Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 14, 2022

Canada’s oil and gas patch is partying like it’s 2008, though most Canadian drivers are not enjoying the festive mood. It’s no secret that the oil and gas industry is cyclical: as prices drop, the music stops, the lights come on. But historically, prices go back up, and the cycle repeats.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

The goals require the sector to cut its emissions by 50 per cent by 2050 from a 2008 baseline, and cut the carbon intensity of shipping by 40 per cent by 2030. However, some industry experts have argued that while the targets could have been more ambitious they should help to catalyse more investment in cleaner fleets.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. How we invest our resources is really a reflection of our priorities. As the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

They include groups such as “Texans for Natural Gas”, which presents itself as a grassroots, non-corporate organisation while being designed and staffed by FTI employees, in a practice known as “astroturfing”.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2020

In 2008, Exxon made a record $40.6 The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis reported that “the world’s largest publicly traded oil and gas companies shelled out a total of $71.2 ” Meanwhile, the coal and natural gas industries are also collapsing around us — a swift decline from the shale fracking boom.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

As DeSmog reported in 2018, quoting from The Big Short , a book about the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis: “All these subprime lending companies were growing so rapidly, and using such goofy accounting, that they could mask the fact that they had no real earnings, just illusory, accounting-driven, ones. The Return of Liar Loans.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Apple should not be investing in the disruption of healthcare, but in something even more audacious. Apple should invest in the battle against climate change. kWh/year in 2008 to 7.2 Immediate Investment: $10B @ 10% rate of return Annual Opportunity: $10B per year 2. They were likely right, as Cook indicated last month.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

That year, a piece of legislation called the Base Load Review Act (BLRA) passed fairly quietly, which allowed PSC-regulated utilities to collect revenue for major construction long before the projects were put into service —projects such as two new reactors proposed for the SCE&G/Santee Cooper VC Summer nuclear plant, approved in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2017, Bolloré Logistics posted a 30-minute video on YouTube “illustrat[ing] the management of the day-to-day operations on the Logistics Oil & Gas Shore Base of Bolloré Transport & Logistics in Port Gentil, Gabon, entirely dedicated to Shell, a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies.” refinery.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The research reveals that 53 percent of these directors have a combined 499 past or current connections to industries that could be considered potentially climate-conflicted including polluting energy, mining, manufacturing, along with banks and investment vehicles known to support the fossil fuel industry. . of its P&C premiums.”

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 1992 carbon emission hit a 20-year low due to three factors: A mild winter, reduced demand for gasoline and, most significantly, a drop in coal-fired electricity generation because of historically low natural gas prices. The negative values in 1996 are due to a slowing economy associated with the Asian financial crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 12, 2022

Our recipe to support large-scale deployment of clean hydrogen technologies by 2030 consists of investment, a supportive regulatory framework, and fostering partnership between industry, governments and civil society.” However, this process is energy intensive and produces high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Apple should not be investing in the disruption of healthcare, but in something even more audacious. Apple should invest in the battle against climate change. kWh/year in 2008 to 7.2 Immediate Investment: $10B @ 10% rate of return Annual Opportunity: $10B per year 2. They were likely right, as Cook indicated last month.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure would rely on a robust investment program to achieve the remaining 20 million tCO2e. California’s Climate Investments ?

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Founded in 2008 as California’s first not-for-profit, community choice aggregation program, MCE today serves over 1 million residents and businesses in four San Francisco Bay area counties: Contra Costa; Marin; Napa; and Solano. Meanwhile, battery costs have followed a similar downward path.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

Houston is buzzing with incredible climatetech startups, world-leading energy organizations, and a thriving investment community. At Shell, we see the energy transition as a collaborative effort that requires innovation, investment, and partnership across sectors, industries, and society.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2008, Jacobson teamed up with student, Graeme Hoste, to assess whether California’s hourly demand for electricity could be satisfied with a combination of renewable power sources. Jacob justification is a cost benefit analysis whereby the external costs of coal, natural gas and oil far exceed the investment costs for WWS.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. How we invest our resources is really a reflection of our priorities. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 28

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 23, 2020

Massachusetts may become just the third state, after California and New York, to begin planning for a managed decline of its conventional natural gas industry. In other words, if Massachusetts is to meet its legally binding carbon targets, there is no future for fossil gas. Progress on emissions from heating lags power sector.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Natural gas’s notorious price volatility has been making a comeback — in a big way. The UK is experiencing a natural gas price surge so severe that the government stepped in to prevent a cascade down the supply chain that threatened to create food shortages. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Phrases such as "clean coal", "carbon footprint", "coal country", and "renewable natural gas" - which have made it into policy documents and the mouths of global leaders - have been popularised by PR agencies, it notes. As major players in the climate arena, they have shifted public discourse and the prospects of climate action.".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

We believe in a fossil free economy in 2050, so I think it's very clear we want to be out of petroleum and natural gas by 2050," he says. If I had a different personality, I would have stopped a number of times, because in 2008 it was extremely challenging to raise money for these types of long-term projects. "If

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

To stand any chance of meeting Paris Agreement targets, the world needs to avoid repeating the mistakes of the last global financial crisis in 2008, which saw money poured into high carbon industries and infrastructure that baked-in rising greenhouse gas emissions for the decade that followed. million new jobs, the report said.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Spending the past year as Ecolab’s president and COO, he joined as an executive vice president in 2008 after capping off 15 years as Nestlé’s head of corporate sales in Europe. It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 million in Neighborhood Grants.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

DOE intends to invest about $3.2 Many of the utilities setting net-zero carbon goals by midcentury are relying on advanced nuclear reactors to provide carbon-free energy to replace closing coal and natural gas plants. TerraPower is partnered with the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a nuclear industry joint venture formed in 2007.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 27, 2023

When you look back on 2008—when U.S. should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high. .” should also set a natural gas production record this year, and exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will reach a new high.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2021

And while the RGGI program has coincided with a reduction of emissions for the states involved, the New York Times reported in April 2019 that it was “unclear” if this was due to the program or to other factors, such as the lower cost of renewable energy, new technologies, and natural gas replacing coal power.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For more on the climate implications of CCS, see DeSmog’s accompanying news analysis: How Carbon Capture And Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft. What CCS Projects Promise.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Conference Buyers Guide: An Introduction to Purchasing Carbon Offsets (Workshop):Offsets can help companies reduce their carbon footprints and drive much-needed investment to projects that lower emissions or draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But not all offsets are created equal. Yet forest projects come with challenges.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This year's expected improvement contrasts with what happened following the 2008 global financial crisis, which saw strong deteriorations in the CO2 intensity of energy supply for several years after the initial economic shock.". But the long term trends increasingly suggest a global emissions peak is coming sooner rather than later.

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Mr. Sustainability

JANUARY 25, 2021

It contains natural gas, helium, and carbon dioxide. But in the absence of strong government support or regulation, the oil industry might not have the will to invest enough. Once separated from carbon dioxide, natural gas is used for heating and cooking in homes and sold to power plants to generate electricity.

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Mr. Sustainability

JUNE 27, 2020

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. I feel like the 2008 financial crisis was just a dry run for this.” So was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008. It is summer 2020. Let me explain.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 7, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise. In Kingston, mismanagement of the plant’s massive coal ash landfill resulted in a notorious billion-gallon spill in 2008.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The last decline in CO2 emissions was during the 2008 recession. Both changes were part of President Trump’s effort to fulfill his campaign promise to revive the US coal industry, which is in decline due to competition from cheap natural gas, not regulation, according to the Brookings Institution.

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