A major ship collision in UK waters sparks fears of a toxic chemical leak.
Scientists fear a major collision between a cargo ship carrying sodium cyanide and a tanker transporting jet fuel in the UK’s North Sea could cause a huge leak of toxic chemicals into delicate marine habitats, with potentially devastating consequences for local wildlife.
In a statement, the Florida based company said: “A fire occurred as a result of the allision, & #fuel was reported released. The #StenaImmaculate crew abandoned the vessel following multiple explosions onboard. All Crowley mariners are safe & fully accounted for.”
The #JetFuel was owned by the #US govt. That’s consistent w/the vessel being part of a US govt program designed to supply the armed forces w/fuel during times of armed conflict or national emergency.
While #PresidentErdogan likes to say #Turkey has severed economic ties with Israel, #Turkish #OilPipelines bely the claim. Major #TransNational oil companies like #Chevron, #Shell, and #BP — are "among the top corporate suppliers of oil to Israel. It operates and is the largest owner of the #BTC pipeline, which transports #AzeriOil that is ultimately sent to #Israel" A recent investigation showed how oil transported via the #BTC pipeline is refined into #JetFuel for the #IDF
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-gaza-genocide
"The U.S. EPA will withdraw its approval for Chevron to produce 18 #plastic-based fuels.
One of the chemicals intended to serve as #JetFuel was expected to cause #cancer in 1 in 4 people exposed over their lifetime.
The risk from another of the plastic-based chemicals, an additive to marine fuel, was more than 1 million times higher than usually considered acceptable — so high that everyone exposed continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer."
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-chevron-cancer-causing-fuels
#JetFueFax could raise £6bn a year in the #UK, says thinktank
"The report said it was a “common myth” that aviation fuel could not be taxed, with the UK having the right to tax domestic flights and, post-Brexit, flights to the EU. These account for 80% of departures. Securing the full revenues would require an “anti-tankering” law to ensure airlines bought 90% of the fuel for outbounds flight in the UK."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/16/jet-fuel-tax-could-raise-6bn-a-year-in-the-uk-says-thinktank
#JetFuel #aviation
Insane.
Verrückt.
Cinglé.
Te gek voor woorden.
This is like, We don't know how to cook so let's just go hungry.
"After countries could not agree on earlier proposals that would introduce a minimum #EU tax rate for #JetFuel from 2028, they are now considering exempting both aviation and maritime fuels from these taxes for a further 20 years, a draft compromise seen by Reuters showed."
h/t @JDoeschner
[EDIT: see next post for update]
"#AirNewZealand has abandoned a 2030 goal to cut its carbon #emissions, blaming difficulties securing more efficient planes and sustainable #JetFuel.
Sustainable Aviation Fuels (#SAF) are a key part of the sector's strategy to cut emissions but airlines have struggled to purchase enough of it.
"[SAF] is more expensive than traditional fuels, and there is not enough capacity to produce that at scale," said Ellis Taylor from aviation analytics firm Cirium."
"There is currently “no realistic or scalable alternative” to standard kerosene-based #JetFuel, and touted “sustainable aviation fuels” are well off track to replace them in a timeframe needed to avert dangerous climate change, despite public subsidies."
“It’s a huge #greenwashing exercise by the #aviation industry. It’s magical thinking that they will be able to do this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/14/sustainable-jet-fuel-report
A US push to use #ethanol as aviation fuel raises major climate concerns
"The IRA offers a tax credit of $1.25 per gallon for SAFs that are 50% lower in #Emissions than standard #JetFuel, [but] A 2022 EPA analysis surveyed the findings from a variety of models that estimate the life-cycle emissions of #corn-based ethanol and found that in seven out of 20 cases, they exceeded 80% of the climate pollution from gasoline and diesel."
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/01/1091988/a-us-push-to-use-ethanol-as-aviation-fuel-raises-major-climate-concerns/
#SAF
A plane #fueled by #fat and #sugar has crossed the #Atlantic Ocean, the first time ever a commercial plane flew it without using #fossilfuels
#VirginAtlantic said the test flight Tuesday from #LondontoNYC was powered by #sustainable aviation fuel, or #SAF, a type of #jetfuel that creates fewer #carbonemissions /made from #wastefats and #plantsugars and emits #70% less carbon.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/ 2023/11/28/virgin-atlantic-sustainable-flight-lands-saf/ 
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There needs to be a tax on all flyers not just #FrequentfFlyers.
This article proposes:
"The levy increases with each #flight taken in a year, from $9 for the second flight to $177 for the 20th."
https://time.com/6274716/climate-tax-frequent-fliers/
Real frequent flyers would just scoff at that.
Remember, the tax on #JetFuel is now ZERO.
Putting a #carbon price on that of $200 per tonne would increase the price of every flight from New York to Paris by $200. That's impact.
The world must not let another #Myanmar war crime go unanswered: The latest bombing should be a clarion call for… #sanctions on the sale of #JetFuel to the junta. “The use of jet fighters & helicopter gunships has only increased as the military is bogged down in a multi-front war…” | Zachary Abuza, RFA
https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/myanmar-atrocity-commentary-04122023130016.html #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar #WarCrimes
@elonjet
Wow, Elon Musk burnt 178,686 gallons (709,578 liters) of jet fuel in 2022, producing 1,895 tons of CO2
https://elonjet.net/wrapped22
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#ElonMusk #ClimateChange #co2 #JetFuel #GlobalWarming
