Climate Change

19/05/21
Author: 
Earl Peach
I'm attaching Earle Peach's statement to the court.  Yesterday he was given a two-week sentence (plus a one-year period of probation following his release!) for contempt of court in violating the TMX injunction.
 
Please send letters of support to Earle Peach, Bravo North, North Fraser Pretrial Centre, 1451 Kingsway, Coquitlam, B.C., V3C 1S2.
 
In solidarity,
 
Will Offley
 
18/05/21
Author: 
Earle Peach

I'm attaching Earle Peach's statement to the court.  Yesterday he was given a two-week sentence (plus a one-year period of probation following his release!) for contempt of court in violating the TMX injunction.

Please send letters of support to Earle Peach, Bravo North, North Fraser Pretrial Centre, 1451 Kingsway, Coquitlam, B.C., V3C 1S2.

In solidarity,

Will Offley

 

18/05/21
Author: 
Emma Graney

MAY 18, 2021

Investment in any new oil and gas developments must stop immediately, electricity should be 90 per cent renewable by 2050 and governments must “close the gap between rhetoric and action” if the world is to meet its goal of net-zero emissions and limit the worst impacts of climate change, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Martha's Vineyard -PxHere

MAY 16, 2021

The Biden administration has approved the 800-megawatt, US$3-billion Vineyard Wind project off the Massachusetts coast, the United States’ first utility-scale offshore wind farm and a key plank of the new White House effort to shift the country’s electricity system to renewables.

The 84-turbine project will be located off Martha’s Vineyard, near Cape Cod, The Associated Press reports.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
 Wind turbines - Max Pixel

MAY 16, 2021

The transition off fossil fuels could be a lot less expensive than standard net-zero models assume, as long as countries speed up deployment rather than waiting for (even) cheaper low-carbon and energy-efficient technologies, concludes a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

18/05/21
Author: 
Primary Author Jessica Omukuti
Drought in Africa - FMSC/Flickr

May 16, 2021

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Fracking - FracTracker Alliance/flickr

MAY 16, 2021

A grassroot group from Ireland is looking for international support to persuade the Irish government to call for a global ban on oil and gas fracking at the United Nations General Assembly in mid-September, just six weeks before this year’s UN climate conference, COP 26, convenes in Glasgow.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Solar panels - WikimediaImages/Pixabay

MAY 16, 2021

The lack of a predictable, long-term development plan is holding Canada back from emerging as a global leader in renewable energy production, according to a new international market assessment by London, UK-based IHS Markit.

That “disconnect between ambition and action is one of the major factors that pulled down Canada’s rank, even though the country has strong fundamentals,” the Financial Post reports, citing the IHS analysis.

18/05/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix
Drought - Free-Photos/Pixabay

MAY 16, 2021

Farmers in parts of the Prairies are worrying about crop failures and water-deprived livestock, and communities are already facing local water restrictions and at least one forest fire, as the region enters a period of near-record dry conditions.

18/05/21
Author: 
Oliver Milman
 Forest - The world is still experiencing an overall loss of forests ‘at a terrifying rate,’ researchers say. Photo by Robert Balog / Pixabay

May 18th 2021

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

An area of forest the size of France has regrown around the world over the past 20 years, showing that regeneration in some places is paying off, a new analysis has found.

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