Energy

The world is off track in its efforts to curb global warming in 41 of 42 important measurements and is even heading in the wrong direction in six crucial ways, a new international report calculates.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

How do you take clean AC mainstream? This global health organization has some ideas.

10/11/23

Author:

Claire Elise Thompson, Associate Editor

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Grist

Nov. 8, 2023

The vision

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.”

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, in a 2009 interview

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550 Groups Give BC an "F" on Climate

09/11/23

Author:

Martin MacMahon and Emma Crawford

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Vancouver City News

The B.C. government has received a string of failing grades, and the BC Climate Emergency Campaign, an advocacy group, says it’s not on track to meet its climate targets. Kate Walker has the details of the group's 2023 climate report.

Nov. 7, 2023

See video at link here: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/11/07/bc-climate-emergency-fracking-lng/

B.C.’s support for fracking and LNG is under scrutiny in this year’s edition of the BC Climate Emergency Campaign’s progress report.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors

05/11/23

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Nov. 3, 2023

Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Is White Hydrogen a Magic Climate Solution

04/11/23

Author:

Louise Boyle Senior Climate Correspondent

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Independent

White House Announces $7 Billion Push to Replace Fossil Fuels With Hydrogen

Nov. 2, 2023

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Can US Defeat Russia in Lithium Battery War?

02/10/23

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John Helmer, Moscow

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johnhelmer.net

KICK START OR KICK OVER — CAN THE US DEFEAT RUSSIA IN THE LITHIUM BATTERY WAR?

Sept. 28, 2023

In January of this year the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported the reserves of the nine leading countries in the world which mine lithium, the new fuel to power electric batteries. Chile led, followed by Australia, Argentina, China, and the US which claims to have one million tonnes. Russia was left out of the USGS chart.

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‘Beginning of the End’ for Oil and Gas as IEA Predicts Pre-2030 Peak

23/09/23

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Primary Author: Mitchell Beer

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The Energy Mix

Sept. 19, 2023

Global oil and gas demand will start to fall before 2030, marking the “beginning of the end” of the fossil fuel era, the International Energy Agency (IEA) declared last week, in an op ed penned by Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Council vote means natural gas won’t be used to heat new homes in Nanaimo

01/09/23

Author:

Greg Sakaki

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Nanaimo News Bulletin

Nanaimo city council voted to accelerate implementation of the province’s zero carbon step code, which will effectively eliminate natural gas as an energy source for heating space and water in new homes starting a year from now. (News Bulletin file photo)

Aug. 29, 2023

City council votes 5-4 to accelerate adoption of zero carbon step code

Natural gas will not be the primary heat source in new homes built in Nanaimo starting next year.

City council, at a meeting Monday, Aug. 28, voted 5-4 to accelerate adoption of the zero carbon step code to 2024, six years ahead of the province’s timeline of 2030.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

LNG Canada wants to go electric. The B.C. government wants taxpayers to cover the cost

01/09/23

Author:

Sarah Cox

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The Narwhal

The BC NDP government wants Ottawa to contribute $1.5 billion to the $3-billion cost of building a new transmission line to provide electricity for LNG Canada and two other liquefied natural gas projects, new metal and critical minerals mines and the Port of Prince Rupert, according to a document received through freedom of information legislation. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Aug. 25. 2023

Confidential documents show taxpayers could be on the hook for a ‘fossil fuel subsidy’ to help supply electricity to LNG Canada, a consortium of some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies

The B.C. government wants taxpayers across Canada to pay half the $3-billion bill for a new electric transmission line supplying power to the province’s LNG industry, including projects owned by some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies, according to a confidential briefing note obtained by The Narwhal.

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Energy

Nov. 8, 2023

The vision

City council votes 5-4 to accelerate adoption of zero carbon step code

Confidential documents show taxpayers could be on the hook for a ‘fossil fuel subsidy’ to help supply electricity to LNG Canada, a consortium of some of the world’s most profitable oil and gas companies

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