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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TotalEnergies is Europe’s biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer (3x more than it's next rival!) But 71% of TotalEnergies' LNG into Europe in 2025 came from the US and Russia – while Putin and Trump attack and threaten Europe.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I’m not sure Apple’s new “sleep score” is all that smart. I went to bed at almost 1am after hours of late Zoom calls.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

On June 16, EU ministers discuss Europe’s energy security. More #LNG means locking us into climate chaos & insecurity. #TrumpGas, #PutinGas, or any gas = harm to health, planet & frontline communities. It’s time for a just transition—no to fossil fuel traps. #PhaseOutGas

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Google's AI trying to tell my partner @racheldobric about me because um what

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Why humming? Because unlike at previous @UNFCCC #climate conferences, UN security would not allow people to shout, chant, or sing outside the plenary. So people chose to hum the rhythm of the protest chants they would have used.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A tiny sample of the wonderful people and their messages during yesterday's humming rally after the #PeoplesPlenary at #COP29. Stop fuelling genocide. Pay up. End fossil fuels. Pay up. Stop carbon markets. Pay up. Phase out. Pay up. #climate #climatejustice #payupforclimate

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Forbidden from protesting, forbidden from singing, in the halls of #COP29 the people hum not sing the songs of angry, uh, humans

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The ‘Gas Exporting Countries Forum’ pavilion at #COP29 is basically the same as having a “cigarette exporting countries club” stand at a conference on lung cancer. And their posters are just as dishonest as you’d expect.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Yesterday. Activists at #COP29: Stop. Fuelling. Genocide.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

“We are not drowning. We are fighting.”

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“We need to make big polluters like @bp_plc pay for loss and damage … BP has always been an instrument of loss and damage. We must shut it down.”

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“The fossil fuel companies fuelling the #climate crisis are the same companies fuelling the genocide.” #COP29

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Defund genocide. Kick big polluters out. Those same companies that are fuelling Israel’s genocide In Palestine are fuelling the #climate crisis. And they’re here at #cop29, lobbying and cutting dirty deals.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

“I am here. I arrived from Palestine today. I am here to speak. To tell you what is happening.”

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

With world leaders done, #COP29 has slightly relaxed the restrictions on civil society actions – and #climate justice organisations have kicked off day four with a powerful demand for trillions in climate finance.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is remarkably, bizarrely wrong. Twitter-prominent right-wing conveyancing lawyer takes a break from helping people sell houses to redefine New Zealand's constitutional law. There's no distinction in law between a "political" and "legal" constitution. Our constitution may...

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Powerful solidarity action for Palestine today at #COP29. Stop. Fueling. Genocide.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New Zealand's inexperienced #climate minister @SimonWattsMP says New Zealand won't be criticised for reopening offshore oil and gas at #COP29, and says it's consistent with our @beyondoilgas commitments. It's not. You can read them yourself.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

On Tuesday, the @UNFCCC secretariat emailed all observers strictly confirming that selling accreditation to the #climate negotiations is prohibited. 3 day later, @BBC reported the #COP29 presidency tried to sell a fake fossil fuel company 5 passes....

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Nothing motivates employees' creative thinking like, uh, making huge numbers of their colleagues redundant and leaving them overstretched and overworked

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

This website is full of truly legitimate advertisers and zero bots.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Truly a clownshow. The UK government plans to end new offshore exploration. New EU energy & housing commissioner-designate, Dan Jørgensen, once convened @beyondoilgas. Not only is @mangonui08 ignoring MFAT advice, he's clueless about trading...

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

With all respect to @MichaelGerrard, I don't think it's quite right to say only misleading advertising cases have "broken through". The Shell case is the clearest example, but there've also been several smaller wins on permitting etc. Perhaps he's referring to damages claims?

