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Corporate Polluter Greenwashing Modus Operandi
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 26, 2023, 7:57 pm
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The Class Struggle
Sunday, October 22, 2023
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[center]The great [glow=red,2,300]cash-for-carbon hustle[/glow]
| [glow=red,2,300]Klean[/glow] Industries
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AGelbert COMMENT:
I have been watching and posting about this corporate greedball
greenwashing hustle since 2012. It just keeps getting worse.
IMHO, the reaction of any corporate stooge to a reality based
requirement to clean up their pollution spewing profit over
people and planet "business model" is to reach for their morally
bankrupt "Perception Management" bag of propaganda sophistry
laden, disingenuous legerdemain "tricks"
These 'greed is good' intellimorons do not have the faintest
notion of guilt or remorse for trashing the climate. I know I
sound like a broken record, but the ROOT of this is the
enthusiastic Capitalist embrace of [glow=red,2,300]Social
Darwinist[/glow]
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/>Ideology.
I will not belabor that further today, but I will post this
EXCELLENT comment by Eliott Eldrich 👍 that he made in
response to a typical PRO-Wall Street article about how all
those "job creator" (LOL!) businesses out there are "suffering
because young Americans have lost their work ethic":
THURSDAY, OCT 26, 2023 - 05:10 PM
SNIPPET (linked to article) from this typical Wall Street
Perception Management BALONEY article:
We can’t find workers. The ones we do have don’t know anything.
If they do know something, they don’t know how to actualize that
knowledge in productivity. If they produce, it is according to
their terms, not the needs of the 😇 firm. Another thing
is just how entitled people under 35 years of age are.
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COMMENT by Eliott Eldrich: 👍👍👍
'1970's America: "If you work 40 hours a week you'll have enough
to buy a house, a new car every couple of years, support a wife
and children, and have a nice vacation every year."
1980's America: "If you and your wife work 40 hours a week,
you'll have enough to buy a house, a new car every few years,
and a nice vacation every year."
1990's America: "If you and your wife work 90-100 hours a week,
you'll have enough to rent a decent place, keep your car running
while you save for a new one, and maybe a vacation every couple
of years or so."
2000's America: "If your household works at least 100 hours a
week you'll be able to rent a semi-decent place, buy a decent
used car, and a nice staycation every year."
2010's America: "If your household works at least 100 hours a
week you'll be able to keep a roof over your head and reasonably
edible food in the fridge, and keep your old used car running
well enough to be able to go to work."
2020's America: "Forget ever owning a home, forget having a nice
place, forget having a nice car, consider yourself lucky to have
a roof over your head."
Gosh, and now, for some mysterious reason, people "just don't
want to work any longer." Golly gee, I just can't imagine why
that is.
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Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCS or CCUS) has a
50-year history of failure.
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: November 30, 2023, 4:17 pm
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NOVEMBER 30, 2023
[center]Carbon Capture’s Publicly Funded Failure[/center]
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SNIPPET:
SUMMARY
► Governments have spent over $20 billion – and have
approved up to $200 billion more – of public money on carbon
capture and storage (CCS), providing a lifeline for the fossil
fuel industry.
► 79% of operating carbon capture capacity globally sends
captured CO2 to produce more oil (via Enhanced Oil Recovery).
► Many of the largest CCS projects in the world
overpromise and under-deliver, operating far below capacity.
Carbon, Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCS or CCUS) has a
50-year history of [glow=red,2,300]failure[/glow]. CCS is often
presented as a new technology to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)
emissions by trapping CO2 from a smokestack or directly from the
air and then injecting it into the ground for storage. In fact,
CCS was first developed in the 1970s to enhance oil production,
and increased oil production remains its primary use. Oil Change
International research finds that 79% of operating carbon
capture capacity globally sends captured CO2 to produce more oil
(via Enhanced Oil Recovery).
