Energy

Toward a Public Pathway to Energy Transition - South Africa

24/08/22

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United Front to Address Loadshedding

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August 23, 2022

On Wednesday, July 27th, 2022, representatives of unions and social movements met in Johannesburg to discuss the country’s energy crisis. The representatives agreed to form a united front to resist privatisation of the power sector and to propose alternative ways to address both the immediate crisis and the longer-term challenges posed by the decarbonisation of South Africa’s energy system. What follows is a work-in-progress statement that captures the discussion and conclusions reached at the end of the meeting.

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French MPs poised to approve €20bn inflation relief package

23/08/22

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Angelique Chrisafis

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The Guardian

The vote follows weeks of heated debate and negotiations at the national assembly. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA

France vs. Inflation--Pension Hikes, Rent Caps, Renationalize Hydro

Aug. 4, 2022

Cost of living measures include pension rises, a cap on rent increases and a civil service pay rise

French lawmakers are to definitively adopt a range of new measures to help struggling households cope with rising energy and food prices, as well as an updated budget that will pay for France to renationalise the electricity company EDF.

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Energy

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Class Struggle or Degrowth

17/08/22

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Gray Maddrey, originally published by Uneven Earth

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Resiliance

Without class struggle the emancipatory potential of degrowth will fail to be realized. A revolutionary pedagogy can help to unify them.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate and the Collapse of World Order

17/07/22

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Patrick Mazza, The Raven

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Popular Resistance

July 9, 2022

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Reconciliation with a ‘Heavy Heart’

14/07/22

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Ben Parfitt

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The Tyee

Chief Roland Willson: ‘To say reconciliation is working would be not developing Site C and working with us to identify better options, not ignore everything we say.’ Photo by Zoë Ducklow.

July 13, 2022

BC says a deal with the West Moberly First Nations over Site C damage shows reconciliation in action. The nations’ Chief disagrees.

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, tasked with informing Canadians about what happened to Indigenous peoples in residential schools, defined reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining a mutually respectful relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in this country.”

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Interest Rate Hikes Are Class War

11/07/22

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Grace Blakeley

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Tribune

In the 1980s, Thatcher's government pursued monetarist policies in their fight against Britain's workers. (Credit: Getty Images)

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Bitcoin’s energy gluttony sparking a crypto backlash

07/07/22

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Judith Lewis Mernit

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National Observer

July 5, 2022 - The first time Jackie Sawicky learned that a Bitcoin mining operation was coming to Corsicana, a rural Texas city 60 miles south of Dallas, was on April 27, when she happened upon a Facebook video of a meeting at the local public library. The featured speaker was Chad Everett Harris, the upbeat executive vice-president of Riot Blockchain, a Bitcoin mining company based in Castle Rock, Colo.

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Energy

The expansion of natural gas infrastructure puts energy transitions at risk

05/07/22

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Claudia Kemfert, Fabian Präger, Isabell Braunger, Franziska M. Hoffart & Hanna Brauers

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Nature Energy

[Web page editor: "Super quotable right through with quantified science arguments against LNG esp should be great ammo; should be sent to every mp and mla demanding a reply" - a comment by Bill Henderson on the Landwatch List]

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West Moberly First Nations reach partial settlement over Site C Dam

27/06/22

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Josh Grant

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CBC News

This photo from the fall of 2021 shows the progress being made on the construction of the $16 billion Site C dam. (B.C. Hydro/submitted)

Jun 27, 2022

Indigenous community's civil claim argued hydroelectric project violates Treaty 8

The West Moberly First Nations have reached a partial agreement with B.C. Hydro and the provincial and federal governments over a lawsuit that says the massive Site C hydroelectric dam in northeastern B.C. would destroy their territory and violate their rights.

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Inflation, Scarcity and the Road to Survival

21/06/22

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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Resilience

June 10, 2022

originally published by The Tyee

Part 2 [Read Part 1 here]

People just want to go on doing what they’re doing. They want business as usual. They say, “Oh yes, there’s going to be a problem up ahead,” but they don’t want to change anything. — James Lovelock

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Energy

Cost of living measures include pension rises, a cap on rent increases and a civil service pay rise

BC says a deal with the West Moberly First Nations over Site C damage shows reconciliation in action. The nations’ Chief disagrees.

Indigenous community's civil claim argued hydroelectric project violates Treaty 8

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