The Big Oil and Big Ag Ponzi Scheme: Factory Farm Gas Introduction

Chevron the gas as “clean” is just another way to greenwash initially helps fund the digesters and then sells all the the fuel, as it is nothing of the sort. [...] From 2017 through 2021, private investment BP is similarly embedded in the factory farm gas in factory farm gas tripled, rising to over $1.6 billion.10 market, saying to investors that part of its strategy Three of the biggest United States oil companies to drive higher returns is to “grow biogas produc- and the nation’s largest pork producer are betting tion and marketing.”27 One of BP’s most pro. [...] California’s LCFS and Cap-and-Trade programs are loans and grants to biogas facilities and farmers.67 the main source of revenue for factory farm gas proj- ects,58 and companies are centering their factory farm Industry groups are aware of these changes and expect gas business models around this funding.59 massive expansions to go along with them. [...] This is due to the potential for overpressure from changes in demand and the toxic and corrosive properties of factory farm gas, endan- gering people and workers unfamiliar with the gas.113 Big Ag and Big Oil cannot be trusted to protect communities from their own creations as they plot to expand existing fossil fuel infrastructure. [...] While this is a similar racial composition to the rest of the state, it is starkly different from the rest of Sussex County, which is 17 percent people of foodandwaterwatch.org 10 The Big Oil and Big Ag Ponzi Scheme: Factory Farm Gas color. Likewise, more than a third of the population Big Agribusiness and diverts resources and attention within the three-mile radius lives below the poverty from fo.