The ever-falling cost of renewable energy could leave investors in coal, gas and oil seriously out of pocket as demand for fossil fuels falls away, writes Paul Brown. In the wake of the Paris Agreement and shrinking markets in major importing countries, the smart money is moving into renewables.
… 2016 News Fossil Fuels Renewables Oil Gas Coal Solar Wind Energy … of renewable energy could leave investors in coal, gas and oil seriously out of pocket as … losing their money , because the markets for coal and liquefied natural gas are …
The UK's financing of fossil fuels abroad increased tenfold in two years to exceed £1 billion in 2013 / 2014, writes Christine Ottery. Incredibly, the fossil fuel funding increase came after a government promise to use the money to support 'innovative and green technologies'.
… 2015 News UK Finance Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate Change Politics suek-coal-mine-cut.jpg The UK's financing of fossil … soared to over £1 billion a year under the Coalition, according to an analysis by …
It's the fossil fuel industry's latest stroke of genius - a coal substitute that's cheaper, dirtier and more toxic than coal itself, writes Ben Whitford. The waste product of refining heavy oil from Canada's tar sands, petcoke is stored in open mountains around Chicago's 'Slag Valley', sending plumes of sticky black dust over poor neighborhoods every time the wind blows.
… fuel industry's latest stroke of genius - a coal substitute that's cheaper, dirtier and more toxic than coal itself, writes Ben Whitford. The waste … more sought-after fuel grades. Petcoke - the coal substitute that's dirtier than coal In …
President Trump's recent executive order could open an area of America's most precious landscapes bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe Sandler Clarke. The 27 monuments 'under review' harbour huge volumes of oil, gas and coal: just what's needed to fuel Trump's vision of fossil fuel-led development - never mind the cost to scenery, wildlife, historic sites and indigenous cultures.
… could open 2.7 million acres to oil, gas, coal Lawrence Carter Joe Sandler Clarke … | 12th May 2017 News USA Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate Change Politics Conservation … bigger than Yellowstone to oil drilling and coal mining, write Lawrence Carter & Joe …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
… 2009 News Renewable Energy Energy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global Warming Carbon … Global Warming Climate Change Nuclear Oil Coal Depleted Uranium UK Environment Climate … the energy crisis. Stop using oil, gas and coal and we might just stabilise carbon …
This weekend's wave of direct action in Germany shows that we can and should take climate justice into our own hands.
… 10th August 2020 News Change Makers Shell Oil Coal Fossil Fuels Protest Blockade Climate … Berlin announced the occupation of a large coal plant in the city's Moabit district on … access to the power plant processing hard coal, a major climate killer. The group's …
America's expanding oil production threatens the pristine Pacific Northwest region of the country with a rash of new oil terminals along the coast, writes Valerie Brown, and hugely expanded traffic of freight trains loaded with hundreds of cars of crude oil heading for California refineries.
… heading for California refineries. Oil and coal producers in the US are planning to use … in the unspoiled Northwest of the country. Coal is already being exported in ever-larger … in Richland, Washington. The oil and coal trains must pass through the Columbia …
Climate change is a problem of fossil fuel dependency, and solving it requires reducing that dependency quickly and dramatically.
… 2008 Comment Peak Oil Carbon Climate Change Coal Gas Fossil Fuels Petroleum Oil Usage Coal Energy carbon_comment_WEB.jpg Climate … The peaking in production rates of oil, coal and natural gas presents a different …
The widely touted 'carbon capture and storage' technology is much more expensive than wind and solar, says a Greenpeace report. It also represents a perverse subsidy to the fossil fuel sector that will only boost coal and oil, and delay the transition to a renewable energy system.
… | 26th May 2015 News Energy Climate Change Coal Oil Renewables saskpower-ccs-cut.jpg The … the fossil fuel sector that will only boost coal and oil, and delay the transition to a … EPA's proposed carbon rule requires that new coal plants capture CO 2 , and emphasizes the …
Pledges by investors to divest from fossil fuels have soared to $2.6 trillion - 50 times more than a year ago. 'Now is the time to divest', says Leonardo di Caprio, one of the latest to join the movement, which even includes Newcastle, Australia, home to the world's biggest coal port.
… | 22nd September 2015 News Fossil Fuels Coal Oil Finance Climate Change Energy newcastle-aus-coal-port-cut.jpg Pledges by investors to … Australia, home to the world's biggest coal port. The movement to divest from fossil …
For the world to meet its climate goals, a third of the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground, writes Alex Kirby. And it's not us saying it - but scientists writing in the journal Nature.
… | 8th January 2015 News Fossil Fuels Oil Gas Coal Climate Change Finance … the world's oil, half its gas and 80% of its coal must stay underground, writes Alex Kirby. … scientists. It shows that almost all the huge coal reserves in China, Russia and the US …
Despite promises to phase out subsidies to the coal, oil and gas industries, a new report G20 governments are still providing them with massive financial help, writes Alex Kirby. The UK alone is spending over £1.2 billion per year to support fossil fuel exploration and production at home and abroad.
