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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 6, 2018, 1:24 pm
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EcoWatch
[center]Kavanaugh Also Lied About His Environmental
Record[/center]
By Olivia Rosane
Oct. 05, 2018 09:12AM EST
The upper chamber of the Senate is set to vote at 10:30 a.m.
Eastern Time Friday on whether to end debate on the nomination
of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. If the motion passes,
the Senate could vote whether to confirm him Saturday, CNN
reported.
Much of the outcome will depend on whether key swing voters
believe Christine Blasey Ford's testimony that Kavanaugh
sexually assaulted her at a party when they were both in high
school, or if they accept Kavanaugh's denials. But anyone paying
attention to how he represented his environmental record would
have reason to doubt his credibility, The Intercept reported
Thursday,
In his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Kavanaugh presented himself as pro-environment
overall.[quote]"In some cases, I've ruled against
environmentalists' interests, and in many cases I've ruled for
environmentalists' interests,"
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But an analysis from Earthjustice found that of 26 U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cases he had written
opinions for, he had ruled for rolling back clean air and water
protections 89 percent of the time. The Natural Resources
Defense Council came out against a Supreme Court nomination for
the second time in 25 years to oppose his advance to the
nation's highest court. And an analysis by William Snape, senior
counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity, found that in 18
decisions he had made on wildlife cases, including split ones,
he had ruled against protecting animals in 96 percent of them.
"He lied. He abjectly lied," Snape told The Intercept of
Kavanaugh's testimony. "And if he's going to lie about his
record on environmental cases, what's he not going to lie
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In one moment in particular during his testimony on Sept. 5,
Kavanaugh said he had upheld environmental regulations in
several cases, including what he described as "the Natural
Resources Defense Council case versus EPA, a ruling for
environmentalist groups."
When senior NRDC attorney John Walke ([font=times new
roman][b]National Resources Defense Counci[/font]l), who argued
the case in question before Kavanaugh, heard his testimony, he
was stunned.[/b]
"My immediate reaction was, I thought I had misheard him," Walke
told The Intercept. "But as he kept talking, I realized he
😈 was talking about my clean air case before him. And
then, I honestly could not believe that a federal judge and
Supreme Court nominee was misrepresenting my case to U.S.
senators in order to bolster his environmental credentials."
Walke wrote a Twitter thread explaining how Kavanaugh had
misrepresented his own ruling. Walke pointed out that Kavanaugh
had ruled against the NRDC and the Sierra Club, who had also
participated in the case, on three out of four counts. He
🦖 upheld lax pollution limits for soot, lead, arsenic
and other metal emissions from cement plants and let the EPA
grant polluters
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/>He only ruled in favor of the environmental groups on a
procedural question.
"[T]he claim is revealing because my case was one of his own
leading examples of pro-environmental rulings: that it is a very
poor example ends up reinforcing the relative paucity of his
'rulings in favor of environmentalists' interests," Walke
tweeted.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2018, 4:56 pm
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2018, 6:04 pm
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October 9, 2018
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[center]A Former ;) Oil 🦖 Lobbyist Quietly Wields Power
Behind the Scenes at the Interior Department[/center]
By Ilana Novick — Deputy Secretary of the Interior David
Bernhardt is “the ultimate D.C. swamp creature,” according to
watchdog organizations.
Read more:
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 14, 2018, 3:25 pm
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[center]Trump's 🦀 Aggressive Plans to Stifle
Democracy[/center]
BY David Halperin Republic Report
PUBLISHED October 14, 2018
From Secretary of Education Betsy Devos's fight against
protections for students to the National Park Service's rules
that would bar demonstrations in front of the White House, Trump
and his underlings are aggressively pushing measures to stifle
public protest and citizen participation in our democracy.
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[center]An Introduction to the Koch
🐉🦕🦀🦖 Digital Media
Network[/center]
BY Will Lennon Center for Responsive Politics
PUBLISHED October 14, 2018
The Kochs' total spending may hit $400 million this midterm
cycle, but exactly how much of that will go to digital
advertising is impossible to determine at this point. However,
by using the tools Google, Facebook and Twitter introduced to
increase digital ad transparency in the wake of 2016 election
controversies, we can get a glimpse at which races and issues
the network is currently interested in.
