'Alternative' energy and less energy

The shady group determined to block our climate solutions

19/01/24

Author:

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson

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Jan. 15, 2024

A shadowy new organization attacking the climate efforts of Canadian cities is infiltrating Google searches and ads in the New York Times and other publications online.

The group — Voice for Energy — bills itself as a platform for Canadians to "speak up" against municipalities implementing measures to reduce or ban natural gas to "protect" people’s so-called "energy choice."

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Blinded, sexually assaulted, silenced: the war over lithium, Argentina’s ‘white gold’

19/01/24

Author:

Harriet Barber in Jujuy, Argentina

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The Guardian

A man carries the Wiphala flag – which represents the native peoples of the Andes – at the protest camp in Purmamarca, Jujuy province. The demonstrators, many of them from the Indigenous community, are angry about changes made to the state constitution, and the growth of mining. Photograph: John Owens

Jan. 11, 2024

In the country’s ‘lithium triangle’ activists say Indigenous land protections have been removed and protests against mining violently repressed

The first time, they came at 2am and without a warrant. Rosa* was alone. She was gagged, her eyes covered, and her hands bound with a cable tie.

“I was paralysed. I felt someone choking me,” Rosa recalls. “They called me a socialist, a whore. I was in my underwear; they touched me. One put his fingers inside of me.”

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Massive new $11 billion project could revolutionize US power grid: ‘What’s amazing … is the speed of deployment’

16/01/24

Author:

Jeremiah Budin

Link:

yahoo.com

Massive new $11 billion project could revolutionize US power grid: ‘What’s amazing … is the speed of deployment’

Jan. 15, 2024

The American Southwest is about to get a lot more clean energy. California-based developer Pattern Energy just closed on $11 billion of non-recourse financing to construct a massive wind and transmission project across New Mexico and Arizona, as Electrek reported.

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Premier Lies About Near Collapse of Alberta Hydro

16/01/24

Author:

Max Fawcett

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National Observer

A woman covers her face walking down the street as freezing temperatures as low as -38 C hit the city of Calgary, Alta., Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol

Jan. 16, 2024

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How This Climate Activist Justifies Political Violence

14/01/24

Author:

David Marchese

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The New York Times

Jan. 14, 2024

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2024 could be the year we end oil and gas expansion in B.C.

13/01/24

Author:

Kai Nagata

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Dogwood BC

Jan. 9, 2024

Major pipelines over budget, cancelled or facing fierce opposition

Just three days before Christmas, British Columbians received a surprise gift: a pipeline rejection. The BC Utilities Commission denied the application by FortisBC to build a $327 million gas pipeline in the fast-growing south Okanagan.

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Thermal Energy Networks--Decarbonizing Cities, Creating Green Good Union Jobs

13/01/24

Author:

Sara Van Horn

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In These Times

A fitter installs blue plastic pipes in the thermal solenoid room of a deep geothermal power plant. (PHOTO BY JENS BÜTTNER/PICTURE ALLIANCE VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Jan. 9, 2024

In New York and states across the country, thermal energy networks are helping unite the climate and labor movements while hastening a just transition away from fossil fuels.

In early 2021, an award-winning design for a “thermal energy network” caught the eye of John Murphy. The design was part of a proposal to decarbonize Empire Plaza in Albany, N.Y., and it featured a series of underground water pipes that balanced the heating and cooling systems of adjacent buildings.

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Canada's five biggest banks make misleading 'sustainable finance' claims: securities complaint

10/01/24

Author:

an Bickis

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National Observer

A copy of a settlement agreement from the Ontario Securities Commission from August 2015 is photographed in Washington, on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. File photo by The Associated Press/Jon Elswick

Jan. 9, 2024

Canada's big five banks are potentially misleading investors with their use of terms like sustainable finance, according to a complaint to securities regulators by a climate advocacy group.

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Canada’s next big LNG project may be the sleeper climate issue of 2024

10/01/24

Author:

Seth Klein

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National Observer

A delegate is silhouetted while walking past the ExxonMobil booth during the LNG2023 conference, in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, July 10, 2023. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Jan. 10, 2024

One of the biggest climate stories in Canada in 2024 might well prove to be a project that, so far at least, few in the country have heard of — Ksi Lisims LNG.

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