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Will Covid-19 Permanently Shrink The Fossil Fuel Industry?

R-Squared Energy

Even demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG), which has seen strong growth in recent years, plummeted , and cargos destined for Asia had to be rerouted to Europe, adding to a supply glut there. A Place for Nuclear Power. Nuclear power can be part of a low-carbon sustainable future along with renewable energy.

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How Bad Relations With China Could Mess With the Energy Transition

GreenTechMedia

In June 2014, Prime Minister David Cameron signed a £14 billion ($18.5 In October 2015, Cameron and China’s President Xi Jinping signed another deal for China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) to take a one-third stake in the new Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant. is a case in point. Back in the U.K,

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Pipeline Politics Hits Multipolar Realities: Nord Stream 2 and the Ukraine Crisis

DeSmogBlog

Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. On the demand side, economic revival from the pandemic boosted demand for gas in Asia as well as Europe. With the decommissioning of coal and nuclear power stations, utilities turned to natural gas.