After years of protest, plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze are awaiting the go-ahead from the Turkish government. But protest group YEGEP are not giving up without a fight
… Coal and Corruption: The Battle for Gerze … Walker Morgan Hartley | 17th August 2012 News Coal Power Plant Anadolu YEGEP Turkey Gerze … plans by the Anadolu Group to build a coal power plant in the seaside town of Gerze …
Britain lingers near to the bottom of the European league table for renewable energy, so why does it seem that the government are willing to add more coal nails to the coffin?
… Coal is over Joss Garman | 22nd June 2008 Comment Coal Renewable Energy Kingsnorth CCS Coal Global Warming Carbon Off-Setting Nuclear …
Clean Coal Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the technology of stripping carbon dioxide from the exhaust gases of fossil fuels and then burying it as a liquid underground.
… Power On - Clean Coal Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 1st November 2007 News Clean Coal Carbon Dioxide Carbon Capture Coal Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
… Posing as representatives of oil and coal companies, reporters from Greenpeace UK … promoting the benefits of CO 2 and the use of coal in developing countries. The professors … think tank. The investigation also found: US coal giant Peabody Energy also paid tens of …
The UK government is all for fracking, writes Dr Robin Russell-Jones, but on climate grounds alone it should be banned. Evidence from the US shows that shale gas is twice as dirty as coal from a climate viewpoint due to 'fugitive emissions' of methane. That makes fracking incompatible with the UK's climate change commitments and the Paris Agreement - as the CCC may soon rule.
… Fracking is twice as bad for climate as coal - will the Climate Change Committee ban … US shows that shale gas is twice as dirty as coal from a climate viewpoint due to 'fugitive … Wigley , the break-even point for gas over coal is 2%. In other words if fugitive …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
… Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed Paul Mobbs … - and just as bad for climate change as coal. As Charlie Chaplin said, "Wars, … impact on the climate as if you were burning coal. Needless to say, the oil and gas …
The IPCC has over-estimated China's emissions since 2000 by 14%, almost 3 gigatonnes of carbon since 2000, while its energy consumption has been 10% higher than realised, writes Eliza Berlage. The country is far more carbon-efficient than we ever knew.
… data sources. "While China is the largest coal consumer in the world, it burns much lower-quality coal, such as brown coal, which has a lower heat value and carbon …
Don't believe the carbon capture hype, say MPs and NGOs
… Clean coal myth at E-On's Kingsnorth 1st July 2008 … Kingsnorth Carbon Dioxide Carbon Off-Setting Coal Technology Climate Change Energy … hype, say MPs and NGOs E.ON’s controversial coal-fired power station to be built at …
Natural gas is meant to be a far lower carbon fuel than coal, writes Steve Horn. But a new study shows that methane leaks from gas power plants and oil refineries are 20-120 times higher than thought. And with methane a greenhouse gas almost 100 times stronger than CO2 over 20 years, the leaks are equivalent to about a tenth of the US's CO2 emissions.
… is meant to be a far lower carbon fuel than coal, writes Steve Horn. But a new study shows … more climate-friendly alternative to burning coal, is obtained in the US mostly via the … as market forces drive the replacement of coal with cheaper natural gas. But if natural …
Levels of neurotoxic mercury in Yellowfin tuna are rising at almost 4% per year, and will soon reach a point where the fish are officially unsafe to eat, writes Paul Drevnick. And after decades of debate, there's no longer any doubt where the mercury comes from: humans. Industrial sources like coal burning are mainly to blame, and it's high time we put a stop to it.
… News Oceans Pollutions Fishing Science navajo-coal-power-station-cut.jpg What goes up, must … Station consumes up to 25,000 tons of coal per day, and the mercury it emits - along with other coal plants and industrial sources - is …
The key study that justifies the Government's claim that fracking is a climate change 'solution' is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the publication of a new official report that would reveal the truth - that fracking is considerably worse for the world's climate than coal.
