Energy

Wall Street Giants Set to Smash Profit Records Off Global Hunger, Energy Crisis

10/09/22

Author:

Jake Johnson

Link:

Common Dreams

Farmers in Egypt harvest wheat to increase local production in order to relieve the shortage on May 14, 2022. (Photo: Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sept. 9, 2022

"People's misery makes capitalists' superprofit," said one critic as commodity traders make a killing off worldwide food and energy chaos.

Russia's war on Ukraine has wreaked havoc on global commodity markets, driving up energy and food prices and exacerbating hunger emergencies around the world.

"We're in a market where speculators are driving prices up."

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Future renewable diesel plant will turn food crops into fuel

06/09/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

Parkland Corporation wants to build a facility in Burnaby, B.C., to turn canola oil into renewable diesel. Photo by Bernard Spragg / Flickr (CC BY 1.0)

"A big concern in climate circles is that the ripple effect of converting food crops to fuel makes it hard to calculate the true greenhouse gas emissions of biofuels. Increased demand for food crops for fuel can cause deforestation in other parts of the world, which, in turn, creates more emissions, John Reilly, former co-director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, told Canada’s National Observer."

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada needs a massive battery

03/09/22

Author:

Rob Miller

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National Observer

Renewable energy power storage is successfully being added to the North American grid to keep the lights on, computers running and the electric vehicles charging. Photo by Pixabay/Pexels

Aug. 29, 2022

The federal government is developing Clean Energy Regulations (CER) to help move the electrical grid to net-zero emissions. The regulations, among other measures, will encourage adding more renewable energy to the grid, which will eventually replace coal and natural gas electricity generation in Canada.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada

Climate Change

Energy

Toward a Public Pathway to Energy Transition - South Africa

24/08/22

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United Front to Address Loadshedding

Link:

The Bullet

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

Author:

Angelique Chrisafis

Link:

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

Labour - Unions

Social

Class Struggle or Degrowth

17/08/22

Author:

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

Author:

Patrick Mazza, The Raven

Link:

Popular Resistance

July 9, 2022

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Reconciliation with a ‘Heavy Heart’

14/07/22

Author:

Ben Parfitt

Link:

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

Author:

Grace Blakeley

Link:

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

Author:

Judith Lewis Mernit

Link:

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

Energy

"People's misery makes capitalists' superprofit," said one critic as commodity traders make a killing off worldwide food and energy chaos.

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.

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