Last Updated on April 10, 2025
The fossil fuel industry always over promises and under delivers; hype, fraud and conflicted interest have kept us from realizing clean energy security for a long time. But all this hype now threatens our ability to adapt to a sustainable energy regime after fossil fuels are depleted. And they are being rapidly depleted.
As Andrew Nikiforuk reports in The Tyee, shale gas — the latest hyped fossil fuel — is neither climate friendly, sustainable nor economical. As the bust of the short boom looms, even the government subsidies keeping fracking alive won’t be enough to keep the industry from going bankrupt.
As indigenous nations and environmentalists in Canada and the US line up against the pipeline mania of a dying industry, it is important to remember that all the government and industry hype is intended to put some quick cash into the pockets of shady people, with no thought to the consequences. As the fossil fuel runaway boom train railroads us from abundance to scarcity, we find we are soon approaching a bridge to nowhere.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
That is exactly why IC Magazine exists..
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