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EU Commission Backs 55 Controversial New Fossil Fuel Projects

Brussels, 31 October 2019 – In one of the last acts of President Juncker’s administration, the European Commission has today backed 55 new climate-damaging fossil fuel projects, as part of a list of priority energy projects [1] – a move that flies in the face of the climate emergency say Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Europe. 

This fourth edition of the list, known as ‘Projects of Common Interest’ (PCI) list, lends European Commission support to dozens of new climate-damaging gas infrastructure projects with lifetimes lasting decades. 

Projects supported include new gas pipelines and LNG terminals – many to import fracked gas from the United States – which could shackle Europe to decades more fossil fuel use. [2] This is despite incoming European Commission President von der Leyen’s promise of a ‘carbon neutral’ continent by 2050 and a ‘Green Deal’ for Europe in her first 100 days. 

Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said:
“The Commission’s support for yet more fossil gas projects will bring us a step closer to climate breakdown. This new PCI list makes a mockery of the EU’s commitments to deliver a ‘carbon neutral’ Europe, and insults all those who have voted and protested for decisive climate action. MEPs must now reject this list and all new fossil fuel projects.”

Energy projects on the PCI list are eligible to receive EU subsidy under the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’, even though the EU has committed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. 

Fossil gas is an emissions-intensive fossil fuel that is not compatible with the Paris Climate Agreement nor with EU climate targets. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) one year ago warned the world is running out of time to address the climate emergency. 

Attention next turns to MEPs, who face a test of their climate credentials if they vote on whether to approve or reject this PCI list. [3] 

Frida Kieninger, from Food & Water Europe said:
“MEPs must reject EU support for yet more dirty gas projects – this list is based on a deeply flawed selection process that is untransparent, riddled with gas industry interests, and does not consider climate impacts. The climate crisis has no space for the EU Commission’s blatant promotion of dirty fossil fuels.” [4]

Kate Ruddock of Friends of the Earth Ireland, commenting on the EU Commission’s support for an LNG terminal in Shannon, Ireland, said: 

“It’s hard to see how the Shannon LNG terminal even qualifies as a so-called ‘project of common interest’ – it does not connect with the rest of Europe, it has not been assessed for the impacts on our climate targets – it’s in the interest of an American fossil fuel company, not the people of Europe.”

Campaigners are calling for the ‘Trans-European Networks – Energy’ (TEN-E) Regulation, which governs the PCI list, to be aligned to EU climate commitments. [5]

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For more information, contact:

Robbie Blake, communications team, Friends of the Earth Europe, [email protected], (+32) (0)2 893 1010

Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe, [email protected], (+32) (0)2 893 1018, (+32)(0) 489 598984

Frida Kieninger, campaign officer, Food & Water Europe, [email protected], (+32) (0)487 249905

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NOTES: 

Just weeks ago, the Swedish government denied permission for Gothenburg LNG terminal, a current gas project on the PCI list, citing climate considerations: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/vast/regeringen-sager-nej-till-planer-pa-naturgashamn-i-goteborg 

[1] Link to the new PCI list

[2] Controversial projects backed by the European Commission include: 

EU LNG import terminals have been used at less than a quarter of their capacities in the past years: https://alsi.gie.eu.

[3] MEPs have at least two months to scrutinise the list. The fossil fuel projects cannot be voted individually, only the package as a whole. 

[4] Hiding in plain sight: how the gas industry influences European energy policy http://www.foeeurope.org/hiding-plain-sight-gas-industry-influences-european-energy-policy-110517 

When asked about climate impacts of the PCI list, deputy director of DG Energy Klaus-Dieter Borchardt said: “Where is the sustainability or climate impact assessment? Unfortunately we are not doing it” https://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20191017-0900-COMMITTEE-ITRE 

[5] EU parliamentarians have repeatedly demanded greater inclusion in the PCI list drafting. The Commission has promised a review of the relevant TEN-E regulation, but a revision could take years.

