Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #postcarboneconomy, aggregated by home.social.
"How our demand for #sand is destroying our world"
Not a subject I have considered previously, yet perfectly logical. Sand is such a part of our daily lives we do not notice our buildings, windows, roads, dishware… everything in the built environment, it seems, uses sand as material or in its production.
As a commodity with increasing scarcity, it leads to conflicts.
What can we do about it?
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-our-demand-for-sand-is-destroying-our-world-1.6472297
"Pratt #Canada Picks #Battery Supplier for #Hybrid-#Electric Project"
H55, a spinoff from the Solar Impulse project, develops lightweight propulsion and energy storage systems.
The government of Canada and the province of Québec have committed to funding half the investment into a Dash-8-100 hybrid demonstrator, scheduled to fly in 2024.
#News #Business #travel #airtravel #flight #PostCarbonEconomy #RandD
" #Canada Gets its First Grid-Connected #Tidal #Energy Project"
"Tidal power startup Sustainable Marine has begun providing #electricity to the grid from an experimental array in #NovaScotia's Bay of Fundy, a region famous for its extreme tidal currents."
https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/canada-gets-its-first-grid-connected-tidal-energy-project
#News #Business #Energy #RenewableEnergy #PostCarbonEconomy #NS #NSPoli #CanPoli #CDNPoli
"695 MW #Canadian #hydro comes fully online"
The #Keeyask #Hydropower LP, a joint #renewableEnergy #project of the Keeyask #Cree Nations and #Manitoba Hydro, has commissioned the 7th generating turbine in its #Keeyask project, completing construction.
This project, like all #MB Hydro generation projects since the 1985 Limestone Generation Stn was brought in by an #NDP government.
https://www.renews.biz/77829/watch-695mw-canadian-hydro-comes-fully-online/
#News #Business #Indigenous #Energy #PostCarbonEconomy #MBPoli #Cdnpoli #CadPoli
"The #Navajo Nation’s transition to #renewable #energy: what and where to expect it"
#NavajoNation includes land in 3 SW states in the #USA. With the closure of #coal strip mines in their territory, the nation began investing in #renewableEnergy. Already producing 55 MW, two planned #solar projects will bring production up to 200 MW, the first should complete in Nov. 2022.
https://www.nhonews.com/news/2022/may/10/navajo-nations-transition-renewable-energy-what-an/
#News #Indigenous #Business #PostCarbonEconomy #USPoli #AZPoli #NMPoli #UTPoli
" #Siemens Gamesa #Renewable #Energy signs 192MW onshore #wind turbine supply deal in #Canada"
The Wild Rose 2 wind farm being developed in #Alberta is the destination for 38 turbines. Capstone Infrastructure has a 15 yr power purchase agreement #PPA with Pembina #Pipeline corp, making this a not-exactly #PostCarbonEconomy project.
#News #Business #renewableEnergy #ABPoli #Carbon #ClimateCrisis #CC #FF
" #Oil has long been used as a geopolitical weapon. Could electrified #transport change that?"
The #energy-scarcity #economy model has concentrated power and influence in the hands of a few. Technology now allows for an energy-plentiful economy, and the nature of #renewableEnergy is perforce decentralized. But what does that mean now, in real terms?
Will the energy transition lead to a safer, more-peaceful #earth?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/electric-vehicles-oil-transition-1.6434080
" #Renewable #Energy Met 100% #California’s Energy Needs For 2 Minutes, Breaking A Record"
Saturday's lower energy demand allowed California's 18,629 MW of renewable production to carry the whole grid, briefly. It was not a blip, either; the renewable supply was greater than natural gas for 12 hours on April 30th, further proof it is possible to go 100% renewable.
#News #Business #Energy #PostCarbonEconomy #solar #wind #renewableenergy
" #Solar Industry ‘Frozen’ as #Biden Administration Investigates #China"
#US Commerce Dept. has (finally) looked at the open secret - that China has a strangle-hold on the industry, and moves entire factories overseas to assemble Chinese parts into #solarpanels to circumvent 2012 rules against state-subsidized mfg. The examination is having wide national impacts.
