DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

“If you were a fossil fuel project, you would have been shut down long ago.” Since 2019, hundreds of gray whales have also washed up dead on the West Coast, where offshore wind development is only now getting underway. “Hear this message: We’re here to save the whales!”

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months from three jobs with companies that have an interest in fossil fuels. Linden Energy has a 50 percent stake in Bulgaria’s largest private natural gas company, Overgas, and has downplayed the impact of fossil fuels on the climate crisis.

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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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R-Squared Energy

JULY 9, 2020

Today, I want to cover the production and consumption of natural gas. Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels. It is also fastest-growing fossil fuel, with a global 2.6% shale gas boom propelled the U.S. into the global lead among natural producers. In 2019, the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 11, 2021

Today I delve into the data on natural gas production and consumption. had dominated global natural gas production until the 1980s, at which time it ceded the lead to Russia. The Middle East has also grown its natural gas production at a rapid pace over the past 50 years, and was on pace to take the global lead.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

billion into fossil fuel projects around the world since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015, undercutting global efforts to combat the worsening climate crisis. IFC trumpeted the transaction, arguing that it would help Pan American produce “cleaner fuels,” which meant diesel with a lower sulfur content.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 5, 2022

Talk to fossil fuel execs, government ministers, and industry reps these days and they’ll all tell a similar story: Blue hydrogen is the clean fuel of the future that will help Canada and the world get to net-zero emissions. It’ll power everything from airplanes to long-haul trucks and will even heat our homes.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) was high on the agenda at New York Climate Week last week, where critics of the technology raised concerns it would be used to extend the life of the fossil fuel industry. Terrell Natural Gas Processing Plant (“Val Verde”) Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 1972-present Location: Southeast of Ft.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 6, 2020

electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S.

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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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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. But fossil fuel companies aren’t quite shaking in their boots yet.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 4, 2020

So, how does the consumption of renewables and coal compare to our consumption of petroleum, natural gas, and nuclear power? What this graphic shows that the previous graphics don’t show is that it was natural gas that took the biggest share of coal’s market. quads of natural gas. quads of fossil fuels, 11.5

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

utility industry: the rise of renewables as a potentially less costly and risky alternative to fossil fuels. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline's cancelation marks the natural gas market’s “third high-profile victim in the last six months,” Wang wrote in a Monday note. The others include Williams Co.’s

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

The campaigns have been deployed across a number of social media platforms and are part of a global effort to give “millennials a reason to connect emotionally” with oil and gas firms, and to tackle their perception as “the bad guys”. When influencers that people know and respect talk about something, they’re likely to believe them.” ‘We

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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. The favoritism mirrors a regional trend as Tennessee doubles down on natural gas.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans. The opposite has proven to be true.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 28, 2020

The Review covers energy data through 2019, and provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Natural gas contributed the second largest increment with 36% of the increase. Natural gas production grew to a new record, with U.S.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 12, 2020

The importance of replacing fossil fuels with renewables is significant. A report commissioned by the Guardian found that replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy could curb the rise in global temperatures by reducing CO2 emissions by 70 percent by 2050. oil demand is expected to experience a 9 percent decline.

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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. The favoritism mirrors a regional trend as Tennessee doubles down on natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Danish energy company Ørsted has sold off its LNG unit but will hang on to its gas trading business. The firm, previously known as Danish Oil and Natural Gas, sold its upstream fossil fuels business to Ineos in 2017 and is phasing coal out of its generation mix by 2023. That trend is set to continue.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

The fossil fuel industry continues to use a long list of deceptive tactics to conceal environmental destruction that harms Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities. That’s the top finding of a newly released NAACP report titled “Fossil Fuel Foolery.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The City of Eugene, Oregon, initiated a process on November 17 that could lead to a ban on new natural gas hookups in residential and commercial buildings, following in the footsteps of dozens of other cities around the country. Negotiations have dragged on since 2019 with little to show for it.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

JPMorgan Chase is the world’s biggest financier of fossil fuels, according to environmental organisations. In 2020 the bank pledged to end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and phase out loans for coal mining. Fossil Finance.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on February 2 proposed including nuclear energy and natural gas in its plans for building a climate-friendly future, dividing member countries and drawing outcry from environmentalists as “greenwashing.” Germany, Europe’s largest economy, demanded that gas be part of the plan.

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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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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2021

Fossil fuel companies could face legal challenges over their misleading advertising, after a DeSmog investigation uncovered the extent of their “greenwashing” Environmental lawyers ClientEarth have put companies on notice with the publication of the Greenwashing Files. ExxonMobil – “Powering Progress”.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 6, 2021

If you live in Oregon, it’s likely you’ve been bombarded with misleading PR from the local utility company, Northwest Natural, about the potential for what the industry is calling renewable natural gas (RNG) — methane captured from places like landfills and repurposed into energy for homes.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

BP will cut its oil and gas output by 40 percent by 2030 and increase its low-carbon investment tenfold by then, the company announced Tuesday as it begins to detail its 2050 net-zero strategy. How BP plans to change from 2019 to 2030. gigawatts at the end of 2019 to 50 gigawatts, with 500 terawatt-hours “traded.”

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Nearly two thirds of social media posts put out by six major European fossil fuel and energy companies since the end of 2019 present a “green” image of the company, despite the majority of their business activity remaining in fossil fuels, reveals new analysis by Desmog.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 18, 2019

Despite the rapid growth of renewable energy over the past decade, fossil fuels still dominate global energy consumption. According to BP’s recently-released Statistical Review of World Energy 2019 , fossil fuels represented 84.7% of global energy consumption in 2018.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 16, 2020

The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables combined with the fall in consumption as a consequence of the global corona crisis is pushing it over the edge and into “terminal decline”. According to the 2019 BP Statistical Review of World Energy , U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 29, 2021

Combined, the six CEOs lead organizations that have poured over $1 trillion in financing into the fossil fuel industry since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, based on the numbers tallied in a 2021 report from Rainforest Action Network and other environmental advocates.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

Former UK Energy Minister and original COP26 President Claire O’Neill has been cleared to take up a role at a business consultancy known for running “astroturf” campaigns for fossil fuel companies, despite warnings from the body that approves such appointments. Oil and Gas Industry Groups.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 19, 2021

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing scrutinizing wasteful fossil fuel subsidies. That should have been reason enough for Devon to be here today, answering questions with significant implications for our public lands and natural resources,” Rep. On May 19, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But at a time when the climate emergency is worsening and the Democrats’ climate agenda is sputtering, DeFazio’s anointed successor for his relatively safe Democratic seat is a candidate who has a long record of supporting Jordan Cove, the now-defunct liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project that southern Oregonians battled for more than 15 years.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The efforts of Indigenous peoples in North America have helped block or delay a long list of major fossil fuel projects over the past decade, successfully leading to the avoidance of a massive amount of greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report. and Canada in 2019. The numbers don’t lie. November, 2016.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“I’m done with fossil fuels. We’re starting to see divestment all over the world.” - CNBC’s Jim Cramer The fact that investors, insurance companies and banks are abandoning the fossil fuel industry is a clear sign that coal, oil and gas are in the final stage of their energy dominance. I’m done with fossil fuels.

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