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Direct Air Capture: False Climate Solution?
March 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST
Join us for a virtual town hall and learn about Direct Air Capture.
This virtual event will begin with an overview of the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (A8597/S8171), now pending in the NYS Assembly and Senate. Presentations by our speakers, June Sekera (policy scholar), Visiting Scholar at the New School University, New York, and a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center; and Jim Walsh Policy Director for Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action, will be followed by a Q&A. We’ll then end with a Call to Action!
Activists charge that the Carbon Dioxide Removal Leadership Act (A8597/S8171), now pending in the NYS Assembly and Senate, would generously subsidize the Direct Air Capture technology that they characterize as a false “greenwashing” solution. Comments from environmental experts opposing this bill:
“Let’s be clear that any government support for carbon capture or direct air capture is a FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY.“
-Stanford University professor Mark Jacobson, PhD
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DIRECT AIR CAPTURE (DAC) is a costly mechanical-chemical method of carbon capture and storage that critics charge is unproven, dangerous and energy-intensive. They say DAC would likely require a massive build-out of pipelines to transport CO2 and that it is an unwise public investment that diverts resources and attention from real solutions.
Speakers
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June Sekera is a Visiting Scholar at the New School University, New York, and a Senior Research Fellow at Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. Her review article, “Assessing Carbon Capture: Public Policy, Science and Societal Need” was published in Biophysical Economics and Sustainability (October 2020).
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Food and Water Watch Policy Director, Jim Walsh oversees campaigns to ban fracking, end water privatization, and push back on fossil fuel industry-backed false solutions to the climate crisis. Jim works with Food & Water Watch’s policy experts and national allies to develop and implement campaigns to mobilize the public and educate decision makers on strategies that support the development of a better food system, a safe and livable climate and support safe and clean public water for all.
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The moderator for the event is Barbara Heinzen, PhD, Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena Coeymans
Co-Sponsors
Thank you to our co-sponsors: Clean Air Coalition of Greater Ravena Coeymans, Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls, Beyond Plastics, People of Albany United for Safe Energy, Food & Water Watch, Green Education and Legal Fund, and NATURE Lab and People’s Health Sanctuary with The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
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