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Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File The province let oil and gas firms create a $100-billion disaster. They expect you to foot the bill. Every day something crazy happens in Alberta to illustrate how thoroughly oil politics have eroded the province’s grip on reality. Judy Aldous, who hosts a province-wide CBC Radio noon […]
Moving towards low-carbon lifestyles: a question of collective action
Moving towards low-carbon lifestyles: a question of collective action Our way of life must change if we want to avoid climate breakdown—but how much can we do as individuals? Ahead of the upcoming ICTA-UAB Conference on Low-Carbon Lifestyle Changes, Joël Foramitti, Lorraine Whitmarsh and Angela Druckman are outlining a roadmap. ***** Recent news about the state […]
IEA: An Oil Glut Is Inevitable In 2020
IEA: An Oil Glut Is Inevitable In 2020 Despite the OPEC+ cuts, the oil market is still facing a supply surplus in 2020, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). OPEC+ announced additional cuts of 500,000 bpd, which sounds more impressive than it is because the group was already producing under […]
Germany Slams Trump’s ‘Meddling’ In Europe’s Energy After Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Passed
Germany Slams Trump’s ‘Meddling’ In Europe’s Energy After Nord Stream 2 Sanctions Passed Included in Wednesday’s just passed mammoth 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) — which increases the Pentagon budget by $22 billion (to a whopping $738 billion) — were long-threatened sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 underwater natural gas pipeline. In the House bill, expected to be approved […]
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change While Imperial Oil was calling the link between fossil fuels and global warming an ‘unproven hypothesis,’ internal reports had confirmed the connection. Oilsands giant Imperial Oil continued to call the link between fossil fuels and global temperature rise an “unproven hypothesis” decades after its own […]
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine
Trudeau will fuel the fires of our climate crisis if he approves Canada’s mega mine Alberta’s oil sands produce one of the dirtiest oils on the planet. If the Teck mega mine is approved, the damage to our planet will be colossal This week, the Canadian government is in Madrid telling the world that climate […]
China Quietly Ramps Up Oil Production In Iran
China Quietly Ramps Up Oil Production In Iran The supergiant Azadegan oil field, comprising major north and south sites, is as important to Iran’s overall strategic plan to survive the current sanctions environment and to prosper when they are lifted as the flagship South Pars supergiant gas field and the added-value products of its petrochemicals […]
These Secretive Oil Companies Control $3 Trillion In Wealth
These Secretive Oil Companies Control $3 Trillion In Wealth They control the vast majority of the world’s oil and gas assets, yet the average person has never even heard of them, outside of those that are famous for things like getting attacked by missiles or becoming embroiled in a high-profile corruption scandal. State-owned oil and […]
Retire early… to save the planet?
Retire early… to save the planet? If it’s not this, it must be the opposite. How often do you witness this sort of thinking? When I pay attention I find it’s everywhere, framing nearly every argument. Author Daniel Quinn calls it two-handedness: imagining there are only two options, usually framed as opposites. Democrat or Republican. […]
Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency
Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency A new report out today from Rapid Transition Alliance founding member the Centre for Alternative technology (CAT) looks at how the UK can cut energy demand by 60% and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions using current technologies, without relying on unproven carbon capture. By modelling the changes needed […]
Recession Ahead: An Overview of Our Predicament
Recession Ahead: An Overview of Our Predicament Many people have the impression that recessions come from financial missteps, such as the US subprime loan fiasco. If energy is involved at all, the problem comes from high oil prices as supply becomes inadequate to meet demand. The real situation is different. We already seem to be on […]
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused
Big Oil Needs to Pay for the Damage It Caused Environmental activists rally for accountability for fossil fuel companies outside of New York Supreme Court on October 22, 2019, in New York City. New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, is taking on ExxonMobil in a landmark case that accuses the oil corporation of misleading investors […]
As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up
As Winter Comes Pipeline Wars Heat Up For all of 2019 December has been a magnet. A number of major geopolitical issues come to head this month and many of them have everything to do with energy. This is the month that Russian gas giant Gazprom was due to finish production on three major pipeline […]
Carbon capture could require 25% of all global energy
Carbon capture could require 25% of all global energy Preface. This is clearly a pipedream. Surely the authors know this, since they say that the energy needed to run direct air capture machines in 2100 is up to 300 exajoules each year. That’s more than half of global energy consumption today. It’s equivalent to the current […]
Living On Borrowed Time
Living On Borrowed Time How soon until the consequences of our excesses catch up with us? The laws of physics are governed by cause and effect. But there can exist a time lag between the two. For instance: Note how the speed of both the bullet and the retracting latex far exceed that of the […]
