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The French oil industry has accused the government of creating a double standard by approving geothermal exploration licenses, while maintaining a longstanding ban on hydraulic fracturing.
The EPA’s recently released Tier 3 Standards will cut the amount of sulphur in gasoline sold in the US by sixty percent, which is good for both fuel quality and air quality.
On March 27th, students at a dozen Canadian universities celebrated Fossil Fools Day, to call out “an industry that is planning to cook the planet, is responsible for destroying land, polluting the air and water, and violating the rights of people around the world and an industry whose business model means burning
If shipping crude oil by rail is safer than shipping it by pipeline, the derailment proves that it is still not fail-safe, and the clean-up is just as tricky.
“California regulates massage therapists more than hydraulic fracturing,” says state Assembly member Richard Bloom, one of the three Democrats calling for a fracking moratorium in the state.
As a panelist on the Pembina Institute’s webinar, Competing in Clean Energy, Dan Balaban, CEO of Greengate Power, said that Canada’s clean energy policies are the worst in the world, and since starting up his company in 2007, every form of government support for his business has vanished.
Anyone hooked up to the grid in British Columbia can now make good on beef-eating and dairy consumption. The province’s Cowpower program gives people the option to pay a small premium on their utility bill to help pay off a dairy farmer’s investment into an anaerobic digester - so that heat-trapping methane can be used to make power.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg addressed mayors from around the world this week at the 10th Annual Transforming Transportation conference in Washington DC, urging them to address traffic congestion.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has listed the Lesser Prairie Chicken as a threatened species and by next September, will decide whether or not to list it as endangered. If it does, energy projects in Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and New Mexico could come to a grinding halt.
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