Ignoring its significant solar and wind power potential, Turkey is planning a massive 'dash for coal' with over 37,000 MW of new coal fired power stations.
… Erdogan's Turkey embarks on massive 'dash for coal' Oliver Tickell | 5th November 2013 News … Turkey is planning a massive 'dash for coal' with over 37,000 MW of new coal fired power stations. This is the key …
India's renewable power capacity is set to reach 170GW by 2022, write Areeba Hamid & Oliver Tickell - reducing power shortages and bringing electricity to off-grid of rural communities for the first time. But it may also have an unintended consequence - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future profitability evaporate..
… | 20th February 2015 News India Energy Coal Fossil Fuels Renewables Solar Finance … - cutting off investment in India's troubled coal sector as prospects for future … capacity is more than 250GW, most of from coal-fired power plants, while it has 22GW of …
Despite record heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, and both are increasing as a matter of government policy. But a homegrown climate action movement is putting a spanner in the works - and just stopped its first coal train.
… Tickell | 19th December 2014 News Australia Coal Fossil Fuel Politics Climate Change … heat and drought Australia's emissions and coal exports are soaring, says a new report, … in the works - and just stopped its first coal train. Australia's emissions of …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… 2014 News Waste Toxics USA Fossil Fuels Coalcoal-ash-stinks-cut.jpg When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront …
Chinese coal and nuclear energy giants are suddenly piling into the solar industry. Is this the way of the future, not only in China but around the world?
… China: nuclear and coal giants go solar Oliver Tickell | 10th January 2014 News China Solar Power Coal Nuclear Energy Renewables Chinese coal and nuclear energy giants are suddenly …
The fossil fuel industry and its political backers have been left reeling by an unprecedented series of direct action strikes against targets across the country to protest at continuing investment in and official support for fossil fuels, inaction over fuel poverty and the systematic neglect of renewable energy despite the global climate emergency.
… June 2015 News Energy Fossil Fuels Nuclear Coal Climate Change Protest UK Politics … fossil fuel and nuclear companies, a World Coal Assocation conference, the Department of … in expectation of a site occupation - the 2GW coal-burning Didcot A having already closed …
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 UK's Advertising Standards Authority has ordered the withdrawal of an ad extolling the virtues of fracking, ruling that it is misleading, exaggerating, and lacks substantiation. In the process it has undermined the Government's entire case for fracking in the UK.
… greenhouse gas emissions by replacing coal with natural gas for energy ... " But not … greenhouse gas emissions by replacing coal with natural gas for energy" - false … used instead of, rather than in addition to, coal. ASA: "it was not certain that the …
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 …
A new report on fracking and climate change from the Task Force on Shale gas presents a rosy picture of the fuel's role as a climate-friendly 'bridge' to a renewable energy future, writes Oliver Tickell. But the truth is the precise opposite - it's a climate disaster that will only delay the arrival of clean energy.
… gas (LNG). It is also much better than coal. Gas will be needed for several decades … of gas is actually a lot worse than that of coal. Lord Smith himself provided the answer: … chamber, gas is a dirtier a fuel than coal. It has been estimated that, in fact, as …
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 …
An ambitious plan to make a wholly renewable energy system cheaper than fossil fuels within a decade has been launched today and is set to receive its first hearing at the G7 Summit in Germany next week.
… in the world than electricity generated from coal, launched today, is already on the agenda … less costly to produce than energy based on coal, gas and oil" , according to the Global … sources becomes cheaper than new-build coal in sunny parts of the world by 2020, and …
If we are to move beyond the political impasse generated by the IPCC report and prevent catastrophic climate change we must look to market mechanisms, specifically price competitive renewables, writes Oliver Tickell......
… more importantly, ever increasing volumes of coal, oil and gas are spewing out of the … is also much cheaper to install than new coal fired capacity, which typically costs … peak capacity dwarfing all but the largest coal fired stations. Of course there is a …
As COP19 draws to a close in Warsaw today, India and Saudi Arabia blocked an agreement which could prevent the release of up to 100 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions by 2050.
… in Warsaw. Poland has vigorously supported coal as the 'fuel of the future', even holding a World Coal Summit in Warsaw coinciding with COP19. … host country Poland's vigorous support for coal-based power, an overwhelming corporate …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… it was on the disreputable foundations of the Coal and Steel Community and the Euratom … The same applies to Poland's struggling coal industry - also in line for €8 billion of … 'infrastructure' funds to build new lignite coal mines, new power stations and extend the …
The world's smart money is piling into renewable energy, solar power in particular, write Tim Radford & Oliver Tickell, as renewables pull away from fossil fuels in terms of both investment and new generation capacity added each year.
… capacity for renewable power each year than coal, natural gas, and oil combined, according … of magnitude larger than the buildout of coal and gas." The price of wind and solar … as much carbon to the atmosphere as 34 coal-burning power stations in one year - or …
UN climate talks in Bonn ended today without the progress needed to secure agreement at the Paris COP in December - shortly after the G7 issued aspirational climate promises devoid of action, and heedless of warnings that Germany is already suffering the impacts of climate change.
… of having flipped "from climate chancellor to coal chancellor." "While she talks big on … silent when it comes to supporting a levy on coal power plants, without which Germany will … decisions taking place now regarding coal-based infrastructure - such as mines, …
In the run-up to the COP21 climate summit in Paris the G20's Antalya Communiqué is weaker on climate, fossil fuel subsidies and support for renewable energy than the G20's 2009 Pittsburgh Statement made shortly before the failed COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
… Empty Promises: G20 subsidies to oil, gas and coal production ', and represents the sum of … at all. Renewable energy out in the cold as coal spending surges The new G20 text is also …
Tesla Energy's new mains power battery has just transformed the energy market - giving a huge boost to small scale renewable energy and killing off both fossil fuelled and nuclear power in the process.
… Energy Renewables Wind Solar Fossil Fuels Coal Nuclear solar-roof-cut.jpg Tesla Energy's … do this it will cut away life support from coal and gas fired plants that are currently …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
… based on the idea that without CDM funding coal-fired power stations would have been … using Swiss technology, burning Indonesian coal, producing goods for export to the EU, on … and accessible fossil fuels – oil, gas and coal – on which the world now depends. If the …
EDF has indefinitely postponed its Hinkley C nuclear plant in Somerset, England, as a new IEA analysis shows that its power will cost UK energy users three times more than it should, writes Oliver Tickell. A similar reactor in France is running six years late and three times over budget - and may never be completed.
… on' in 2023 and beyond, as a number of old coal power stations will be forced to close by … coming on stream at Hinkley C, and old coal fired and nuclear stations due to close, …
Europe's new targets for carbon emissions and renewable energy are severely retrograde and fly in the face of both science and economics. They will endanger climate and retard the renewable energy revolution.
… This low carbon price has allowed the EU's coal burn in power stations to soar, … cheap fracked gas will displace higher-carbon coal generation, both reducing emissions and …
The rapid spread of solar power across China, India, Africa and Latin America is being driven not by subsidy but by the market
… 87% of which was provided by oil, gas and coal. Nuclear power contributed a gross 626 … the growth, and knock out 4,000 Mtoe-worth of coal, and it will have to produce 16,000 Mtoe …
The market can solve climate change and tackle world debt if we start to sell emissions right
… to be secured by the likes of oil companies, coal mining companies and companies producing … those with high carbon fuels such as coal, might oppose Kyoto 2 because it would …