Posts Tagged ‘gas’

• Why we must stop coal to gas transition and fracking

  The atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is now 394 parts per million (ppm) but top climate scientists and biologists say that it must be urgently reduced to about 300 ppm for a safe and sustainable planet for all peoples and …

• Why we must oppose transition to gas-fired power

  “These estimates translate to a climate genocide involving the deaths of 10 billion people this century…” There is an overwhelming global scientific consensus that global warming is real, man-made and must be urgently addressed, As adjudged from the rhetoric at …

• Ecological unequal exchange is helping Europe maintain its leading role, greenhouse gases and overconsumption

  “To secure future oil imports USA is now using “force to reassert dominance” via “state terror and coercion” in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Ecological unequal exchange, or the zero-sum model, can help us understand many things about the world’s international trade, …

• Indigenous Peruvians and police in deadly clashes at oil and mining protests

  Sometimes researchers are blamed of being alarmists stirring up fears of a fictional dystopia by the business-as-usual crowd. But it seems a forewarning of conflict over oil in Peru is proceeding according to exactly such a warning. The news first… …

• Michael Moore says goodbye to GM, calls for a new and greener auto industry

  Photo credit: Brave New Films The well-known Oscar and Emmy-winning director Michael Moore says goodbye to GM today as the failed auto company files for bankruptcy. Moore says the “big three” auto companies in the USA are responsible for their …

• Michael C. Ruppert: Peak Oil and the end of the human race is perhaps just a few years away

  Energy Bulletin has an interesting interview with Michael C. Ruppert, author of “A Presidential Energy Policy: Twenty-five Points Addressing the Siamese Twins of Energy and Money”, about peak oil and the end of cheap oil. “Peak Oil is not just …

• Ban on Petrol and Diesel Cars?

  Photo credit: Bitpicture Norway Sets 2015 Target Norway’s Finance Minster, Kristin Halvorsen, has proposed to ban petrol cars by 2015 in order to lower CO2 emissions and encourage car manufacturers to begin making more environmentally friendly models. That would mean …

• Norway may ban gas cars after 2015

  Photo credit: blmurch Kristin Halvorsen, Finance Minister in Norway, has together with her Socialist Left Party proposed a plan that would forbid the sale of new cars that run solely on gasoline after 2015 in the country. According to her …

• Obama on 60 Minutes: “We go from shock to trance and that has to be broken”

  In his first interview since the election Barack Obama talked with 60 Minutes about the economy, energy and about the failing auto industry in USA. In the interview Obama said that “the challenges that we’re confronting are enormous” and many, …

• Offshore drilling is not the answer to high gas prices

  There have been a lot of discussions about the high gas prices in USA the past months and what exactly should be done to curb this trend. Some politicians, like McCain, Bush, and Gingrich, are taking advantage of the situation …