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Subsidies to biomass plant in Teesside must be stopped says environmental coalition

Envirotec Magazine

The MGT Teesside plant – which is the largest dedicated biomass-burning power station in the world – will burn over one million tonnes of imported wood pellets a year. The UK Government awarded it subsidies under the Contract for Difference (CfD) scheme in April 2014, and it was to start running by September 2018. MWh at current rates.

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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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An Open Letter to the U.S. Government

Unsustainable

But we’re overdue for more from the governments that we, as tax-payers, voters, and (generally) law-abiding citizens, have contracted to manage our societies. In 2014 , the average emission of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to the atmosphere per person was 4.6 Here is a case in point. metric tons in France, 6.5

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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. and Europe? as an example.

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The Top Energy Stories Of 2021

R-Squared Energy

Consumers saw that, as gasoline prices rose to their highest levels since 2014. Europe’s natural gas crisis. If you live in Europe, this was probably your top energy story of the year. Europe suffered from a natural gas shortage this year. Functioning nuclear power plants continue to be shut down (e.g.,

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

DeSmogBlog

Since the 1960s when Europe first began importing Russian gas, Washington perceived Russian energy as a threat to U.S. leadership and Europe’s energy security. Soon after pipeline construction began in 2018, the United States passed a law threatening sanctions on the Swiss ship laying the pipe. Delayed by U.S. leadership.

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Big Oil’s Been Secretly Validating Critics’ Concerns about Carbon Capture

DeSmogBlog

The official launch of the Boundary Dam carbon capture and storage facility at a coal power plant in Canada on Oct. Instead it’s very expensive and untested,” Pascoe Sabido, researcher and campaigner with Corporate Europe Observatory, said during a recent webinar. Credit: SaskPower , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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