Oil and gas ‘not the problem’ for climate, says UK’s net zero minister

Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action

The Guardian
@SydesJokes And I thought he was (for a Tory!) a decent chap when I used to go drinking with him. Just shows how wrong you can be, doesn't it.

@TimWardCam @SydesJokes

He's partially right, dealing with emissions should be a much larger part of an overall strategy than is accepted at the moment. Replacing carbon cycle sources is also a necessary part of it.

Scalable emission systems don't appear to be being developed, we can catalyse, we can reprocess emissions at the point of emission. If they're going to kick start that then all well and good.

@simon_lucy @TimWardCam @SydesJokes shell Exxon etc have tried and failed for years to get any cc to work at scale, relying on belief in future tech is at best foolhardy in reality delayist & dangerous bs being touted by big oil

@Iainbs @TimWardCam @SydesJokes

There are technologies, nascent perhaps in some cases, but known. You can get flue hoods which filter and feed back to the boiler residual gases but they're too expensive because demand hasn't been generated.

There are catalysts to convert carbon dioxide that scale to the individual household, graphene oxide is part of many of those processes with carbon dioxide also capable of conversion into graphene.

Controlling the carbon cycle is a reuseable source.