STOP GREENWASHING LNG, SEA-LNG

Last week we visited the UN International Maritime Organisation twice to remind the Member States of their duty to protect the marine environment.

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The purpose of the visits was to highlight the repeated greenwashing of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) by SEA-LNG, a group of lobbyists working relentlessly for its membership. Their single aim? To mislead people into believing LNG is a ‘green fuel’.

LNG is not a green fuel, it’s a fossil fuel that leaks methane at all stages of its production and use. In fact LNG is 80x more climate warming in the near term than CO2.

Ocean Rebellion believes, by being members of SEA-LNG, companies like Shell LNG, Lloyd’s Register and Maersk, are engaging in greenwashing while making sustainability claims. This may be violating their legal responsibilities to shareholders and risk litigation if such material risks, including the litigation risk, are not properly reflected in their audited accounts. In fact the FCA’s recent rules governing greenwashing demand that ‘services are accurately described’. Likewise, credit rating agencies which fail to detect this greenwashing are also failing to give accurate sustainability readouts to their subscribers in the financial sector.   

Not to mention any failure of ethical responsibilities to wider stakeholders to avoid collapsing climate, nature and society by means of fugitive methane, and fossil carbon emissions, that result from LNG. Far from clean, LNG is one of the dirtiest fuels there is. Touting it as a clean fuel is a technological lie.

@SEALNGcoalition stop your #LNGgreenwash