ENGO WatchDog

Watching the watchdogs. Calling out environmental NGOs that champion climate action while blocking clean energy. Less hypocrisy. More building.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@FarawayAlden @bendreyfuss You literally just said that we should freeze greenfield development where we’re at, including affordable housing. And all energy tradeoffs are not the same. That’s like saying a shoplifter and a rapist both are criminals and therefore the same.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@FarawayAlden @bendreyfuss Yeah, we definitely don’t need affordable housing or clean energy…. Your privilege stinks worse than Axe body spray.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@Davidxvx @ts_fisher @mattyglesias @JaneAFlegal @CenterForBioDiv Credit where it’s due. Well done.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@AlecStapp 1/3 of their staff are litigators. Enough said.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

All of this!!!

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is the most important thing policymakers should understand about litigation groups like the Center for Biological Diversity:

They are paper tigers.

They claim to be mass-membership organizations when in fact they’re just a tiny group of extreme anti-human lawyers.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@Davidxvx @ts_fisher @mattyglesias @JaneAFlegal We will readily admit that Greenpeace is not the worst offender (looking at you @CenterForBioDiv), but please feel free to name all the projects you’ve actively come out to support in that same timeframe?

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@AlecStapp How much money do we think @CenterForBioDiv plan to raise off this? This is right in their donation wheelhouse. Gotta pay for all those litigators on the payroll somehow…

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

Not that weird. eNGOs have always sought to drive their own agendas by influencing industry practices and policies at the state and federal levels. That has nothing to do with support for individual renewable projects and/or developers on the ground. Quite the opposite in fact. Their active opposition to hundreds of renewable projects over the years has been a major contributor to slowing renewable growth by forcing through local siting moratoriums, law suits and more, paving the way for more fossil fuels as load demand increases. So congratulations on that.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@SenatorHeinrich Thank you for your incredible leadership on this issue Senator. You are a true champion of the energy transition.

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@WolfNatur @JaneAFlegal The bill specifically addresses transmission permitting, which is why it’s such a high watermark in comparison to previous efforts.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@JohnMercie3iiz @JaneAFlegal Which is why this bill is good. It will do more for our ability to rapidly expand transmission than anything that’s even been on the table.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@Davidxvx @ts_fisher @mattyglesias @JaneAFlegal Have you ever considered, David, that you are part of the problem? And that you and your fellow zero-sum purists have done more to stand in the way of significant renewable energy growth than just about anyone else?

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@DoctorVive Honest question: Can you give us a good reason why NOT to pass it? It is clearly the highest watermark for permitting reform ever and there is no guarantee something “better” will be available in 2-3 years?

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@jvstatus @JesseJenkins @AlanZibel This ^^^^

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@AaronRegunberg Please explain to us, in detail and with evidence to back your claims, why data centers are the greatest new climate pollution threat?

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@CenterForBioDiv calls the Senate permitting deal a “climate kill shot.”

If you reject the compromise, show us your faster, politically achievable path to building clean energy. You won’t, because CBD has never been about climate. They exist only to raise donations on the back of lawsuits against renewable energy projects.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

@JeremiahDJohns In our twenty years of permitting renewable energy projects across the country, the vast majority of opposition to projects has come from eNGOs. They are directly responsible for data centers now turning to NG for power.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

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[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's hard for people who aren't plugged in to understand how thoroughly anti-climate a lot of 'environmental' groups are today

In practice, a large chunk of the environmental movement is working to make climate change worse. They're one of the biggest obstacles to clean energy.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

A lawsuit may look like a victory in an ENGO’s annual report. To a rural community, it may mean another employer that never arrives.

Before celebrating a blocked clean energy project, ask who bears the cost.

[ENGO WatchDog @ENGOWatchDog]

Before celebrating a lawsuit against a renewable project, answer three questions:

What replaces its electricity?
Where will that replacement be built?
When will it come online?

Climate advocacy should be accountable for what gets built—and what gets blocked.

Looking at you @CenterForBioDiv