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You’re hired! Exxon promises US jobs bonanza in return for CCS subsidies

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You’re hired! Exxon promises US jobs bonanza in return for CCS subsidies

CCS megaprojects pose convenient political solution to transitioning fossil fuel workers 💥Energy Flux💥 Wednesday, 21st April 2021

Seb Kennedy
Apr 21, 2021
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You’re hired! Exxon promises US jobs bonanza in return for CCS subsidies

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Welcome to your daily dose of global energy transition news, views and analysis. In today’s issue:

  • Exxon promises US jobs bonanza in return for CCS subsidies

  • ‘Green’ bitcoin mining venture needs, er, natural gas

  • UK says deeper emissions cuts won’t affect personal lifestyles

  • Transmission lines – Energy transition stories you might’ve missed

  • Energised minds – Critical thinking on crucial energy issues

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Exxon promises CCS jobs bonanza in return for federal subsidies

Jobs win votes, and big carbon capture and storage projects promise to create lots of them. The tantalising prospect of a jobs boom is central to the oil and gas industry’s CCS lobbying agenda, which stands a good chance of forging a political consensus in favour of huge state support for carbon capture megaprojects.

US supermajor ExxonMobil is proposing the biggest carbon capture project the world has ever seen: a $100 billion “CCS Innovation Zone” along the Houston ship channel and surrounding industri…

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