Coldplay labelled ‘useful idiots for greenwashing’ after deal with oil company

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The Transport and Environment campaign group says Neste is cynically using the band

A statement from the band said: “When we announced this tour, we said that we would try our best to make it as sustainable and low carbon-impact as possible, but that it would be a work in progress. That remains true. We don’t claim to have got it all right yet.”

“Before we appointed Neste as supplier of these biofuel products, we received their guarantee that they do not use any virgin materials in their production – most especially not palm oil. It’s still our understanding that they use renewable waste products only, like cooking oil and byproducts from wood pulp manufacture.”

Hanna Leijala, a spokeswoman for Neste, insisted that the firm “do not accept any sustainability violations in our own operations.” “For our collaboration with Coldplay, conventional palm oil was not used as a raw material” she said, adding: “Neste plans to reduce the share of conventional palm oil to 0% of its global renewable raw material inputs by the end of 2023.”of the firm’s fuel inputs. Its jet fuel is blended from used cooking oil, animal fats and other wastes and residues.

But Neste declined to say what percentage of the jet fuel mix is made up by palm fatty acid distillates (

 

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