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We challenge the EU fossil gas & hydrogen policies based on racialised capital + colonial exploitation Email: collective@wesmellgas.org https://t.co/d2EuPttB21
Nov 2, 2022 6 tweets 6 min read
+++ Politicians chatting about a “just transition” in Europe +++

Dark Reality: fossil gas expansion in Africa
VS.
Just Solution: climate finance + local renewable energy systems

#DontGasAfrica!

Read more here: dont-gas-africa.org/open-letter-eu… ImageImage @EU_Commission + 🇪🇺-countries need to stop their neocolonial grab for gas in Africa.

Instead, EU leaders must support a #JustTransition on the continent & accelerate a renewable based energy system globally @marietouss1#DontGasAfrica

Read more here: euronews.com/green/2022/11/… Image
Oct 27, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
Branded every colour of the rainbow, hydrogen has become a PR minefield! Let’s break it down… #StopGreenwashingDirtyHydrogen

🧵⬇️ Image Hydrogen is produced using electricity: if electricity source + transportation fuel are renewable, then hydrogen is genuinely green & clean. Despite bold claims from the EU for ‘clean hydrogen’ futures, only ‘green’ hydrogen (currently less than 1%) is genuinely emission free!
Oct 27, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
OVERHEARD at #EuropeanHydrogenWeek:👂👂👂

"We need to stop thinking of North Africa as far away- they’re our neighbour”.

@EU_Commission, people’s homes are not your profit machines. STOP the neocolonial resource grab. See thread 👇 Why should Morocco, Algeria and Egypt use their own energy to make hydrogen for European markets? Europe has vast, untapped potential meet renewable targets locally & sustainably. We have historic responsibility to former colonised nations to do so.

caneurope.org/ngos-demand-fu…