#BlueHydrogen is fossil-based, with CO2 captured w/ #CCS
Research shows that #blueH2 total ghg footprint can be 20% or even 50% worse 4 the planet than burning gas directly.
Fossil fuel lobbyists have for years lobbied to label #blueH2 as low carbon or clean.
Emissions accounting tricks by #Basf #ArcelorMittal #Yara #E.ON & other Oil&Gas + #EnergyIntensive polluters
by simply removing from emission calculations what makes it so damaging for the climate (methane leakage)
#UnionMan #Unions #Unionize #Work #WorkPlace #NSFIAA #IWA #IAT #IAA #CNT #ZSP #BASF #OLS #CNTAIT#ASIMUR #COBAIT #Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism #DirectAction #WorkersControl #SolidarityForever #GeneralStrike #OneUnion #WorkersSolidarity #AnarchoUnionism #RevolutionaryUnionism #LibertarianSocialism #IndustrialUnionism #WorkplaceOrganizing #WorkersRevolution #ClassStruggle #AntiCapitalism #SelfOrganization #WorkersCouncils #FreeAssociation #MutualAid #WorkersAutonomy #NoMasters145 #FAU #USI #SAC #ESE #FORA #AIT #CGT #IWW36 #Antifa #Revolution #ACAB
Schon lange frage ich mich, woher die braunschwarze Gesinnung des Mannes kommt, der sich schon als unser Bundeskanzler fühlt.
In dieser #Correctiv-Recherche hatte ich gelesen, dass #Merz nicht nur #BlackRock-Lobbyist ist, sondern auch oft #BASF als Anwalt vertreten hat: https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/wirtschaft/2025/01/28/bester-mann-der-grosskonzerne-das-lobby-netzwerk-von-friedrich-merz/
Heute wurde ich daran erinnert, dass #Auschwitz III ein Arbeitslager der IG Farben war, zu der auch BASF gehörte. Und schon passt alles zusammen. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZ_Auschwitz_III_Monowitz
Überraschende Diagnose: „So bezeichnet #BASF-Chef Kamieth gestiegene Personalkosten & Minderauslastung von Anlagen als größte Probleme für den Chemiekonzern in Deutschland & nicht zuerst die teure #Energie.“
#TanjaKewes & #BertFroendhoff im
@Handelsblatt.
Geothermie-Großprojekt mit BASF startet Ende Februar in Ludwigshafen: Das sollten Sie wissen
#Merz wurde als Anwalt + #Lobbyist in Aufsichtsräten + mit Aufträgen von Großkonzerne der Chemie- + Autoindustrie zum Millionär.
Während seiner Zeit bei #MayerBrown verteidigte diese Kanzlei #VW gegen Kund*innen im #Dieselskandal 
und erzielte einen 11 Mrd. € schweren Vergleich für #BASF u.a. Chemiekonzerne, die das Trinkwasser amerikan. Versorger mit #PFAS vergiftet hatten.
Z.Zt. versucht #MayerBrown ein #PFAS
-Verbot in der EU zu verhindern.
#MerzDarfNieKanzlerWerden
#Abschiebehaft:
#Merz #Lager #Pläne im #Klartext
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Plakatives gegen #Populisten
Alle #Bilder / #Memes in meinem #Profil sind dazu gedacht, sich mit ihren #Farben & Stil in populistische #Bubbles zu schmuggeln.
Wer kann / mag / wagt ihnen Starthilfe zu #facebook, #X (#twitter), #Instagram usw. geben?
We will, we will #faktyou !
#noAfD #gegenRechts #WirSindMehr #NieWiederIstJetzt
#afd_verbot_jetzt #afd_verbot #noCDU #noBSW #cdu #BASF #afd #WirHabenEsNichtGewusst
Der Mann der #Großkonzerne: Das Lobby-Netzwerk von Friedrich #Merz
Der Chemieriese #BASF bestätigt erstmals frühere Mandate des #CDU-Kanzlerkandidaten. #CORRECTIV-Recherchen zeigen, welche Unternehmen nach der Wahl von der Nähe zu Friedrich Merz profitieren könnten. Schon jetzt stimmt das CDU-Wahlprogramm teils wortgenau mit Forderungen der Chemie- und Metallindustrie überein.
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/wirtschaft/2025/01/28/bester-mann-der-grosskonzerne-das-lobby-netzwerk-von-friedrich-merz/ Danke an @correctiv_org.
