“Renewable” Fuels: Climate Fix or Magical Thinking?
Thursday, March 20, 2025
5:30 PM Doors & Info Tables 6:30 Panel
Havurah Shalom
825 NW 18th Avenue
Portland 97209
Rumble forums are always free.
Just as it seemed that we were making real climate progress, the fossil fuel industry is sidetracking elected officials, regulators and business leaders with a rash of climate solution diversions. In the face of Zenith Energy’s plans to make Portland the West Coast center for so-called renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel, the panel will examine how renewable diesel is fraught with all kinds of problems and dangers and actually may have a higher carbon footprint than petroleum-based fuels and how renewable natural gas actually comes from methane produced by tortured animals in factory farms.
Panel:
Amy van Saun: Senior Attorney with Center for Food Safety, serves with Stand Up To Factory Farms
Jeremiah Hayden: Staff Reporter at Street Roots
Dan Serres: Advocacy Director with Columbia Riverkeeper
Barbara Bernstein: Host of KBOO Radio’s Locus Focus, Film Maker–most recent productions are “Once A Braided River” and “Chasing Chimeras–The Lure of Deceptive Climate Solutions”
Moderator:
Dineen Crowe, Campaign Manager with 350PDX
Since fall of 2022, Rumble On The River has presented 21 community forums in neighborhoods throughout Portland and at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, U of O. Rumbles bring together expert voices to discuss a range of environmental topics. These have included the Columbia & Willamette River ecosystems, transportation, false climate solutions, urban forestry, shade equity, risk-bonding, salmon restoration and the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund/PCEF. A central Rumble focus has been the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub and the potential hazards of having 90% of Oregon’s fuel and a mix of toxics stored within Portland’s city limits on a riverside seismic liquefaction zone.