Read the Article: [img
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 15, 2018, 12:16 pm
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October 15, 2018
[center]DOE [img
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A report commissioned by the Trump administration whose findings
ran contrary [img
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/>that propping up coal and nuclear is necessary for national
security has yet to be made public, the report's author said
last week.
[font=times new roman]Michael Webber of the University of
Texas’s Webber Energy Group[/font] tweeted Friday that a report
finding that onsite coal storage is not a "critical factor" for
grid resilience was delivered to the DOE six months ago, but has
yet to see the "light of day." "The three points the report
makes are useful and counter to the [administration's]
narrative--and squashed," Webber told Bloomberg.
Read more:
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/>Rolls Out Dirty Welcome Mat For Oily 🦕 DOJ Appointee
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It’s been 632 days since Trump took office and the halls of the
White House are filled with the dirty footprints of the
countless fossil fuel insiders. How could industry possibly
assume more power in this administration?
Well, move over, coal-dusted smog lovers, and take a seat, gassy
pipeline boosters, because last week the Senate officially
confirmed one of the oiliest swamp creatures of all, Jeffrey
Bossert Clark 🦖
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Who is Clark, you may ask? Why, none other than the lawyer who
successfully defended BP against state lawsuits in the aftermath
of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. He’s also involved in
lawsuits against the Clean Power Plan, has voraciously
challenged the government's ability to regulate carbon
emissions, and has called climate science “contestable.” Clark’s
also got full-throated support from CEI’s Marlow Lewis Jr., [img
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/>one of the fossil fuel industry’s favorite frontmen.
Clark’s nomination was officially announced last summer, so his
confirmation isn’t exactly a surprise. But because we needed
more depressing confirmation votes on our schedule this month,
the Senate just got around to clearing Clark last week. In the
52 to 45 vote, Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (WV) and Claire
McCaskill (MO) crossed the aisle to join Republicans in clearing
Clark for the gig. (We’re not exactly shocked about
Manchin...and white women haven’t been great firewalls for
democracy recently, either.)
Per the Hill, [b]Clark’s [img
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/>job at the DOJ “will include being the top law enforcement
official in pursuing claims against polluters and companies that
violate environmental laws” [/b]and “defending Trump’s
aggressive deregulatory agenda against an onslaught of
lawsuits.” Since he’s questioned the legality of tying the EPA's
endangerment finding to IPCC science multiple times, we’re not
too confident he’ll hew to the IPCC when making his decisions.
Want to protest Clark’s appointment? Better do it soon. The
Trump administration[img
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/>has a proposal in the works that would block protests outside
the White House and on parts of the National Mall.
They claim protests are costing too much money, but we have a
sense it’s maybe something else going on...
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/>(If you want to preserve your ability to trample all over
Trump’s lawn, the public comment period is open until the end of
the day today.)
So congrats to the oil and gas industry’s latest shill to join
the rest of the swamp creatures in Washington. There’s a chance
that we may soon lose the ability to show them how we really
feel on their home turf. But maybe it would be good to stay
away: if Clark’s plans for the DOJ look anything like what he
defended in the Gulf, DC will be a very messy place indeed.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 17, 2018, 12:44 pm
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Trump 🐵 Trying To Turn Military Bases Into Gas Stations
Beware the military-industrial complex, a real president once
warned America. Unfortunately for us Trump, with all his
complexes of a different sort, is looking to turn the military
into an arm of industry, just like he has the rest of the
federal government.
That’s the latest development in Trump’s attempts to bail out
the dying coal industry, reports Ben Storrow at E&E. Initially,
Storrow reports, the bailout was going to be the Department of
Energy’s job. Last year Rick Perry put on his smartest looking
glasses and did his best to cook up a report justifying the use
of presidential war powers to require military bases to buy coal
and nuclear power. But it turns out Perry might need more than
just a new pair of black plastic rims: Bloomberg recently
reported that the grid study didn’t turn out the way the
administration wanted, which is likely why it’s yet to see the
light of day.
