Kirk R. Smith Among other difficulties,* the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10) struggled with defining “sustainability.” Typical of efforts to make concrete this slippery concept was a preparatory paper addressing one of the most pressing issues in human development: how to bring modern… Read More »In Praise of Petroleum?
Barbara Shecter The Ksi Lisims LNG project will produce one of the world’s lowest unit carbon emissions rates for a large-scale LNG export project, Western LNG’s founder said The development of a liquid natural gas export project based in British Columbia with estimated economic impact… Read More »Nisga’a Nation and partners move ahead with LNG project expected to be worth $55 billion
Brian Murray This, of course, is not welcome news to U.S. coal-producers, who have been hard hit by the decline in coal used to generate electric power, which has fallen from 48 percent of the U.S. generation mix in 2008 to 28 percent today. U.S.… Read More »Coal For Thee, But Not For Me
China will press ahead with its multi-billion-dollar financing of coal plants in developing countries, a top climate official said Tuesday, despite Beijing’s stated aim of slashing carbon emissions. In 2020, China opened three-quarters of the world’s newly funded coal plants, according to the UK-based monitor… Read More »China doubles down on coal plants abroad despite carbon pledge at home
Written by Joseph Vazquez on Jun 30, 2021 The climate doom-mongers at The New York Times must now face the reality that their decades-old eco-Armageddon predictions were flat out wrong. The Times screeched in a 1995 story how “some of the predicted effects of climate… Read More »Flashback: 1995 NYTimes’ East Coast Doomsday Prediction Goes Down Toilet!