The outcome of a public consultation held on all PCI candidate projects showed that 99.6% of the participants give a negative assessment to PCI projects, but the Commission never published the report http://bit.ly/PCI_publCons2019

Breaking: Justification for Controversial Shannon Fracked Gas Terminal Eviscerated at European Commission Meeting Yesterday

Citing climate impacts, Sweden pulls LNG project off European Union’s energy projects of common interest list; Ireland must follow suit and reject fracked gas Shannon LNG terminal

Irish government now has until October 23 to remove Shannon terminal off European Union’s list for subsidies and permitting fastrack

Brussels — On Thursday, October 17, it was revealed at a European Commission meeting that the US fracked gas Shannon LNG import terminal is on the European Projects of Common Interest (PCI) list, without assessing climate or sustainability impacts. Two other gas projects connected to Shannon LNG were shown to be taken off the list.

At the EU Committee on Industry, Research and Energy at the European Commission, members were unable to respond to criticism that this project has not undergone a sustainability study that would assess its impact on climate and Ireland’s commitment to the Paris Agreement. This criticism comes after the Swedish government recently removed the fossil gas LNG terminal in the Port of Gothenburg off the same PCI list, on the grounds that locking in fossil fuel dependence is inconsistent with climate targets.

TD Brid Smith said, “Breaking: Justification for Controversial Shannon Fracked Gas Terminal Eviscerated at European Commission Meeting YesterdayThis process has been shrouded in secrecy from the beginning and now we find out that the Swedish government has pulled a similar LNG fossil gas terminal off the PCI list based on the same climate concerns that members of the Dail, NGOs and scientists have raised, including at the Joint Oireachtais Committee on Climate Action last week. The question we need to now be asking is what is motivating the Taoiseach and Minister Bruton to continue to push the Shannon LNG fracked gas terminal?”

The Irish Government has until 23rd October to remove the Shannon LNG project from the PCI list. If the project remains on the list, it will become eligible for EU subsidies, and it would fast track planning permission that would override environmental impacts that the project would have on the protected Shannon Estuary – despite the fact that a decision of the European Court of Justice on the project is still pending.

Two projects (gas underground storage in Northern Ireland and a reverse flow pipeline to Scotland) that were connected to Shannon LNG were taken off the PCI list after the EU’s internal review found the projects “did not prove that their overall benefits outweigh costs”. The criteria for a project to be on the PCI list is that it has a significant impact on at least two EU member states. With the removal of the two connecting infrastructure projects in Northern Ireland and Scotland, Shannon LNG does not meet that criteria, yet currently remains on the list.

“The projects on the PCI list are intended to help the EU achieve its energy policy and climate objectives: affordable, secure and sustainable energy for all citizens, and the long-term decarbonisation of the economy in accordance with the Paris Agreement, and they must link at least two European member states. The Shannon project simply does not achieve any of these goals and must be removed from the PCI list,” said Kate Ruddock from Friends of the Earth.

“The grounds for approving this project are non-existent. The Shannon LNG terminal is planned to import fracked gas, which would torpedo the efforts of the Emerald Isle to achieve its climate targets. Now, the EU Commission admitted that even the formal criteria can’t be met by  Shannon LNG. If the Taoiseach and Minister Bruton don’t remove this project from the PCI list, it is evident that there is something more nefarious afoot. The public deserves to know what influence and false promises New Fortress Energy, the corporation behind the Shannon LNG terminal, are making to impact this decision,” said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch Europe.

The Shannon LNG terminal has become increasingly controversial as US campaigners have pointed out that the project would be supplied by fracked gas originating in the United States. . Health professionals, NGOs and advocates, including Mark Ruffalo and Michael Moore, sent a letter to the Taoiseach asking Ireland to block this project, which would re-energise the fracking industry and increase human suffering and pollution in the affected areas, specifically Pennsylvania.

Actor and anti-fracking campaigner Mark Ruffalo said, “The Taoiseach and the Irish government can follow Sweden’s lead here and show what real climate leadership looks like. We are working everyday in the US to ban fracking and help our fellow Americans who have been harmed by this industry. Unlike the US, the Irish government isn’t bought off by the fossil fuel industry — but if they approve this project on the PCI list on October 23, then it will appear that they are.”