DOE denied that portrayal this week, but Politico reported on
Monday that Perry’s 🐒 plan is dead in the water [img
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/>and Hannah Northey at E&E got a quote from a Trump admin
official calling Perry’s proposal “poorly articulated.” (This
must be a particularly painful dig for Perry, given that the
criticism is coming from an administration led by a man who not
only speaks like a child, but probably doesn’t even know the
meaning of “articulate.” )
With an increasing recognition that Perry’s plan won’t work,
Trump et al. are looking elsewhere to help the dying, dirty
industry.
Not to be outclassed by the leg-flexin’ Texan, Department of
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the AP on Monday that the
administration is considering using military installations as
fossil fuel export terminals. Communities along the west coast
have voted to prevent the construction of new export terminals,
which has left the fossil fuel industry is hunting for ways to
get its products to overseas markets.
Obviously the Trump 🦀 administration
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/>isn’t going to let a little thing like democracy stand in the
way of doing whatever industry wants
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/>but to be fair this isn’t exactly all the Trump crew’s doing.
In
fact, a certain Representative from Wyoming by the name of Liz
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she had
spoken with Zinke and Perry about using military bases “to get
around some of the unreasonable obstacles that have been thrown
up” to the export terminals.
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l
profits? Seems Trump’s 2018 isn’t so unique after all… (Let’s
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en
make the victim apologize.
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Fans of respecting the people who voted against polluting
facilities on their coasts and in their communities were quick
to criticize the plan. Washington Governor Jay Inslee told
Politico that “it’s really impressive how this administration
churns out harebrained schemes for their Department of c o c
k-Eyed Ideas,” while former undersecretary of the Navy Tom Hicks
said it “doesn’t sound logical or fully baked,” and instead
“sounds a little half-cocked.”
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Besides, of course, the obvious fact that doing so would worsen
climate change, a problem the military recognizes and is already
confronting
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 18, 2018, 1:54 pm
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[quote]Jens Stubbe
Nicholas you need to read this article.
Europe's love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster
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The original impetus to launch Diesel big time for cars was that
after the first oil crisis B&W launched motor technology for the
shipping industry that could run on the cheaper and filthier
bunker oil. This made Diesel an excess fraction.
Big oil rounded the car industry and EU up and they all agreed
to launch Diesel for cars as a way to support big oil.
All European countries kept Diesel taxation down and Diesel for
touted as more efficient and thus environmentally benign than
gasoline.
Also to further press Diesel car technology down the throat of
the ordinary car buyers the new car taxation began to be tied to
CO2 emissions, which as everybody now knows are never really
attainable in real life.
Along the way EU also imposed a demand for catalyzers. They do
not function at all for most trips and they rarely last for mere
than 100.000 km, so most driving are done with no effect from
the catalyzers say for the benign effect for big oil that the
catalyzer increase consumption by 10%.
EU has systematically rigged the scene for big oil and the car
industry have been happy with the going of things in lieu with
the fact that there never where any serious EU investigation
going on regarding emissions so they could meet the emission
standards with phony software and get permission for not meeting
standards below certain ambient temperature (17 degrees
Celsius).
Now the car industry is upset that they are to blame while all
the time everybody else have been in on the plot.
agelbert > Jens Stubbe
EXCELLENT comment!
Thank you 💐 Jense Stubbe.
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Read more:
October 18th, 2018 by Nicolas Zart
SNIPPET:
The Groupe PSA, which includes Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, and
Vauxhall, has had its hands full after acquiring Opel and
Vauxhall. The transition hasn’t been as smooth as expected and
now the company is facing legacy emission problems after a fiery
French newspaper revelation.
Full Article:
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: October 21, 2018, 1:59 pm
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[center]Lies, Lies, & More Lies: Lawrence
Solomon
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/> Is Scared & So Is The Fossil Fuel Industry[/center]
October 21st, 2018 by Joshua S Hill
It should come as no surprise that the fossil fuel industry has
many defenders 🐵 🐒 🦍 willing to step up
to the plate and bat for them — it is, after all, a
multi-billion-dollar industry with long-standing relationships
and a desire not to collapse into infamy and oblivion.
