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| 24. |
12/21/03 |
'Rewiring'
The World's Energy (Boston Globe)
CLIMATE CHANGE isn't just another
issue in this complicated world of proliferating
issues. It's the issue that -- unchecked -- will
swamp all others. Unfortunately, the urgency of
the climate crisis is overwhelmed by competition
from other major problems. We are under attack
from terrorists. We are apprehensive about the
aftermath of the Iraq war. Our trick-or-treat
economy is as unnerving to investors as it is
cruel to workers. These diverse challenges may
be susceptible to a common solution -- a rapid
worldwide transition to clean energy. |
| 23. |
12/19/03 |
British
Plan Major 'Wind Farm' to Generate Power Along
Coasts (New York Times)
Energy
companies plan to erect more than 1,000 turbines
off England's coast in a $12.4 billion project
to build the largest source of wind energy. The
wind farms, which received preliminary approval
on Thursday, would generate as much as seven gigawatts
of electricity - enough to supply four million
households, or to meet 7 percent of Britain's
energy needs. Britain has pledged that 10 percent
of its energy will come from renewable resources
by 2010. |
| 22. |
12/17/03 |
Battle
Rages with Ecuador Indians Over Jungle Oil (Reuters)
"We've
seen proof, we don't want what has happened in
Sucumbios and Orellana to happen to us,"
said Achuar leader Milton Callera. "Our government
can't resolve this problem."
... "There's no way for the Secoya people
to get their life back," said Piyahuaje,
47, leader of the 400-strong tribe. He said oily
pits left by a Texaco subsidiary continue to leak
a black sludge into rivers when it rains...
[
Photograph
of Secoya elders protesting against ChevronTexaco...
] |
| 21. |
12/2/03 |
The
Bottom of the Barrel, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
Oil
is running out, but no one wants to talk about
it. |
| 20. |
12/1/03 |
Tax
Breaks Target Big SUVs (Minneapolis Star Tribune)
"Bad policy. It
encourages the use of the most fuel-inefficient
means of transportation in urban America."
Minnesota Democrat Jim Oberstar |
| 19. |
10/23/03 |
Showdown
in the Ecuadoran Jungle: Rare Class-Action Pollution
Trial Pits Indians Against U.S. Oil Company
(Washington Post)
Although
surrounded by rain-swollen rivers, this community
of Cofan Indians now trusts only water drawn
from deep in the ground by their tiny well.
For years, they have watched family members
and friends grow sick from drinking or bathing
in the contaminated river water. "Always
we have counted on water from the Aguarico,
until it was contaminated," said Toribio
Aguinda, a Cofan leader |
| 18. |
10/22/03 |
Ecuadoreans
Sue U.S. Oil Firm Over Amazon Pollution (Reuters)
"Before
Texaco, we were free. We drank from the river,
bathed in the river and everything was peaceful
because it wasn't polluted," 67-year-old
Secoya Indian Esteban Lusitande said in broken
Spanish. "Now
there's nothing. We can't even swim." |
| 17. |
10/21/03 |
Ecuadorans
put Chevron on trial: Company accused in class-action
lawsuit of despoiling Amazon region with crude
(San Francisco Chronicle)
"What
happens in this one-room courthouse could be
a turning point for indigenous people trying
to protect their land and for multinational
companies looking to avoid responsibility overseas."
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| 16. |
10/2/03 |
World
oil and gas 'running out' (CNN) |
| 15. |
8/18/03 |
Why
Hydrogen is No Solution - Scientific Answers
to Marketing Hype, Deception and Wishful Thinking
(FromTheWilderness.com)
Seeing
One Car Run on a Fuel Cell or Hydrogen Gas Does
Not Make It a Solution for Anything, Especially
If You Invest More Energy in the Hydrogen Than
You Get from Burning It or If You Make More
Greenhouse Gas at the Hydrogen Factory or If
You Can't Afford to Ship or Store It. |
| 14. |
8/11/03 |
Heat
Threatens Safety of Nuclear Reactors as France
Girds for Electricity Rationing (Independent)
[ See
photograph from original article... ]
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| 13. |
6/13/03 |
Hydrogen
fuel could widen ozone hole (Nature, Scientific
Journal)
Likely leaks blot green
power's perfect reputation
[
See image from original article... ]
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| 12. |
6/2/03 |
Foes
of global warming theory have energy ties (COX
News Service) |
| 11. |
5/28/03 |
Exxon
Backs Groups That Question Global Warming (New
York Times)
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| 10. |
4/22/03 |
Russian
Minister Fears Collapse of Chernobyl Shield
(Reuters)
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| 9. |
12/5/02 |
Much
Ado about Nothing -- Whither the Caspian Riches?
