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

Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs.

In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate change, but demand for fossil fuels, in a bullish defence of the government’s much-criticised stance.

  • SatanicNotMessianic
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    8 months ago

    I believe the article makes the position of the conservative government quite clear.

    Carbon capture isn’t a real thing. It’s a unicorn technology that is used, over and over, to justify the continued development of fossil fuel resources. It’s a “don’t worry, we will figure out a solution before it’s a real problem.” It’s literally the same argument we hear from the CEOs of Exxon and BP. So how are we going about that? Are we strongly capping production until the tech is validated and ready to be deployed at scale? Are we taxing fossil fuel companies at 100% of profits to accelerate development of the technologies?

    This is just a step above Trump announcing that his clean coal initiative would allow the US to keep up coal production as long as it gets washed first.

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      8 months ago

      The suckiest part is, it NEEDS to be a real thing. We’re already fucked with what we’ve dumped in to the atmosphere, and these fucking ghouls want to step on the gas pedal while the car’s already teetering on the edge of a cliff…