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The simple reality is that, for a large part of the planet, the
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/>Developed nations are wholesale turning to renewable energy —
either by federal impetus or through the work of sub-national
players such as local governments and corporations — and
developing nations are looking to renewable energy as a means to
jump over the fossil fuel step altogether, avoiding the need to
build up costly nationwide infrastructure and preventing further
emissions increases.
[center]Fear & Ignorance[/center]
This new reality, however, is apparently difficult for some
people to comprehend. Most recently, BP CEO Bob Dudley, speaking
as the “Petroleum Executive of the Year” at the Oil & Money
conference in London, raised his fears of the global divestment
and disclosure movements that are impacting the fossil fuel
industry, suggesting that they “could lead to bad outcomes.” His
rationale, however, was based on faulty assumptions and blind
ignorance of the realities.
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However, Dudley can at least be given credit for admitting the
need for change, and presenting a path forward which he claimed
was “not a call for business as usual” and one that “requires
significant and rapid disruption to our industry.”
The same credit cannot be given to Lawrence Solomon, however, a
columnist for Canada’s National Post section (which bears the
name Financial Post after the business newspaper of the same
name) and the Executive Director of Energy Probe, the consumer
and energy research team of Canada’s Energy Probe Research
Foundation.
Writing an op-ed recently for the Financial Post, Solomon set
aside any dignity or professional integrity he may once have
grasped to and penned what can only be described as a hit-piece
on the renewable energy industry with all the internal
consistency of a wet tissue. Solomon’s article — entitled
“Trudeau stands alone as Canada — and the world — abandons green
energy” — ran with the witty lede, “Wind and solar have become
the fossils of the energy industry; oil, gas and coal remain the
fuels of the future.” An entire fact-check article could be
written about the opening paragraph on its own — not bad,
considering it boasts only 109 words in four sentences.
Solomon’s article was brought to our attention here at
CleanTechnica by a frustrated reader who asked that we
investigate the claims Solomon made in his piece — described by
the reader as “so untruthful and so far from reality that I
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More than simply “calling out” Lawrence Solomon, however, I
think it’s worth being completely upfront and honest about
Solomon and his opinions — and opinions they are, make no
mistake about it, in the true spirit of the Oxford English
Dictionary’s definition of the word — “A view or judgement
formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or
knowledge” — for, it would appear that Solomon’s opinions have
never even heard of the concept of “facts” and “knowledge.”
[center]Lies, Lies, & More Lies[/center]
To be fair, the issue is not so much with Lawrence Solomon in
and of himself, rather, he is simply representative of a number
of such pundits who occupy their own little space of real estate
in magazines, newspapers, and on television the world over.
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Solomon is in no way particularly special for the absurdity of
his views, but he serves as a convenient example of the types of
lies that are spread, and the way in which people opposed to
renewable energy and in denial about global warming make their
arguments.
In his opinion article, Lawrence Solomon attempts to make the
argument that renewable energy is not only on the back foot
around the world, but that it is in full retreat. To support
this argument, Solomon refers to several pieces of so-called
evidence which he has pulled kicking and screaming out of
context. I’ll handle them one at a time.
[center]China[/center]
Solomon claims that China has “begun to throw in the towel by
cutting subsidies to renewables, an augur of the demise of
investment in its renewables sector.” Solomon also points to
recent reporting from green campaigners CoalSwarm which claimed
that 259 gigawatts (GW) of new coal capacity are currently under
construction.
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While Solomon accurately reported the findings from CoalSwarm’s
new satellite imagery report — which showed construction ongoing
at coal plants across the country, the result of a permitting
surge between late-2014 and early-2016 — he incorrectly blames
the reason for China’s decision to cut subsidies to renewables.