#News #Business #Economy #PostCarbonEconomy #RenewableEnergy #Energy
"Flertall for elfly-krav"
[Plurality for electric flight]
#Norway passes requirement that government short-haul #air travel tenders must be #LEV and #EV technology as soon as technologically possible. The Norwegian #airlines NHO, LO, and Avinor have already set a goal to be #fossilfuel free by 2050.
https://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.15946236
#news #business #PostCarbonEconomy #airplane #electric #electricflight #FF #CC #ClimateChange #airtravel #NO #Green
"Chrysler to go all-electric by 2028, CEO says"
Stellantis, formed a year ago in a merger of Chrysler-Fiat and PSA, has announced #Chrysler brand will introduce its first #EV in 2025, and three years later will have entirely replaced its product lines with #electric vehicles.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/chrysler-stellantis-electric-1.6304587
#News #Business #Transportation #PostCarbonEconomy #Economy #Auto
"Lockheed Martin to provide flow battery for 103MW solar-storage project in Canada
"The Saddlebrook #Solar + Storage Project will be a 102.5 MW installation, paired with 6.5 MW/52 MWh of #LockheedMartin’s GridStar Flow #battery #technology."
Flow batteries use liquid electrolyte stored in tanks to hold the charge.
#News #Energy #AB #Alberta #Business #PostCarbonEconomy #Canada
"Canada’s First All-electric, Zero-emissions Ferry Enters Service
"A newly retrofitted #electric #ferry is the first in #Canada to enter service powered by a zero-emissions, lithium-ion power and propulsion system containing no diesel fuel components."
This #Toronto ferry makes a very short run. But does it 76x per day. On batteries only. Conversion: less than $4 million.
https://www.marinelink.com/news/canadas-first-allelectric-zeroemissions-492992
#News #Energy #Transportation #Masstransit #Ontario #CanPoli #CDNPol #ONPoli #PostCarbonEconomy
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**The teenagers and the nun trying to stop an Australian #coal mine**
"Eight teenagers won a milestone environmental #court case in #Australia, but the result was appealed."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-59390798?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
#News #Business #Law #Environment #Aus #PostCarbonEconomy #FF #Carbon #ClimateChange #CC #AnjaliSharma
"2 years after #Trudeau pledged to plant 2 billion trees, only 8.5 million have been planted"
For the mathematically inclined, the #Liberal Party of #Canada pledged to plant those trees as an #environment commitment & to create #jobs in the 2019 election, and before 2030. That is just 0.425%. At this rate it will take 470.588235294 years.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tree-planting-update-cp-1.6284165
https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1177613585381543936
#News #Politics #Politique #GreenWashing #CanPoli #CDNPol #LPC #PostCarbonEconomy
" #Canada Proposing National Cap-and-Trade Market for #GHG #Emissions
Draft regulations have been posted for a cap-and-trade market titled the Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System."
It appears modeled on the #Alberta system, which the government of #AB has crippled by stopping or curtailing monitoring of emissions.
https://www.naturalgasintel.com/canada-proposing-national-cap-and-trade-market-for-ghg-emissions/
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/output-based-pricing-system/federal-greenhouse-gas-offset-system.html
#News #Business #FF #FossilFuels #CC #ClimateCrisis #CapAndTrade #PostCarbonEconomy #Carbon
" #Exxon Mobil's total reserves drop by a third after COVID-19 #oil price drop"
After borrowing to cover its #dividend, the #FossilFuel giant was forced in SEC filings to write off 30% of its 'proved reserves', mostly in #Canada #tarsands and #US #fracking. Earlier in the month the company reported a 22.4 billion USD loss on 2020.
https://ir.exxonmobil.com/sec-filings/sec-filing/10-k/0000034088-21-000012
#News #Business #Energy #FF #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #PostCarbonEconomy
" #Tufts Won't Invest in #Coal and #TarSands Production"
The #US private #University had the 57th largest endowment in the country. While the university, motivated by students and faculty, is moving to #divest from coal and tarsands, they do not plan to elminate #FossilFuel companies from their portfolios, but asked their investment managers to consider #environment, #social, and #governance when investing.
