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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)

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

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

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)

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

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