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🚨New report: The scramble for hydrogen in South Africa🚨 👉Read it and spread it: corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleFor… 🇪🇺The EU's push for #greenhydrogen will have a devastating impact on communities in South Africa 🤐 Meanwhile their voices are being ignored by EU policy makers 🧵

In May 2024 CEO visited the Northern Cape province of South Africa 🇿🇦, where ​​Petrochemical giant @Sasol is planning a sprawling #greenhydrogen export project with the Port of Rotterdam Authority around Boegoebaai. 🧵on what communities had to say 👇read more here: corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleFor…

Aviation's thirst for "sustainable" aviation fuel is helping drive this scramble for Africa. End neocolonialism. End the SAF-hype.

In May 2024 we visited the Vaal Triangle 🇿🇦 one of the world’s most polluted places. Steel maker ArcelorMittal_SouthA & petrochem giant @Sasol are now trying to greenwash their dirty businesses with #hydrogen. 🧵Hear from the community 👇read more: corporateeurope.org/en/ScrambleFor…

When the EU talks about a "Just Transition", what it really means is "the transition is just for us" - not for countries like South Africa, who supply the raw materials. Check out the teaser for our new film on exactly that! #ComingSoon #Scramble4Hydrogen youtube.com/watch?v=AATCdo…

👀Have you seen the great feature article in EUobserver about how Europe's hydrogen hype may turn into South Africa's nightmare 😱? Written by No longer active and well worth a read. As it’s behind a paywall, we’re sharing a few choice snippets euobserver.com/green-economy/…

Despite the EU & Member States enthusiastically promoting South Africa's #greenhydrogen potential, there are many economic, environmental, and social risks involved: 💶“It is unclear if there will ever be a viable economic case for it” 😶“local communities are rarely consulted"

""They come with these plans, but they bring their own people to do the job without giving us the training we need. I don't oppose development. I don't. But I want development to benefit the community," said Joseph. "Green hydrogen is for the big developers; it's not for us.""

Thinking South Africa will build swathes of RES to export H2 to the EU "Is "a little bit ridiculous" in a country where "25 percent of the time there is no electricity," said Rainer Baake, Germany's special envoy for the Just Energy Transition partnership with Southern Africa."

"Sasol and its project partners Linde plc (chemicals) and ENERTRAG (renewable energy) have lobbied the commission for permission to label its coal-based fuels as renewable because they contain a fraction of 'clean' hydrogen." - No longer active

"Underlying all this is a profound financial risk not mentioned in the optimistic "win-win" projections pushed by developers, the commission and member states. If the European export markets falter, the loans could "quickly turn into a debt trap," said [CEO’s] Balanyá."

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

Once the ceasefire goes into effect on Sunday, millions in Gaza will try to return to their homes. This is what they’ll find: 50.8 million metric tons of rubble littered with unexploded ordnance, toxic waste and asbestos. Evil on a dystopian scale.

84% of British public wants #Netanyahu arrested. A Jewish bloc has been present on all marches. 1000+ Jews signed a letter demanding right to protest at the BBC. Yet Met bans march & Commissioner Rowley sucks up to Board of Deputies. Sadiq Khan Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan should sack him.

Ripping up regulations. What could possibly go wrong?

The EU is about to ensure that European heavy industry get access to South Africa's critical raw materials and hydrogen... and what does South Africa get in return? Debt and continued extractivist colonialism groundWork Hamza Hamouchene Transnational Institute SABER AMMAR

Germany moves to deport Irish residents for protesting against Israel. "The four people slated for deportation, Cooper Longbottom, Kasia Wlaszczyk, Shane O’Brien, and Roberta Murray, are citizens of, respectively, the United States, Poland, and Ireland." 972mag.com/germany-deport…

I naïvely keep thinking I can no longer be shocked by news about Gaza, how can it be worse? Yet still find myself speechless on a regular basis. This time from a survey: 82% of Israeli Jews support expelling Gazans 47% support the army killing them middleeasteye.net/news/majority-…

The streets of Barcelona woke up this morning to an unusual advertising campaign that wasn’t promoting any product. The campaign was launched by Agència pel Clima (Climate Agency) in collaboration with Ecologistes en Acció de Catalunya, ABDT #StopCreuers #SETnet #DecreixementTurístic, Zeroport, Rebel·lió o Extinció BCN - XR Barcelona and Assemblea Catalana per la Transició Ecosocial. 🧵