It’s important to remember the context of China’s current
reliance on coal. The new capacity currently under construction
is the result of local authorities approving new projects, and
actually flies in the face of China’s Central Government’s
decisions to halt construction of new coal-fired power plants.
Toward the end of 2016 and over the first few months of 2017,
China announced the cancellation of 30 large coal-fired power
plants amounting to 17 gigawatts (GW), followed soon after by
the cancellation of 104 more under-construction and planned coal
projects amounting to 120 GW. In March of this year, a report
showed that the development of new coal plants in 2017 had
declined in China, thanks in part to the Central Government’s
decision to suspend construction across hundreds of projects.
Unfortunately, CoalSwarm’s recent report might suggest that
China’s Central Government no longer has the control it once had
to make these sweeping cuts, but a report published earlier this
month by Carbon Tracker shows that 40% of China’s coal plants
are already losing money and that the country could save nearly
$390 billion by closing plants instead of keeping them
operational.
Further, it’s important to look at the whole of what is
happening in China. In September, China’s National Development &
Reform Commission (NDRC) wrote a draft policy that paved the way
to increase the country’s renewable energy target from 20% to
35% by 2030.
Later that same month, China’s National Energy Administration
(NEA) issued draft guidelines that would look to phase out power
generation subsidies — just as Solomon highlighted, except, the
intention of the decision was to provide the country’s renewable
energy sector with further technological and policy support so
that those technologies can compete against other technologies
on their own. Specifically, the draft guidelines seek to
incentivize renewable energy technologies in regions where they
can operate without help from government subsidies.
“The reason China’s cutting subsidy is mainly because of the
huge deficit in the national renewable subsidy fund,” explained
Yali Jiang, a solar analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance,
who spoke to me via email. “By the end of 2017, the deficit
amounted around $19 billion including those for wind and solar
projects. As a result, the government expects to, for instance,
restrict new solar installations that require national subsidy
immediately.”
“China’s solar installation contracted in 3Q due to the policy
change,” Jiang added. “The grid-connected PV capacity halved in
July and August compared with last year. But the country remains
to be the largest investor in clean energy in 3Q ($26.7
billion), a fraction above the same period of 2017.”
Far from being “an augur of the demise of investment in its
renewables sector,” as Solomon so dramatically put it, China’s
decision to cut subsidies is actually based in a desire to
minimize the financial strain caused by subsidizing new power
generation, while at the same time providing technological and
political support that will help renewable energy compete on its
own — much as it does in other parts of the world, such as
throughout Europe and North America.
[center]Europe[/center]
Lawrence Solomon, far from being happy with one example, decided
to add another to the mix, explaining that, “With the cutting of
subsidies to renewables in the [European Union], investment last
year dropped to less than half of its peak six years earlier.”
Again, Solomon correctly looked at the chart, sourced from
Bloomberg New Energy Finance and highlighted by the World
Economic Forum in May of 2018 — an article, mind you, which
highlights the success of the investment in China’s renewable
energy sector, and betrays Solomon’s contention that China has
suffered a decline in investment in its renewables sector (made
literally the sentence beforehand).
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While it is true that investment in Europe’s renewable energy
industry has fallen off in recent times, it’s doubly important
to look at the region’s capacity installations over the same
time. Between 2011 and 2017 — the six-year period Solomon
highlighted — generation from renewable electricity across the
28 Member States of the European Union skyrocketed.
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[center]Gross electricity generation from renewable sources,
EU-28, 1990-2016 Image Credit: Eurostat[/center]
The share of renewable energy sources in the final consumption
of energy has also steadily increased over the past decade, as
can be seen in the table below.
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[center]Share of electricity from renewable sources in gross
electricity consumption, 2004-2016 Image Credit:
Eurostat[/center]
Complete renewable energy capacity additions for Europe are
difficult to come by — unsurprising, given the nature of a
supranational governing body — but we can mitigate that somewhat
by looking specifically at the two dominant renewable energy
technologies, wind, and solar.
Annual wind energy installations across Europe have steadily
ticked up each year, declining only once since 2011, in 2013.
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It’s worth noting, though, that new capacity additions for 2018
are on a worrying downward trend, as seen by half-year figures
published by WindEurope in July.
