A pilot plant in Germany. Carbon-capture and storage is a techno-fix promoted by big polluters that allows them to continue to pollute (Photo: Vattenfall)

The fossil-fuel agenda behind EU's carbon-capture plans

Green Economy

Opinion

by Belén Balanyá, The Hague,

Despite droughts, floods, heatwaves and crop failure, the oil and gas industry is using sleight of hand to keep fossil fuels flowing.

A key example is the way the industry has influenced the European Commission's plans to certify "carbon removals", a proposal due to be presented on 30 November.

Fossil-fuel giants' backing of the commission's plans for CO2 removals is based on the idea that we can keep extracting and burning foss...

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Author Bio

Belén Balanyá is a researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory, a NGO which monitors corporate lobbying in Brussels.

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A pilot plant in Germany. Carbon-capture and storage is a techno-fix promoted by big polluters that allows them to continue to pollute (Photo: Vattenfall)