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Trump says US will be 'very strongly involved' in Venezuela oil industry
The United States is going to be “very strongly involved” in Venezuela’s oil industry after the operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump told Fox News on Saturday.
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US oil giants have so far remained silent on Donald Trump’s claim that they are primed to spend “billions and billions of dollars” rebuilding the Venezuelan oil industry following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
Chevron, the only US oil company still operating in Venezuela, committed only to following “relevant laws and regulations” after the US president suggested American energy multinationals would be central to his plans for the country.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/03/us-oil-trump-venezuela
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“I think we should be concerned about systems that can perform all of the functions that humans perform to get things done in the world, but better,” he said. “We will be outcompeted in all of the domains that we need to be dominant in, in order to maintain control of our civilisation, society and planet.”
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Over the weekend, the United States bombed Venezuela, and captured its president Nicolás Maduro. There has been a lot of speculation about the legality, true motive and implications going forward.
Oil has been a central part of the discussion. I wanted to get a quick overview of what the global picture looks like. So here are five(ish) simple charts that give some context on the history of oil in Venezuela, and why the United States — which is, by far, the world’s largest producer itself — would care so much.
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Celtic Connections event - Can Communities take Control of Renewables?
I'm sure I've read something about Scottish Government clearing a certain number of projects to go ahead. Will post when I find.
https://spring.site/blog/power-shift-the-real-energy-question-at-celtic-connections
“We’ve realised that the global problems we’re all facing require local solutions.”
Yes, but don’t need mayors, just decent leadership!
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Badenoch claims (wrongly) she started championing net zero scepticism before Nigel Farage
In her Today programme interview this morning Kemi Badenoch tried to outflank Nigel Farage on net zero scepticism by claiming (wrongly) that she started talking out this before he did.
Asked by the presenter, Nick Robinson, to give an example of a single policy that the Conservatives would implement to boost economic growth, Badenoch said that they would allow more drilling for oil in the North Sea.
When Robinson said it was interesting to note that she was proposing a policy that Farage had been championing for years, Badenoch did not accept that. She said that she had a long history of being sceptical about net zero targets and she claimed that, when the Theresa May government legislated for the 2050 net zero target in 2019, she was the only Tory MP who questioned whether this was affordable. She went on:
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Trump taking ‘drill, baby, drill’ plan to Venezuela ‘terrible’ for climate, experts warn
‘Everybody loses’ if production supercharged in country with largest known oil reserves, critics say
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/06/trump-venezuela-oil-climate-crisis
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The wealth of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Charles Koch, and a handful of others is almost beyond comprehension. The influence of big tech, big oil, and the largest aerospace and defense corporations extends over much of the globe. AI is likely to centralize wealth and power even more. The destructive power of the United States, China and Russia is unmatched in human history.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/06/donald-trump-threat-civilization
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