Hugh Helferty

Co-Founder/President of @PACEmissions: the way to #NetZero is producer accountability. Fossil fuel producers must pay for #CarbonTakeBack.

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

The energy transition, while crucial, will not wean us off #fossilfuels globally for at least several decades. We need supply-side policy like the #CarbonTakeback Obligation now. #climatechange https://t.co/JJr4sOI3X4

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

"Regulation would finally make a business case for curtailing net #carbonemissions, a task for which the technology exists but has not been meaningfully deployed." #CarbonTakeback #climatechange #oilandgas https://t.co/uXzyBdOLhM @njdotcom

[Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions @PACEmissions]

"Governments must establish a requirement that if producers extract #carbon from the earth, they must capture and store an equivalent amount." #CarbonTakeback #CCS @HughHelferty @njdotcom https://t.co/2Id82NSpcC

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

My latest article: "Despite overwhelming evidence of harm, it took government regulation for oil companies to phase out [leaded gasoline]. It is increasingly urgent that governments do the same for the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."
https://t.co/uXzyBdOdse

[Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions @PACEmissions]

@HughHelferty 's newest article: "One-hundred years on, the [leaded gasoline] disaster should teach us a serious lesson: The burden of proof for product safety must fall on the producer."
https://t.co/2Id82NRRn4

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

Fossil fuel companies make tremendous profits off of products that cause GHG emissions and should be the ones to take responsibility for these emissions, write @HughHelferty and Jessica Nacheman of @PACEmissions. https://t.co/7rvUDkTiuv

[Al Gore @algore]

The chances for real progress at COP28 were badly damaged early this year when an oil company CEO was appointed to lead the negotiations. And now investigative journalists have confirmed some of the worst fears of those who criticized that absurd appointment with the shocking news that the President-designate has been using the meetings he has set up with nations around the world to sell more oil and gas. At the same time, the fossil fuel company he leads (the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) has been preparing to launch one of the largest expansions of oil and gas production of any company in the world — timed to begin immediately after COP28 concludes.

Using international climate talks as leverage to shore up support for pumping more oil and gas at a time when we urgently need to phase out fossil fuels is — to say the least — utterly appalling.

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

Achieving #netzero #emissions by 2050 is not going to happen if we keep taking the oil industry’s word for climate action. #climatechange

[Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions @PACEmissions]

Our co-founder @HughHelferty just published this hard-hitting piece in @sfchronicle: "If we don’t stop these [#oil] companies, they are going to drive the planet and all of us on it over a cliff — all in the name of shareholder profit." #ClimateCrisis https://t.co/1I4rSiuIZj

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

OPINION: "The [oil] industry brands itself as caring about climate change. That’s fiction. I should know. I worked in the industry for over 30 years," writes Hugh Helferty. https://t.co/UczEhDSWYO

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

OPINION: "The [oil] industry brands itself as caring about climate change. That’s fiction. I should know. I worked in the industry for over 30 years," writes Hugh Helferty. https://t.co/nY52gtriai

[San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle]

OPINION: "The [oil] industry brands itself as caring about climate change. That’s fiction. I should know. I worked in the industry for over 30 years," writes Hugh Helferty. https://t.co/OWGBjGXdLb

[margriet kuijper @MargrietKuijper]

Great overview article of developments with CTBO.
“The idea that governments are somehow going to pay for carbon dioxide disposal while the industry carries on making the money it is making, and being the size it is, is unrealistic.”

https://t.co/NxWYJ9P6dg via @EnergyMonitorAI

[Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions @PACEmissions]

“A carbon takeback obligation sends a signal to the producer and the consumer that less production and less consumption would be better.”

@HughHelferty and Myles Allen speak with @OllieGordon88 @EnergyMonitorAI #CarbonTakeBack

https://t.co/VwTvrZmKE9

[Energy Monitor @EnergyMonitorAI]

"The idea that governments are somehow going to pay for carbon dioxide disposal while the industry carries on making the money it is making, and being the size it is, is unrealistic," @OxfordNetZero's Myles Allen told @OllieGordon88. https://t.co/REZoBoxCYn

[Energy Monitor @EnergyMonitorAI]

The burgeoning idea of forcing #fossilfuel producers to “take back” their #carbon could guarantee #NetZero, force polluters to pay for solutions and speed up the #EnergyTransition. @OllieGordon88 reports.

https://t.co/ka6mftMzzc

[Ollie Gordon @OllieGordon88]

The burgeoning idea of forcing fossil fuel producers to “take back” their carbon could guarantee net zero, force polluters to pay for solutions and speed up the energy transition.

To find out more, read my latest feature for @EnergyMonitorAI 👇

https://t.co/2JF2fekXSR

[Ollie Gordon @OllieGordon88]

Many thanks for the help, insight or research: Prof Myles Allen of @OxfordNetZero and @oxfordgeography, @HughHelferty of @PACEmissions, @OGCInews, @Greenpeace, @CSkidmoreUK, @IPCC_CH, @bryworthington, @WorldResources, @BezosEarthFund🙏🙏🙏

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

It was a pleasure speaking with @OllieGordon88 for this new article on the #CarbonTakeBack Obligation. The time to hold producers accountable is now.

[Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions @PACEmissions]

“A carbon takeback obligation sends a signal to the producer and the consumer that less production and less consumption would be better.”

@HughHelferty and Myles Allen speak with @OllieGordon88 @EnergyMonitorAI #CarbonTakeBack

https://t.co/VwTvrZmKE9

[CIBC Capital Markets @CIBCCM]

Professor Myles Allen of @UniofOxford and Jane Savage of Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions joined Dominique Barker to discuss the Carbon Takeback Obligation for the safe and permanent disposal of CO2, and more.

Listen to the episode here: https://t.co/wJwQfoDDiz

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

.@PACEmission Co-Founder Jane Savage and Advisor Myles Allen (@OxfordNetZero) talk #CarbonTakeback with @CIBCCM. It's time to enforce extended producer responsibility!

[CIBC Capital Markets @CIBCCM]

Professor Myles Allen of @UniofOxford and Jane Savage of Producer Accountability for Carbon Emissions joined Dominique Barker to discuss the Carbon Takeback Obligation for the safe and permanent disposal of CO2, and more.

Listen to the episode here: https://t.co/wJwQfoDDiz

[Hugh Helferty @HughHelferty]

@ftenergy @pilitaclark of @ft is right. It's time for fossil fuel producers to take responsibility for emissions. And a Carbon Takeback Obligation is a great way to make that happen. Doesn't that make more sense than higher taxes! #oilandgas #GHG