DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Indigenous delegates said they had been amazed at the “wilful ignorance” they encountered when demanding global banks cease financing new fossil fuel projects on their ancestral lands in what is today North America. The scheme would supercool fracked gas from the Permian Basin for export as liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 19, 2021

government’s recently released hydrogen strategy—a thoughtful plan to create and use clean hydrogen—contains an implicit acknowledgement: the world is moving away from fossil fuels and toward low-carbon alternatives. isn’t the only jurisdiction to see clean hydrogen as the new natural gas. s natural gas industry?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. Chunky capacity additions, largely from offshore wind, alongside a spate of coal plant closures and an overall decrease in demand have all accelerated the trend. Two will those will close next spring. The sector now wants access to the CFD process.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

A major natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania was canceled this week in the face of a thicket of legal obstacles and intense local opposition. Durham PA, 2015. Typically, if a project shows that there is a commercial need for the gas, FERC simply approves the certificate. Jordan Cove is all but dead. Credit: ScubaBear68.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

climate talks in Egypt demanded European governments halt a “dash” for the continent’s natural gas. At least nine gas deals have been struck so far on the sidelines of the negotiations – known as COP27 – five involving Africa. percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot be Europe’s gas station.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. refiners had a significant demand for crude oil, but they had spent decades investing billions of dollars into processing heavy, sour crude oil. Fresh on the heels of a new U.S. Annual U.S.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And yet it would be a mistake to view renewables as an active battleground in the culture wars, losing sight of their real value as key technologies that can deliver low-cost electricity at a time when demand is growing. The move away from fossil fuel generation, meanwhile, has been slow, with its share falling only 3% between 2015 and 2021.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 26, 2024

Now, the Dutch NGO that successfully sued Shell over its climate plans is taking those financial backers to court in a case that could help reverse the global banking sector’s support of fossil fuel firms and their activities. liquefied natural gas (LNG). Credit: Sabrina Bedford. Credit: Ceescamel , CC BY-SA 4.0

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. LNG boom threatens to release vast amounts of methane, a powerful climate pollutant that is the main component of natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

A major cold snap led to record electricity usage in the Canadian province of Alberta over the weekend, culminating in demands from provincial utilities to limit consumption. Trudeau won strong support from Canada’s Atlantic provinces during the 2015 election, but that support has steadily eroded in recent years.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 per cent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance. And it could be cheaper than producing hydrogen from natural gas.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

That spend would be around 20% lower than what was invested across all of the country’s generation resources between 2015 and 2019. . Most of the new transmission buildout is projected to be driven by a near doubling of electricity demand between 2020 and 2030. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now, the city is at the forefront of the country’s dash to break its dependence on Russian gas. On Saturday, a newly built jetty is due to welcome the Norwegian-flagged Höegh Esperanza, a 280-metre vessel capable of offloading cargoes of natural gas supercooled into liquid form, then shipped across the ocean in specialised tankers.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

She was invited on the show (1:24) to discuss the National Grid’s ‘demand flexibility service’ scheme, under which households and some businesses receive payments for using less energy at times of peak demand.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2022

Indigenous leaders have called on Citigroup to stop financing oil and gas projects in the Amazon, saying the bank’s activities contradict its climate pledges by putting the threatened ecosystem at greater risk. Second Largest Fossil Fuel Funder. But Indigenous leaders speaking ahead of the U.S. banks in the coming weeks.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

“I am here to sound the alarm alongside my German colleagues: This is destruction masked as economic development, and we will do everything we can to protect our homes and to stop it,” said Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , a New Orleans nonprofit working with communities affected by the fossil fuel industry.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2021

A number of big polluters, including fossil fuel companies, support and are involved in the UK’s CCS plans. . oil major Chevron, in partnership with other fossil fuel giants. It also asserted that fossil fuels need to be rapidly reduced by 2030, and completely phased out thereafter.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Sean Gallup/Getty Images Tens of thousands of negotiators, activists, and corporate execs have descended upon Dubai to wrangle over the future of fossil fuels. Can governments broker a deal to phase out the oil, coal, and gas causing climate change? The future of fossil fuels Let’s start with some backstory on COP28.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

