So it seemed pretty outrageous to me that that could happen. It’s a climate change conference that we are there because of oil and gas. And how did that happen? Because we know why we were there at that conference. So everything had to be scrutinized and approved and yet, they approved a poster that was pure propaganda from the oil and gas industry. Everything apparently had to be approved … every poster you know … they even wanted to approve or scrutinize the scarves we were wearing that said you know, something about climate change. SW: It had to be an approval from someone at the UN. Mike Ludwig: Approval to carry a sign into the convention, like a permit? We have to get an approval for it and we’ll let you know, we kept emailing them, asking for the approval and it never was approved and They said, well, we’re going to get an approval. They wouldn’t let me bring it in the blue zone. And I was not allowed to bring that poster inside. Sharon Wilson: The thing that, the thing that was so crazy about this poster, this oil and gas poster was that I had a poster that just said, ask me about methane from oil and gas. But Wilson was not allowed to bring her own message into the conference.
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In the Blue Zone, an area where delegates and others with UN credentials gathered, Wilson saw what she describes as a “propaganda poster” boasting about what the fossil fuel industry claims to be doing right, from promoting women’s rights to creating jobs. Wilson was also shocked by the industry’s influence at the summit.
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The nations of the world did agree - on a voluntary basis I might add - to “phase-down” rather than “phase-out” unabated coal burning and subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, but Sharon Wilson says she was “devastated” when the agreement said nothing about reducing the production of oil and natural gas. Sharon Wilson had just returned from the conference when I spoke to her on Tuesday. But I wanted to ask Sharon Wilson what the Permian “climate bomb” looks like up close and personal in the fracking fields of West Texas.īut the first stop is the United Nation’s COP26 summit that wrapped up last weekend, where the latest global warming agreement left advocates disappointed to say the least.
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Truthout’s Candice Bernd published a great story on all that yesterday, and you should definitely check it out. Environmentalists say the drilling boom in the Permian Basin is a “climate bomb” that will feed expanding pipelines, petrochemical plants and export terminals, ensuring that the United States will continue exporting oil to be burned in other countries for decades to come. Using an infrared thermal imaging camera, Wilson has documented oil booms in Texas for over a decade, and her videos capture startling images of toxic pollution and greenhouse gases that are invisible to the naked eye. Our guide to the Permian Basin is Sharon Wilson, a senior field advocate and optical gas imaging thermographer with the environmental group Earthworks.
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Today’s episode will take us from the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, to the Permian Basin, a vast shale formation across West Texas and eastern New Mexico, where oil production is projected to increase by 50 percent over the next decade as the latest fracking and drilling boom continues. Welcome back to Climate Front Lines, the podcast exploring the people and places on the front lines of the climate crisis. This is a rush transcript lightly edited for brevity.