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Policy

by: Meribeth Deen on: April 14, 2013

Utility companies, that’s who. David Roberts over at Grist has just posted a fantastic series stemming from a report by the Edison Electronic Institute’s that outlines how the success of small-scale renewables could make utility companies, as we know them, obsolete.

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Oil

BP stuck on petroleum in 2013

by: Meribeth Deen on: April 10, 2013

Thirteen years ago, BP oil launched a $200 million campaign to promote the slogan for the shiny, green image they wanted to represent, “Beyond Petroleum.” As the company approaches this year’s annual general meeting (tomorrow) it is all too clear that its time for BP to come clean and find a new slogan.

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Geothermal

French fracking fight flares-up as enthusiasm for geothermal energy heats-up

by: Meribeth Deen on: April 5, 2013

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.

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Emerging

Are the EPA’s new tailpipe regulations a smokescreen for environmental protection?

by: Meribeth Deen on: April 3, 2013

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.

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Emerging

Divestment movement comes to Canada

by: Meribeth Deen on: March 31, 2013

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

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Oil

Moving oil is messy business, whatever the method

by: Meribeth Deen on: March 29, 2013

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.

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Oil

California Democrats call for fracking moratorium

by: Meribeth Deen on: March 27, 2013

“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.

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Solar

Abu Dhabi solar plant key to energy security

by: Meribeth Deen on: March 19, 2013

The launch of the Shams 1 power plant is big news in clean energy, and a major hallmark on the Middle East’s path towards energy diversification.

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Policy

“Canada has the worst green energy policy in the world.”

by: Meribeth Deen on: March 12, 2013

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.

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Emerging

Canadian clean technology companies capture 1 percent of the $1 trillion global industry

by: Meribeth Deen on: January 27, 2013

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