by faster | Sep 13, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: September 13, 2019 SNIP: It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short...
by faster | Sep 5, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: September 5, 2019 SNIP: Most of the world’s top companies extracting key minerals for electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines have been linked with human rights abuses in their mines, research has found. Analysis published by the...
by faster | May 14, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Vancouver Sun DATE: May 14, 2019 SNIP: Journalist Sarah Cox takes on the dirty business of clean power in Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro. NP: Clean energy = Bad? Please explain. SC: Large hydro dams are a hugely...
by faster | May 6, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Forbes DATE: May 6, 2019 SNIP: Over the last decade, journalists have held up Germany’s renewables energy transition, the Energiewende, as an environmental model for the world. With Germany as inspiration, the United Nations and World Bank poured billions into...
by faster | Sep 20, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: National Observer and BP DATE: September 20, 2017 SNIP: I read lots of articles these days pointing to the rapid expansion of renewable energy as a reason to be hopeful about our unfolding climate crisis. Unfortunately, the climate doesn’t care how many...