The story of CCS as a method to reduce CO2 emissions is one of
overpromising and under-delivering. Analysis after analysis has
concluded that CCS is not a climate solution. In September 2023,
the International Energy Agency noted that: “The history of CCUS
has largely been one of “underperformance” and “unmet
expectations.”
Yet Big Oil consistently tells us that CCS is central to the
fight against climate change. Chevron, for example, says that
CCS will make a “lower carbon future possible.”
In the run-up to COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, the oil
industry and many governments are ramping up their promotion of
CCS as an integral part of the collective response to climate
change. There has been a flurry of renewed government
commitments, conferences, and new industry initiatives, coupled
with continuing misinformation. Governments around the world
have spent over $20 billion – and have approved up to $200
billion more – of public money on CCS, providing a lifeline for
the fossil fuel industry.
In October 2023, ADNOC, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company,
whose CEO, Sultan Al Jaber, is the COP28 President, announced
that it planned to double its CCS capacity to 10 million tonnes
per year. But ADNOC’s existing flagship CCS project, which is
supposed to capture emissions from a steel plant, is only
designed to capture around 17% of that plant’s maximum CO2
pollution. Furthermore, there is no publicly available
information about how much CO2 it has actually captured. What
the CCS project does capture is used to increase oil production,
leading to more emissions when burned.
As governments prepare to spend up to $200 million of public
money on CCS, it must be clear: CCS is a lifeline for the fossil
fuel industry, not people and planet.
Subsidies
Governments have spent over $20 billion – and have legislated or
announced policies that could spend up to $200 billion more – of
public money on CCS, providing a lifeline for the fossil fuel
industry.
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Key facts
► Ten governments have already spent at least $22 billion
on CCS and Fossil-Hydrogen.
► This number is likely very conservative due to a
shocking lack of transparency on government subsidies and tax
credits.
► Twelve governments have approved policies that could
funnel up to $200 billion more toward CCS and Hydrogen.
Read more:
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Greenwashers 'R' US 🦖 Hydrocarbon 😈 Hellspawn
Doing What they DO at COP28
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 2, 2023, 1:30 pm
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December 2,, 2023 by Al Johnson-Kurts
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Responds to the
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[center]Today at
😈💵🎩💰🦀🐘🦕🦖🐍🦍🐉
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/>[glow=red,2,300]COP28[/glow], the 🦖 COP28 Presidency
announced the so-called
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/>Global Decarbonization Alliance
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/>including 😇 six different pledges or plans
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[glow=teal,2,300]David Tong[/glow], [glow=green,2,300]Global
Industry Campaign Manager at Oil Change International[/glow]
said:
“The [glow=red,2,300]Global Decarbonisation Alliance[/glow] is a
trojan horse for [glow=red,2,300]Big Oil and Gas
greenwash[/glow]. The [color=maroon]Oil and Gas Decarbonization
😉 Charter[/color]
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is
filled with hollow promises and recycled commitments that only
address operational emissions, and ignore the
[glow=red,2,300]80-90%[/glow] of oil and gas producing
companies’ climate [glow=red,2,300]pollution[/glow] from the oil
and gas being [glow=maroon,2,300]burned[/glow].
“Bundling up the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter with a
renewable energy commitment appears to be a
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/>calculated move to distract from the weakness of this industry
pledge. Promising to triple renewable energy and double energy
efficiency is welcome and indicates momentum for a final
agreement at this year’s UN climate talks, but voluntary pledges
cannot be a substitute for a formal negotiated outcome at COP28
for countries to address the root cause of the climate crisis:
fossil fuels.
“Countries must come to a legal agreement on immediately ending
fossil fuel expansion and building a just and equitable phase
out of all fossil fuels, enabled by redirecting trillions of
dollars in fossil industry handouts to triple renewable energy
and doubling energy efficiency.”
Note to the editor:
Over 320 civil society organizations today sent
an
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rejecting this
greenwashing pledge.
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