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment Richard Bruton has kept the process surrounding the PCI list shrouded in secrecy. He would not respond to TD Brid Smith’s request to inform the Dail of the date of the European Commission meeting. It was only after an Access to Information on the Environment (AIE) request from a local resident that the TDs and public learned the date of that meeting. Then, after the closed door meeting at the European Commission, Minister Bruton declined to share information with NGOs as to whether or not Shannon LNG and related gas projects were on the PCI list. It was not until 17 October that residents and groups learned what is on the final PCI list, and that Ireland has until 23 October to remove Shannon LNG off the list.

“Minister Richard Bruton refused to share information with members of the Dáil or the public about whether or not the Shannon LNG or connected projects would be on the list. The entire process lacks transparency, deepening concerns and criticisms about why Minister Bruton and members of the Irish government support the project that would bring dirty US fracked gas to Ireland,” said Kerry County local resident and Safety Before LNG’s John McElligott. 

Advocates in the US are pleading with the Irish government to stop the project. In recent months, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper has investigated and found least 67 diagnoses of cancers in children in just 4 rural, heavily-fracked counties of the state. Health professionals and scientists in the United States have been documenting the public health harms of fracking and related infrastructure for years now. The vast majority of more than 1,500 articles from peer-reviewed medical or scientific journals, investigative reports by journalists, and reports from, or commissioned by, government agencies demonstrate that drilling, fracking, and related infrastructure LNG are dangerous and harmful.

“We are asking the Irish government to make this decision to stop the import of US fracked gas not only on the scientific and economic basis but also on a moral one. Ireland banned fracking because of the harm it would bring to public health and the environment. Please don’t import the fracked gas that is wreaking havoc in our state and our country,” said Pennsylvania resident and Better Path Coalition campaigner Karen Feridun.

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Contact:

Kate Ruddock, Friends of the Earth Ireland: [email protected]

Andy Gheorghiu, Policy Advisor and Campaigner, Food & Water Europe: [email protected], 0049 160 20 30 974

Scott Edwards, Director of Food & Water Justice: [email protected], 1.202.683.4969

Commission Support for 55 new Gas Projects Condemned

Brussels, 18 October 2019 – Drafts indicate the European Commission will give its support to at least 55 new climate-incompatible fossil gas infrastructure projects across Europe – as part of its new list of priority energy projects known as ‘Projects of Common Interest’ (PCI). [1]

The draft was shared with MEPs in advance of an energy and industry committee (ITRE) hearing on the refreshed list yesterday (Thursday 17 October). But Friends of the Earth Europe and Food and Water Europe condemned the Commission’s support for new fossil fuel projects as ‘a step closer to climate breakdown’.

Energy projects on the PCI list are eligible to be considered for EU funding under the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’.

The list includes several controversial fossil gas projects which have been opposed by campaign groups across Europe including the Shannon LNG terminal in Ireland and the Krk LNG terminal in Croatia.

This fourth iteration of the list comes as President von der Leyen’s new European Commission proposes the EU become ‘carbon neutral’ by 2050 with a European Green Deal in the first 100 days, and one year after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned the world is running out of time to address the climate emergency. Nevertheless, the list contains fossil gas projects with a lifetime long beyond 2050.

Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said:
“The Commission’s support for yet more fossil gas projects will bring us a step closer to climate breakdown. We’re in a climate emergency, yet instead of launching a 100% renewable energy transformation, the Commission are building for disaster by needlessly expanding our fossil gas network.”

Frida Kieninger, for Food & Water Europe said:
“The climate emergency cannot be solved by supporting dozens more fossil gas projects. This fourth list of priority EU energy projects completely contradicts the Commission’s stated aim of decarbonising our economy and heeding the calls of youth climate protesters. It contains several huge gas pipelines and new LNG terminals, many of which will import fracked gas from the US with devastating impacts for communities, the environment and our climate.” 

A European Commission official noted to MEPs today that most of the original fossil gas projects included in the first PCI list in 2014 still remain on this fourth list.