Europe’s solar industry has similarly suffered from recent
investment figures, as can be seen in the graph below, published
by SolarPower Europe in June (as part of a global outlook).
[center]Evolution of Global Annual Solar PV Installed Capacity
2000-2017[/center]
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So while from a certain point of view, Lawrence Solomon can
claim that Europe’s clean energy investment has fallen,
resulting in lower solar capacity additions and moderate wind
additions, it’s worth seeing this in light of the whole. Solar
has begun growing again across Europe — with a total of 9.2 GW
worth of new capacity added in 2017, a 30% increase on the year
before — and offshore wind continues to increase its share.
Europe was also one of the first regions to double-down on
solar, and accounts for 28% of the global total, with a total of
114 GW worth of installed capacity.
Additionally, even though investments have decreased, this does
not necessarily speak to a larger fall-off for the renewable
energy industry. Rather, as technologies such as solar PV and
onshore wind mature, their costs have decreased, which means
that less money is needed to build even more capacity.
Lawrence Solomon may have struck closer to the mark with this
particular example, but it does not serve to bolster his
argument any, considering the impact of Brexit and the UK’s
shift away from solar towards wind, the declining cost of mature
technologies, and natural market dynamics and political
malfeasance from politicians who share Solomon’s point of view.
[center]Japan[/center]
Investment in Japan’s clean energy industry has indeed slowed
since 2016 — essentially falling off a financial cliff at the
end of 2015. Much like China, however, Japan’s situation is not
as clear-cut as a graph might show.
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“After years of record-breaking investment driven by some of the
world’s most generous feed-in tariffs, China and Japan are
cutting back on building new large-scale projects and shifting
towards digesting the capacity they have already put in place,”
said Justin Wu, head of Asia for BNEF, said in January of 2017.
“China is facing slowing power demand and growing wind and solar
curtailment. The government is now focused on investing in grids
and reforming the power market so that the renewables in place
can generate to their full potential. In Japan, future growth
will come not from utility-scale projects but from rooftop solar
systems installed by consumers attracted by the increasingly
favorable economics of self-consumption.”
It’s ironic, however, that Solomon decided to use Japan as
throwaway proof of “a worldwide trend rejecting renewables.” If
he had made the argument even a year ago, it might have held
more weight, but given recent moves by Japan’s government, and
corporations and utilities within Japan, it loses all
importance.
In July, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, better known as
TEPCO, announced that it intends to pursue the development of
between 6 and 7 GW worth of renewable energy capacity worth tens
of billions of dollars in an intentional move away from nuclear
power. Speaking to Nikkei, TEPCO’s president Tomoaki Kobayakawa
announced his company will look to develop 6 to 7 GW of
renewable energy across Japan and overseas in a move expected to
yield 100 billion yen ($8.98 billion) in profit. “We must gain a
competitive advantage in renewable energy,” he said.
Meanwhile, in September, Japan’s Electric Power Development Co.,
better known as J-Power, signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) with French multinational electric utility ENGIE to
collaborate on power projects, specifically offshore wind and
floating offshore wind projects — a further sign of Japan’s turn
away from nuclear, and specifically towards contending with
Taiwan as an offshore wind hub. And only last week, the Fitch
Group published a forecast which expected Japan to add 17 GW
worth of new solar capacity by the end of 2020, before the
sector begins to slow.
For Lawrence Solomon, Japan also does not prove his belief that
renewable energy is on the back foot.
[center]The UK, et al[/center]
I could go on. Solomon points to Germany, the UK, and Australia
as further proof that the world is turning away from renewable
energy. While both Germany and Australia serve as good examples
of this, they are about the only two countries that do — and
only from a national point of view, with sub-state actors
serving to pick up where the nation’s governments left off (or,
in Australia’s case, never picked up to begin with).