(FromTheWilderness.com)
Over
the Last 24 Months Hoped For Caspian Oil Bonanza
Has Vanished With Each New Well Drilled -- Global
Implications Are Frightening.
The "war which will not end in our lifetimes"
is proving itself to be a sequential war to
control the last remaining oil reserves on the
planet, especially those which have not yet
peaked. |
| 8. |
11/5/02 |
In
the Crocodile's Mouth, by George Monbiot (Guardian)
The world's oil reserves,
the depletion analysis centre claims, appear to
be declining almost as swiftly as the North Sea's.
Conventional oil supplies, it suggests, will peak
within five or ten years, and decline by around
two million barrels per day every year from then
on. |
| 7. |
10/23/02 |
Colin
Campbell on Oil (FromtheWilderness.com)
Perhaps the World's Foremost
Expert on Oil and the Oil Business Confirms
the Ever More Apparent Reality of the Post-9-11
World
FTW: What will be the likely
effects of hitting the downslope of production?
Campbell:
Big question. Simply stated: war, starvation,
economic recession, possibly even the extinction
of homo sapiens, insofar as the evolution of
life on earth has always been accomplished by
the extinction of over-adapted species (when
their environmental niche changed for geologic
or climatic reasons) leaving simpler forms to
continue, and eventually giving rise new more
adapted species. If Homo sapiens figures out
how to move back to simplicity, he will be the
first to do so. |
| 6. |
8/16/02 |
Oil
Lobby Dismisses Earth Summit (Times of London) |
| 5. |
7/17/02 |
Bush
and Power Companies Oppose Lone Star in Energy
Bill (Common Dreams)
Opposition to Renewable Electricity
Contradicts Administration's Own Study |
| 4. |
4/3/02 |
ExxonMobil
Behind Watson's Ouster (NRDC)
Confidential Papers Show Exxon
Hand in White House Move
to Oust Top Scientist from Global Warming Panel |
| 3. |
3/23/02 |
ExxonMobil
Grossly Distorts National Research Council Report
On Global Warming in New York Times Ad (Heat Is
On-Line) |
| 2. |
3/22/01 |
Bush's
Global Warmers (The Nation)
For most of the 1990s,
Western Fuels, a $400 million coal industry propaganda
outlet, funded the most visible of the greenhouse
skeptics. Now ExxonMobil--the only major oil company
to deny the reality of climate change--has joined
the coal industry to finance the skeptics, confuse
the public and undermine the work of 2,000 scientists
from 100 countries on the IPCC. |
| 1. |
10/6/00 |
Ford
Predicts End of Car Pollution (Independent)
The 100-year reign of
the polluting internal combustion engine is coming
to an end, Bill Ford, chairman of the Ford Motor
Company, said yesterday. It will soon be replaced
in motor vehicles by the hydrogen fuel cell, which
emits no pollution whatsoever and
so can reduce the build-up of greenhouse gases
causing climate change.
-
I've included this article as an example because
the problems with it are many:
1. I've read that commercial hydrogen requires
more energy invested than will be returned (EROEI-Energy
Returned On Energy Invested). Hydrogen is extracted
from natural gas, which, along with oil, is a
finite, non-renewable resource. The extraction
process requires steam, created by burning hydrocarbons
(more natural gas, oil or coal), contributing
to global warming.
2 . Ford claims zero pollution, but pollution
is generated during the process of producing hydrogen
(hydrocarbons are burned to generate the hydrogen,
etc., contributing to global warming).
3 . The transportation system he envisions still
greatly depends on oil, even if hydrogen could
be used to power automobiles. This is unsustainable
since experts are saying that Peak Oil production
for the world will occur around the year 2010.
4.
Ford will profit greatly in the short term if
people believe his claim.
- To fully validate Mr. Ford's claims, read "Nine
Critical Questions to Ask About Alternative Energy". |
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