{"id":65001,"date":"2023-02-11T07:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65001"},"modified":"2023-02-11T07:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T12:57:16","slug":"carbon-capture-is-a-fairytale-solution-to-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65001","title":{"rendered":"Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"header image top right\">\n<div class=\"wrap small\">\n<div class=\"positioning top right\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"titling\">\n<h3 class=\"hed\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ricochet.media\/en\/3928\/carbon-capture-is-a-fairytale-solution-to-the-climate-crisis\">Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"dek\"><strong>Billions of dollars for CCUS are gifts to the oil and gas industry \u2014 to keep the profits rolling in while distracting from real solutions<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"about\">\n<div class=\"details\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<article class=\"main\">\n<div class=\"wrap small\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<aside class=\"social\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"buttons\">Oil and gas companies are <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9430855\/carbon-capture-tensions-ottawa-alberta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lobbying<\/a>\u00a0the federal government for billions in tax dollars to push an expensive and unproven technology \u2014 carbon capture, utilization, and storage \u2014 as a magical solution to the climate crisis. But in reality, the real goal is to continue business as usual until every drop of oil is burned.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"reading body\">\n<p>Scientists have long been clear: this is the most critical decade for climate action. We must cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Fortunately, we have the tools to achieve this. It has never been easier or more affordable to start putting climate solutions into practice \u2014 tools like renewable energy, electrifying our homes and transportation, and making our buildings and industries more energy efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this represents a major threat to powerful fossil fuel companies, who for decades have failed to act responsibly when faced with climate science. Historically, fossil fuel companies have worked to cast doubt on climate science.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, as outright climate denial has become increasingly indefensible, fossil fuel companies have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rws511.pbworks.com\/w\/file\/fetch\/145832571\/Oreskes%20frames%20climate%20change.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pivoted towards a politics of delay<\/a>. Their latest scheme: pushing carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS).<\/p>\n<p>Oil and gas companies are now trying to paint a picture of a future where we can still have just as much \u2014 or more \u2014 oil and gas production, but where power plants and oil refineries can capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks and bury the emissions deep in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite what the oil and gas industry wants us to believe, CCUS is not a climate solution. It\u2019s a distraction from the need for a rapid transformation away from fossil fuel use that is required to keep global warming below catastrophic levels within this decade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carbon capture is a fairytale solution to the climate crisis Billions of dollars for CCUS are gifts to the oil and gas industry \u2014 to keep the profits rolling in while distracting from real solutions Oil and gas companies are lobbying\u00a0the federal government for billions in tax dollars to push an expensive and unproven technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23203,33683,33682,1426,1729,655,33681],"class_list":["post-65001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-capture","tag-fairytale","tag-julia-levin","tag-misinformation","tag-oil-and-gas-industry","tag-propaganda","tag-richochet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65002,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65001\/revisions\/65002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}