Solomon’s citing the UK as an example of a flagging renewable
energy industry, however, truly beggars belief. Not only is the
UK home to one of the world’s most persistent and dominant
renewable energy countries, Scotland, but the UK is also the
world’s offshore wind energy leader, boasting a portfolio of
projects in operation, under construction, or in development, of
35.2 GW.
Agreed, the UK’s investment is likely to fall, a point made by
the Green Alliance in January of 2017, analyzing the UK
Government’s own numbers. The government has proven lackluster
at best when it comes to preparing for a post-Brexit world, and
it has thoroughly mishandled commitments to various technologies
(onshore wind and solar, in particular). However, it’s important
to look at the long-term — the Green Alliance’s analysis only
looks to 2020, and a July announcement from the Department for
Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy could mitigate some of
these short-term losses, by setting a timeline for new offshore
wind auctions starting from 2021.
“The renewables sector in the UK has seen pretty dire policy
from government: solar and onshore wind projects have been
effectively blocked, despite the fact that they’re now the
cheapest form of new power,” explained Dustin Benton, Policy
Director at Green Alliance. “By contrast, dirty power stations,
supported by the UK’s flawed capacity market, have seen several
hundred million pounds of government contracts over the past few
years.”
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“The exception to this generally gloomy picture is in offshore
wind: despite irregular auctions, the sector has reduced prices
by two-thirds over the past two years, and the government has
committed to procuring around 16 GW of new offshore wind during
the 2020s, putting the country on track for 30 GW by 2030 – a
level consistent with meeting the UK’s carbon targets.”
It’s also worth remembering that Great Britain currently boasts
its lowest ever share of fossil fuels in its energy mix,
accounting for only 41% of total generation, down from 71% only
7 years ago.
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An argument against renewable energy and climate change is not
complete, however, without mentioning the biggest elephant in
the room — the United States. Solomon reserves an entire
paragraph for the US but barely manages to come close to the
truth.
Solomon sets the scene — the Democrats are out of power and
Donald Trump is in, and quickly moves to exit from the Paris
Agreement. What did the country manage to do with this new
paradigm shift?
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Right out of the gate, Solomon … well, he pretty much rushes
headlong into the gate. Solomon starts out by claiming that the
US has revived its coal industry. One wonders exactly where to
start on this. In January, Reuters obtained preliminary US
government data which showed that the coal industry continues to
shed jobs. In February, figures published by the US Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) revealed that not only had
there been no new coal capacity added during 2017 (and only 3
units in 2016) but that coal’s total share of generating
capacity has declined by 17.83% over the past five years. In
fact, according to figures published in June by the US Energy
Information Administration, coal has dropped to providing only
27% of total electricity generation.
The cause for coal’s steep decline? According to researchers
from North Carolina State University and the University of
Colorado Boulder writing in May, the responsible party is not
renewable energy but is in fact the decline in natural gas
prices. And only this week, the White House — the very center of
Donald Trump’s power — has reportedly shelved a plan to bail out
the coal (and nuclear) sectors. ;D
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Solomon’s article was published on September 28, only 11 days
before the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
published a report warning that limiting global warming to 1.5°C
will “require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in
all aspects of society.” Putting aside the fact that the IPCC
works in long-term cycles and is not beholden to publish
material regularly (nor has it ever), Solomon must have
regretted that particular sentence.
[center]Abandoning Truth[/center]
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It takes something special to be able to so blatantly and
casually lie in public as Lawrence Solomon manages. To so
clearly and repeatedly mishandle the facts and misconstrue the
evidence requires either an almost champion level of ignorance,
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words — that’s at least one every 62 words.
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/>No — in fact, in many parts of the world, it is progressing
faster than ever before, and well above any other energy
technology. The industry is maturing, however, and with that
naturally comes some bumpy patches — stagnation, political
intervention and misappropriation, and economic fluctuations; to
think otherwise is naive.
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But to think that these bumps in the road represent some global
shift away from renewable energy is to ignore all common sense
and historical evidence. Renewable energy
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 4, 2018, 2:39 pm
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November 4, 2018
The brazen attack by Republicans on Debbie Mucarsel-Powell took
away my breath. The National Republican Congressional
Committee[img
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/>🐉🦕 🦖😈👹 released an ad
late last week claiming that climate hawk Debbie
Mucarsel-Powell’s “campaign is flooded with dirty coal money,
the very polluters that threaten our way of life in the Keys.”
