By Paul Homewood
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May 16, 2025 at 05:09AM
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Weldon
This is a remarkable story coming out of Iceland, and a warning for Net Zero zealots wanting us to go down the same route:
Climeworks in Iceland has only captured just over 2,400 carbon units since it began operations in the country in 2021, out of the twelve thousand units that company officials have repeatedly claimed the company’s machines can capture. This is confirmed by figures from the Finnish company Puro.Earth on the one hand and from the company’s annual accounts on the other. Climeworks has made international news for capturing carbon directly from the atmosphere. For this, the company uses large machines located in Hellisheiði, in South Iceland. They are said to have the capacity to collect four thousand tons of CO2 each year directly from the atmosphere.
According to data available to Heimildin, it is clear that this goal has never been achieved and that Climeworks does not capture enough carbon units to offset its own operations, emissions amounting to 1,700 tons of CO2 in 2023. The emissions that occur due to Climeworks’ activities are therefore more than it captures. Since the company began capturing in Iceland, it has captured a maximum of one thousand tons of CO2 in one year.
Read the full story here.
Let’s be clear – we are not talking about conventional carbon capture, the sort that Miliband wants to waste £22 billion on – capturing carbon dioxide from power stations and factories which emit the stuff.
Climeworks are into Direct Air Capture, DAC, which the CCC say we will need to offset CO2 emissions that we cannot totally eliminate.
DAC is an unproven process at scale, but will almost certainly be unimaginably expensive. In particular, DAC needs phenomenal amounts of energy, which itself produces CO2 emissions one way or another.
You might wonder why or how Climeworks are even doing this. The answer is carbon credits, as the article explains:
A professor of environmental and civil engineering at Stanford University in California says the carbon capture and disposal industry is a scam and is causing harm when it comes to climate solutions. More than 20,000 people pay Climeworks monthly for CO2 capture. A retired scientist in the UK says he feels like a gullible idiot after buying carbon credits from Climeworks, which he hopes to receive in about six years. However, the wait will be much longer unless significant progress is made in capturing carbon quickly. He can therefore expect to receive the two tonnes – which he has already paid for – in a few decades at the earliest.
Climeworks has sold a significant amount of carbon credits. They are not only credits that have already been certified and captured, but also a large amount of credits that Climeworks plans to capture in the future. According to the company, one third of all the credits that the Mammoth capture plant is expected to capture from the atmosphere over the next 25 years have already been sold. About 21 thousand people have a subscription with the company, where they pay monthly for the capture and disposal of carbon credits. The waiting time to receive these carbon credits can be up to six years, according to the company’s terms. If Climeworks’ capture figures do not improve, the wait could extend from years to decades.
In short, the whole thing is a crooked scam. And those who have fallen for it through their wish to virtue signal deserve no sympathy.
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May 16, 2025 at 04:32AM
Save Long Beach Island
www.SaveLBI.org
LONG BEACH ISLAND, N.J. — On May 13, 2025, Save Long Beach Island, Inc., joined by Save the East Coast, Protect Our Coast Long Island-New York, and the Miss Belmar whale watching company, filed a federal lawsuit in the District of New Jersey challenging the prior approvals of the Empire Wind offshore wind project off of Long Branch, NJ and Long Beach, NY.
The lawsuit, filed against the U.S. Department of Commerce, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the Department of the Interior, alleges that the federal government violated multiple environmental laws—including the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—by authorizing the construction and operation of the Empire Wind project without adequately safeguarding marine mammals and properly examining the project’s full environmental impact.
The fulcrum of the complaint is NMFS’s approval of an Incidental Take Authorization (ITA),which permits Empire Wind to disturb or harm thousands of marine mammals, including over 30% of the Northern Migratory Coastal Bottlenose Dolphin population annually, far surpassing the legal limits allowed under the MMPA.
“Authorizing the Take of nearly one-third of a protected dolphin population in a single year, and the majority of that population over the course of the project’s 5-year period, is not just illegal, it’s ecologically reckless,” said Dr. Robert Stern, President of Save LBI. “This lawsuit is about enforcing the scientific and legal limits of takes to ensure marine mammals don’t become collateral damage in the senseless rush to industrialize the ocean,” said Dr. Stern.
The plaintiffs also allege that BOEM’s Environmental Impact Statement for Empire Wind violated NEPA by failing to consider a meaningful range of project alternatives, underestimating the environmental harm of the project, and all the while failing to fully account for the cumulative impacts of other offshore wind projects. “This lawsuit ultimately seeks to unwind a project which egregiously violates the MMPA and could devastate a species of dolphin specifically designated as depleted under the MMPA,” said Thomas Stavola Jr., attorney for Plaintiffs.
“Simply because Empire Wind invested significant monies and acted in reliance on investments and incentives based upon imprudent energy policy, should not enable them to proceed in violation of U.S. laws,” said Dr. Stern.
The lawsuit requests that the Court vacate the project’s ITA, Record of Decision, and Construction and Operations Plan, and require the agencies to reanalyze the project in full compliance with the law.
Dr. Stern also points out that, “this lawsuit is relevant to the one that was recently filed by 17 States claiming no legal basis existed to halt the Empire Wind 1 Project because it provides substantive legal reasons to do so. The lawsuit is also pertinent to the Critical Habitat Petition that Save LBI filed on March 31, 2025 with the Secretaries of Commerce and Interior Departments to create a safe turbine-free corridor along the East Coast for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale to migrate. The Empire Wind 1 project sits right in the recommended corridor, so this lawsuit would keep that corridor viable while the Agency reviews the petition.”
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