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Energy Act juxtapositions, too

There’s much to be said about the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President Bush just signed into law, and I’m not the one to say it all. Other people are better analysts, and have more time to do it. But I do have a few observations to share: – Most...

Energy juxtapositions (3)

[SF Chronicle]: Nuclear Energy Can’t Solve Global Warming Mark Hertsgaard offers the cogent response I’ve been looking for to the small but growing chrous of ‘enviros’ (James Lovelock, Patrick Moore, Hugh Montefiore, Stewart Brand, and now...

Energy juxtapositions (2)

[Global Public Media]: Richard Heinberg asks ‘Where is the Hirsch Report?’ Evidently the US Department of Energy is interested enough in the Peak-Oil debate to commission a report on the subject. Released in February this year by Science Applications...

Energy juxtapositions (1)

‘Simulation shows US held over a barrel,’ reports the Financial Times (a consistently more useful paper than most of what passes for news media in the US). Their lead: Terrorists yesterday struck oil facilities in the US and Saudi Arabia, pushing oil...

‘Ambitious’ banking targets

[ClimateBiz]: HSBC bank sets ambitious reduction targets for air emissions, waste The world’s second largest bank will cut its CO2 emissions by an average of 5%, water and energy by 7% and landfill waste by 8%, across 90% of its operations by the end of 2007. At...