Energy

Carbon Emissions Are Rising – But There Is Hope

October 29, 2014 Kevin Gosztola, www.dissenter.firedoglake.com Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

The new edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) was released by Germanwatch and CAN Europe in Warsaw at the UN climate talks today. The results show emissions worldwide have climbed to a new peak and no single country is yet on track to prevent dangerous climate change. "Unexpectedly, for the first time our Index also draws a cautious picture of hope", says Jan Burck, the author of the Index that ranks the climate protection performance of the 58 highest emitters worldwide. "We see positive signals towards a slow down in the increase in global CO2 emissions. And China - the world's biggest emitter - improved its performance in climate protection." Canada and Australia are the worst performers of all the industrialised countries, also Japan dropt several ranks.

10 Reasons To Turn Off An Idling Car

October 28, 2014 Sustainable America, www.ecowatch.com Create! Climate Change, Energy, Environment

It happens, we know. You’re picking up a friend, waiting for a food order or just trying to warm up your car on cold morning—and you leave it running for a little while. It’s easy to let those minutes tick by, but getting into the habit of turning your car off when you’ll be idle for more than 10 seconds can make a big difference. Here’s why: 1. It saves gas: If you idle for 5 minutes warming up your car in the morning, 3 minutes at the bank drive-thru and 4 minutes listening to the end of an NPR story in your driveway, you’ve burned enough gas to drive 24 miles. 2. It saves money: Americans spend a whopping $13 million every day on unnecessary idling. (That’s 3.8 million gallons of fuel, wasted!) Also, idling is actually illegal in some states, and violators can pay steep fines if caught. . .

FERC Approves Another Fracked Gas Pipeline

October 28, 2014 Scott Waldman, www.capitalnewyork.com Educate! Energy, Environment, Fracking

ALBANY—A pipeline that will bring more of Pennsylvania's fracked gas to New York cleared another key federal hurdle on Friday. The Constitution Pipeline will run 124 miles from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, which is west of Albany. The 30-inch pipeline would cross through the gas-rich Southern Tier counties of Broome, Chenango and Delaware, which could be the center of a fracking industry if Gov. Andrew Cuomo were to lift the six-year moratorium. On Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released the final environmental impact statement for the project, which found it would cause minimal environmental damage.

Duke Energy Tightens Security Ahead Of ‘Pitchfork Protest’

October 28, 2014 Ivan Penn, www.tampabay.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Protest

Concerned about security at a "Pitchfork Protest" planned for Wednesday outside Duke Energy Florida headquarters, the utility and the event's organizers have hired off-duty police officers to oversee safety. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, a Tennessee-based nonprofit environmental organization, hopes to bring hundreds to protest Duke's treatment of its customers in recent years. Protesters plan to wield pitchforks and torches like it's 1785. Duke has hired an off-duty St. Petersburg police officer and the Southern Alliance has hired two. Sgt. Joseph Pratt, who coordinates the hiring of off-duty officers, said Duke "just felt they wanted an officer there to make sure none of their employees were harmed or none of their rights infringed upon."

Komen Foundation Protested For Pinkwashing Fracking

October 28, 2014 Katie Colaneri, www.stateimpact.npr.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Protest, Sports

A controversy surrounding a major oil and gas services company’s breast cancer awareness campaign drew protestors to downtown Pittsburgh on Sunday. Football fans packing into Heinz Field for the Steelers-Colts game were met by a handful of people handing out flyers and holding up signs warning passersby to “think before you pink.” At half time, Baker Hughes CEO Martin Craighead planned to hand over a $100,000 check to Susan G. Komen, the world’s largest breast cancer organizations which funds screenings, treatments and research. The company is also giving out 1,000 hot pink drill bits to its customers around the world, along with breast cancer awareness and screening information.