… Climate Change Emissions Science Energy Coal Fossil Fuels cameron-shale-gas-cut.jpg … worse for the world's climate than coal. Some time early this decade the Tory - LibDem coalition began looking into a possible future …
Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing machines may soon be available that can regulate their own energy usage.
… Instead of spikes in demand and coal-fired solutions, fridges and washing … gas plants, it tends to be the workhorse coal power stations that fulfil this … problematic. The current reliance on coal power plants to balance out demand will …
The UK government claim that fracking is a 'clean' energy source rests on the conclusions of a single scientific paper, writes Paul Mobbs. And now that paper has been conclusively invalidated: it uses misleading figures that understate the methane emissions from fracking, and subsequent findings have left it totally discredited. Yet the paper is still being quoted to justify fracking, and the fool the public on its climate change impacts.
… shale gas really is worse for climate than coal Paul Mobbs | 24th May 2017 News Fracking … circumstances it could be even worse than coal-fired power generation. The reason why … other available figures for conventional gas, coal-fired power and imported liquefied …
Relying on unproven technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage is a dangerous distraction from the more systematic changes required to tackle climate change.
… station in Yorkshire, which currently burns coal and biomass (in the form of wood pellets), and is planning to replace coal with gas. The previous CCS competition … North Yorkshire, which planned to build a new coal plant with the technology (see our …
In a surprise move, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has appointed Cambridge Professor David Mackay as its Chief Scientific Adviser
… heralds a new phase of thinking at DECC on coal power, particularly because Mackay is … change will require the end of unabated coal burning: 'Solving climate change is a … dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.' Track record Mackay was …
Thousands of protesters have occupied a coal mine near Cologne - the single largest emitter of CO2 in Europe. NICK MEYNEN argues that history is on their side, especially when politicians fail to take heed of climate science
… Thousands of protesters have occupied a coal mine near Cologne - the single largest … packed their bags for a pleasant stay in a... coal mine. Near Cologne, at the Ende Gëlande … Germany is a pretty good place to stop coal extraction right at the source – which is …
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 …
For the second year running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, writes Alex Kirby. But sharply rising temperatures show the need for further massive renewable energy deployment to actually bring emissions down.
… fell by 2% because of a large switch from coal to natural gas for generating … In China, emissions declined by 1.5% as coal use dropped for the second year in a row. … to decarbonise electricity generation, forced coal use down. In 2015, it generated less than …
Well, now we have it; nuclear power is once again going to save the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest of the world follows our example, from global warming.
… the day. In the past it helped save us from coal, now it is going to save us, if the rest … the energy extracted is no better than mining coal, assuming that the uranium is used in a … the total release of greenhouse gases. Both coal and fuel oil used in a co-generation …
A 145,000 sq km area of peatland swamp forest has been discovered in the Congo Basin, writes Tim Radford, and it holds a record 30 Gt of carbon, equivalent to 20 years of US fossil fuel emissions. Now the race is on to protect it from damaging development that would emit that carbon over coming decades.
… scale of this carbon sink is unprecedented. Coal in formation The carbon sink in the … combustion of fossil fuels - because oil and coal and natural gas were also once living …
Lord Smith's views on fracking betray an total ignorance of a large body of published, peer reviewed science that contradicts his conclusions, writes David Lowry - not to mention those of his political masters. Is 'groupthink' leading the UK astray?
… still and it's much better to use gas than coal." Further infuriating campaigners, he … greenhouse gas (GHG ) footprint than do coal or oil, for any possible use of natural …
Biochar - the charcoaled remains of agricultural waste - is being hailed as a huge opportunity to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But is the science sound, and do we have enough waste to go around?
… Biochar: can charcoal really stop global warming? Almuth … And Technology Carbon Carbondioxide charcoal.jpg Biochar - the charcoaled remains of agricultural waste - is …
In a hard-hitting new investigation, Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway report on the scientists prepared to distort the truth on the key issues of our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations
… our time - from tobacco to climate change to coal fired power stations In 2006 the tobacco … on the links between sulphur emissions from coal-fired power stations and acid rain, and …