is on the rise with MAGA and Reform etc
- Should have happened decades ago - a lot of Big Oil bosses and their lackeys, front groups, spin doctors, right wing think tanks and a chunk of the Tory party, GOP, MAGA, and Reform would likely be in jail for spreading climate denial and misinformation. Instead Europe boils under extreme heat
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- 30 years too little, too late - now we need full exoneration of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni 9 and a statement from the Nigerian Government that they were innocent. Nigerian Gov. needs to pay full compensation to the families and then implement the Ogoni Bill of Rights www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- UK Gov to waste billions on Sizewell C, which will be years late & over budget & then waste billions on unproven technology like SMRs. These have never been built anywhere and are unproven at scale. Much simpler to spend money on retrofitting homes & solar & wind www.theguardian.com/business/202...
- Brave whistleblower, Shiro Konuma, exposes Big Tobacco's manipulation of science in Japan. As he writes "Awareness of hypocrisy and malpractice in the tobacco industry is the first, concrete step toward a truly smoke-free world." www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
- And Trump's Big Oil backers are the winners in the AI data center race: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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- Another great article on the great CCS scam
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- The same Tony Blair who led an illegal invasion into Iraq. The same Blair who appointed ex-BP chair David Simon as Minister of Competitiveness. The same Blair who loaned No 10 to BP for a deal-signing ceremony with Sidanco, a Russian oil company. The same Blair who lobbied on behalf of Big Tobacco.
- No surprises here, I am afraid. Blair has always been pro-nukes & climate sceptic. Don't forget BP was called "Blair Petroleum" due to its closeness to his government. Within days of winning, Blair appointed the ex-BP chair as his Minister of Competitiveness. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
- once again shows the urgency of kicking dirty money out of politics - Big Oil should not be able to subvert democracy via the climate denial puppets and snake oil salesmen of Reform
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- What about the so-called "impartial broadcaster" the BBC stopping all the dark money climate denial think tanks like @iealondon.bsky.social being interviewed across their networks on a regular basis, unless they disclose their funding?
