Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2009-2016, who helped negotiate the Paris Agreement, finally realizes what all veteran energy transitionistas eventually realize: That it's foolish to think FF companies will ever be good partners in the #energytransition.
"I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong." https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/7/6/i-thought-fossil-fuel-firms-could-change-i-was-wrong
Meanwhile, Shell's CEO says cutting oil and gas production would be "dangerous and irresponsible," and the billionaire owner of oil refiner INEOS calls UK energy policy "crap" for banning fracking and taxing oil & gas production https://electricityinfo.org/news/fossil-fuels-1384/
Cutting oil and gas production would be “dangerous and irresponsible”, the boss of energy giant Shell has told the BBC. Wael Sawan insisted that the world still “desperately needs oil and gas” as moves to renewable energy were not happening fast enough to replace it. He warned increased demand from China and a cold winter … [Continue Reading]
*#BigOilKnew--make them pay*
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The impudence of the successors to the people who caused this #ClimateCatastrophe with an average global temperature not seen in 120,000 years is outrageous.
We need a strict #PolluterPaysPrinciple to cover the clean-up costs for CO2.
Both chambers of Congress have now held hearings and have uncovered the exasperating truth.
Senator #Whitehouse of #RI sums up the findings brilliantly:
I have written a short 🧵 ...
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...on #BigOilKnew, but seeing and hearing it is even more damning.
You will find my🧵 with the damning antecedents to this #SBC hearing at the end of this short post regarding the video.
Here are the shownotes from YouTube of this #SBC meeting on June 21st, 2023:
"#DarkMoney Funding of
Climate Skeptic Organizations
[#Senate] Budget
Committee
[Room] SD-608
Senator #SheldonWhitehouse
(D-RI), Chairman of the #SenateBudgetCommittee, opens a #BudgetCommittee hearing...
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...entitled,
"Dollars and Degrees: Investigating Fossil Fuel Dark Money's Systemic Threats to
Climate and the Federal Budget."
The hearing explored the insidious role that secretive #FossilFuel money has
played in exposing us to those forecast economic and budgetary catastrophes.
👉Decades of climate disinformation and
obstruction kept the fossil fuel industry benefiting from its $600-plus billion-dollar subsidy👈, driving up
climate-related...
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...costs to the federal budget and to the broader economy."
So far for the shownotes of the #Senate Budget Committee (#SBC) hearing.
Now on to the consequences and the antecedents, a 🧵:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110522939158331016
If you haven't heard about the two Congressional committees, most likely you will be shocked.
Chris Nelder 🤘
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Kevin Leecaster