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Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated
Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated Bubbles of methane gas in water around an unplugged oil/gas well in Pennsylvania. Credit: Mary Kang A recent McGill study published in Environmental Science and Technology finds that annual methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas (AOG) wells in Canada and the US have been greatly underestimated—by […]
How BC’s Fossil Fuel Fights Link to a String of Wins in the US
How BC’s Fossil Fuel Fights Link to a String of Wins in the US A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Washington in 2016 — part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to California. Photo: Alex […]
Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated
Electricity Has Been in a Slump for 14 Years, But All Heck Has Broken Loose in How it’s Generated Electricity generating capacity additions & retirements in 2021, and the long-term change in the power mix. In 2021, developers and power plant owners plan to bring 39.7 gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity on line, […]
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time? The Earth is not dying. Gaia is not changing. Gi is responding. So often we hear the phrase ‘save the world’ or the ‘save our planet.’ We may even use it. But sometime back in my career someone wise corrected that, explaining that […]
Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study
David McNew / Getty Images Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study The month of December opened with good news and bad news for people concerned about the climate crisis. A climate analysis released by the independent watchdog group Climate Action Tracker said that based on promises made by Paris Climate […]
Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels
Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels Have the recent pronouncements of the death of oil and reigning renewables been more rhetoric than reality? Yes and no. It’s true that peak oil is now closer than ever, and globally we’re seeing a more earnest effort to decarbonize than ever before, in large part thanks to […]
GREEN ENERGY DOUBLE-TALK BEGINS: First Major Oil Producer Announces Deadline to End Oil Extraction, But There’s A Catch
GREEN ENERGY DOUBLE-TALK BEGINS: First Major Oil Producer Announces Deadline to End Oil Extraction, But There’s A Catch According to the Washington Post article published yesterday, Denmark was the first major oil-producing country to announce a deadline to end oil extraction. While this may sound like a “Victory” for the Green Energy Movement, there’s a […]
On Fabric (aka Fossil Energy is Indistinguishable from Magic)
On Fabric (aka Fossil Energy is Indistinguishable from Magic) I recently purchased a 6 piece queen sheet set for my bed and marveled at how something so useful, and so difficult to make myself, could be so inexpensive, costing only $30, or about 2 hours of my labor at minimum wage. I did a little digging […]
The Big Banks’ Green Bafflegab
The Big Banks’ Green Bafflegab Look behind their pro-climate ads and do what they do. Follow the money. Greenwash gulch? Toronto’s financial district. Photo: Wikimedia. There must be a basement somewhere on Bay Street full of English majors. Every day they churn out great reams of verbiage about “environmental, social and governance strategy” and fill annual […]
Renewables must help pay for transmission and their energy storage backup of fossil power plants
Renewables must help pay for transmission and their energy storage backup of fossil power plants Preface. Wind and solar advocates don’t include transmission and backup costs in their net energy calculations. But without fossil backup, the electric grid will come down due to lack of storage. There is almost nowhere left to put pumped hydro […]
The Invisible oiliness of everything
The Invisible oiliness of everything Preface. Even a simple object like a pencil requires dozens of actions to make and dozens of objects that took energy to make. This is why it is unlikely wind, solar, or any other contraption that make electricity, have a positive return of energy, or energy returned on energy invested. […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues
Climate Change dominates news coverage at expense of other equally important existential issues Preface. I’ve noticed that in the half dozen science magazines and several newspapers I get practically the only environmental stories are about climate change. Yet there are 8 other ecological boundaries (Rockström 2009) we must not cross (shown in bold with an […]
Georgia Recount – Still a Fraud & Agenda 2030
Georgia Recount – Still a Fraud & Agenda 2030 This is why there should be a computer program that people go online to vote and we eliminate this outrageous fraud because these people have no idea what they are doing to the country because the “agenda” was never told to the people. We call this […]
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse VIII
October 30, 2020
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse VIII Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Once again, a comment I posted in response to an article on The Tyee. Where to begin? I realise this article is primarily about a federal political party and its future but there are two underlying issues that are discussed that need far […]
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