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Archives: Energy
Climate Godzilla Stirs: Heat and CO2 Records ‘Obliterated’
By James Dyke | (The Conversation) | - - And another one bites the dust. The year 2014 was the warmest ever recorded by humans. Then 2015 was warmer still. January 2016…
Does Fracking give you Cancer?
By Tom Giesen | (Informed Comment) | - - Alarming and world-shaking new findings have emerged about the dangers of waste water from hydraulic fracturing ("fracking"). Researchers have assessed the potential health…
Oil Glut Blues and the last hurrah of the Fossil Fuel Bubble
Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Three and a half years ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) triggered headlines around the world by predicting that the United States would…
After largest Methane Leak in US History, will California Ban Fracking, go for Solar & Wind?
The Tree | - - A natural gas well that leaked over four months in California is finally under control, paving the way for the “road to recovery” and justice. The Aliso…
Great Barrier Reef Endangered: Ocean turning Acidic from our Our Coal, Oil, Gas emissions
By Mathieu Mongin, Andrew Lenton, Jennifer Skerratt & Mark Baird | (The Conversation) | - - Those of us who have been fortunate enough to have travelled to spectacular coral reefs marvel…
The Saudi-Russian Oil Price Freeze is about Power, not Money
By Nafis Alam | (The Conversation) | - - Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world’s two most powerful oil producers, have reached a tentative agreement to freeze oil production at its current…
Mideast Arms Purchases Continue Despite Falling Oil Prices, Austerity
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Feb 22 2016 (IPS) - The continued decline in oil prices is threatening to have a direct and indirect impact…
Can Morocco Create a New Middle East through Green Energy?
By Moha Ennaji | ( Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The global oil-price bust has devastated economies across the Middle East and North Africa. Having seen severe price declines in…
Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian & Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | - - "This is the election where we're finally focusing on the corrosive affect of money in…
Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones
By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and…
Oil Dictator Dominos
By Bill Emmott | Project Syndicate | - - LONDON – Price movements as large and rapid as those that have upended oil markets since June 2014 are sure to cause pain…
The Surprising Reasons Oil Prices Keep Falling
By Marcelle Arak and Sheila Tschinkel | (The Conversation) | - - Global stock markets have been in a tailspin this week. And the sinking price of oil received at least some…
Top 6 Wind Energy stories Today: Cost down 60% since 2009
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. This press release from Windpower Engineering notes that in 2015: "The German electricity system has reached a new milestone, generating 85.4 billion…
The Oil Pricequake: From Russia to Saudi Arabia & Iran, a suddenly Perilous World
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - As 2015 drew to a close, many in the global energy industry were praying that the price of oil would bounce back…
The Question isn’t of Saving the World via Renewables but of how Much can be Saved
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Humanity is not abandoning fossil fuels fast enough to avoid some massive changes to our world's climate, with all the implications that change…
Carbon Emissions stall as renewables move into top gear
The Tree | - - As the news broke ... that global greenhouse gas emissions reached a plateau in 2014, a flotilla of announcements from both countries and companies at the Paris…
With Oil at $36/barrel, Have Democrats just Won the Presidency?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The price of petroleum fell Monday to levels not seen since the crash of 2008, at one point hitting $35 a barrel in…
Sell that Coal Stock: The future belongs to Wind and Solar, COP21 or No
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Historically, the transition from one energy system to another, as from wood to coal or coal to oil, has proven an enormously…