Published on 14/06/2021, 4:19pm By Joe Lo In a referendum on Sunday, Swiss citizens narrowly voted against a package of measures including increased taxes on petrol and flights. The Swiss public has voted against a more ambitious climate law, in a move analysts say will… Read More »Swiss public reject climate law over cost of living fears
Steve Larke and Adam Le Dain April 20, 2019 As billions of people in developing countries demand more of everything, especially cheap energy, Canada can help meet the need and improve the global environment by exporting liquefied natural gas. So why are some Canadians trying… Read More »Canada’s Moral Obligation to the World
Reposted from Public Energy Number One Posted by Terry Etam on October 3, 2021 As an independent energy voice, I have no corporate editors or lawyers or hand-tailored silver haired senior management muting commentary. It is often fun, being able to say what many are thinking in a… Read More »$5 trillion in 2021 global debt/equity raised (so far), “divest fossil fuels” in full swing, the world running short of natural gas/coal, and winter is coming
By Kenneth Richard As Dr. Ramachandran details in Nature, a de facto natural gas ban effectively does nothing to propel growth in intermittently-available wind and solar energy. These renewable sources require a back-up energy supply that is ever-ready even when the Sun is not shining… Read More »Professor: Natural Gas Could Supply 600 Million Africans With Electricity…So Europe, USA Ban Its Use
In the first half of 2021, coal shot up as the biggest contributor to Germany’s electric grid, while wind power dropped to its lowest level since 2018. Officials say the weather is partly to blame. Although Germany is looking to boost renewable energies, coal unseated… Read More »Germany: Coal tops wind as primary electricity source
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Young Rachel seems surprised!! The UK has turned to a coal-fired power station to help boost its energy supply after global gas and power prices hit new highs and wind farms produced very low levels of electricity. National Grid… Read More »Britain forced to fire up coal plant amid record power prices and winter squeeze
To mark the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s Energy for Africa initiative, we’ve been publishing installments of Geoff Hill’s ‘Heart of Darkness: Why energy poverty is a security issue’, an account of the problems of energy access in sub-Saharan Africa. In today’s fourth installment, Hill reports how Africans… Read More »World Bank’s Green Diktat Stops Clean Coal From Powering Africa
Former B.C. justice minister says the reality is more people in the province support Trans Mountain pipeline than oppose it Suzanne Anton, Special to Financial Post Publishing date: Mar 21, 2018 Thousands of people march together during a protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain… Read More »Canadians are realizing foreign groups sabotaged our energy economy — for no good reason
There are over 270,000 households in British Columbia facing energy poverty, a lack ofaffordable access to the basic energy services that contribute to quality of life. Rural, remote,and Indigenous communities in the province are being hit particularly hard, with somecommunities spending up to three times… Read More »Moving toward energy security in BC’s rural, remote and Indigenous communities (2020)
Helping communities switch to clean powerThe Remote Community Electrification Program was established by BC Hydro in 2005to help remote communities receive off-grid electricity service from BC Hydro. Often,this means a switch from diesel generation to our clean electricity.Delivering clean, low-cost electricity to remote communities in… Read More »Remote Community Electrification Program