Stoff zum Nach-Denken und Nach-Lesen: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000250523/meine-herkunft-kann-ich-nicht-r252ckverteilen
#Reich #superreich #Einfluss #Lobby #musk #Politik #Reichensteuer #Engelhorn #BASF #Erbschaftssteuer #Reform #Gemeinwohl vor #Eigenwohl #Sozialstaat @SPDde@mastodon.social @spdinternational@spd.social @spdbawue@mastodon.social
Verband schlägt Alarm: Schlechtes Jahr für die Chemieindustrie
Die deutsche Chemieindustrie hat in diesem Jahr Umsatz eingebüßt. Sie klagt über gestiegene Energiekosten - und dass sich der Staat zu viel einmische. Ist der Industriestandort Deutschland angezählt? Von Ingo Nathusius.
En Seine-Maritime, le chimiste BASF rejette un «polluant éternel» à un niveau record en France
Des quantités phénoménales de TFA, un «polluant éternel» très mobile, de la famille des #PFAS, ont été mesurées dans les effluents d’une usine de #BASF, à Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf, au sud de Rouen. Des «traces» de cette substance ont été retrouvées dans le captage d’eau potable à proximité.
550 #ClimateEmergency #Amazon #Indigenous
"Can Lula still save the Amazon?"
by Joaquim Salles for Grist [Nov 21, 2024] [Audio available]
https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/can-lula-still-save-the-amazon-brazil/
Quotes:
"The power imbalance in Brazil's government keeps environmental protections and Indigenous rights under threat."
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"Between January and November of 2023, the [Lula] government issued 40 percent more infractions against illegal deforestation in the Amazon when compared to the same period in 2022, when Bolsonaro was still in office."
"Lula also reestablished the Amazon Fund, an international pool of money used to support conservation efforts in the rainforest. Just this week, at the G20 Summit, outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden pledged $50 million to the fund."
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"And yet, despite the government’s actions, environmental protections and Indigenous rights are still under threat. Lula is governing alongside the most pro-agribusiness congress in Brazilian history, which renders his ability to protect Brazil’s forests and Indigenous peoples in the long term severely constrained."
"Brazil’s equivalent to the House of Representatives, is made up of politicians from 19 different parties../\..Weak party cohesion makes it easier for interest groups to step into the vacuum and act as this coordination device."
"Agribusiness has long been one of the most powerful interest groups in Brazilian politics, but its influence has grown steadily over the past decade as the electorate shifted to the right and the sector developed more sophisticated strategies to affect politics."
"Today, the agrarian caucus is larger than any single party in the Brazilian legislature. "This gives them immense leverage towards any president.”
"Much of the coordination around the legislative agenda takes place away from congress (in) a think tank founded in 2011 and financed largely by major agribusiness corporations, including some in the U.S. and the European Union."
Among IPA’s main backers are
* Brazilian beef giant #JBS,
* German pesticide producer #BASF, and the
* U.S.-based corporation #Cargill
"The agrarian caucus has tallied several../\.. new legislation (on) use of pesticides, which Human Rights Watch called a “serious threat to the environment and the right to health,” removes barriers for previously banned substances and reduces the regulatory oversight of the health and environment agencies../\..Lula attempted to veto parts of the bill, but was overruled by congress."
"Another recent victory for the agrarian caucus came as a major blow to #IndigenousRights. Agribusiness has (for) called marco temporal (“time frame,” in English), which posits that Indigenous groups can only claim their traditional lands if they were occupying it in 1988, the year the current Brazilian constitution was drafted.
It disregards the fact that many Indigenous groups were expelled from their native lands long before that date."
"The theory had been making its way through the Brazilian justice system for 16 years, until it was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court last year. Blatantly flouting the court’s ruling, congress passed a bill codifying marco temporal into law. Lula tried to veto the bill, but he was overruled by the agrarian caucus again."
"The government has limited tools at its disposal to block anti-environmental legislation. In the past, the executive branch had greater control over discretionary spending and was able to use this to its advantage while negotiating with congress."
"Among projects which have a high likelihood of passing, like the #BrazilsForestCode, the key piece of legislation governing the use and management of forests. “It would make control much more difficult because illegal forms of deforestation would become legal,” said Araújo."
"The move could open almost 18 million hectares of forest to agricultural development. That is an area roughly the size of New York state, New Jersey, and Massachusetts combined."
"Another bill in the package removes protections for native grasslands, including large parts of the Cerrado and the Pantanal (the world’s largest tropical wetland). In theory this would affect 48 millions hectares of native vegetation"
"Yet another bill, which has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies, overhauls the process of environmental licensing, essentially reducing it to a rubber stamp. "You might as well not have licensing legislation” said Araújo."
