'Alternative' energy and less energy

30/10/19
Author: 
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions

Researchers with the PICS Transportation Futures for BC project have calculated how much electricity would be needed if only electric vehicles (cars, trucks, SUVs and buses etc) were driving on BC’s roads by the year 2055.

25/10/19
Author: 
James Peters
Chief Joe Alphonse (l) at the grand opening ceremony (Image Credit: Tŝilhqot’in Nation)
Oct 21, 2019

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The Tŝilhqot’in Nation has opened the largest solar farm of its kind in the province.

According to a news release from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, the facility lies on two hectares of land at the Riverwest Sawmill, about 80 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The 1.25 MW solar farm consists of 3,456 modules that generate electricity to sell to BC Hydro.

25/10/19
Author: 
James Peters; Monica Lamb-Yorski
Chief Joe Alphonse (l) at the grand opening ceremony (Image Credit: Tŝilhqot’in Nation)
Oct 21, 2019

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The Tŝilhqot’in Nation has opened the largest solar farm of its kind in the province.

According to a news release from the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, the facility lies on two hectares of land at the Riverwest Sawmill, about 80 kilometres west of Williams Lake.

The 1.25 MW solar farm consists of 3,456 modules that generate electricity to sell to BC Hydro.

15/10/19
Author: 
Mike Miller
Sydney Strike - Photograph Source: Marcus Coblyn – CC BY 2.0

Climate justice advocates enthusiastically report that the recent Global Climate Strike involved 7.6 million people in 6,500 events that took place in 185 countries, supported by 8,500 websites, 3,000 companies, and 73 trade unions. Behind the headlines is this fact: with the exception of Morocco, no country in the world is complying with its Paris Climate Accord commitment, and the U.S. has dropped out of the international agreement.

15/10/19
Author: 
Kyunghee Park, Molly Schuetz and Yoolim Lee
October 10, 2019
 
25/09/19
Author: 
Jonathan Watts
 Vaclav Smil: ‘People ask me if I am an optimist or a pessimist and I say neither.’ Photograph: David Lipnowski

We could halve our energy and material consumption and this would put us back around the level of the 1960s. We could cut down without losing anything important. Life wasn’t horrible in 1960s or 70s Europe. People from Copenhagen would no longer be able to fly to Singapore for a three-day visit, but so what? Not much is going to happen to their lives. People don’t realise how much slack in the system we have.

The Observer          21 September 2019

14/09/19
Author: 
Bill Henderson

None of the parties have the ambitious policies required to really tackle the climate crisis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

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