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While the world continues to put up more wind turbines and solar panels, it also continues to use more and more coal, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels. World coal production increased by 6.1 percent in 2011. And fossil fuels in general still dominated the energy market, accounting for
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Compared to natural gas, the US is using proportionately less coal than it once did for generating electricity. “Proportional,” though, doesn’t necessarily means less overall. In fact, despite some up-and-down fluctuations, coal consumption in the US has been hovering at around 1 billion short tons per year since 1996,
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What’s more important: fighting poverty or developing clean, renewable energy sources over fossil-fuel power that’s known to degrade the environment, contribute to health problems for the world’s poor and accelerate climate change? On a planet in which nearly 1.1 billion people live on a dollar or
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Opponents of coal power are organising what they say will be the “biggest ever civil disobedience on climate” at the Capitol Power Plant in Washington, DC, next month. Set for March 2, the protest is being planned by a national coalition of some 40 environmental, social justice, public health, advocacy
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The UK’s largest coal-miner – not a 7ft tall Yorkshire bloke called Bob but the company UK Coal – says it is exploring plans to develop wind farms on land it owns. UK Coal has signed a two-year agreement with onshore wind farm developer Peel Energy to “assess and potentially develop”
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The giant Drax coal-fired power station in Selby is the embodiment of ‘old’ energy, with its 12 enormous cooling towers spewing out the steam it takes to create 4GW of energy for UK households. It’s a huge blot on the landscape and one of Europe’s biggest polluters. Drax
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The controversial subject of carbon capture and storage (CCS) – liquefying toxic carbon emissions and burying it underground – is in the headlines again this week with the world’s first demonstration of CCS tech at Vattenfall’s coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station in Germany. The pilot starts on Wednesday using Alstom’
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Greenbang is wondering what’s carbon capture’s secret. Not the technological secret, more the secret of how it’s sucking in money like a back hole sucks in the Starship Enterprise and/or Doctor Who. The last few times that Greenbang has written the words ‘carbon’ and ‘capture’ and
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A quick Google search on the word ‘Drax’ should lead you happily enough to all sorts of informational goodies about James Bond’s Moonraker nemesis Hugo Drax. It should also lead you to information on the Drax power station, billed as the “largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe”. But
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When oil folk go shopping, what do they buy? If Dallas is anything to go by, kidney-shaped pools, shoulder pads, ten gallon hats and even more gallons of gin for the good old gals to drown their sorrows in. If this week’s news is anything to go by, they
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Speaking at the Living in a Low Carbon World Conference this week, Shadow Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Secretary Peter Ainsworth revealed the opposition’s plan for the environment: an altogether non-controversial plan to turn carbon emissions into commodities that can be trade, and changing the tax system so that
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Ever found yourself falling between two stools? No? Greenbang neither. It’s a daft idiom all in all, but Greenbang is going to use it here and apply it liberally to E.ON, which seems to be waving the green flag with one hand and waving its nuclear power equivalent