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For more information, contact:

Colin Roche, fossil free campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe, [email protected], (+32) (0)2 893 1018, (+32)(0) 489 598984

Frida Kieninger, campaign officer for Food & Water Europe, [email protected], (+32) (0)487 249905, (+32)(0) 28931045

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Notes

[1] https://www.foodandwatereurope.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/draft_PCI_list2019.pdf

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On the Eve of Global Climate Strikes and Summit, Celebrities, Advocates and Grassroots Groups Call on UN to Endorse Worldwide Fracking Ban

Prominent activists, hundreds of groups urge U.N. to champion a global ban, call fracking a climate and human rights disaster

New York, NY – On the eve of international youth-led climate strikes and next week’s United Nations Climate Change Summit, nearly 460 grassroots groups, faith communities, celebrities, activists and organizations from across the world are calling on the United Nations to endorse a worldwide ban on fracking.

Actors Mark Ruffalo, Emma Thompson and Amber Heard, authors and activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Karenna Gore and Wenonah Hauter, fashion icons Vivienne Westwood and Joe Corré, human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, iconic childrens’ singer Raffi, climate experts Dr. Robert Howarth and Dr. Sandra Steingraber, and nearly 460 grassroots groups sent an open letter to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres stating that the “continued production, trade and use of fracked hydrocarbons for energy, petrochemicals and plastics torpedoes our global efforts to tackle climate change and violates basic human rights.”

The letter was organized by the American advocacy organization Food & Water Action (FWA) and its European arm, Food & Water Europe (FWE), as well as the Breathe Project, a Pittsburgh-based clearinghouse for information on air quality in Pennsylvania. 

Wenonah Hauter, founder and executive director of Food & Water Action and Food & Water Europe, said: “In more than a decade of fighting fracking in the U.S., we’ve banned it in multiple states and made great progress elevating the issue globally. But there is much more work to do. The fracking surge in the U.S. has been a boon for the polluting petrochemical industry, which turns fracked gas into plastics. Our planet and our oceans are drowning in plastic and fracking companies are profiting. This needs to stop once and for all. We need a global ban on fracking.”

Banning fracking has been an urgent priority of climate activists for years. But it has recently moved onto the political stage as a key issue in the U.S. Democratic presidential race, with many top-tier candidates embracing the urgent call for a total ban.

“The climate emergency is a casting call for heroes, and we need everyone to show up. Step one is to stand up and say, loudly and clearly, that there is no place for fracking on a climate-destabilized planet,” said actor and longtime fracking activist Mark Ruffalo.

“Every well and every pipeline adds more methane and carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and pushes us closer to the edge of the climate cliff.  The science demands, and our children demand, a global ban on fracking,” said actress and U.N. Human Rights Champion Amber Heard.

The signatories to the letter — including the Break Free From Plastic Movement, Friends of the Earth, Concerned Health Professionals of New York, European Environmental Bureau, Oil Change International, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Alianza Mexicana contra el Fracking, Support Centre for Land Change South Africa, Frack Free United, SumOfUs, Women Engage for a Common Future — point to the overwhelming scientific documenting the significant negative climate impacts of fossil gas and the environmental and disastrous public health implications of fracking.

“Fracking sounds nearly as ugly as it actually is. For the sake of the climate we need this obscenity to end right now!” said renowned author and 350.org founder Bill McKibben.

The letter also draws a direct line between fracking and the global plastic pollution crisis. As Food & Water Watch recently documented, a substantial amount of the gas drilling and related infrastructure being proposed is intended to use cheap fracked hydrocarbons to make plastic.

“Over the past decade, methane levels have been rising rapidly in the atmosphere, contributing significantly to the unprecedented global climate disruption seen in recent years,” said Cornell Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology Robert Howarth, whose research on methane leaks has shed considerable light on the climate impacts of fracking. “Over 60 percent of the increased global methane emissions are from the oil and gas industry, and shale gas development in North America is responsible for one-third of the increased emissions from all sources. Fracking for shale gas is a climate disaster.”