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

And, going from the American Petroleum Institute's response here, Big Oil doesn't like being sued very much. Which feels like a great reason to sue them more. Importantly, Meyers alleges that these lawsuits are a "coordinated campaign" – but provides no evidence of coordination.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Great overview of our #BigOilInCourt analysis from @dharnanoor here – the number of #climate cases against big oil and gas companies is "soaring" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/se…

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

NEW ANALYSIS from @PriceofOil and @ZerocarbonA: Communities are increasingly turning to courts to hold Big Oil accountable for damages, misleading advertising, and their failure to cut emissions and build a safe future....

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Bob has been conducting his own presidential debate with the other cat that’s in the mirror

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

The reality is there’s ministers and there’s ministers - the ministers we produce in New Zealand, in the current government, aren’t serious about the climate crisis. The world’s top energy experts in the IEA say there’s no room for new coal, oil, or gas....

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Foolish people may say rude things about Berhampore and its tiny collection of shops but Baker Gramercy remains unbeatable

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

I can only assume that Ryan Bridge has a time machine because he’s using arguments from the 1990s to claim that gas that might not even exist couldn’t be produced until the 2030s could help cut electricity prices now.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

RNZ is really telling on itself today, huh? In the same day that they run a story about media failing to fact-check government announcements, they run a story about the government's fossilised energy announcements today, repeating Luxon's spin and falsely hyping LNG. Sigh.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

There have been 35 shipments of crude oil to Israel since the ICJ's 26 January ruling. The companies & countries providing this oil are complicit. They cannot credibly say they did not know that there was a risk that they were literally fueling...

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

The right wing New Zealand coalition government saying the quiet thing out loud in its request for advice to the @ClimateCommNZ on our new Paris target: don’t look at what would actually be needed for 1.5°C.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Perhaps repealing Labour's plan to fix the pipes without having a meaningful plan ready to go to fix the pipes was a bad idea?

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Big oil producers "engaging constructively and positively" with the #climate negotiations at #SB60:

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Tobacco lobbyist says lifting ban on cigarette production will help solve lung cancer

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Action this morning at #SB60 in Bonn: The oil and gas corporations that are fueling the climate crisis are the very same ones enabling violence and genocide in Palestine. There is no climate justice without human rights. We must #DefundGenocide and #KickBigPollutersOut!

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Six of the eight largest western-owned international oil and gas companies have explicit goals to grow their oil and gas production this decade. This production growth is consistent with a scenario of 2.4ºC or worse in global heating.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Yesterday, @antonioguterres called out "the Godfathers of the #climate crisis": the fossil fuel industry. The reality is that there is no evidence that the industry that has done the most to cause this crisis has any intention to be part of solving it. Governments must step in.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

A whole lot of folks posting reckons about New Zealand's electricity market about now might find this classic @PriceofOil graphic helpful. Industry wide, there's usually a 9 to 16 year time lag from exploration to full scale production even where there is a new oil or gas find.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

The paper summarised in this @radionz article doesn't say what RNZ says. Its finding is much worse: not "could reduce average incomes by 19 percent" but "the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices"

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Interviewing an oil CEO about why his company is part of the energy transition without talking to literally any of his company's critics is like talking to the CEO of a tobacco company about lung cancer without talking to a single doctor. Do better, @NewsroomNZ.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

New Zealand's conservative governing coalition promised today to follow the emissions budgets set by the previous government based on advice from @ClimateCommNZ – a day after announcing a new panel to review the methane targets the Commission previously considered.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Proposal for all councils across Aotearoa: promise the bigots that not only will you reinstate any rainbow crossing or street painting they deface, but you’ll add an extra one too – so the more white paint the tedious chumps waste, the more rainbows they’ll have to see.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

Back when I was at @WWFNewZealand, we scrambled to organise an election debate on #climate issues when we realised no one else had one planned. @RodOramNZ very kindly stepped in at short notice to be our moderator, and ran a great debate, asking incisive, challenging questions.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

I’m sure Bob approves of the amendments passed to enable more housing today. He seems to like houses.

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David Tong @davidxvx.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

It's that the unseated Labour candidate, Damien O'Connor's response wasn't to condemn this undemocratic, bullying, big business trick, but to say he already agreed with them and wanted to back their mining on conservation land! What's @nzlabour for, again? Someone remind me?

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