DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In recent months, the BBC has created content for a number of oil and gas companies, including the French fossil fuel company Engie, which owns a number of coal-fired power plants and relies heavily on gas for its energy production. In 2017, the BBC itself produced a guide to the “seven ways to spot businesses greenwashing”.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

But the British grid, which ran on 27 percent renewable energy last winter, is performing well compared to others in Europe when it comes to outages, according to a 2022 report from the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). “It

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Charged

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Over the years, the company has pioneered a number of advanced powertrain technologies, including both natural gas and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. In Asia and Europe, the company has had its subcompoact Honda e three-door hatchback on sale for a few years. None of those were battery-electric vehicles, however.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 1, 2020

was the largest end-market in Europe overtaking Germany. In 2017, oil major BP took a 43 percent stake, which has since been converted into a full 50:50 joint venture. “We were the biggest developer in Europe, purely by virtue of what we had done in the U.K. Deployment ramped up quickly and between 2014-2016, the U.K.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

ACOBA has recommended a series of conditions be imposed on O’Neill’s FTI work, similar to existing ones that apply to her consultancy, ClaireON Ltd, through which her FTI role, as Senior Advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, will be conducted. FTI’s Brussels headquarters is the same as that of the Hydrogen Council.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

GW in 2012 to 130 GW in 2017, according to data from the Asia Europe Clean Energy Advisory. Solar-rich Xinjiang Province, in the country’s northwest, saw curtailment in excess of 30 percent in 2016, according to official data. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

“The main driver of this government's energy policy is fortifying the state's position in the market,” said Brian Gaylord, principal analyst for Latin America and Southern Europe at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. “Within the electricity sector, this means bolstering state utility CFE.".

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 21, 2024

Senate Budget Committee, the document lists an objective to “highlight that natural gas coupled with CCS is an affordable and scalable option for the provision of hydrogen as an energy carrier.” Released by the U.S. This should be a major point of any document.”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

That's one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify. The Nikola Two is intended for North America, and the Nikola Tre is available in Europe, Asia and Australia.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2020

Green gas specialist CNG Fuels has opened two further refuelling stations for heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) in the UK this week, in anticipation of surging demand for renewable biomethane over the next year and beyond.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

Rolfes was speaking during a visit last month to the German port of Wilhelmshaven, site of a new terminal to unload liquefied natural gas (LNG) — natural gas supercooled for shipping on specialized tankers. German banks like Deutsche Bank are funding this export of gas from the United States,” Rolfes told DeSmog.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 17, 2022

2) The wholesale price of natural gas has increased sevenfold over the past 18 months. Britain's elderly housing stock is acknowledged to be amongst the least efficient in Europe. 4) There are widespread concerns throughout Europe about gas availability, caused in large part by Putin's war in Ukraine.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Industry voice: Emissions from transport are growing, but innovative companies can help Europe meet its climate targets, according to Schroders. Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU fell by 3.8 Road travel makes up around 70 per cent of Europe's total greenhouse gas emissions from transport.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 2, 2021

It follows five years of campaigning at a local level to shut down the twin ethylene and liquid natural gas (LNG) plants at Mossmorran. Formed in 2017, Mossmorran Action Group brought together residents fed up with the increased duration and intensity of production activity at the plant.

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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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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Headquartered in the outskirts of Paris, the Bolloré Group — under the name of its holding company, Compagnie de l’Odet — sits at 177 on the Fortune 500 Europe list of largest companies for 2023 , with 19.77 A 2017 YouTube video depicts on-the-ground logistics management for “an operation dedicated entirely to Shell” in Port Gentil, Gabon.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A massive greenwashing operation is quietly unfolding across Europe, affecting thousands of investors who believe they are supporting climate-friendly initiatives. Claudio Descalzi in 2017. There is nothing to stop Eni from doing so, and the company has vowed to increase its production of oil and natural gas in years to come.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Austin Master receives truckloads of drill cuttings bored out of the Marcellus and Utica shale and of radioactive sludge that forms at the bottom of tanks and trucks that hold toxic liquids brought to the surface of fracked oil and gas wells. Credit: Ohio Department of Natural Resources, July 5, 2017 inspection report.

