The fire that the locals call “the beast” is back with a vengeance. Last week, the wildfire that ravaged parts of the tar sands town of Fort McMurray in Alberta seemed to have done its worst. But in recent days it has returned and headed to the tar sands camps north of the town, travelling at around 30-40 metres per second.
Month: May 2016
EIA AEO 2016 Early Release: a quick overview
We give a quick overview of the EIA’s early release of the AEO 2016, and recommend you take their advice. This is not a forecast.
White House Responds to Keep It In the Ground Petition
That the White House was forced to officially respond to this petition is yet another indication of the growing power of the Keep It In The Ground movement.
Shell’s Oil Spill the Size of Manhattan
Oil giant Shell is still struggling to clean up an estimated 90,000 gallons of oil spilt in to the Gulf of Mexico last Thursday. This latest spill has led to increased calls by local residents on President Obama not to open additional leases in the next Five Year Plan for the Gulf.
BreakFree2016: Moving Towards “Zero Coal”
Over the last two weeks, in excess of 30,000 people have undertaken 20 hugely significant acts of disobedience on six continents as part of the #Breakfree2016 protests against fossil fuels.
Exxon Faces Questions Over Climate As Gates Dumps BP
The famous quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin is that “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. Another certainty is that you know that the top executives of controversial companies absolutely hate the one day in the year that they are accountable to their shareholders: the AGM.
EPA’s Methane Rule is welcome, but NOT a license to grow gas production
Forecast gas production growth will bust the climate, even with no methane leakage.
Forecasting Failure
The Energy Information Administration should help, not hinder, policymaking on the energy transition – a critique of the International Energy Outlook 2016
Reaction: EIA’s latest outlook another recipe for climate chaos
The EIA’s Reference Case is a recipe for disaster, and indicates that we need a new set of ingredients to create the clean energy economy necessary to solve the climate crisis.
Pressure Mounts on Obama As Big Oil Abandons the Arctic
Great news for those fighting Big Oil in the Arctic, as after spending a whopping $2.5 billion for drilling rights in US Arctic waters, oil companies such as Shell and ConocoPhillips have quietly relinquished their rights to some 2.2 million acres.