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Marc Lavois

@techoz.bsky.social
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If anyone is following the rot that has set in around university governance in Australia .. here’s a great link to the details at UTas where the VC has a second job at Deloittes… theutaspapers.com/vc-blacks-de...
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VC Black's Deloitte conflict of interest worsens - new RTI papers - The UTAS Papers
I published a major post on 17 March 2026, commenting on VC Black’s appointment to the Board of Deloitte based largely on documents received under…
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Data centres and PFAS.. So Australia takes 3M to court for 2 billion over contamination with PFAS, but also, we must have data centers galore. Where’s all the PFAS awareness? EPA? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Florfenicol, as recommended by Salmon Tasmania. « Driving and inspiring antibiotic resistance » and shutting down fisheries. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
abc.net.au
Salmon farm antibiotics found in native species
An antibiotic used by the Tasmanian salmon farming industry is detected in native species more than 10km away from the closest fish operation using it.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Pioneering Australia seaweed grower Sea Forest bought four tonnes of pure chemical bromoform - the chemical that limits methane in its products - during its early years. It won't say why. I took at look at the company in this deeply reported story for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
drilled.media
Selling Seaweed: An Australian Green Startup’s Secret Chemical Insurance Policy
Sea Forest embodied the promise of green capitalism: grow seaweed, solve climate, get rich. It appears the company was playing with a stacked deck.
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thanks for this great work Uli
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
"Northern Territory regulators found out about the DLNG leak in 2020, just hours after signing off on a proposal to extend its operations until 2050. It briefly sparked concerns of an explosion risk to people in Darwin and nearby Palmerston, 7 and 11 kilometres away respectively."
abc.net.au
'Huge' leak from gas plant kept secret from public in 'national scandal'
Documents reveal the scale of carbon pollution leaking from a Darwin LNG tank was like adding 8,300 new cars to the road every year. It is about to be filled again.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
An aside: journalism exists in an attention economy where demand drives editorial decision making. If you find something you enjoyed, learned from and that moved you, share and share widely -- even four days late. I, and others, don't get to keep doing this stuff if no one reads it.
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 23/07/2025
📢 The second payment, made in the second quarter of this year, takes Australia’s contribution to the US industrial base to $1.6 billion with no guarantee AUKUS will continue.
smh.com.au
Australia quietly pays US another $800 million for AUKUS despite review
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Australian government funded clean up of the recent Chevron oil spill at a cost of 500 million …https://www.boilingcold.com.au/governments-set-to-refund-chevron-500m-for-barrow-island-oil-field-clean-up/ Contrast this with the entire industry growth program including defence- 169.1 million.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 03/07/2025
Australia is one of the biggest gas exporters in the world, but we're told to worry about a domestic gas shortage? Might have something to do with the fact that 80% of our gas is exported. We have a gas export problem, not a supply problem. @markogge.bsky.social #auspol
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
On LinkedIn, the lead author has clarified that "the idea is not to somehow justify continued fossil fuel exports" Can't imagine how this confusion could have arisen Despite the excerpt below, it's also apparently "not some kind of offsetting scheme" but rather "an indicative accounting construct"
Title panel for a Conversation article

Title reads:
Australia could become the world's first net-zero exporter of fossil fuels - here's how
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 30/05/2025
Need proof Big Gas is ripping Australians off? Inpex exported ~$54 billion in gas from the NT Inpex also HASN'T PAID A CENT in ❌Royalties ❌Petroleum Resource Rent Tax ❌Company Tax 🎙️ @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Electrify everything…. Big ferries included. amp.abc.net.au/article/1052...
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World's largest '100 per cent electric' ship launched by Tasmanian builder Incat - ABC News
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/04/2025
One of the world's worst polluters gets paid $10m even as its emissions rise. The Safeguard Mechanism is a mess and never, ever should have passed in its current pro-fossil form. Great @adammorton.bsky.social piece (looking forward to diving into the data later on.....)
theguardian.com
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions
Safeguard mechanism revamp leads to overall emissions fall but 70% of coal and gas facilities covered by scheme increased direct pollution
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | American Science is Under Attack (Gift Article)
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/12/2024
Species Of Blue-Green Algae Announces IPO theonion.com/species-of-b...
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Andrew J. Steinmetz @ajsteinmetz.com · 27/11/2024
(1/6) When we think about microscopic objects likes cells or viruses, we often forget how close they are to atomic scales. This is a model of the virus responsible for COVID-19 where the individual atoms of the virus are represented by colored spheres. #Science #Chemistry #Biology #Virology 🧪
Atomic model of a coronavirus. A blue rough sphere is surrounded by light-blue and orange stalks.
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Coffee break reading…
newrepublic.com
Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweed
The media is trumpeting studies that say we can drastically reduce cows’ methane emissions merely by feeding them a particular seaweed. But I did the math, and it doesn’t add up.
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Whilst Australia continues to release large amounts of fossil methane, there is a media focus on cow burps. Rather than consider reducing food waste or herd size ( thereby reducing all GHG) , public and private money is spent in ineffective feed supplements newrepublic.com/article/1874...
newrepublic.com
Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweed
The media is trumpeting studies that say we can drastically reduce cows’ methane emissions merely by feeding them a particular seaweed. But I did the math, and it doesn’t add up.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/11/2024
Hey Australians, now that you're here: are you interested in more Aus-focused climate and energy analysis content?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/11/2024
haha...ookay I'm hearing ya :D here are some recents you may have missed bc I haven't been on X On Albanese's record-breaking fossil fuel exports: Recent: ketanjoshi.co/2024/10/06/t... Bit older: ketanjoshi.co/2024/03/31/a...
ketanjoshi.co
The blurred self image of progressive climate villains
Australia just approved three new coal mines at the same time it’s pleading to host a global climate meeting. It’s part of a global coalition of ‘progressive climate villains&#821…
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Marc Lavois @techoz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Methane; too much or never enough? Never enough -Australian future gas strategy will release billions of tonnes of fossil methane. Too much -Australia is concerned about reducing agricultural methane. Perhaps it will take the edge off fossil methane release? Delay and distract tactic?
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