In fact, in a 2015 survey completed by 365 economists, 81% said that pricing carbon is the most efficient way to cut pollution. Since 2008, the carbon price has substantially reduced the consumption and demand for fossil fuels including: Reducing demand for gasoline by between7% and 17% by 2011.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Arlene Karidis Wed, 07/15/2020 – 01:00 One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is “clean hydrogen” made from trash. Clean hydrogen could cut greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel by up to 34 percent, reported Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 17, 2021

Factors like abundant land and energy resources, status as a major energy exporter, skilled workforce, over-reliance on imported fuels, and declining reserves make hydrogen a very excellent proposition to solve a lot of the country’s energy troubles, both short and long term. International certification scheme for hydrogen.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The world's decarbonisation efforts may have taken a massive step forward since the 2015 signing of the Paris Agreement, when the global economy was commonly thought to be on track for 3-4C of warming.

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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. In 2015, Jacobson began work on WWS maps for individual countries, with Ukraine being the first. Congress between 2015 and 2019. Companion Report.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2024

energy mix is heavily reliant on natural gas. It makes up the greatest share of electricity generation and home heating fuel use in the country. During the pause, the DOE will review the impacts of exporting natural gas on both domestic energy prices and the climate. Over the past decade, the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 31, 2020

In a unanimous decision this morning, the seven judges on the Supreme Court ruled that the government's 2017 emissions reduction plan - the key pillar of its climate policy - falls far short of the requirements of Ireland's 2015 Climate Act, according to the Irish Independent.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits. Assumptions that carbon prices would be fully passed through are often based on experiences with more direct fuel taxes such as excise taxes. for coal, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel, based on demand-and-supply elasticities.”

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Low Carbon Prosperity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The fossil fuel supply chain involves many steps, each with embedded profits. Assumptions that carbon prices would be fully passed through are often based on experiences with more direct fuel taxes such as excise taxes. for coal, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel, based on demand-and-supply elasticities.”

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2023

Grid connections plan: Separately, too, the government said it was working with Ofgem and indyustry to reform the grid connections process both at transmission and distibution levels, which it said was currently delaying both generation and demand projects in parts of the country.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. China’s electricity consumption was 33 percent higher in 2020 than in 2015. percent lower in 2020 than 2015. . However, climate concerns, trouble financing new coal plants, switching to gas, and cheaper renewables have changed that forecast.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For this reason, the hydrogen market today is dominated by steam reformation of natural gas, it’s essentially a fossil fuel. Both partners able to meet electrolyzer demand arising from their individual portfolios of hydrogen projects. For example, by partnering with Air Liquide – which is taking a 25.1%

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

"Despite the marked increase in government ambitions, CO2 emissions have increased in every year since the Paris COP in 2015 (bar 2020)," it continues. The longer the delay in taking decisive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a sustained basis, the greater are the likely resulting economic and social costs." billion by 2050.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

For nearly four years, Piedmont Natural Gas — one of Duke’s wholly owned subsidiaries — and the state’s other major gas distribution company have stymied incentives for new high-efficiency homes, claiming with scant evidence that the rebate scheme will lose them customers.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

My ears perked up when Bren Haase, the current executive director of the CPRA, profusely thanked Eric Beightel, the head of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council established in 2015. T-shirts with sponsors’ names worn by guests at a Katrina 10-year anniversary event in New Orleans’s Ninth Ward on August 29, 2015.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Ridesharing demand crashed with COVID-19, and Lyft became part of the frontline delivery and medical access infrastructure. After the contentious exit of David Crane , who was leaning hard into the disruptive power of renewables, COO Gutierrez became CEO overnight in 2015. Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO, Cisco Systems.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Already, politicians and major corporations, including oil and gas producers, are hard at work promoting the idea that the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goals can be met if the financial world coalesces around “net-zero” climate initiatives. special envoy on climate, has called humanity’s “last best chance” to curb the climate catastrophe.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

After Congress lifted a ban on crude exports in late 2015, oil and gas production in the Permian Basin soared while domestic consumption remained flat—leading to a massive build-out of pipelines and other infrastructure that culminated in the U.S. Between 2015 and 2020, U.S. oil and gas production.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Once again, we will (and we must ) transition from fossil fuels to into a zero-emission world. That is because the fuel generally used by the marine industry is the most toxic substance imaginable: Heavy Fuel Oil, commonly referred to as HFO or IFO. All the technology that is required exists and is matured.

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