'Alternative' energy and less energy

Maine Voters Reject "Green" High-Voltage Transmission Line

11/11/21
Author: 
Robert Bryce
Link: 
Forbes
A homemade sign posted on a telephone pole in protest of Central Maine Power's controversial ... [+] ASSOCIATED PRESS

Nov 5, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Energy
Protest - Revolt
Social
USA
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Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will

09/11/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock.

3 Nov 2021

Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts.

Since 1995 there have been 25 global conferences on climate change. At every one our so-called political leaders have kicked the can down the road and sung from a bright green hymnbook.

Greta Thunberg has disparaged the refrain as nothing more than “blah, blah, blah.”

She is right of course. Blah, blah blah has kept emissions rising, along with energy spending and its twin sibling unbridled economic growth.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Industry Spin
Labour - Unions
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
Social
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Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future

09/11/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Link: 
The Tyee
Globe and hand image - A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere.

 4 Nov 2021

We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two.

[Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.]

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Industry Spin
Labour - Unions
Social
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Portland Tax Funds Clean Energy Projects for Marginalized Communities

04/11/21
Author: 
Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
Link: 
The Oregonian/Oregon Live
Portland, Oregon - (Stephanie Yao Long/Staff)

Another reason why Canadian municipalities need to acquire the power to levy taxes beyond simple property taxes.

               -- Gene McGuckin

Mar. 26, 2021

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Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Social
Urban
USA
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Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA

02/11/21
Author: 
Simon Evans
Link: 
Resilience
Solar panels

October 27, 2021

The world’s best solar power schemes now offer the “cheapest…electricity in history” with the technology cheaper than coal and gas in most major countries.

That is according to the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook 2020. The 464-page outlook, published today by the IEA, also outlines the “extraordinarily turbulent” impact of coronavirus and the “highly uncertain” future of global energy use over the next two decades.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Climate Science
Social
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We need radical policies to reach net zero. Here’s a fairer way to do them

02/11/21
Author: 
Polly Toynbee
Link: 
The Guardian
‘Boris Johnson pretends climate answers can be conjured up ‘without so much as a hair shirt in sight’.’ Johnson at the SECC, Glasgow, on the second day of the Cop26 summit. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

[Editor: Interesting within the System tactic?]

Nov. 2, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Climate Change
Protest - Revolt
Social
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Dirty energy: Coal versus cars

26/10/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
Gasoline cars are even more CO2-intensive than coal power plants. And in Canada, it is gasoline, not coal, that has been driving climate failure. Original photo credits Sarunas Burdulis and Ruben de Rijcke (Wikimedia)

[Editor: But shouldn't we be putting our efforts into public transit not buying EVs?  see: Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26  https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/article/deconstructing-electric-vehicles-eve-glasgow-cop26]

Oct. 26, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Climate Change
Coal
Oil - Pipelines
Transportation
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Deconstructing Electric Vehicles on the eve of Glasgow COP26

24/10/21
Author: 
JUDITH DEUTSCH
Link: 
Counterpunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Energy
Transportation
Urban
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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors

15/10/21
Author: 
Sean Sweeney
Link: 
New Labor Forum
Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons

August, 2021

In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to be locked in mortal combat with large fossil fuel corporations that continue to mine, drill, and blast through the earth’s fragile ecosystems, dragging us all into a grim and sweaty dystopia.

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Climate Change
Energy
Industry Spin
Labour - Unions
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Make electric vehicles lighter to maximize climate and safety benefits

15/10/21
Author: 
Blake Shaffer , Maximilian Auffhammer & Constantine Samaras
Link: 
Nature

Electric vehicles are here, and they are essential for decarbonizing transport. The United Kingdom, California, the European Union, Canada and others plan to phase out the sale of fossil-fuelled vehicles as early as 2030 — Norway plans to do it sooner. Consumers are interested. In May, the Ford Motor Company unveiled an all-electric version of its best-selling pick-up truck, the F-150 Lightning.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
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