Monthly Archives: October 2008
McCain, Obama tout coal
Rocky Mountain News: Clean coal is a buzzword in political circles. On the campaign trail, both presidential candidates tout the virtues of clean coal. "And we must find a way to stop coal from polluting our atmosphere without pretending that our nation’s most abundant energy source will just go away. It won’t," Sen. [...]
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Aus to tax pollution from 2010
Associated Press: Australia will forge ahead with a plan to tax carbon pollution from 2010 despite the current economic downturn, Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Thursday as he released a reassuring assessment of the scheme. In December, the government will release the final details of the plan, aimed at slashing Australia’s emissions of carbon [...]
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Great Lakes eyed for offshore wind farms
Associated Press: Imagine sections of the Great Lakes dotted with rows of gleaming, 12-story turbines, blades whirring in the stiff breeze as they generate electricity for homes and businesses onshore. It’s only an idea — for now. But government regulators are bracing for an expected wave of proposals for offshore power generation in a [...]
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Malaysia: Artificial forest to ‘re-green’ city
New Straits Times: The practice of recycling has taken on new meaning here with the creation of the country’s first forest park on a former rubber and oil palm plantation. The man-made indigenous tropical forest here is expected to help conserve a range of unique and endangered forest plant species. The prime minister’s [...]
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Australia Will Lose Out With Fixed Carbon Price, Bankers Says
Bloomberg: Australia will lose investment and trading opportunities should it decide to introduce a fixed price for carbon or limit prices on emissions allowances, Credit Suisse Group’s head of carbon trading said. The “robustness’’ of the country’s carbon trading system is at risk should the government allow the financial crisis or objections by industry [...]
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California renewable energy vote seen close – poll
Reuters: Opponents have taken a small lead in the latest poll on a California ballot measure that calls for half the state’s electricity to be generated by renewable sources by 2025, a Field Poll issued on Friday shows. The poll showed support for California Proposition 7 slipping to 39 percent from 63 percent in [...]
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Major Potential Changes Seen in US Energy Policy after 2008 Election
MarketWatch: The 2008 presidential election will mean major changes in United States energy policy. William F. Weld, partner advising on government strategies and energy policy for the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery and a former two-term governor of Massachusetts, believes that the biggest impact will come on two issues: climate change (global warming) [...]
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Credit crisis claims Pickens as first major renewables victim
Business Green: Speculation that large scale renewable energy projects will find it increasingly difficult to find funding in the current economic climate turned to reality this week, when oil billionaire T Boone Pickens announced that his high profile plan to build one of the world’s largest wind farms in Texas was facing delays. Speaking [...]
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Climate change helps short-lived creatures
New Scientist: Climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favouring animals with short lifespans over often bigger rivals that are worse at tolerating temperature swings. Researchers in Germany and Canada say that animals have widely differing "thermal windows" – a range of temperatures in which they best feed, grow and reproduce. That [...]
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Myanmar: China’s Thirst for Oil Ignores Environment, Rights
Inter Press Service: The largest island off Burma’s west coast is emerging as another frontier for China’s expanding plans to extract the rich oil and gas reserves of military-ruled Burma. Initial explorations by a consortium, led by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has left a deep scar on Ramree Island, which is twice [...]
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Clean tech enjoys another record quarter
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Business Green: Despite reports this week of funding difficulties for a number of high-profile clean tech projects – such as delays to T Boone Pickens’ plans for the largest wind farm in the US and concerns over cash flow at electric car manufacturer Tesla – clean tech investment levels are continuing to [...]
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United Kingdom: Wales unveils “Blue Ice” climate change supercomputer
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Business Green: One of the most powerful research supercomputers in the country was unveiled today at Swansea University, at a centre that will use it to model climate change scenarios. Known as "Blue Ice" the supercomputer, which is supplied by IBM, is capable of running 10,000 "model years" a week as [...]
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Judge halts New York plan to turn yellow cabs green
Reuters: New York City’s plan to turn its entire fleet of yellow cabs green by 2012 was halted on Friday by a federal judge who ruled that regulation of fuel emissions standards falls under federal, not city, authority. The plan, which had been promoted as an environmental model for other large cities, called for [...]
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United Kingdom: Supercomputer to study glaciers