For the past 15 years, Ontario Power Generation—one of the largest producers of electricity in North America—has been working to obtain approval from the Canadian government to build an underground repository near the Great Lakes to store its nuclear waste. As the approval process for the Deep Geologic Repository (DGR) nears an end, some concerned […]
Monday marked the end of a contested 30-day public comment period on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) draft Environmental Assessment for the controversial $3.8 billion plan, proposed by Virginia-based Dominion Resources, to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Cove Point, MD. Dominion’s plan is to convert an existing import facility into an export facility […]
Those who appear on HBO never need to mince words, especially not on Real Time with Bill Maher. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy refused to tiptoe in describing what her announcement of the president’s emissions proposal and goals really meant. Maher asked McCarthy if the U.S. was truly entering a war on coal, […]
The newest innovation of the climate denying machine, it turns out, is the lawsuit. Despite the fact that President Barack Obama’s emissions rule remains a proposal for at least a year, the mere idea of a limit on carbon has incensed an Ohio coal executive to the point of threatened litigation. Robert E. Murray, founder of […]
Tar sands mining in the heart of Canada’s boreal forest is putting millions of America’s migratory birds in jeopardy and has already resulted in hundred of thousands of fatalities, according to a new report released today by the National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Council of Maine. Alberta, Canada areas of tar sands operations. Graphic courtesy […]
While researchers have already exposed how the presence of methane debunks the notion that natural gas is a clean energy option, a new study shows that things don’t get any better when the gas is liquified and exported. Ironically, that study comes from the U.S. Department of Energy—the same agency that has been approving liquefied natural […]
On Friday, May 30, another coal-related chemical spill polluted a public waterway in Central Appalachia, killing hundreds of fish and alarming local residents. The chemical spill happened at a Cumberland Coal Company prep plant in Harlan County, KY. This time, the spill was not of coal slurry or a coal-washing chemical, but of a flocculant—a type of compound usually used […]
Jolynn Minnaar had no intention of making a documentary exposing the evils of fracking. In fact, the Karoo, South Africa native viewed the arrival of a shale gas extraction industry as an exciting opportunity for development and employment in home district. Her opinion changed after visiting the U.S. There, she learned about the fires, dark […]
Analysts believe that China—the world’s largest producer and consumer of coal, accounting for almost half of global consumption—could be close to making an abrupt and drastic change of track. Loaded question: a barge being filled from huge coal hoppers in China. Photo credit: Rob Loftis/ Wikimedia Commons A report by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and […]
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