#@creativeathena

Have I given big deforesters a ‘pass’ in audits?

Palm Oil Detective’s spins are sometimes clever – Athena is a trained spin doctor after all – but more often crude and libellous. Athena’s claims about me are similarly crude and libellous, and provide a damning peek into a very sick mind. ‘Bart Van Assen, former lead auditor for @RSPOtweets and @FSC_IC who has given big deforesters a ‘pass’ in audits‘ (archive)Dennis, 2022…

A conspiracy theory as crude as Athena’s many typos

‘BSI, a company that conducts audits for the RSPO is listed as a corporate partner of Orangutan Land Trust at the same time as Kulim was their corporate partner. BSI approved the certification of Kulim Malaysia Berhad as ‘sustainable’. Bart Van Assen, Technical Advisor for Orangutan Land Trust was conducting audits of palm oil companies at the same time.‘ (archive)Dennis, 2021…

A series of vague guiding principles govern members in the RSPO?

One of the many shallow spins Athena uses is her contorted argument that RSPO’s principles “for growers to be RSPO certified” (emphasis added; see top right image) “govern members in the RSPO” (emphasis added; web archive) and are vague. As always, her fallacious argument is very easy to debunk: Athena’s image is severely outdated, taken from a decade old standard. This standard was revised in…

A mother and baby are rescued from an RSPO certified palm oil plantation (mirror) Dennis, 2021 (ContentCatnip/CreativeAthena/PalmOilDetectives) Athena systematically banks on ambiguity for her black-washing. An excellent example of this is her false narrative about the link between the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and Sisirau (an oil palm plantation in North Sumatra, Indonesia).…