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Yep, you read that right.
I can hardly wait for the NRCC’s similar attack ads against
EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN 😈👹🦕🦖
EVER.
See, when we endorsed Debbie, we pointed out that climate
peacock Carlos Curbelo has taken tens of thousands from Big Oil.
Debbie’s been using his fossil fuel money ties on the campaign
trail. And right now, we’re running digital ads in the district
pointing out the tens of thousands he’s proudly taken from Exxon
Mobil and others. That means the attacks are working -- but now
the evil empire is striking back.
Can you contribute to keep our ads going?
HTML http://act.climatehawksvote.com/r
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[center]Climate Hawks Vote ad in FL-26[/center]
Oh, and the "dirty coal money" that’s supposedly flooding
Debbie’s campaign? It’s $2700 from climate hawk Tom Steyer. And
his business used to invest in fossil fuel-powered utilities, a
long time ago, before he became a climate hawk. And… well,
sorry. I. Can’t. Even. #eyeroll #facepalm
Here’s the real target of the NRCC: the disillusioned,
occasional voters who say “both sides are the same” and then
stay home on Tuesday. But you and I know that both sides aren’t
the same. One in Congress voted to drill the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. The other won’t. That’s why it’s so important
that climate hawks stand with Debbie.
With polls showing a one-point race in Florida’s 26th District,
I’m going to ask you to help us fight back.
Can you chip in to help our ads reach more voters?
HTML http://act.climatehawksvote.com/r
Your fellow climate hawk,
RL Miller
Reference
[center]“The GOP is attacking a Democrat for being weak on
climate change. Wait, what?!,” Mother Jones[/center]
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Agelbert NOTE: Fascist enablers everywhere hate Tom Steyer
because he wants to get the Trump FASCIST impeached.
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Fascist enabler Republicans are serial LIARS who do not care how
much this country is trashed by Profit Over Planet Fascism. A
vote for a REPUBLICAN IS A VOTE FOR THE DEATH OF THE REPUBLIC,
PERIOD.
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Re: Hydrocarbon Hellspawn Mens Rea Actus Reus
By: AGelbert Date: November 8, 2018, 5:14 pm
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/>Truthout
PUBLISHED November 8, 2018
SNIPPET:
... sharp contrasts between advocacy for economic justice
✨ and flackery 😈 for de facto oligarchy
👹.
Surveys show that voters are hungry for genuinely progressive
policies that have drawn little interest from mainstream media
outlets. For instance, polling of the US public shows:
֍ 76 percent support higher taxes on the wealthy.
֍ 70 percent support Medicare for All.
֍ 59 percent support a $15 minimum wage.
֍ 60 percent support expanded tuition-free college.
֍ 69 percent oppose overturning Roe v. Wade.
֍ 65 percent support progressive criminal justice reform.
֍ 59 percent support stricter environmental regulation.
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[center]A Challenge to the New Blue Congress: Govern as
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Agelbert NOTE: I have ZERO confidence in Pelosi doing what she
MUST DO (i.e go 100% Progressive, ESPECIALLY in regard to
Renewable Energy) to keep the Hydrocrabon Hellspawn Oligarchy
🐉🦕🦖 STILL RUNNING (and still ruining
through massive 24/7 government welfare queen subsidized
pollution) the USA from accelerating down the path to the
extinction of most mammalian vertebrate species, including
humans. Never mind stopping them. They want to EXPAND the
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Stupid is as STUPID Suicidal Insanity DOES. 🤬
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[move][I][font=impact]The Fossil Fuelers 🦖 DID THE
Clean Energy Inventions suppressing, Climate Trashing, human
health depleting CRIME,[COLOR=BROWN] but since they have
ALWAYS BEEN liars and conscience free crooks 🦀, they are
trying to AVOID [/color] DOING THE TIME or PAYING THE FINE!
Don't let them get away with it! Pass it on!
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