The Tennessee Valley Authority, the nation’s largest public utility, is shuttering eight coal-fired boilers at plants in Alabama and Kentucky, and more reductions could be in store over the next few years. At issue, apparently, is the high cost of …
Category: Fossil Fuels
Canada’s Use of Renewables Belies Underlying Eco-Devastation
UK journalist Emma Websdale notes on my piece on Canada’s use of renewables: “Thanks for sharing this Craig, I had no idea that Canada was so ‘emissions friendly!’” Thanks for writing, Emma. It’s ironic. Canada has renewable resources coming out …
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Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” Public Education Campaign Is Just the Start
What the Sierra Club has done with its “Beyond Coal” campaign is pretty impressive, making a huge swath of the American public aware of the health and environmental issues associated with coal-fired power plants – not only their CO2 emissions, …
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Tagged with: Bernie Sanders, coal-fired power plants, Mitch McConnell, Shaun McCutcheon, Supreme Court
New Wrinkle in Chevron/Ecuador Case
I know many readers are following the Chevron/Ecuador case, in which the oil giant has been ordered to pay $18 billion to clean up the environmental catastrophe they deliberately caused while operating as Texaco in the 1960s – 1990s, and …
Shell Oil, the Future of Transportation, and Coal in the Grid-Mix
I’ve mentioned a few times that even Shell Oil believes the market for oil (gasoline and diesel – liquid hydrocarbons) is going away, and will be very small by the year 2060 – almost entirely replaced by electric vehicles – …
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What Actually Happens As We Move Away From Coal as an Energy Source?
Everyone on Earth who knows anything about our environment challenges would like to see the elimination of coal-fired power plants at the maximum feasible rate. Yet few (myself included) have a rock-solid understanding of the implications of moving off coal. …
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No Fracking in France
Anyone who expects the French to fall in line with conventional thinking on energy (or on anything, really) grossly misunderstands these people. Part of what attracts me to their culture is that they couldn’t care less what the rest of …
Prediction: Obama Will Axe the Keystone XL Pipeline
I have a good feeling that U.S. President Obama will axe the Keystone XL Pipeline. My reasoning has nothing to do with the noise that environmentalists are making, though I’m not discounting that effect altogether. I’m thinking that none of …
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What Will Happen If the Fossil Fuel Industry Ignores Climate Change Pressures?
Here’s news of a current study that suggests that, if it ignores climate change pressures, the fossil fuel industry will suffer a level of public relations so damaging that it will have a crippling financial effect. From your lips to …
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Good Reasoning on Natural Gas Fracking
Here’s a reasoned, lively but civil debate on the pros and cons of natural gas fracking. The guy (pro) generally does a very good job, though I agree more with the woman – particularly that gas, while better than coal, …
