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UKs Nuke Plans Lose Traction with Shift to Renewables
2013-02-10 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: The UK government's plan to build a new generation of 10 nuclear power stations suffered another severe blow this week when the British utility Centrica pulled out of the program, writing off a 200 million ($315M) investment in the process. To prop up the industry the government is faced with breaking two important electoral pledges and may face legal challenges that it intends to breach European Union subsidy rules in guaranteeing a minimum price for nuclear power. With the French nuclear industry...
Renewables cheaper than coal in Australia a preview of things to come
2013-02-08 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: I`m morbidly fascinated by the way conventional wisdom lags behind evidence, like the CW that renewable energy is expensive and fossil fuels cheap. In fact, there is a tectonic shift underway. Renewable energy prices are declining as technology improves, economies of scale kick in, financing mechanisms mature, and public policy begins to take some (inadequate) account of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, the cost of coal-fired electricity is heading up. It`s getting harder to...
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South and Central America forge ahead with renewables
2013-02-06 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Further to The Ecologist report on 13th January, which stated that Uruguay is planning to become the planet's greenest country, it seems that other countries in South and Central America are refusing to lag behind. A new report by energy experts GBI Research documents how other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Chile are ramping-up efforts to increase renewable energy production and government policy is driving this change. Brazil uses Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs) to support renewable development...
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02.06.13 -- Efficiency, Natural Gas, Renewables Transforming U.S. Energy
2013-02-05 00:01:38| pollutiononline News Articles
02/06/13 Pollution Online Newsletter
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Natural gas a clean transition to renewables
2013-02-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Seven years ago, I was hired by the Environmental Defense Fund to fight against more than 100 new coal-fired power plants proposed across the United States. Today, these plants are dead. New coal construction has ground to a halt, and our focus has shifted from fighting new coal plants to pressuring existing coal plants to close. Big progress in the fight against air pollution and global warming? You bet. Tireless advocacy by many made it happen. But I must confess that our fight was made easier...
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