A number of United Nations bodies have weighed in over the years on the dangers of fracking. The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESR) and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) have expressed concerns regarding the threat fracking represents for achieving the climate targets under the Paris Agreement and its impacts on human rights. And as early as 2012, the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) issued a “Global Alert” on fracking, concluding that it may have adverse environmental impacts even if done properly

As fashion icon Vivienne Westwood and environmental campaigner Joe Corré said: “Because fracking causes birth defects, in March 2019, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) took the harmful environmental and climate change impacts of fracking seriously enough to strongly urge the British Government to completely ban fracking. It speaks for itself that this highly respected U.N. body saw this legislative measure as the only solution to protect the human rights of women in rural areas in Britain”.

“A decade ago, when there were only nine scientific studies on the impacts of fracking, some political leaders suggested that fracking might serve as a bridge to a stable climate. Now there are 1,800 studies, and the science is clear. Fracking is making the climate crisis worse,” said Sandra Steingraber, PhD, biologist, co-founder of Concerned Health Professionals of New York. “Fracking is destroying drinking water and undermining human rights around the world. Fracking is harming health through toxic air pollution and supporting a polluting plastics industry that is killing our oceans. Our planet is on fire, but fracking is not an evacuation bridge nor a fire extinguisher. Fracking is an arsonist that needs to be stopped everywhere and right now.”

Prominent actress and activist Emma Thompson said: “Fracking is the fossil fuel world’s worst idea to date. It’s pointless, expensive, doesn’t create jobs that will serve a community, but it does pollute, damage and contribute to wrecking the climate. Its poisonous presence in our green and pleasant land is an affront to common sense, common health and the safety of the planet as a whole.”

“The climate crisis is the greatest ever threat to human rights. As the recent UN report on climate change and poverty makes clear, fossil fuel companies are the main driver of climate change and over-reliance on profit-driven actors in mitigating this crisis will almost guarantee massive human rights violations,” said human rights lawyer and barrister with Doughty Chamber Streets Jennifer Robinson. “What we really need is a global ban.”

The letter concludes by referring to the final advisory opinion of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change, which recommended that fracking be banned, and that “the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment be asked to investigate the violations of the rights of humans and nature by the Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction industry.”

Open Letter

Contacts:

Andy Gheorghiu, Food & Water Europe: [email protected], 0049 160 20 30 974

Peter Hart, Food & Water Action: [email protected], 732-839-0871

Devil-masked’ international campaigners to protest Ineos sponsorship of cycling team during Stage 8 of Tour of Britain.

Brussels/Manchester – On Saturday 14th September local group Frack Free Greater Manchester will combine with national and international campaigners to protest sponsorship of the UK based cycling team by Ineos a major UK fracking and chemical engineering company and Europe’s  biggest producer of virgin plastics. Protesters will wear devil masks with the counterfeit of the owner of Ineos, controversial billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, to highlight the “true face” of the Team Ineos sponsor.

This is part of a series of international protests against Ineos since their taking ownership of the former Team Sky. The first protests took place in May 2019 during the Tour of Yorkshire, followed by protests in Brussels and France during the Tour de France in July.(1)

Team Ineos will be taking part in Stage 8 of the Tour of Britain. Protesters will express their opposition during the race from the start in Altrincham to the finish in central Manchester.

The protest will be peaceful and respectful of cycling fans, indeed many of those taking part will themselves be cycling enthusiasts. However with their voices, banners and placards activists will demonstrate their opposition to this transparent attempt by Ineos to ‘greenwash’ it’s environment-damaging and climate-threatening industries.

Delphine Lévi Alvarès the European Coordinator of the #breakfreefreefromplastic movement consisting of more than 1,600 organisations worldwide said, “The #breakfreefromplastic movement is committed to tackling plastic pollution at all levels. INEOS’s massive plastic product expansion plans in Antwerp demonstrate their role in the plastic pollution crisis which devastates our communities, health and environment.”

Allan Challenger from Frack Free GM stated: “to reduce our carbon emissions fossil fuels need to be left in the ground. Due to its detrimental local health impacts, persistent triggering of seismic events and climate-busting methane emissions fracking is especially toxic and should be banned in the UK as it has been in other countries.”

“Ineos relies on climate hostile fracked gas to produce more cheap virgin plastic”, says Andy Gheorghiu, policy adivsor and campaigner for Food & Water Europe. “This company plays an active role in increasing the climate and plastic pollution crisis and it shouldn’t be allowed to greenwash it’s business model with the sponsorship of sports teams.”

