{"id":335544,"date":"2017-11-18T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T11:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carbon-trading-is-fraudulent-scheme-to-privatize-air-and-forests-and-permit-pollution\/"},"modified":"2017-11-18T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T11:43:38","slug":"carbon-trading-is-fraudulent-scheme-to-privatize-air-and-forests-and-permit-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/carbon-trading-is-fraudulent-scheme-to-privatize-air-and-forests-and-permit-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Trading Is &#8220;Fraudulent&#8221; Scheme to Privatize Air and Forests and Permit Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>In South Dakota, the energy company TransCanada says it shut down part of its pipeline Thursday after a rupture spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in a field near Amherst. The pipeline carries a highly polluting form of oil called &#8220;diluted bitumen.&#8221; This comes amid a new report titled &#8220;Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance,&#8221; which exposes the dangers of carbon trading, a scheme in which major companies purchase carbon credits from countries who agree to plant trees or protect existing forests. We speak with one of the report&#8217;s co-authors, Tom Goldtooth, executive director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Isabella Zizi from Richmond, California, home to a massive Chevron oil refinery. Chevron has said it will purchase carbon credits to offset increased pollution from a recent expansion of the Richmond refinery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Please check back later for full transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/42637-tom-goldtooth-carbon-trading-is-fraudulent-scheme-to-privatize-air-and-forests-to-permit-pollution\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In South Dakota, the energy company TransCanada says it shut down part of its pipeline Thursday after a rupture spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in a field near Amherst. The pipeline carries a highly polluting form of oil called &#8220;diluted bitumen.&#8221; This comes amid a new report titled &#8220;Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}