Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) won’t save us.
Here are just three major reasons why: 🧵
Here are just three major reasons why: 🧵
1. Even if CCS *did* actually capture all CO2, it would then be transported through CO2 pipelines that, like all pipelines, risk disastrous leaks.
It also wouldn’t do anything to capture other greenhouse gases like methane, water contamination from fracking, or other pollutants.
It also wouldn’t do anything to capture other greenhouse gases like methane, water contamination from fracking, or other pollutants.
2. CCS is inordinately expensive.
Even CCS proponents acknowledge this fact, and argue for public subsidies for CCS on the basis that it’s too expensive and risky for private investment.
Even CCS proponents acknowledge this fact, and argue for public subsidies for CCS on the basis that it’s too expensive and risky for private investment.
3. Finally, CCS *hasn’t even been proven to work.*
The only power plant in the U.S. with CCS captured only 7% of its emissions while operational.
Relying on an unproven, experimental technology with a record of failure to address the climate crisis is a reckless gamble.
The only power plant in the U.S. with CCS captured only 7% of its emissions while operational.
Relying on an unproven, experimental technology with a record of failure to address the climate crisis is a reckless gamble.
As polluting industries are threatened by communities resisting their poison, they’re desperately pushing false “solutions” that will allow them to keep polluting.
CCS, hydrogen fuel, and nuclear energy aren’t the answer.
We need a #JustTransition away from fossil fuels.
CCS, hydrogen fuel, and nuclear energy aren’t the answer.
We need a #JustTransition away from fossil fuels.
Our latest report looks at New Mexico as a case study in debunking false climate solutions and uplifting real answers.
Learn about the Indigenous and frontline-led efforts now leading the way to a #JustTransition: ips-dc.org/report-new-mex…
Learn about the Indigenous and frontline-led efforts now leading the way to a #JustTransition: ips-dc.org/report-new-mex…
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