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What Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Gets Wrong About Heat Pumps

DeSmogBlog

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Are oil and gas majors starting to explore a future beyond fossil fuels?

Business Green

Last year the coronavirus crisis shook the industry to its core, with the sudden drop in fuel demand from planes, cars, and power plants sparking a price crash that briefly saw the cost of a barrel of oil fall into negative territory.

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Local Governments and Grassroots Activists Stop Spate of US Carbon Capture Pipelines

DeSmogBlog

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. Midwest to be injected and stored underground. Navigator’s $3.5

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Janet Yellen on financing a sustainable future

GreenBiz

In particular, the plan adopts a technology-neutral Clean Electricity Standard, which puts us on the path to achieving 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2035. That is, it allows the market to determine the best way to meet the Clean Electricity Standard. It supports electric vehicle manufacturing and adoption.

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Revealed: Scale of The Telegraph’s Climate Change ‘Propaganda’

DeSmogBlog

Wind power is not cheap or secure. The campaign resulted in a flurry of negative Telegraph opinion pieces on the subject – many falsely conflating the result with a condemnation of the UK’s net zero targets. Its new electric vehicle (EV) channel, launched this year, houses a mix of features, reviews and opinion articles.

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The future of energy in the US could hinge on permitting reform and greater investment in R&D

Renewable Energy World

Energy powerhouses, Ernest Moniz and Lynn Good, talk politics, R&D, stakeholder engagement, transmission, EVs and a host of other topics around the future of energy in the US. Good also explained that in order to support the coming wave of electric vehicles, lots more infrastructure will need to be built.

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Event - New Frontiers in Renewable Energy and Resources

Green Market Oracle

This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) in the turbines generator or can be convert this mechanical power into useful power like electricity. Now wind power technology is showing rapid growth and much more helpful than conventional power generation.by