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"Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds"
#Carbon #CarbonCapture #FossilFuels

Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds
The study focuses on a Canadian oil field that should have shut down in 2016 but could now keep producing oil until 2100.

Sorry, that wouldn’t be the psychopaths destroying humanity’s future industry by chance, would it? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/112626873670066685

I think there's a big problem with some carbon offsetting schemes - tree planting, in particular, but other biomass capture schemes like this discussion of peat bogs as carbon stores: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n11eqzpnqo
It's a bit like the problem with nutty solar radiation management ideas. With those, the problem's been elegantly laid out by Dr Gavin Schmidt: what happens when (for whatever reason) we inevitably can't do it for, say, a decade or so? A: a termination shock, as all the disguised warming comes roaring back and global temps rise 2 degC more or less overnight. With biomass setaside, the problem is wildfire. What good is planting trees (or peat bogs) when a couple of bad fire years - which get increasingly likely as time passes - sends it all up in smoke?

In many conversations I lately had around Carbon Capture and Storage, I realized that many people have completely wrong ideas about it.
People imagine a fossil fuel power plant where CO2 is captured and then put underground with the sole purpose of avoiding emissions. That's almost entirely theoretical and not at all how any real CCS project looks like.

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“Nauseating.”
That’s what Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé said of the details revealed in an investigation into oil and gas lobbying by The Narwhal’s Carl Meyer.
And those revelations that were so jarring?
Pathways Alliance, a coalition of six fossil fuel giants, lobbied the government to fast-track a major carbon capture and sto…

Inside the Canadian oilsands lobby’s request to fast-track a major project
Pathways Alliance lobbyists privately asked the government if they could skip a federal assessment. Here’s how the environment minister responded to documents obtained by The Narwhal

#UKPol #Green #manifesto #election
Couldn't watch the launch, stupid jobs.
The gist seem to be tax the rich to invest in the country.
Hurray. Finally.
* Wealth taxes
The rich will finally have to sell some assets to pay their taxes. Anyone with ore than 10 million quid.
Wealth taxes are hard to implement, but you will never fix inequality with just an income tax and you can't fix asset-price inflation and so house-prices without fixing inequality.
They wanna raise a full 50 billion a year extra and then spend it on investment:
* Insulate homes
Insulate Britain would get their way! Hurray! Cheaper energy bills for everyone.
* Build homes.
Everyone's promising this. The green-party number is similar to the Conservatives number but the Greens will do it without lowering building standards to make it cheaper. They'll probably build good insulated ones one assumes.
* CEO/lowest-wage ratio set to 10:1
Currently CEOs earn about 200 times the average wage of their workers. They are worth, they think, ten classrooms full of other workers.
Maybe it'll encourage the CEO to actually give pay-rises?
* Scrap tuition fees & Ofsted
Education should be free.
* Personal Social Care free like the NHS.
No more Granny selling her house to be put into a home I guess?
* 15 quid minimum wage
Pay the workers what it costs to live damnit.
* More Rights to Roam
We will walk these green and pleasant lands even if the farmers don't like it.
* Stop All new Fossil Fuels
This is in fact needed, because "net zero" is bullshit, but not for the reasons Farage or Galloway say, but because carbon-capture is basically impossible. The "net" part is bullshit, it's gotta be actually zero
* Phase out nuclear energy
As is traditional, all parties must have at least one terrible policy which would lead to terrible results. The Green one is phasing out the only non-carbon energy source which is reliable and works all night and day every day.
* Wind power to 70% of all power.
Good, but the wind don't always blow, where are the nukes to back it up eh?
* Decriminalize possession of all drugs.
The drug war was always a counter-productive fraud, it's expensive, ineffective, encourages a police state, and doesn't even really stop anyone taking things. It's stupid, axe it.
Ought to make supply legal and licensed really too but they ain't promising that.
* Support Ukraine and Palestine against the aggressive countries attacking them.
War is bad.
* "No use first" on nukes.
Oh, surprising, they aren't promising to scrap trident.
* Brexit - Rejoin "when the conditions are right"
Well, not making as big a thing of it as the Libs, but it's there.
The Greens are clearly the sanest of the parties with the most progressive policies that would actually help people and help prevent climate change.
So of course the media tell everyone that they're crazy and the political system fixes it so they can't possibly win.
#UKPol #Green #manifesto #election