"Part of the reason many of these bills have a chance of passing is the Lula government’s limited leverage../\..During these negotiations, some environmentalists believe concerns over Brazil’s forests fall by the wayside."
"Araújo: “There are political agreements and negotiations that must be made. The bargaining chip cannot be environmental legislation.”
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown
@lesandrop
#InfluenceMap hat die Einflussnahme von Firmen und Industrieverbände auf #Klimapolitik international verglichen.
Am stärksten stemmen sich Akteure aus der #USA gegen #Klimaschutz, aber der drittschädlichste Konzern ist deutsch: #BASF 
#Lufthansa und #BMW liegen im Negativ-Ranking auf den Plätzen 15 und 16.
Auf Rang 4 der #Klimaschmutzlobby steht der europäische Verband mit dem generischen Namen #BusinessEurope. Bekannter sind Plätze 9 und 10: #VDA und #BDI.
NB: #AberChina #WhatAboutChina? Konzerne und #Lobbyisten aus #China tauchen in beiden Listen nicht auf.
https://influencemap.org/briefing/Corporate-Climate-Policy-Footprint-20137
Via #LetzteGeneration @AufstandLastGen
#Lobbyismus #Korruption
I have just been reading how #Germany chemical giant #BASF has been moving its fertiliser production to #China and USA, while #Poland “Azoty” Group is struggling financially with fertilisers imports from… #Russia, who keeps them dirt cheap thanks to state subsidies.
I think this perfectly illustrates a specific form of economic suicide practised by the EU for many years. The embargo on Russian fertilisers in the EU is now being blocked by… #Hungary. Poland is instead lobbying for customs import tariffs and in theory Germany should be its ally here, except BASF has already moved its production out of EU.
The same is now going through with European battery or heat pump manufacturers, while European PV production has long since moved out.
European policy on economy vs environment is bipolar and one gets the impression that the two lobbies are operating in an entire factual isolation from each other.
The ‘environmental fortress’ has dug in to its positions and continues to push ‘ambitious’ emission reduction policies by any means - including those that globally don’t work. Just because emissions in accounting terms ‘disappear’ from the EU does not mean that they have been eliminated globally if they reappear in China - the atmosphere is perfectly indifferent to where specifically CO2 is emitted.
And the transfer of carbon-intensive production (e.g. PV) from the EU to China leads to a net drastic increase in global emissions due to low environmental standards in China, coal power plus long distance transport.
The ‘economic fortress’ reacts to this in the only way available, i.e. by increasing imports - and this literally kills production inside the EU, i.e. exacerbates the aforementioned phenomenon.
The thing is that the imports are a form of compromise with the ‘environmental fortress’, which agrees to them because ‘what you can’t see, you don’t feel sorry for’. Every closed factory or mine in the EU is a ‘victory’ for them (never mind that it reappers in China, that’s ‘elsewhere’), and on top of that, production from China is cheap, which fits the ‘environmental’ narrative of ‘cheap renewables’.
And yes, they are cheap because they are produced in a totalitarian country with no respect for labour rights, environmental protection and with high-carbon energy. Added to this is the long-term cost of monopoly, as China already controls 80% of the global PV supply chain - not just manufacturing! Anyone opening a new PV factory still depends on Chinese raw materials.
And yes, this also applies to the USA, which - as one Polish activist recently argued to me - ‘became independent within a few years without a problem’, supposedly proving that the Chinese monopoly is not a problem.
And here we have another example of the bipolarity of the ‘environmental stronghold’, because everything the US has been doing in recent years in order to increase competitiveness - pragmatism in terms of reducing emissions and import tariffs - is perfectly opposite to what the EU is doing.
[Médiapart] - Des #pesticides interdits en #France sont toujours exportés à l’étranger.
Une enquête de l’émission « #VertDeRage » et de l’ONG suisse #PublicEye révèle que des substances toxiques interdites en France continuent de sortir des usines normandes des géants phytosanitaires #BASF et #Syngenta.
#Explosion auf #BASF-#Werksgelände - Feuer gelöscht
"Beim #Chemiekonzern BASF ist es nach einer Explosion auf dem Werksgelände in Ludwigshafen zu einem Brand gekommen."
14 Leichtverletzte nach Explosion und Brand bei BASF
Brand auf BASF-Werksgelände in Luwigshafen gelöscht
Auf dem Werksgelände der BASF in Ludwigshafen ist es am Vormittag zu einer Explosion gekommen. Dadurch sei ein Feuer ausgebrochen, meldet die BASF. Betroffen ist demnach ein Betrieb im Werksteil Süd.