Arrangement for photocall:

Altrincham  10.30 a.m.

Central Manchester 2.30 p.m.

Press contacts:

Allan Challenger, Frack Free Greater Manchester, email: [email protected] , phone: 07981495614

Andy Gheorghiu, Food & Water Europe, email: [email protected], phone: 0049 160 20 30 974

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Broad International Opposition to Petrochemical Giant Ineos’ Expansion Plans

Movement seeks to stop #Fracking4Plastics Antwerp expansion

Brussels – A new expansion plan championed by petrochemical company Ineos, which would further deepen the environmentally disastrous connection between the plastics industry and the US fracking boom, is drawing international opposition.

In 2016, Ineos, the largest ethylene producer in Europe, began importing fracked US ethane to Europe to turn it into plastics at its facilities in the UK and Norway. The company wants now to invest €3bn to build a new ethane ‘cracker’ and a propylene producing propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant in the Port of Antwerp. The company has started the first of three intended Environmental Impact Assessment procedures for the project, which would deforest an area of 50-55 hectares.

The Port of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium is home to the largest petrochemical cluster in Europe, and is now the second largest in the world after Houston, Texas. Satellite data showed last year that Belgium, and especially Antwerp, has some of the most polluted air in the world.

The plan of Ineos has spurred international opposition from 20 groups, NGOs and associations, who have jointly submitted an objection to the Port of Antwerp. Signatories from both sides of the Atlantic include Food & Water Europe, Food & Water Watch, #BreakFreeFromPlastic, Talk Fracking, CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law), WECF (Women Engage for a Common Future), Recycling Netwerk, Frack Free United, Greenpeace UK and Environmental Investigation Agency. This joint international objection comes on top of the ones submitted by Belgian grassroots groups and NGOs (such as Antwerpen Schaliegasvrij, StRaten Generaal and Greenpeace Belgium).

The international objection highlights the need to take the cumulative and transboundary climate and environmental effects into account, paying attention to the significant full lifecycle emissions along the supply chain. It states that no deforestation shall be allowed before any permitting decisions can be made on the ethane cracker and the PDH unit.

The signatories also refer to the ongoing plastic pellet pollution in protected Ramsar and Natura 2000 sites, and the absence of its management in the species and waste management plans.

“Apart from the fact that Ineos relies on climate hostile fracked US gas for their plans, we also see here a clear breach of the existing Natura 2000 legislation:, says Andy Gheorghiu, policy advisor and campaigner for Brussels based NGO Food & Water Europe. “The only way to solve the current massive virgin plastic pollution problem is to rein in the sources of such pollution, and that means stopping these facilities, not expanding them.”

“Ineos is a climate and environmental disaster — benefiting from fracking in the U.S. while planning to bring the dangerous practice to the United Kingdom and mainland Europe to produce more plastic waste,” said Scott Edwards, legal director of Food & Water Watch. “This company’s plans have been and will be met with a passionate, committed grassroots movement on both sides of the Atlantic. The Port of Antwerp must understand the additional high financial risk the relationship with Ineos represents.”

Joe Corré, founder of Talk Fracking, adds: “Every facility, like the proposed one by Ineos, that relies on fracked gas is a direct contribution to a dramatic increase in global warming, a constant production of plastic pollution and an involvement in human rights abuses along the supply chain. Everyone involved must be held responsible”.

“The #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement brings nearly 1,300 organisations around the world together to fight plastic pollution. INEOS are fuelling the plastics expansion with cheap plastics that will pollute our environment, but together we can put a stop to their polluting practices and expansion plans.” concludes Delphine Lévi Alvarès, coordinator of Break Free From Plastic in Europe. “The Port of Antwerp has already a massive transformational task to achieve. The investment plans of Ineos will torpedo every effort towards this necessary and existential process.”

Interntational Objection (EN)

International Objection (NL)

 

Contacts:
Andy Gheorghiu, policy advisor and campaigner, Food & Water Europe
Mobile: 0049 160 20 30 974
Email: [email protected]