Net Zero targets aimed at encouraging airlines to use so-called green aviation fuel are driving fraud “at a mass scale” and deforestation, campaigners have said. The Telegraph has the story.
Exporters in China and Malaysia are using virgin palm oil instead of recycled cooking fat to make sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), research from lobby group Transport & Environment (T&E) suggests.
This means that rather than reducing CO2 emissions, the drive to adopt SAF may instead be driving deforestation.
SAF accounts for just 0.2% of total jet fuel use, although the British Government has ordered U.K. airlines to lift that proportion to 10% by the end of the decade.
Cooking oil forms the basis for 80% of the world’s SAF, making old chip fat a valuable commodity.
However, unscrupulous suppliers are seeking to turn a profit by cutting out the kitchen altogether and shipping virgin palm oil to unwary refiners and airlines.
Malaysia is the worst offender, according to T&E, as campaigners cast doubt over the country’s claims that it exports three times more used cooking oil than it collects.
Last year Britain secured almost 30% of its SAF from oil shipped from Malaysia.
Cian Delaney, the group’s biofuels campaigner, said: “With Malaysia being one of the world’s largest palm oil producers, it would heavily indicate that used cooking oil is simply a backdoor for palm. Fraud is almost certainly happening at a mass scale.”
China also appears to be engaged in cooking oil fraud, T&E said.
While figures on the collection and export of oil appear to match, China has a large market for “gutter oil” that is illegally resold for cooking.
Taking that into account, there are “strong suspicions” that some exports include virgin vegetable oil mislabelled as waste oil.
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Save the planet by chopping all the trees down! You couldn’t make it up. Oh, and murder all the birds too, and kill the humans by freezing them to death or starving them because the fertile fields are covered in broken solar panels.
Environmentalism is the most environmentally destructive force much the same as BLM is the most destructive force for black lives.
And a lot of modern medicine is detrimental to health.
The supposed solutions to the phony climate change that mostly exists only in un-validated models is actually worse for us all as well as for the planet than the alleged climate crisis itself.
The EU imports millions of tons of palm oil and the bulk of which is used as bio fuel to meet EU net zero targets. The palm oil industry has cleared millions of hectares of Rain Forest to grow the palm oil.
Also Indonesia is doing this – the production of palm oil is destroying the native forests where the orang-utans live thus destroying their habitat.
Also a palm-oil tree has a life of about 25 years and must be re-planted to cintue profitability. The old trees are set fire to to clear them resulting in widespread air pollution reaching as far north as Thailand.
Not only that there are large peat deposits under this planations so when they are burnt the peat continues to burn for many, many months. How is this CO2 friendly?
The faux environmentalists only care about damage allegedly done by all the energy solutions and fuels they disapprove of. If you tell them that the Red Kite has been virtually wiped out in Germany by all of the thousands of wind turbines (about 40,000 and increasing) then they are indifferent to that, because everything “green” to them is all sweetness and light. They don’t want to hear about environmental destruction caused by lithium and cobalt mining. They scream blue murder about the Amazon forests but don’t bat an eyelid about any other forest because they put on their planet saving blinkers. The hypocrisy of the Climate Change fundamentalist is quite remarkable.
What? The holier than thou, eco green lobby committing fraud and lying?
Surely not.
I had to share this, just because I thought it was funny. I’m sure I could find a tenuous link to the environment if I thought hard enough. 🙂 It reminds me of if you make a circle of salt and stand in it the evil spirits ( and I don’t just mean cheap ‘moonshine’ vodka ) can’t enter and get you. I do think this is the Poles being a bit too optimistic though. Somebody in the comments saying how will they know it’s specifically pig shit? LOL I feel another analogy involving face nappies and an alleged novel deadly sniffle coming on….
”Polish farmers dump pig manure along their land to deter Muslim migrants entering from Belarus.
“We hope that if we spread pig manure, illegal migrants will not pass through because their faith will not allow them to.”
https://x.com/RMXnews/status/1803043353463869454
To certain religions faith is only there for when they need it. To get your own way you roll out your faith but then stick your faith back in the box till the next time it is required. The Pig Shit wouldn’t stop them because the faith would be tucked safely in its box.
Rod Stewart booed as he displayed support for Ukraine during a gig in Germany.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/rod-stewart-responds-after-booing-heard-during-display-of-support-for-ukraine/ar-BB1om8Dw?ocid=BingNewsSerp
The old cat stomper would be better sticking to screeching a medley of his hit to a sea of leopard print covered women.
What is it with crinkly old slebs?
Delia managed to all but F. a lifetimes work with her last cookery book – Delia’s How to Cheat at Cooking. And as the
poisons“vaccines” were rolled out we had slebs crawling out of the woodwork telling us to “grow up and do the right thing” including Rod, Elton, Springsteen, the one hit wonders Kaiser Chiefs and many more complete wankers who should have kept their gobs shut and their brains in their pockets. But not Rod. Just like Billy he is obviously a highly qualified medical specialist and international statesman. Who knew?Rod, start Sailing and don’t come back.
A special mention must also go to Dave Grohl of an extremely overrated band, The Foo Fighters. Dave had the wizard idea of mandating the “vaccines” for anybody wishing to attend one of their concerts. And in a bid to ensure that everyone was safe also mandated the “vaccines” for band and crew. Sadly this killed the drummer Taylor Hawkins, aged 50. Nice one Dave.
So slebs, don’t think that because you have earned a few bob from joe public that you have also earned the right to lecture.
S T F U.
(What a mixture – cookery, rock music and international politics all coming together in one post😀)
Also Rage Against The Machine…..Who were just raging for the establishment.
Ricky Gervais did a good piss take on celebs, saying how they are experts in everything and you should all listen to what they say.
AFD….If you can’t beat them, ban them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLmiw4j9CP0
Almost everything you hear about the “climate crisis” is FALSE. Storms are not increasing, floods are not increasing, droughts are not increasing, wild fires are not increasing, the rate of sea level rise which has been rising for 12,000 years in this warmer Interglacial is not increasing. But the vast majority of people believe all that is happening. Can anybody think of any issue or topic where people believe the very opposite of what is true?
Today I see Labour now announce that they will make the UK “a clean energy superpower” and save people 300 quid a year. But ofcourse clean energy means mostly much more wind and sun. However, we know that the countries with the most wind turbines are the ones with the highest prices——Germany, Denmark and here in the UK. So how is using more wind going to reduce prices? —-It ISN’T. It is going to increase them. So just as with all the false claims about changes to climate that are not occurring, we see the same blatant and outrageous lies with the supposed solutions to the phony crisis.———So what we have then is a government manufactured crisis and the same governments have the solutions to what they manufactured. Yet still the people mostly believe it. ————-How is it that the people never get the chance to see on mainstream news information that is regularly on the Daily Sceptic by the likes of Chris Morrison, Will Jones etc about all of the stuff that challenges the phony crisis and it’s absurd solutions?
Net zero anything, an impossible dream, thought up by the cabal, driven by their media and politicians. Why? Utter control of the masses.