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/02/11/tufts-wont-invest-coal-and-tar-sands-production
"How Much Does #Climate Change Cost? #Biden Raises #Carbon’s Dollar Value, but Not by Nearly Enough, Some Say
The administration temporarily increased the “social cost” of carbon, climate-concerned economists say the number is not nearly high enough to meet #Paris goals."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26022021/carbon-cost-biden-climate-change/
#News #Business #Environment #Politique #Politics #USA #USPol #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CC #SocialCarbonCost #PostCarbonEconomy
"Why #GM's switch to #electric vehicles may be more important for the oilpatch than Keystone XL's cancellation
'The future of transportation, starting now, is electric,' says #environmentalist working with #automaker"
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/general-motors-electric-oilpatch-1.5905637
#News #Business #Environment #ev #zev #bev #GeneralMotors #auto #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #FF #FossilFuel #Carbon #PostCarbonEconomy #Canada #CDNPoli #CanPol #ABLeg #AB #ABPoli
" #Oil Giants Win Offshore #Wind Leases in #Britain
#BP and #Total plan to spend billions of dollars developing the wind farms in an effort to aid their shift to #renewable #energy."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/business/oil-companies-offshore-wind-britain.html
#News #Business #FF #FossilFuel #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy #PostCarbonEconomy
"Elon #Musk pledges $100m to #carbon capture contest
Fifteen teams will get $1m to develop ideas, with a $50m prize awaiting the winner"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/elon-musk-pledges-100m-to-carbon-capture-contest
#News #Science #Business #CarbonCapture #PostCarbonEconomy #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
" #BlackRock Chief Pushes a Big New #Climate Goal for the #Corporate #World
Larry #Fink is using his firm’s huge influence to pressure companies to eliminate #greenhouse gas #emissions by 2050."
BlackRock politely demands all CEOs to document how they will address #ClimateChange and #CarbonNeutral-ity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/business/dealbook/larry-fink-letter-blackrock-climate.html
#News #Business #Economy #Carbon #CC #ClimateCrisis #PostCarbonEconomy
" #Vancouver #seaplane company to resume test flights with #electric commercial #airplane
CEO Greg #McDougall says #COVID-19 pushed goal to carry passengers on e-plane back a year"
#TransportCanada approved a new permit for test flights of the #eplane as they work to prove safety, reliability.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-electric-seaplane-test-flights-1.5884479
#News #Business #Airtravel #Energy #BC #HarbourAir #EV #BEV #PostCarbonEconomy #Canada
"History made: #Renewable #energy surpassed fossil fuels for #European #electricity in 2020
Europeans got more of their electricity from renewable sources than fossil fuels for the first time last year, according to an annual report from Ember and Agora Energiewende."
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/24/business/eu-renewable-energy-fossil-fuels/index.html
#News #Business #RenewableEnergy #FF #FossilFuel #Europe #Carbon #PostCarbonEconomy
"The #Canadian Case for Border #Carbon Adjustments
… the key policy recommendations of the report focuses on the need to “work with provinces and international partners to establish a coordinated border carbon adjustment to replace output-based pricing.”
This article gives a useful, and regularly updated, over-view of #BCAs and their use in #trade.
https://below2c.org/2021/01/the-canadian-case-for-border-carbon-adjustments/
#Commentary #Business #Carbon #ClimateChange #CC #Economy #PostCarbonEconomy #CDNPoli #CanPol
" #Solar projects in #Inuvik awarded $800k
…The projects include a 2021 solar project at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility, with funds to help with implementation and training, and planning for a grid-connected solar farm in Inuvik, slated to start in 2021 and be completed by 2022."
The awardee is Nihtat Energy Ltd., a Gwich'in development corporation.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/solar-projects-in-inuvik-awarded-800k-1.5881463
#News #Business #Energy #NT #FirstNations #Aboriginal #Indigenous #Gwichin #Canada #PostCarbonEconomy #Renewable
"How #carbon capture technology can add to the emissions problem
…
In fact, a lot of captured carbon is being repurposed to extract more #oil and #gas."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-carbon-capture-enhanced-oil-recovery-1.5873431
#News #Business #Energy #FF #FossilFuel #CC #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #CO2 #CarbonCapture #CarbonCaptureLie #PostCarbonEconomy
" #Volkswagen triples #electric car sales ahead of #climate rules
Automaker Volkswagen tripled sales of battery-only cars in 2020 as its new electric compact ID.3 came on the market ahead of tough new European Union limits on #auto #emissions."
#News #Business #EU #EV #BEV #FF #FossilFuel #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #CC #PostCarbonEconomy