🧵Please stop & read this trenchant investigative report by my dear friend @Matthew__Green on the “greenest LNG [liquified gas] project in the world. The secret? Carbon capture+storage (CCS), a tech primarily used for extracting more oil & gas. 1/ sgq.io/TD1wQcr @DeSmog CCS for storing carbon underground at a scale relevant to the climate crisis is like a carbon-sucking unicorn—it doesn’t exist. Yet this is the peg the oil & gas industry hangs its hat on. This is how @exxonmobil @Shell @bp_plc justify growth when humanity needs them to STOP. 2/

1/ A Legacy Lost: The Biden Administration is fumbling its biggest opportunity into its biggest liability. On afternoon cable news, Sec. @ENERGY @JenGranholm said we have to rapidly EXPAND oil and gas production to increase supply as we turn off the taps to Putin. 2/ To imbed new fossil infrastructure in 2022 is totally backasswards. Where is the vision? To aid Europe start by implementing @billmckibben #HeatPumps4Peace. To keep drivers’ heads from popping off here at home, give everyone a few gas coupons alongside a significant EV subsidy

What an agonizingly backwards + disastrous foreign policy proposal from the cool pol I met at the airport in the 90s: @JohnKerry & I bonded over snowarding + the need for urgent #ClimateAction. A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LATER, he’s peddling the “gas as transition” narrative 🧵

https://twitter.com/katearonoff/status/1500864033238495237

This is the same lie pushed by @exxonmobil @Chevron @bp_plc et al. to justify their continued existence during a #ClimateCrisis that demands immediate transition away from ALL fossil fuels. Building a vast and dirty fossil fuel system to power emerging economies is sheer madness.