Fossil fuel lobbyists are pushing hard for CCS to protect their polluting profits, when our money would be much better spent on cheap, safe renewable energy like wind and solar. What do you think?
🥵 Our energy bills will rise to pay for the £408 billion investment necessary for CCS to work. The government’s own Public Accounts Committee has criticised the Treasury for not properly assessing the financial impact of CCS on the public.
💸 If this CCS investment creates the promised 4,000 jobs (big IF!), that works out to £5million per job!
📈 The UK’s Carbon Capture and Storage plans will actually increase our emissions. More than half of planned CCS+gas projects involve building NEW gas plants, which could emit up to to 5 million tons of CO2 annually. That’s the equivalent to 2.6 million more petrol cars!
🤨 Investing £22billion of public money in a technology with a track record of failure is NOT going to help the UK achieve its climate goals, or create good green jobs. Here’s why (thread):
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🤑 Would you donate to save the fossil fuel industry?
Nah, we wouldn't either, but that doesn't matter – the govt has already committed £22bn and counting of your money to a tech that's meant to reduce emissions but is actually a lifeline for oil and gas.
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The UK just committed £22bn to carbon capture and storage – a tech with an 80% failure rate that lets oil & gas greenwash their emissions.
At this CCS conference, most speakers repped fossil fuel companies.
Share if you think it's absurd we're funding tech that protects fossil fuel profits 🙃
Most plastic + chemicals added to plastic are made from gas + oil. In 2018, writes @bethgardiner.bsky.social , Saudi Aramco announced plans to drive growth in demand for oil by increasing plastic production.
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The climate needs a fair, fast and funded fossil fuel phase-out, so why did EU governments roll out the red carpet for the oil and gas industry at #COP30?
Our take on this year's UN climate talks and what went down.
#KickBigPollutersOut
#FossilFreePolitics
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📣 Tonight! Join us and this brill panel to learn about the damage caused by oily lobbying and how we can overpower its influence to shape climate & energy policy for public good!
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Don't miss tonight's online event!
Jonathan will be speaking alongside @graceblakeley.substack.com and Sofia Basheer 🤩
They'll discuss how fossil fuel lobbyists keep energy profits & prices high, wages low, and climate action slow. @mp-fossilfree.bsky.social
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Not again!? 84 fossil fuel lobbyists were brought by EU countries to #COP30 😤
See the detailed results of the research done 👇
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It is time to free politics from the influence of the fossil fuel industry 🔥
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"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com
Time to kick them out? ⏰
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🛢️🌎 New research from #KickBigPollutersOut reveals that more than *5000 fossil fuel lobbyists* accessed the previous four COPs combined.
It's little wonder the conference keeps failing to commit to a fossil fuel phase out.
There was never any time to waste: big polluters must be ejected from COP!
A graphic announcing that Jonathan Bean, Parliament & Policy Lead for the organisation Fuel Poverty Action, will be speaking at Fossil Free Parliament's event "Powered by polluters?" online on 26th November, from 6 to 7pm. The graphic features a picture of Jonathan holding a sign for Fuel Poverty Action's campaign "Energy For All".
🤔 Does fossil fuel lobbying have an impact on our energy bills..?
Find this out and more from the second brilliant speaker – Jonathan Bean, Parliament & Policy Lead, @fuelpovertyaction.bsky.social – at *Powered by polluters?*
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📣 We’re excited to share that Sofia Basheer, Senior Analyst at @influencemap.bsky.social, will be speaking at *Powered by Polluters?*
✊ Come along to learn from Sofia’s expertise on the impact of fossil fuel lobbying, and to take action with us against oily influence.
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1/ 🤔 indulge us in an exercise of logic, spread over a few posts
TL;DR? a new court ruling and a new disclosure mechanism should ban 🇫🇷 French oil & gas major ⛽ TotalEnergies from participating at COP30 in Brazil.
Share this story and join our mobilising call on 29th November, 6-7PM to learn more and take action. We can’t let industry lobbyists crowd out communities, workers, scientists, activists. Everyone who should really be shaping our climate and energy policies. Sign up: bit.ly/powered-poll... (4/5)
❌ Our politicians should be booting them out the door of Westminster, not giving them a backstage pass! (3/5)
⚠️ Big polluters like Shell, BP and Equinor are stakeholders in an unjust system. They’re keeping profits and prices high, wages low and climate action dangerously slow. (2/5)
🚨BREAKING: fossil fuel reps met government ministers 500+ times in Labour’s first year in power.
💀 That’s two meetings every working day, overshadowing the meetings held with climate and social justice groups by three to one (1/5)
GOOD NEWS 🎉: A court in South Africa has revoked Shell's permission to drill a number of offshore exploration wells off the country's south-west coast.
The Judge found the environmental approval "woefully deficient" on the potential coastal impact of the exploration.
Millions of people threatened by wildfires near their homes, research finds
Analysis by an international team of scientists showed 440 million people were threatened by fire encroaching on their homes between 2002 and 2021.
🔥Fantastic that The Corner House & Leigh Day are considering legal action against the planned Foreign Office job exchange with oil giant Shell and arms manufacturer BAE Systems.
Companies driving the climate crisis and violating human rights should have no place in Whitehall!
The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide.
It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International.
No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.
This Monday, MPs debated restrictions on fossil fuel marketing for the first time in history.
Citing the need to tackle industry greenwash, lobbying and air pollution, the majority of MPs argued for a ban on fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship 🥳
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