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Posts in November 2009

• Electric Vehicles May Increase CO2

  Andy Rowell

  Nov13

  Finally someone has stated the blindingly obvious… For years the car industry has argued that electric vehicles are the answer to climate change. They have even had the audacity to call them “zero emission vehicles”. At the moment, electric vehicles are all the rage. At this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show visitors would have been left…
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• Debunking the Tar Sands Propaganda

  Andy Rowell

  Nov12

  Canada’s tar sands lobby is getting desperate, clutching at straws as to how to revitalise the flagging industry that is being squeezed by a stagnant oil price and looming carbon regulations. They will use any excuse to try and spin their case. Take the report earlier this week by the International Energy Agency, that actually…
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• The “Corporate Killer” that is Nuclear Power

  Andy Rowell

  Nov11

  At the end of the day energy comes down to economics. Drilling oil out of the deserts of the Middle East is inherently more profitable than boiling them out of Canadian boreal forest. Any deal at Copenhagen will hinge on how much the rich are prepared to pay the poor. There will be no clean…
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• US Distorts IEA’s Oil Figures

  Andy Rowell

  Nov10

  Ever since the dark days of the Bush Administration we have known that the US Administration, under pressure from its oil buddies, can manipulate data. But that was mainly to do with climate. We also know that the true amount of oil in the world’s depleting oil fields is one of the most hotly guarded…
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• “No Democratic Legitimacy” for New Nukes and Coal

  Andy Rowell

  Nov09

  A radical shake-up of Britain’s planning laws is going to be announced today which will make it easier for the government to fast-track or steam-roll large energy projects such as nuclear, gas or  power stations or even wind turbines. In all the government will publish six “National Policy Statements” on energy this afternoon, including –…
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• No Climate Deal for Over a Year

  Andy Rowell

  Nov06

  Well you didn’t really believe that a global climate deal was on the cards at Copenhagen did you? Despite all the warnings that such is the urgency of the problem that a deal had to be made in Copenhagen, there will be no deal. Not for a year anyway. And maybe never.

• IEA to Reduce Oil Demand Forecasts Again

  Andy Rowell

  Nov05

  The tar sands may be doomed. Two of the key arguments against exploiting it are gaining traction, and both may be enough to scupper investment. Yesterday I blogged about how the idea of a carbon-constrained world, which could fatally undermine tar sands extraction, was beginning to be debated in the mainstream press: the message being…
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• Copenhagen Talks Spell Trouble for the Tar Sands

  Andy Rowell

  Nov04

  Critics of the oil industry’s relentless expansion into the Canadian tar sands have been pointing out for a while something that they thought was obvious: the multi-billion investment strategy is completely flawed. They have repeatedly pointed out that exploiting the highly polluting and energy intensive tar sands is extremely financially risky in a carbon constrained…
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• Iraq: New “Colonial” Era of Oil Exploitation Begins

  Andy Rowell

  Nov03

  The British military may be gone, but the British oilmen are back. Today is the day that the oil men from BP take control of Iraq’s biggest oilfield: Rumaila. It is the first important oil deal since the 2003 invasion, and a long time since 1961 when Iraq passed Law 80 that wrestled back 99.5…
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• “The clock has almost ticked down to zero …”

  Andy Rowell

  Nov02

  We can bail out the bankers – But we can’t bail out ourselves. That is the ironic situation we find ourselves in with the clock ticking towards the crucial climate talks in Copenhagen.  This morning the last diplomatic negotiations before Copenhagen started in Barcelona, Yvo de Boer, the head of the UNFCCC said: