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Climate activists warn of opacity, insufficient climate checks

Activists warn Europe's Russian-gas exit strategy may be derailed if fossil hydrogen is expanded and labelled a green energy source in the revised Renewable Energy Directive currently underway.

The lawmaker in charge of drafting the European Parliament’s position on the EU’s recast renewable energy directive is pushing to include a 10% target for “low-carbon hydrogen” as part of efforts to kick-start the EU market.

A new report accuses the oil-and-gas industry of greenwashing the impact of carbon capture and storage technology, pointing to an oil-processing complex in Alberta that emits more carbon than it buries in the ground.

A new investigation by Global Witness has examined Shell’s landmark Quest CCS project in Canada, which captures the CO2 from the company's dirty tar sands operations. According to Global Witness, the Quest plant “is in fact emitting more than it is capturing.”