Oregon: County Sues State’s Biggest Gas Company for “Climate Deception”

They don’t even put the term “climate deception” in quotation marks.

As if this is an established term which we all understand.

The Guardian:

Oregon’s most populous county has sued the state’s biggest gas provider for allegedly sowing climate doubt, marking the first time a utility has faced charges of climate deception.

Last year, Multnomah county sued 17 fossil fuel companies and interest groups for allegedly deceiving the public about the climate crisis. The lawsuit came two years after a record-shattering heat dome killed 69 people across the county.

Video from a year ago, when the lawsuit against the other companies started

Research shows the climate crisis greatly exacerbated the 2021 temperature surge. Oil and gas companies, which fuel global warming, should pay climate damages, the lawsuit argues.

Should companies that install windmills and solar panels pay for the damage caused by the rare earth minerals they’re dumping in the groundwater across the entire country though?

On Monday, the county announced that it has amended its complaint to include the gas utility NW Natural, Oregon’s oldest and largest fossil fuel company.

“NW Natural engaged in an enterprise of misrepresentation about the effects its products would have on the climate,” the amended litigation says.

NW Natural is responsible for some 9% of Oregon’s carbon dioxide emissions, the lawsuit alleges, arguing that it has also disseminated misinformation about the climate dangers of gas.

The county’s move could open the door for more litigation against utilities, said Alyssa Johl, vice-president of legal and general counsel at the Center for Climate Integrity, which tracks and supports climate deception lawsuits.

Rofl.

“Gas utilities have been significant players in the historic and ongoing deception campaigns to mislead the public about the dangers of fossil fuels,” she said.

Though NW Natural has touted its commitment to a “carbon neutral future”, the company “has not implemented any operational changes that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon”, the lawsuit says. It also accuses the company of “astroturfing” community support for gas.

The amended complaint also names the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine – a non-profit that environmentalists have long said spreads climate denial – marking the first such suit against the group.

Multnomah county is one of two dozen cities, counties and states across the US that have filed charges of climate deception against the fossil fuel industry. It seeks $50bn in damages from the 2021 heat dome and additional $1.5bn for future climate damages.

Based on this logic, Daily Stormer could be sued for denying global warming.

Apparently “climate deception” is an established crime now.

This is what happens when women get bored: they find some Jewish program to establish a tyrannical global government over, and become fixated on enforcing the rules.

Women are obsessed with rule-lawyering. They use it to dominate people. We all saw this during the virus hoax with these women and their mask agenda.

FACT: No heatwaves ever happened before the invention of cow farts