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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation
@drandrewboswell.bsky.social
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Science-Energy-Law expert
UK Scrap Carbon Capture campaign
🎥 https://scrapcc.org/CCS-FILM-BS1
READ: https://scrapcc.org/CCS-BLOG-BS1
ACTION: https://scrapcc.org/CCS-ACTION-BS1
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3. (See film 👆👆)

Read more on costs of CCS

Nov 26th #Budget2025 : #ThinkAgainRachel

scrapcc.org/400BN-CCS-SST

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@goodlawproject.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Seriously super news that Cllr Cate Oliver has defected to @norwichgreenparty.bsky.social & @greenparty.org.uk

Cate is a long standing and respected local former Labour councillor

Spectacular #GreenSurge has started - a long way to go yet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social

join.greenparty.org.uk
October 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Do you get nuance?

Nobody is saying all hydrogen is bad. Co-firing green hydrogen with gas is, for reasons explained, wasteful.

The hydrogen ladder principle is quite helpful for some nuance even if one doesn't endorse all detail. Hydrogen Ladder Version 5.0
www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...
October 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
drandrewboswell.bsky.social
🚨 Burning green hydrogen in gas power plants turns green electrons dirty, wastes heat, adds air pollution

✅ We need real decarbonisation — not hydrogen hype.
#Hydrogen

More on LinkedIn 👉 scrapcc.org/CO-F-LI

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🚨 A vital new report 🚨

Clear evidence of how the UK Govt has been CAPTURED by O&G interests

Time for MPs to challenge this in Parliament
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October 8, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct.

First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments.

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
@dalevince.com
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October 2, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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🚨 Legal win 🚨

UK Govt forced to review its Industrial Strategy

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice
Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
@dalevince.com
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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🚨 Legal win 🚨

UK Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after our legal challenge exposed its failure to assess impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into fossil fuels

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS
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@sioldridge.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Read the Autumn 2025 update from Scrap Carbon Capture scrapcc.org/CCS-ENV-BLOG

We are asking the Government to:
(1) review the science of gas and wood based CCS
(2) remove gas/wood CCS from the upcoming climate plan

(See our short campaign film here: scrapcc.org/FILM)
@sioldridge.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Once again @zackpolanski.bsky.social nails it.

#Starmer looks dismally bad all the way through this process - appointment, delay and standing by #Mandelson, and then expedient sacking
September 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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🧵 4 Backing gas based CCS is a costly mistake - the government should remove it from its forthcoming climate plan

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social
(Pls read up🧵 !)
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@octopus.energy
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🧵 3 The paper doesn't look at whether injection rates are consistent with policy but other work suggests that geology and other factors do not support storage rates claimed by Govt
(eg this industry paper) www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1...)
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
drandrewboswell.bsky.social
🧵 2 UK Govt frequently quotes 78 gigatonnes of CO2 storage in UK - for example in the recent industrial Strategy - &plans to grow a CO2 import industry (eg from EU)

This policy needs review when study finds only 8.7 Gt usable storage (ie around one tenth of Govt claims policy)
September 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
drandrewboswell.bsky.social
#Palestine campaigners for Gaza people and against famine & genocide in #Cromer.

In solidarity with those around the world and in London marching and taking action

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@defendourjuries.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Private Eye report on #Drax being investigated by FCA

@ed-miliband.bsky.social must pause the Govt giving further subsidies to Drax, or build data centres with Drax, until FCA reports

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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@biofuelwatch.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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On holiday in Eire, and was pleased to join local PSC group in Waterford for vigil for Palestine 🇵🇸🇮🇪

Lots of support (in central reservation of Quau dual carriageway) - around 50% of vehicles honk in support.

Now all Govt's must support today's UN call for Israel to STOP

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August 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Thank you @scientistsforxr.earth

This of course covers insurance for Carbon Capture and Storage plant - difficult to insure anyway as it is such an unproiven technology with high risk eg: CO2 leakage

Getting out of fossil fuels, means getting out of #CCS too

Write to your MP now scrapcc.org/NOW
July 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
drandrewboswell.bsky.social
Thank you @scientistsforxr.earth

This of course covers insurance for Carbon Capture and Storage plant - difficult to insure anyway as it is such an unproiven technology with high risk eg: CO2 leakage

Getting out of fossil fuels, means getting out of #CCS too

Write to your MP now scrapcc.org/NOW
July 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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2/2 1/2 @thecccuk.bsky.social

This is the key infographic. Nigel Topping, that CCC need to grasp - on the upstream supply emissions from new gas based CCS plants - Carbon budgets and CCS equipment only see one third of them

From @sioldridge.bsky.social and explained further here scrapcc.org/BLOG
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
drandrewboswell.bsky.social
Welcome/Good luck Nigel Topping as CCC chair

👍yr caution on not using #CCS "as a fantasy to close the model"

🤔 @mpwatch.bsky.social urge the model must include ex-UK territorial emissions too - not just closing the loop on UK carbon budgets, pls see scrapcc.org/BLOG

1/2 @thecccuk.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Do check out the excellent report from @ieefainstitute.bsky.social on the HUGE cost of UK #CCS plans ieefa.org/resources/ru... following lobbying capture of UK Govt

AND take 2 minutes to write to your MP here scrapcc.org/ACTION - asking for gas&biomass CCS to be removed from UK Climate plan
July 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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To protect future generations, the scrapcc.org/NOW campaign asks Ed Miliband to review the science on carbon capture and to remove it from the climate plan when it makes climate change worse

This is a simple, rationale request to Ed. Please write to your MP now at scrapcc.org/NOW in support of it
July 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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🚨Extremely bad news🚨

Methane-tracking satellite - MethaneSAT - "lost" just a year into its mission to provide a clearer picture of planet heating emissions from O&G sites

Including #LNG supply chain emissions important in understanding why gas based #CCS is bad news

archive.ph/2025.07.02-1...
July 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM