In an article about the ways that carbon capture and storage initiatives do not live up to the rhetoric on community engagement, DeSmog spoke to Manuel Salgado, environmental justice research analyst with WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Region 2 TCTAC. Salgado said that carbon capture and storage proponents about listening to local communities and giving them a chance to say no to projects, community groups opposing these projects claim this is not what’s happening on the ground. Excluded from the conference panels were people from the neighborhoods targeted for this massive industrial buildout; developers of the projects generally don’t respect what communities actually want.
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