R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2022

In the weeks and months after Russia’s invasion, global crude oil prices rose to levels only seen once before, in 2008. The loss of Russian imports caused a disruption in gasoline supplies, and later diesel production during a period of high diesel demand. That disruption had a number of cascading effects. Soaring energy prices.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The oil and gas industry, and many Republicans in Congress, demanded the Biden administration immediately lift the pause, and some even threatened legal action. As Gas Outlook reported last year, the LNG terminals themselves are leaking methane that is going unrecorded. Then another storm washed through in 2008.

Building Energy Monitoring 61

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. The drop in gasoline prices, replication of last year’s fusion energy test, the prediction by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that we are close to peak fossil fuel demand, and continued record growth by renewables were all important stories in 2023. ” In a closely related story, the U.S.

Energy 60

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Natural gas 60

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Properly plugging and abandoning oil and gas wells is vital to protect the environment and stop methane leaks – but for decades, oil operators have often slipped away without paying to clean up, leaving millions of deteriorating abandoned wells across the U.S. and regulators in different drilling regions face different issues.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 64

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Its officials insist that methane burns cleaner than coal, and they echo a common argument in claiming that it provides a tidy bridge between coal and truly renewable energy. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

Fossil fuels 52

Fossil fuels Natural gas Methane Law 52

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008.

Business Energy Monitoring 148

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As global oil prices fluctuated over the following years, carbon capture was paused at the plant during periods when CO2 demand for oil extraction dropped. Building upon a Bush Administration program, in 2008, the Kemper CCS facility was proposed as the flagship project of the U.S. million tons developers had expected.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The situation illustrates the intermittency problem with renewables like wind and solar power and how outages can increase demand for fossil fuel generation,” Energy In Depth , a project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America that is run by FTI Consulting , wrote about Europe’s gas price crisis on September 22.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

It is significantly larger than the clean tech focused stimulus package the Obama administration passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, which played such a big role in accelerating US renewables and electric vehicle deployment. The US is set to get its first ever carbon equivalent tax - on methane. of global warming by 2050.

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2020

For most of its life the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) has been plagued by a massive surplus of allowances - something we've been highlighting (under Ember's previous guise as Sandbag) since 2008. This could include putting a carbon price on gas for heating, shipping, or fugitive methane emissions, to name a few.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S.

Methane 95

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 95

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”. To exemplify the sin of fibbing we’ll use Shell’s Tar Sands project initiated back in 2008.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Plastics Building Energy Monitoring 78

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

In October, she invited a university researcher onto the property and discovered that several wells were leaking methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. This increases the risk of methane seeping into the air and oil migrating into the surrounding groundwater. A decade ago, the U.S.

Methane 81

Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 81

Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2022

The report notes that the UK has over-achieved against both its first and second carbon budgets, which covered the periods of 2008-2012 and 2013-2017, respectively, and was on track to deliver on its third, which spans the years between 2018-2022.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

Meanwhile, the demands on Exxon to reduce its emissions got louder, and the company began to think about a long-term solution for its excess CO?. A tax program meant to encourage carbon capture had been on the books since 2008, but the credits amounted to less than a fifth of the typical cost of the process.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil. He died in 2008. In one document in his archives, Böttcher described Shell as the “godfather” of his “CO2-project”, as he labeled his climate work at the time.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Meeting Electricity Demands in an Increasingly Electric World (Panel Discussion): As communities and companies move to electrify everything – from transportation options to buildings and indoor agriculture – we’re discovering the ways the current utility infrastructure isn't always up to the challenge.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Meals on demand, no waiting time involved. This was a antiobesity drug that was first approved in Europe in 2006 but was withdrawn worldwide in 2008 due to serious psychiatric side effects. Absolutely.

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