As you may remember RTUK set up the StayGrounded Aviation Greenwashing & False Solutions Working Group to produce a series of Factsheets and we've been working with them on these for the last couple of years https://stay-grounded.org/greenwashing/ . These are so far:-
NETs (Negative Emissions Technology)
Refers to technologies or processes that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere to offset or reverse emissions. Instead of making essential emissions reductions, relying solely on such technologies to decarbonise comes with several key issues and challenges:-
GAS-FIRED POWER STATIONS & INFRASTRUCTURE
During our administration of the UK Chapter of Stay-grounded.org it's become starkly apparent that expansion is not just happening at the 8 usual suspect airports generally reported but at many more, currently more than 25.
There are many ways airports are planning to expand and not just by seeking planning consents to increase passenger numbers, Air Traffic Movements (ATM), or a new runway - but by a combination of methods including not exclusively:-
"My home has melted!" mourned Santa from the streets of Horley!
Having been forced to abandon his waterlogged Lapland home due to climate breakdown caused by the burning of Fossil Fuels, Santa and his elves ironically stowed away in the lifeboats of a Liquid Natural Gas tanker to escape his now flooded former snowbound winter wonderland. Sleigh's were not an option as Rudolph and comrades are now merely starved carcass, after the recent 50% catastrophic decline in reindeer/caribou numbers due to the warmer climate in the arctic eradicating their food supply. Last Saturday, upon UK landfall the former seasonal folk made their way to Horley to find the Fossil Fool culprits who were responsible for his loss - UK Oil&Gas (UKOG),the lead company of HorseHillDevelopments Ltd, who are acid-fracking the nearby Horse Hill site. It was tragic to see Santa & his elves flaunting the Vagrancy Act and especially Santa who seemed to have turned to the drink.
