DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The leader of Cold Lake First Nations has revealed the initiator of a major carbon capture project in Northern Alberta has not consulted with local Indigenous communities. They’re ramming it down our throats,” said Chief Jacko during a media scrum outside a Carbon Capture Canada conference held on Tuesday.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2022

The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate-wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy. However, Toogood is a chief executive at Johnson Matthey , a FTSE 250 multinational which markets technology that can produce blue hydrogen “from natural gas at scale”.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Out of the gate, a majority (53%) of British Columbians either already have a heat pump or feel positively about them, compared to 20% who have a negative impression or do not think a heat pump is right for them. Meanwhile, the percentage of people with a negative impression of heat pumps decreased from 20% to 15%.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Work at the Puga Valley geothermal project in Ladakh, India by the the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has currently been stalled following an incident in 2022 where geothermal fluids flowed into the Puga Stream, prompting complaints from civil society and environmental organizations.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Whether that energy is turned into renewable fuels or clean electricity, it can reduce carbon emissions and resource depletion. Biofuels can also help reduce the carbon footprint of transportation, making them a valuable part of a sustainable energy mix. There is a lot of latent energy in our waste.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

While Canada’s federal government is interested in helping Canadians transition off oil and gas for home heating — and is incentivizing the installation of heat pumps — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has repeatedly warned against them. Roughly one-third of residents in Canada’s Atlantic provinces heat their homes with home heating oil.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A coalition of industry, power and oil and gas firms in the U.K. are collaborating on a net zero industrial cluster that they believe will establish a template for any country seeking a carbon-neutral economy. Its biomass generators will be connected to carbon capture, utili z ation and storage (CCUS) te chnology.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

This story is part of a DeSmog series on the influence wielded by the gas lobby in Europe BERLIN, Germany — Germany’s push to achieve climate neutrality by 2045 could, by some projections , soon turn the vast network of natural gas pipelines powering the country’s homes and industry into one of Europe’s biggest stranded assets.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

They found that in order to have a 50 percent chance of achieving this target, 58 percent of known oil reserves, 59 percent of natural gas reserves, and 89 percent of coal reserves cannot be extracted. This means that global oil and gas production must decline 3 percent on average every year until 2050. “I degrees Celsius (2.7

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Today's carbon-negative fuel. Exploring the potential for fleet emissions reductions through renewable natural gas. Why placing environment, social and governance principles at the center of COVID-19 recovery places makes sense for resilience and the bottom line. Join the webcast at 1 p.m.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Efforts by oil and gas companies to build massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities on B.C.’s government who helped lead the development process for LNG Canada, a major gas project currently under construction on the northwest coast by the likes of Shell, Petronas, and PetroChina.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

’s power sector will be operating on a negative-emissions basis by 2033 at the latest if the country sticks to its plan to reach net-zero emissions across the economy by 2050, according to system operator National Grid ESO. Unabated natural-gas use will be halved by 2038. actually hitting its targeted carbon reductions.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 9, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Italian advocacy group ReCommon aim to build on a similar case targeting Anglo-Dutch oil major Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force Eni to slash its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Eni has set a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050. “Eni took a bath of green paint,” Abbate said.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed the growing importance of Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) for companies. After all, a substantial fraction of global carbon emissions arise from the production, transportation, and consumption of fossil fuels. zero carbon emissions (NZE) by 2050. According to the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

government has a new goal to make it much cheaper to suck carbon dioxide out of the air. The Carbon Negative Shot is the third program in the Earthshots series. We need governments to push the button of innovation here.”. But there are open questions about how permanent the carbon storage is.

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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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The International Energy Agency (IEA) says global natural gas consumption rebounded by 4.6% in 2021, more than double the decline seen in the gas market in 2020. Last year closed with record high spot prices for gas in Europe and Asia, as the natural gas supply remained constricted.

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Business Green

APRIL 29, 2020

Global carbon emissions are set to drop a record eight per cent this year, with lockdowns on public and economic life introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic delivering an unprecedented blow to fossil fuel demand, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). A recent analysis by Carbon Brief noted that emissions have to fall 7.6

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The government must now address the market for all the low carbon energy technologies of the future, including hydrogen and CCUS, argues Siemens UK & Ireland CEO Steve Scrimshaw. Of course, the pandemic means we're not dealing with 'business as usual' and it's right that the government's time is dedicated to this unprecedented issue.

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Grist

JANUARY 31, 2024

An increasingly large majority of people the world over want to see their governments taking decisive action. Another aspect of that future is limiting carbon-intensive forms of travel. Is this a realistic version of how we might address the carbon intensity of air travel? where long-distance travel is heavily restricted.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Plans for Europe's biggest gas-fired power station have cleared a major hurdle after the UK's High Court today rejected claims the government acted unlawfully in giving the North Yorkshire project the go-ahead, despite concerns it could undermine the UK's net zero emissions goal.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Our new paper , published in Nature, revealed just how tight the world’s remaining carbon budget is likely to be. Our analysis showed that total fossil fuel production is limited by a global carbon budget.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

In 2018, Germany appointed a commission drawn from industry, government and civil society to find a broadly acceptable way to close the nation’s substantial coal mining and power plant infrastructure. Even with compensation, utility RWE thinks it will face a €900 million ($1.06 billion) loss from the deal.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. The group has since lobbied to delay government plans to ramp up heat pump installation targets in a consultation that closed in June.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Increased federal incentives for “carbon management” technologies are catalyzing a surge in proposed carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in the United States, from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest to California. CCS proponents are touting their support of local community involvement in developing these sites.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

Court of Appeal upholds government's decision to approve controversial project, despite claims it would undermine UK climate targets. It also argued wind and solar power would be more cost-effective for bill payers compared to new gas power capacity. The move paves the way for Drax to begin development of the project.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 13, 2021

And according to IEA’ Renewables 2020, Launch Presentation from November 10, 2020, global wind and solar PV’s combined installed capacity will surpass that of natural gas in 2023 and coal in 2024. Renewables will become the largest source of electricity generation in 2025.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Without a clear and ambitious government plan zero carbon home heating by 2050 remains a pipe dream, a new analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre warns. At present home heating - the bulk of which is provided by the fossil fuel gas grid - accounts for 13 per cent of UK emissions. per cent from 2018, UKERC said.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The report expounds the need to slow ever-rising methane levels, noting that atmospheric concentrations of the gas have more than doubled since pre-industrial levels and are increasing faster now than they have at any point since the 1980s.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

The world has already found some innovative ways to sustainably produce energy without the reliance on coal, oil, and natural gas. Since no fossil fuels or other pollutant forms of energy are required, wind energy will provide your business with clean, low carbon energy. However, there is still more to be done. The pros. •

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The falling cost of wind and solar power significantly reduces the need for carbon capture and storage technology to tackle climate change, a new paper has argued. In the longer term, offshore wind emerges as a key source of low-carbon electricity, meeting 45-60 percent of the demand increase in 2050.”. by the end of the century.

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