Posted on 08/08/2017 5:31:51 AM PDT by rktman
Buried in the credits of An Inconvenient Sequel, former vice president Al Gore and filmmakers make it clear they paid to make up for carbon generated during production. That’s part of Gore’s greenwashing of his documentaries through purchases of carbon offsets from Native Energy.
Presumably, this was an effort to preempt critics of Gore’s hypocrisy since the movie could easily be mistaken for an episode of “Where in the World is Al Gore?” The film constantly shows Gore sitting on airplanes or visiting disparate locations including Greenland, Miami, Tennessee, NYC, Beijing (China), Washington, D.C., Delhi (India), Manila (Philippines), Paris and Georgetown, Texas.
An Inconvenient Truth was “offset” the same way, with payments to the same company. In fact, The Los Angeles Times reported in 2007, that some portion of approximately $1,000 spent on offsets for AIT were earmarked “for the $45-million project, known as the Owl Feather War Bonnet Wind Farm” on the South Dakota Sioux reservation.
But the funds allocated to that wind farm more than a decade ago have done nothing to lower anyone’s carbon emissions. Zip. Zero. Nada.
Because according to a 2017 article from KCET community news outlet that wind project is “still in limbo” after years of delays by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and others involved, lease expirations and various problems.
The LA Times also reported that some portion of AIT’s offset spending went to a methane digester in Pennsylvania. The Department of Agriculture paid for the bulk of the project with the farmer making up the difference. Native Energy supplied a small amount of funding in return for a contract on ALL the project’s carbon reductions for “the next 20 years,” the LA Times reported.
In another case in Alaska, Native Energy contributed about 1 percent of the overall....
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350lb people like Al Gore leave pollution and sewage wherever they go.
The way he caveated himself out of any responsibility of future acts of Nature not agreeing with him in the first movie, kinda takes all the hot-carbon-infused air out of the 2nd movie.
Elitist scum has unsustainable (by his own rules) carbon footprint.
Lying, hypocritical, fat f***er.
Offsets? LOL. That's like someone deciding they need to lose weight and paying someone else to diet for him.
“Elitist? Moi?”
Gore could never afford all the hot air he produces.
interesting to know how carbon credits are made, what a scam
Made from “unobtainium”.
By setting up a “carbon offset” company he pays himself and avoids taxes.
It’s a money laundry.
“offsets” do nothing but line Al Gore’s pockets...it’s a scam.
Are they “tax deductible”?
Seems appropriate, but Al's methane would probably be more efficiently dealt with by cutting out the middleman.
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