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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

The OGCI said the range was "consistent with the reduction needed across the oil and gas industry by 2025 to support the Paris Agreement goals" and would result in a reduction of between 36 and 52 million tonnes of CO2e per year by 2025, assuming constant levels of marketed oil and gas production.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Despite closing its coal plants in 2017 and promising to decarbonise its power supply, Iberdrola has built two gas-fired power stations in Mexico since 2019 and has been pushing to open two more, although an Iberdrola spokesperson said it did not expect these to proceed due to opposition from the Mexican government. Wind and Gas.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We need to get rid of coal, natural gas and petroleum. Coal, natural gas and petroleum are the culprits here: the burning of these fuels tend to lead to inefficiency. All the gas we need in the world can be made from, you guessed it, biogas. I am assuming the U.S. The same principles apply however.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The insurer’s directors hold current board memberships at Koch Industries , Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL), ExxonMobil, and utility company Eversource Energy which services Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, and has been targeted by campaigners for its support for the natural gas industry.

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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. Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate. Rosalind 'Roz' Brewer, COO and Group President, Starbucks.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2021

That’s one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify.

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

That could be enough to offset gas imports from Russia at least once, and as many as two times over, equating to between 7.4 per cent of the UK's total net natural gas imports, which were 485.1 He added that this has been a major driver of inflation and economic slowdown across Europe. per cent and 15.7

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Under growing pressure to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, developers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are turning to questionable claims about “carbon neutrality,” “net-zero,” or “green LNG,” in order to pass muster with governments, investors, and society, who are becoming increasingly anxious about the climate crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Credit: Margaux Tjoeng/Follow the Money All 10 platforms ceased production in 2017, but Total Energies EP Netherlands and AF Decom only finalised a contract to demolish them in October 2022. A gas pipe from an offshore fossil fuel platform that has been wrapped and marked NORM — indicating that it contains radioactive material.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 2, 2020

According to the World Health Organization, more than 200,000 deaths in Europe every year can be attributed to particulate matter alone. Nitrogen dioxide was responsible for around 78,000 deaths in Europe in 2014, according to the European Environment Agency. In 2017 alone, there were about 93,161 vessels in existence.

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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. ” Ulf Mark Schneider, CEO since 2017, likes to boost markets in areas he’d like to accelerate.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Given the challenges of energy transition, Europe is optimally positioned to lead this movement by implementing political and economic policies that will incentivize oil and gas companies to leave fossil fuels behind and make the transition to deep geothermal. He founded his law firm in Berlin in 1992. 4 [link] , access: 28.02.2023.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

On May 8, 2017, a drum of radioactive oilfield waste from Australia arrived at a remote West Texas disposal site operated by local oil and gas environmental services company, Lotus LLC. This drum of waste entered the United States aboard a Singapore Airlines cargo jet, appropriately packaged in a steel drum.

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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. Clearwater began operating in November 2017, according to one drilling industry news site.

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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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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to this role, Hartmann was an Associate Partner with McKinsey and Company and leader in McKinsey’s Electric Power and Natural Gas practice in Australia where he led engagements focused on strategy and operations. She/Her/Hers) Sustainability Strategist, Futerra London, UK, Europe J. Alice Roche-Naude. Crew Group (‘19).

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 28, 2021

That’s a recipe for higher oil prices, and subsequently higher gasoline and natural gas prices. 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.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Bay Area Gas Bans Credit: CBS News In the last 60 days, the 3 cities that make up the bulk of the Bay Area’s population have instituted some form of a natural gas hookup ban for new construction (typically with an exception for restaurants if it covers commercial space). this is down from about $18,000 in 2017.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A natural gas demonstration plant in Texas tests carbon capture technology. In a November 2017 document marked “confidential,” Shell discusses the CCS opportunity in the U.S. But this gas-as-a-guiding-star underpinning doesn’t appear in the framework itself, a point not lost on Democratic lawmakers.

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