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There are more jobs in renewable energy than in oil, gas, and coal combined
2016-05-31 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: A word to the burly coal miners who complained that cutting coal out of our energy mix would take away their jobs when the Climate Action Plan was up for debate. Jobs in solar energy now outnumber jobs in coal mining and the oil and gas industry added together, says a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Solar may be taking away old jobs, but its offering new ones. Thats especially true for women. IRENA found that the renewable energy sector employs more women than...
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German Reserve for Dirty Coal Plants Seen Hurting Carbon Demand
2016-05-30 09:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Germanys plan to place lignite-burning power plants into a reserve from later this year may cut demand in Europes carbon market, according to a former government official. The 1.6 billion-euro ($1.8 billion) coal reserve may reduce demand for carbon allowances because it would lower total emissions and trim the need for utilities buying permits in advance, Franzjosef Schafhausen, a former director-general for climate policy, European and international policy at the nations environment ministry,...
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Appalachian coal ash richest in rare earth elements
2016-05-30 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A study of the content of rare earth elements in U.S. coal ashes shows that coal mined from the Appalachian Mountains could be the proverbial golden goose for hard-to-find materials critical to clean energy and other emerging technologies. In the wake of a 2014 coal ash spill into North Carolina's Dan River from a ruptured Duke Energy drainage pipe, the question of what to do with the nation's aging retention ponds and future coal ash waste has been a highly contested topic. One particularly entrepreneurial...
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'Delusional': NSW report banks on rising coal output and royalties out to 2056
2016-05-29 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The Baird government's future projection for NSW implies the state will extract more than 10 billion tonnes of coal at the rate of almost 1 million tonnes a day by 2056, forecasts the Greens say are "delusional" in a carbon-constrained world. The NSW Intergenerational report released this month estimated Australia's richest state would swell in population by 50 per cent to 11.2 million in 40 years, with an annual output of $1.3 trillion by then. NSW government report predicts coal mining in...
French government signals end of Victoria's Hazelwood coal plant
2016-05-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The French government has thrown fresh doubt over the future of the Hazelwood brown coal power station, signalling the owner will close or sell the greenhouse-intensive Victorian plant as part of an "exit plan" from coal. In a documentary aired on public broadcaster France 2 that highlighted the impact of the 2014 Hazelwood coal mine fire, French Environment Minister Segolene Royal said the part-government owned utility ENGIE would "disengage" from the Australian plant. Ms Royal spoke after...
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