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Fossil fuels vs climate action: A not-so-hidden dilemma
Fossil fuels vs climate action: A not-so-hidden dilemma When crossing the ocean by sea or by air small differences in the direction you take will result in huge differences in your ultimate destination. Back in the middle of the last century, human society might have made relatively minor adjustments in its trajectory, say, in the […]
When Renewables Are Not Renewable
When Renewables Are Not Renewable Sure the wind and sun are renewable, but the collectors we build are not Wind Turbines We term an energy source “renewable” when the energy provided is powered by the sun — wind and solar, or powered by gravitational forces — tidal. However, the energy collectors are not renewable. Solar […]
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing
Shell’s Massive Carbon Capture Plant Is Emitting More Than It’s Capturing A new Global Witness report found that it has the same carbon footprint per year as 1.2 million gas-powered cars. SHELL’S QUEST CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE FACILITY IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA. THE CANADIAN PRESS/JASON FRANSON A first-of-its-kind “green” Shell facility in Alberta is emitting more […]
2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recessionIn my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained:
2022: Energy limits are likely to push the world economy into recessionIn my view, there are three ways a growing economy can be sustained: With a growing supply of cheap-to-produce energy products, matched to the economy’s energy needs. With growing debt and other indirect promises of future goods and services, such as rising asset prices. […]
China Coal Production Hits Record To Avoid Energy Crisis
China Coal Production Hits Record To Avoid Energy Crisis Many of us in the Western world are spending the most ever on electricity bills, forced to eat fake meat, and paying a lot more in taxes for green initiatives. At the same time, China ignores the green revolution by ramping up record coal production in […]
UK energy crisis is a fossil fuel crisis – and gas is the villain
UK energy crisis is a fossil fuel crisis – and gas is the villain New analysis by energy think tank Ember reveals that the skyrocketing price of fossil gas was responsible for 85% of the increase in UK wholesale electricity prices in 2021. In just one year, wholesale electricity prices quadrupled and it became almost five […]
Can’t live with them, can’t live without them: The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead
Can’t live with them, can’t live without them: The age of fossil-fuel abundance is dead Dwindling investment in oil, gas and coal mean high prices are here to stay For much of the past half-decade, the operative word in the energy sector was “abundance”. An industry that had long sought to ration the production of fossil […]
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann And why the climate change conversation isn’t helping A post-carbon world could be our opportunity to so better—and make the difficult transition much harder to swallow. That’s the message of Alice Friedemann on this week’s episode, author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. The […]
On Fossil Fuel Subsidies, the Facts Matter
On Fossil Fuel Subsidies, the Facts Matter The BC Green leader responds to the energy minister’s Tyee op-ed on provincial subsidies. LNG Canada’s marine terminal under construction. Photo via LNG Canada. In his Tyee op-ed on Monday titled “Let’s Talk Fossil Fuel Subsidies in BC,” Bruce Ralston, the provincial minister for energy, mines and low-carbon innovation, […]
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels
The Energy Transition Will Be Impossible Without Fossil Fuels OPEC members and other participants of ADIPEC2021 are calling on governments and international institutions to be realistic about the global energy transition While countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia are ready to embrace the energy transition, they argue that nations need to accept the role […]
How Much of the Worsening Energy Crisis is Due to Depletion?
How Much of the Worsening Energy Crisis is Due to Depletion?
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth
To keep fossil carbon out of the air, just stop pulling it out of the Earth Rick Nease / The Detroit Free Press / MCT Expectations for the COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage […]
Bright Green Lies
Bright Green Lies