U.S. Tar Sands Action: Reports From Front Lines

October 28, 2014 Ben Jervey, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Tar Sands

For the past five months, activists from the Utah Tar Sands Resistance have camped out on the sage-swept, high plateau lands known as PR Springs in eastern Utah. From the site—where the first tar sands mine in the United States is planned, and preliminary clearing work is already underway—you can’t miss the majestic Book Cliffs that tumble from the East Tavaputs Plateau and the canyons full of tall conifers. Book Cliffs is an area cherished by sportsmen and sportswomen—the public lands a place where Rocky Mountain Elk roam free, a place beloved by hunters and anglers and campers and backpackers. Book Cliffs is also an area presently threatened by oil, gas, and tar sands development. Activists with Peaceful Uprising and the Utah Tar Sands Resistance are working to stop the tar sands projects in their tracks.

American Tribes Oppose Kinder Morgan Pipeline Expansion In B.C.

October 27, 2014 Mychaylo Prystupa, www.vancouverobserver.com Resist! Canada, Energy, Environment, Indigenous Rights

With an eagle soaring overhead, American and Canadian Coast Salish people gathered on the banks of the Fraser River in Chilliwack, B.C. to do prayers in advance of their presentations to oppose the $5.4-billion Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the National Energy Board hearings. “We can’t sustain the continued destruction,” said American Deborah Parker, a councilwoman of the Tulalip tribe from the U.S. state of Washington on Wednesday. “This is heaven! Right here. This is heaven. And if we take care of that heaven. Then she will take care of us.” Texas-headquartered Kinder Morgan is proposing to triple the flow of Alberta oilsands bitumen to B.C’s coast, by crossing rivers and territories considered sacred to indigenous people on both sides of the 49th parallel.

In France 21 Year Old Dam Protester Killed

October 27, 2014 Revolution News!, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Dam, Energy, Environment, France, police brutality, Protest

17 hours after police attacked again the ZAD resistance in Testet, south of France, a 21 year old ZADist was found dead. During the clashes, witnesses say they saw a man collapse and noticed the police taking him away. On Saturday, October 25th, 5,000 people from all over France gathered at Testet in opposition to the dam project and the violent repression of the ZAD resistance, which is ongoing for years, and has increased in the past months. Police attacked the protestors to remove them, and some militants battled the cops until late in the night. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas grenades; several protestors were badly injured. Later in the night, firefighters and police claimed they have found the body of a man in the woods, while eye witnesses who were there say the body was found at police roadblocks.

Democrats Increasingly Backing Oil & Gas Industry

October 27, 2014 Amy Harder, www.online.wsj.com Educate! Campaign Finance, Democratic Party, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

When House Republicans took up a measure to speed the government's reviews of applications to export natural gas, a move long sought by energy companies, the unexpected happened: The bill won "yes" votes from 47 Democrats. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Cory Gardner (R., Colo.), anticipated some Democratic backing, but not that much. Rep. Steve Israel of New York, who leads the Democrats' House campaign arm, was a yes, as was House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland. Both voted in 2012 to restrict oil and gas exports. The energy boom is shaping a new kind of Democrat in national politics, lawmakers who are giving greater support to the oil and gas industry even at the risk of alienating environmental groups, a core of the party's base.

EU Leaders Pull Handbrake On Clean Energy

October 25, 2014 Green Peace, www.greenpeace.org Organize! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, European Union (EU)

Brussels – Despite considerable opposition by some governments, in the early hours of Friday morning EU leaders agreed three targets for carbon emission reductions, renewable energy and energy efficiency for 2030. But these targets are too low, slowing down efforts to boost renewable energy and keeping Europe hooked on polluting and expensive fuels, said Greenpeace. Next year, the new European Commission, led by Jean-Claude Juncker, is expected to table legislation which will make these targets a reality in EU countries. This legislation will have a profound impact on energy bills, energy security and efforts to cut emissions across Europe.

