'Alternative' energy and less energy

Hawaii Firm Turns Home Water Heaters into Grid Batteries

19/03/23

Author:

The Energy Mix

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Mar. 14, 2023

A Honolulu company is helping low-income families in Hawaii reduce energy costs while contributing to a more sustainable grid—by linking household water heaters to create a virtual power plant, effectively repurposing the ubiquitous appliances into grid batteries.

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How Big of a Climate Betrayal Is the Willow Oil Project?

16/03/23

Author:

David Wallace-Wells

Link:

New York Times

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Mar. 16, 2023

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Is BC LNG Really Green?

16/03/23

Author:

Andrew MacLeod

Link:

The Tyee

LNG Canada’s Kitimat project will reduce global emissions, say proponents. Critics say it will bring a big increase in its first few decades. Photo from LNG Canada.

Mar. 16, 2023

BC Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon says exporting more liquefied natural gas from British Columbia will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

But is he right?

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B.C. about to decide on biggest pipeline yet

09/03/23

Author:

Kai Nagata

Link:

National Observer

A proposed gas pipeline in B.C. would run through the Skeena watershed. Photo by Brian Huntington / Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition

Mar. 9, 2023

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman will soon decide the fate of Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project — and possibly his government. First approved in 2014, the 48-inch pipeline would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast.

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As EV batteries consume more lithium, report warns against increased mining of it

02/03/23

Author:

Jason Vermes

Link:

What on Earth - CBC radio

Batteries destined for Volkswagen electric cars stand stacked at a Dresden, Germany, production facility. Lithium is increasingly needed for the batteries that power electric vehicles. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Feb. 25, 2023

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Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas?

28/02/23

Author:

Rebecca Solnit

Link:

The Guardian

A climate activist holds banner in front of the NYC office of JPMorgan Chase bank's new headquarters during an ‘Occupy Park Avenue’ protest on 29 October 2022 in New York City. Photograph: Ron Adar/Rex/Shutterstock

Feb. 28, 2023

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A realistic ‘energy transition’ is to get better at using less of it

22/02/23

Author:

Richard Heinberg

Link:

Resilience

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Sane, logical article about a green transition. It mentions "systemic roadblocks" at one point, but fails to consider what is surely the largest--our dominant, global, for-profit, eternal-growth economic system.Which is not to argue that a post-capitalist system will make the green transition a piece of cake. Even with genuine democratic social and economic planning, we'll still need to "get better at using less."

-- Gene McGuckin

Feb. 17, 2023

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Risk of ‘death spiral’ for Enbridge increases: rate hike application

22/02/23

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Death Spiral - Illustration by Ata Ojani

Feb. 22, 2023

Fossil fuel giant Enbridge faces the risk of a “death spiral” as the energy transition to renewables unfolds, according to evidence the company filed with the Ontario regulator. A death spiral could occur when customers, fed up with the increasing costs of gas, switch to cleaner and cheaper sources of energy.

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‘Monster profits’ for energy giants reveal a self-destructive fossil fuel resurgence

11/02/23

Author:

Oliver Milman

Link:

The Guardian

Offshore oil and gas production in the Cook Inlet oilfield of Alaska. Photograph: PA Lawrence, LLC./Alamy

Feb. 9. 2023

Last year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions

While 2022 inflicted hardship upon many people around the world due to soaring inflation, climate-driven disasters and war, the year was lucrative on an unprecedented scale for the fossil fuel industry, with the five largest western oil and gas companies alone making a combined $200bn in profits.

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Mining companies eye critical minerals in Quebec boreal forest, raising carbon release concerns

09/02/23

Author:

Stephane Blais

Link:

National Observer

An unidentified watercourse is seen in Nemaska, James Bay region in Northern Quebec on October 25, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Stephane Blais

Feb. 8, 2023

About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by human activity, those forests have been accumulating and sequestering immense quantities of carbon for centuries.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Last year’s combined $200bn profit for the ‘big five’ oil and gas companies brings little hope of driving down emissions

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