… promises to phase out subsidies to the coal, oil and gas industries, a new report G20 … billion ($1.9bn) annually to support oil, coal and gas. The Overseas Development … propping up the development of oil, gas and coal reserves that cannot be exploited if the …
Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG), an anti-fracking group held their national gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the ‘Nannas' workshopped ways of evading arrest, media strategies, avoiding defaming energy companies, lawful protest, successful campaigns, protest songs and nanna naps. MAXINE NEWLANDS joined them for the gathering
… gathering in the heart of Australia's Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry where the … gathering finished with a tour of the nearby Coal Seam Gas fields between Chinchilla and … housing with the local council. Australia's Coal Seam Gas Industry Australia's energy …
Amber Rudd's speech today exposes her total failure to assemble a coherent energy strategy, writes Oliver Tickell. It reveals the increasingly certain failure to meet EU renewable energy targets, proposes a new tax on wind and solar generation, and leaves the country facing the real prospect of lights going out in the next decade. The one hard policy? To maximise oil and gas recovery.
… 2015 News Energy UK EU Politics Nuclear Coal Oil Renewables Climate Change … Even her headline announcement of 'an end to coal' was - while a clever way to confuse environmentalists - not all it seems. Coal power stations still have ten years to …
The International Energy Agency's latest World Energy Outlook is calling for increased investment in new oil and gas, writes Oliver Tickell, while minimising the fast-growing and ever lower-cost contribution to world energy supply of renewables like wind and solar.
… 2016 News Energy Climate Change Oil Gas Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Wind Solar … loser The IEA also assumes an increase in coal consumption up until 2040 in all except … 450 Scenario, which projects a 50% drop in coal consumption. Yet the 10% drop in coal …
Mining corporations, politicians and big NGOs are meeting in London today to plan the future of extractive industries in Africa, write Nnimmo Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates are setting an agenda for 'resource-led development' that will cook the continent in the greenhouse gases of its plundered oil, gas and coal.
… Africa Development Fossil Fuels Mining Oil Coal Ecocide Climate Change … gases of its plundered oil, gas and coal. If you have ever wondered about what is … scars of mining in Africa are visible in the coal mines of South Africa, the gold mines of …
Who has the longest nose of them all? Worthy winners of France's fiercely contested 'Prix Pinocchio' 2014 were selected last night, recognising corporate greed, hypocrisy and malfeasance, based on a record vote since the awards began.
… 2014 News Corporations France Energy Oil Coal Fracking Gas Finance pinocchio-cut.jpg … for its financing of Mountain-top removal coal mining in Appalachia, USA - providing finance to Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources. Banktrack …
"Fossil fuel backed stocks and bonds - which are based on long term revenues from fossil energy production - should be downgraded to junk status."
… | 26th October 2013 Activism Fossil Fuel Coal Oil Gas Energy Climate Climate Change … dioxide into the atmosphere. However the coal, oil and gas reserves owned by private … be downgraded to junk status. "The top 200 coal, oil and gas companies by size of …
The Environmental Audit Committee today calls for shale fracking in the UK to be 'put on hold', writes Paul Mobbs. But the EAC is missing an even more dangerous technology that the Infrastructure Bill would support - underground coal gasification.
… Bill would support - underground coal gasification. Today will be an … a ban , fuelled by Dart Energy's proposed coalbed methane (CBM) developments around … Cluff Natural Resources plans for underground coal gasification (UCG) at Kincardine in the …
The US, long the world's biggest oil consumer, has just surpassed Saudi Arabia to become the world's top oil producer, writes Don Lieber. Oil exports to Europe and Asia will begin shortly. Now what was that Obama said about climate change? Oh, forget it ...
… And that's not counting rising coal exports Despite these warnings, Obama's … moratorium) off the East Coast . Coal exports have risen to record levels … International Campaign to Ban Landmines, The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, …
There will be enough fossil fuel-burning stuff - cars, homes, factories, power plants - built by next year to blow through our carbon budget for a 2 degrees Celsius temperature rise. Never mind staying below a safer, saner 1.5 degrees of global warming, warns STEPHEN LEAHY
… accounting of CO2 emissions.” A new coal plant built today will emit CO2 - carbon … emitted by most things that burn oil, gas, or coal we had already built up to 2012. It is … obvious that building more things that burn coal, oil, and gas equals more CO2 emissions. …
Oil and gas explorers are gearing up to drill offshore Ireland in a bid to boost its energy independence from Britain.
… 67% less CO2 than peat and 61% less than coal, while oil emits 33% less than peat and 20% less than coal, according to the IOOA report. That said, peat and coal only accounted for a combined 13 …
North America's environment campaigners face a fearsome enemy in the 'Big Club', writes Alexander Reid Ross - the nexus of fossil fuel and infrastructure corporations, government, militarized police, private security contractors, PR agencies, astroturf NGOs and quasi-judicial bodies. But the activists are winning key victories in their battle to halt the industrialization of Cascadia.
… the country. Ensuing derailments of coal and oil trains, along with explosions … From June to November 2014, around a dozen coal and oil train blockades emerged … industry, OEM announces itself as a " growing coalition " including private security …
According to classical economics Adam Smith's 'invisible' hand' of free markets produces the greatest good for us all, writes JP Sottile. But what happens when rip-roaring 'external costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource destruction and climate change. And because that invisible hand is connected to Mother Nature, it's coming back to strike us.
… with the systematic extraction and use of coal during the Industrial Revolution . But … ' includes petroleum, tar sands, shale oil, coal and so-called natural gas . All of these … oil-reliant plastic widgets. It also became a coal-burning behemoth . Moreover, the cost of …