Blockade Shuts Down Methane Gas Storage Project

October 24, 2014 Stefanie Spear, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Water

A dozen people put their bodies on the line today in a last-resort protest to stop a major gas storage expansion project that has been authorized to begin construction tomorrow on the shore of Seneca Lake, the largest of New York’s Finger Lakes. The protesters formed a human blockade in front of the Texas-based Crestwood Midstream company gate, shutting down the Finger Lakes facility from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. A larger rally and the continuation of the human blockade and protest will take place tomorrow, Oct. 24, starting at 10 a.m. at the gates of the Crestwood compressor station site on Seneca Lake. The “WE ARE SENECA LAKE” actions are taking place to protest the methane gas storage expansion project that will store highly pressurized, explosive gas in abandoned salt caverns on the west side of Seneca Lake.

Fossil Fuel Protesters Arrested At Minerals Council Office

October 23, 2014 Clare Colley, www.canberratimes.com.au Resist! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Fossil Fuels

Police arrested 10 climate change activists who refused to leave the Minerals Council office in Forrest on Tuesday morning. The protesters were part of a 15-strong group of Canberrans and Pacific Climate Warriors from Vanuatu, Tuvalu and Fiji who "peacefully" occupied the office in an attempt to meet with the industry body's director Brendan Pearson, the group's spokesman Josh Creaser said. He said the group had hoped to tell the Minerals Council how fossil fuels were negatively affecting the lives of people across the Pacific region and were surprised at the reaction.

Global Warming Has Been ‘Hugely Underestimated’

October 22, 2014 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Global Warming

A major study recently published in New Scientist found that "scientists may have hugely underestimated the extent of global warming because temperature readings from southern hemisphere seas were inaccurate," and said that ACD is "worse than we thought" because it is happening "faster than we realized." As has become predictable now, as evidence of increasing ACD continues to mount, denial and corporate exploitation are accelerating right along with it. Climate Disruption Dispatches The famed Northwest Passage is now being exploited by luxury cruise companies. Given the ongoing melting of the Arctic ice cap, a company recently announced a 900-mile, 32-day luxury cruise there, with fares starting at $20,000, so people can luxuriate while viewing the demise of the planetary ecosystem.

Grandmother Charged With Harassment For Speaking About Fracking

October 22, 2014 Joshua B. Privanic, www.publicherald.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking

At 78 and on full-time oxygen, Grzinzic says she can’t make it out to the township meetings to comment about the appeal, or down to Williamsport for a deposition with Chesapeake’s lawyers. So she gave a letter to Carolyn Knapp, from neighboring Ulster Township, to take to the Smithfield board that designated Knapp as her representative at public meetings. “I just can’t sit and do nothing about it. This is my home,” Grzinzic says. “We bought nightcrawlers for the kids to feed to the fish, because they’re pets, and now we’re going to lose that too.” But when Knapp presented the letter from Grzinzic to the supervisors at the October Smithfield Twp. meeting during public comment, supervisor Russel Burkett refused to allow Knapp to speak, stating that she’s not a taxpaying resident of Smithfield. Knapp and Burkett made emotional exchanges, and Knapp informed him she had a legal standing to speak.

Proving Power of Renewables In Europe

October 21, 2014 Deirdre Fulton, www.bullhorn.nationofchange.org Create! Energy, Environment, Europe, Renewable Energy

The wind power boom in Nordic countries is making fossil fuel-fired power plants obsolete and is pushing electricity prices down, according to reporting by Reuters published Friday. Power prices in Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have dropped sharply as renewable energy floods the market, efficiency measures lower energy use overall, and growth remains stagnant, reporter Nerijus Adomaitis writes. This, in turn, will lead to the "mothballing" of 2,000 megawatts (MW) of coal capacity in Denmark and Finland over the next 15 years, a Norway-based consultant tells Adomaitis. According to the article, "Pushing fossil-fueled power stations out of the Nordic generation park is part of government plans across the region."

«1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 »

assetto corsa mods

Daily movement news and resources