Monthly Archives: May 2010
After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger
Associated Press: There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world’s largest corporations, backed and pushed by the world’s most powerful government, can’t stop the runaway gusher. As desperation grows [...]
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BP spill is ‘biggest environmental disaster’ in US history – officials
Herald Sun: THE White House Energy and Climate Change adviser Carol Browner described the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as "probably the biggest environmental disaster we’ve ever faced in this country." "It’s certainly the biggest oil spill and we’re responding with the biggest environmental response," Ms Browner added. Speaking on [...]
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President decides on allocation of Norway monies
Kaieteur News: On Monday last, President Bharrat Jagdeo revealed another draft for his Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). Two days later he jetted off to Oslo, Norway, where a $4B US fund was signed into existence for the implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) initiatives. Before President Jagdeo left, he spoke [...]
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Canada: Wind: B.C.’s untapped power source
Vancouver Sun: A line of wind turbines stands near the windy Alberta town of Pincher Creek on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. B.C.’s more promising wind power generating area is the province’s northeastern corner where the last ranges of the Rockies veer westward. Photograph by: Ted Rhodes, Canwest News Service Files, Vancouver [...]
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Dire warning by scientists
Malaysian Star: As the global climate talks resume today, an article by prominent scientists has warned that the pledges made under the Copenhagen Accord are ‘paltry’ and will increase rather than decrease emissions. AS the UN Climate Change Convention resumes its meetings today, a new article by prominent scientists has warned that recent pledges [...]
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Pakistan among worst victims of transboundary pollution
News: Experts have raised the fear that Pakistan is likely to be one of the worst victims of climate change despite the fact that it has a meagre share of just 0.5 per cent in the total global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). Pakistan’s situation is quite contrary to China and the United States [...]
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New round of climate talks kicks off in Germany
Associated Press: A new round of climate negotiations kicked off in Germany on Monday with squabbling over money and procedural questions that could threaten progress at the two-week U.N. conference. U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer and activists from groups including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WWF pressured industrial nations to live up to their promises [...]
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United States: Energy bill veto means eclipse for solar
Hartford Business: Gov. Jodi Rell’s veto of the Energy Reform Bill last week wasn’t the death knell for solar power in Connecticut, but the fading industry will have to struggle to thrive in the state. With all incentives for commercial solar projects under the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund gone, companies hoped the provisions in [...]
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United States: Road tolls could help in climate-change fight, Ontario commissioner says
Canadian Press: Ontario’s environmental commissioner is recommending road tolls and other charges to help the province cut the greenhouse gases it produces. In his annual progress report on greenhouse gas reductions, Gord Miller calls for a comprehensive assessment of how road pricing can help in the battle against climate change. Mr. Miller says [...]
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Rich-poor rifts stall progress at U.N. climate talks
Reuters: U.N. climate talks opened on Monday, exposing familiar rifts between rich and poor countries which delegates said were likely to delay a re-start of formal negotiations. The 185-nation Bonn conference, which will run until June 11, is the biggest international meeting on climate change since a summit last December in Copenhagen failed to [...]
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The Gulf oil spill in context: US oil consumption
Mongabay: The US government has now confirmed that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the United States’ largest oil spill and perhaps the nation’s worst environmental disaster. While poor government oversight and negligence by oil giant BP certainly contributed to the disaster, the fact that the US is drilling over a mile [...]
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Indonesia to revoke palm oil concession licenses under forest deal
Mongabay: Indonesia will revoke existing forestry licenses to cut down natural forests under the billion dollar deal climate deal signed with Norway last week, reports Reuters. Agus Purnomo, head of the secretariat of Indonesia’s National Climate Change Council, told Sunanda Creagh of Reuters that part of the billion dollars pledged by Norway would be [...]
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Gulf oil spill threat widens
Reuters: Oil from BP’s out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said on Monday, as public anger surged over the country’s worst environmental disaster. Government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out deepwater well feeding the catastrophic spill may not be shut off [...]
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BP’s Top Kill Fails as Gulf Coast Oil-Spill Worries Grow
Time Magazine: Glenn Dufrene has lived his whole life on the Louisiana bayou, and he treasures its boggy natural beauty. When he got the chance this month to work with a crew protecting the coast from the massive Deepwater Horizon oil-rig spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the 47-year-old truck and airboat driver headed for [...]
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Political Stakes Climb for Obama