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.
… uses US Energy Information Administration (EIA) cost projections for CCS and renewable … greenhouse gas emissions. Even using EIA's optimistic assumptions about CCS … It calculates that in 2019, based on EIA cost estimates, carbon capture and …
The Turow open-pit lignite mine is drying up water sources on both sides of the Polish-Czech border. In light of plans to expand mining at Turow, Czechs are now rebelling against putting up with damages from a foreign mine they get no benefits from CLAUDIA CIOBANU reports
… PGE for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) that must be completed if the mine is to … requirements I've ever seen placed on an EIA," says Kuba Gogolewski from the Foundation … longer than four years, especially if the EIA is challenged in court, which often …
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.
… from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) Maps of US sedimentary basins (EIA) - which are geological formations that … prospective but need further exploration. The EIA told us that its oil and gas 'play' maps …
The attempt by the US Supreme Court to stall the White House Clean Power Plan is being thwarted on the ground, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. The numbers show that new renewable energy installation around the US is outpacing even natural gas - leaving coal in the dust, and new nuclear at a big round zero.
… Energy Information Administration (EIA) "expects total renewables used in the … - solar growth in rooftop PV panels, the EIA also "expects utility-scale solar capacity …
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the world, write Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
… the official environmental impact assessment (EIA), it is planned to import from, variously, …