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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO₂e) , equivalent to 5.2 (CNRL) , he stands at the helm of one of Canada’s largest oil producers, all while raking in profits like there’s no tomorrow—quite literally, as the future looks increasingly bleak for our planet. million homes’ electricity use for a year!

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2021 Election Preview: The Expensive Battle in Maine over Hydropower Imports

Circle of Blue

And it would apply the two-thirds vote retroactively to projects approved since 2014. Advocates, on the other hand, say the transmission line is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. They claim annual reductions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 700,000 vehicles.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

Their study examined the carbon dioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

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HotSpots H2O: Anishinaabe Activists and Allies Resist Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline, a Project that Threatens Wetlands and Ignores Treaty Territory

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As a result, in 2014, the Canadian company Enbridge moved that a new, larger Line 3 be built, a proposition that immediately disregarded indigenous land rights and Anishinaabe culture. One of the lines, Line 3, has “extensive corrosion” and would require 7,000 digs to repair, according to its replacement project director.

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AR6 of the best

Real Climate

Now however, the updates to the historical warming , the use of four datasets instead of one, and of course, the series of record breaking years subsequently (2014, 2015, 2016/2020), the issue of variability in decadal trends is no longer so salient. Russell, "Climate Impact of Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide", Science , vol.

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The Carbon Capture Boondoggle Begins To Unwind 

Enviromental Defense

The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Since then, it has captured less than half of the carbon dioxide it is supposed to. Carbon dioxide is an asphyxiant, meaning that it displaces the oxygen in the air.

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Western Grid Regionalization Is Back on the Drawing Board. Why Now?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The CAISO’s Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM) started in 2014, and participation has grown to the point that it now covers approximately 80% of load in the western interconnection. So far the WEIM has been very successful, reducing global warming emissions by nearly 800,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide and saving participants $3.4

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