Briefing: SDG 13 & the Carbon Capture Boom
"There is no excuse for not identifying the political will. It is right to ask why groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil will not acknowledge that projects being built at their back door."
Feb 06
20232
"Net Zero" BECCS Biomass CCS EOR Greta Thunberg Just Stop Oil Naomi Klein Tzeporah Berman XR
"There is no excuse for not identifying the political will. It is right to ask why groups like Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil will not acknowledge that projects being built at their back door."
Nov 25
20210
Alberta Carbon Trunk Line BECCS Bellona Foundation Biomass CCS Climate Action Network Europe (CANE) ClimateWorks COP26 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) European Climate Foundation (ECF) Forests WWF
"There should be encampments and occupations in and near Middlesborough and Hull. There should be. If the spirit of Earth First and actual environmentalism was with us, perhaps there would be."
Nov 05
20200
Natural Resources Defense Council, Nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, World Resources Institute
45Q tax credits Biomass CCS CCUS Center For American Progress Climate Justice Alliance Data for Progress Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) FUTURE Act Green New Deal Grist Justice Democrats New Consensus New Republic Nuclear People’s Climate Movement (PCM) Sierra Club Sunrise Movement The Intercept Vox World Resources Institute
"Prevarication is the process whereby lies are told and truths are omitted. The vast majority of voices speaking for or about the Green New Deal have either a narrative or a funding stream to protect, sometimes it’s both."
Aug 23
20200
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Biomass Foundations George Monbiot industrial civilization Planet of the Humans “Green renewable” energy
"Slowly but surely the capitalists have turned the environmental movement to a narrow focus on climate change and the supposed solution of green energy because it’s a $50 trillion dollar profit center."
Apr 22
20200
350.org / 1Sky, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Rockefeller Foundation, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
350.org Al Gore Beyond Coal Campaign Bill McKibben Biomass Bloomberg Ceres David Blood Divestment Ecology EU Green Deal Generation Investment Green New Deal Palm Oil Sierra Club Solar Energy The Climate Reality Project Wind Energy
Jeff Gibbs, the writer/producer/director of Planet of the Humans, has dared to say what few would. Gibbs & Ozzie Zehner lay bare the green illusions of "clean energy" while exposing, once & for all, the corporate "environmentalism" that has led us to the precipice of ecological collapse. Years in the making, this film will blow your mind.
Nov 14
20161
Friends of the Earth, United Nations
"Clean Energy" #keepitintheground AFL-CIO Al Gore Behavourial Change Biomass Bob Costanza carbon bubbles carbon budgets carbon capture and storage Catherine McKenna CERES-WE MEAN BUSINESS Christiana Figueres Climate Project COP22 David Roberts Friends of the Earth George Monbiot Grantham Institute James Hansen Jeremy Corbyn Language Nicholas Stern nuclear energy Podesta psywar stranded assets unburnable carbon UNFCCC US Department of Energy
"How do fundamentally economic concepts like unburnable carbon, stranded assets, and carbon budgets work for the inevitable continuation of fossil fuel extraction and the wholesale destruction of forests? How much political will for carbon capture and storage is out there and how is it expressed? How are pundits, mouthpieces or messaging agents able to use “clean energy” to mask their support for energy that is in no way clean?"
Jun 08
20160
Biodiversity Biomass Canada Carbon Canopy Group Dogwood Alliance Drax E-ON Project False Solutions France Gardanne Marseille Mediterranean Forests monoculture Old Growth Forests Quebec Radio Zinzine UK United States
Keep in mind while watching this film that while Dogwood Alliance may publicly denounce Enviva's biomass (the burning of trees) practices, Dogwood Alliance has partnered with Coca-Cola along with other corporations and NGOs to create the Carbon Canopy Group - a coalition "that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services" and "offset" pollution via carbon credits.
Oct 02
20150
Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Biomass Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGAd) Greenpeace Shell
"As long as organizations rely on false claim fund-raising – putting institutional and personal success above the successful survival of Gaian species – we will get nowhere positive in our efforts to save our own very life support system."
Mar 13
20151
Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Bill McKibben Biofuels Biomass Center for Biological Diversity Gary Nabhan Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC)
The Band-Aid Wing of the Green Growth Economy Counterpunch Weekend Edition March...
Feb 26
20151
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Ceres, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Purpose [Public Relations Arm of Avaaz]
350.org Alternative Energy Fetishes Avaaz Bill McKibben Biomass Capitalism Ceres Divestment Free Market Environmentalism Naomi Klein Purpose RBF Rockefellers Social Engineering The New Economy Tides Wall Street
"The fact there is no substance to the empty promotions by new economy celebrities like Naomi Klein is perhaps what progressives find most enticing. Without any actual plan — other than advertising — there is nothing to debate. In that way, their imbecility is secure from attack, free to follow pipe dreams and pied pipers till the end of time."