I think I'm still in recovery from learning a few weeks ago that Canadian fossil fuel companies tell people that because it's "natural" gas that they produce, burning it can't hurt the environment. And people believe them. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, remember that and 🤯🤯🤯🤯
We just received our "jaarafrekening". This is the final yearly invoice sent by our energy company. They are about to pay us €252, and we will continue to pay them €5 per month next year, just like last year. i.e. overall our energy company is paying us about €200 for last year's electricity. Everything in our home is powered by electricity. No gas connection. No wood burner.
Nothing that we've done to achieve a negative energy bill was especially expensive. In particular, our installation of a air-air heat pump and a couple of extra solar panels cost far less than several of our neighbours paid for the wood burning stoves they've installed, which stink up the neighbourhood all through winter.
We also don't have to buy wood to burn.
People concerned about the cost of heating with gas buy woodburners at a higher rate than heat pumps largely because they have no idea about the relative costs. If they knew, perhaps we could have clean air.
I'll write a comprehensive blog post at the end of March about energy consumption, costs & emissions due to the heatpump vs. gas this winter. I can tell you already that we using a lot less total energy now.
I was reading this article on California's plans to ban gas-powered lawn mowers in 2024 and came across a claim that blew my mind: apparently "1 hour use of a gas-powered lawn mower releases as much pollution as a Toyota Camry does over 300 miles."
What??
I did a quick search and found a few other sources that said the same thing. Gas-powered lawn mowers pollute WAY more than cars do. Phasing them out seems like a no-brainer?
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has said that Ukraine has regained control of gas and oil drilling platforms near occupied Crimea, known as the Boyko Towers.
I missed this earlier. Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the host nation. Two of the contracted influencers confirmed to DeSmog they were paid by an external PR company hired by the COP28 official team. #Greenwashing#COP28#DeSmog#Oil#Gas
Money set aside to clean up the nation’s #oil and #gas wells covers less than 2% of the projected cost. The remainder that tab? $151.3 billion, which without swift action could fall to taxpayers. These wells are leaking nasty and dangerous stuff, which our reporters measured with special equipment. They found explosive levels of methane and toxic levels hydrogen sulfide. https://www.propublica.org/article/the-rising-cost-of-the-oil-industrys-slow-death
🤦🏻♀️”Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural #gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states.
"“Voice of Energy” is a new ad campaign and website featuring photos of diverse and well-dressed young people, explainers making the case for #NaturalGas while downplaying its massive contribution to #ClimateChange, and videos urging viewers to join in an effort to “protect” the fossil fuel against laws restricting new #gas hookups in buildings. "
As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland's Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge.
“I'm not the sea captain. But I would think that you would notice that you're dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers”.
For this piece, I explored #Indonesia & #Malaysia's plans to be carbon-storage hubs, aided by #Japan. They want to store CO2 shipped from abroad. But, in reality, these plans are greenwashing and may be for another alternative - using CO2 to tap difficult #oil and #gas fields.
👀The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday will announce the cancellation of #oil and #gas leases in a federal wildlife refuge that were bought by an #Alaska state agency in 2021, according to sources briefed on the matter.
In case you are still under the illusion that we are trying to stop #ClimateChange, the #ClimateCrisis - we are not.
We are just working on channeling the profits "the right way".
" #FossilFuels being subsidised at rate of $13m a minute, says #IMF
"In #Schockwellen kann man im Detail nachlesen, welche Rollen deutsche Konzerne wie #BASF, #RWE und #Wintershall bei der Konstruktion der extremen Abhängigkeit Deutschlands von russischem #Gas spielten. Nachdem das Buch erschienen war, gab es in deutschen Medien eine bemerkenswerte Kampagne gegen Kemfert, einer international hochrenommierten Wissenschaftlerin. Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus der Wissenschaft sahen sich genötigt, Kemfert in einem offenen Brief zu verteidigen." Buch @chrisstoecker
#Exxon remains the largest US producer of #oil and #gas and the biggest emitter of CO2 among investor-owned companies. The Texas-based company also has the weakest #emissions-reduction targets among the world’s “oil supermajors,” according to Carbon Tracker https://buff.ly/4akfWo4
Ukraine regains control of Boyko Towers in Black Sea (www.pravda.com.ua)
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine has said that Ukraine has regained control of gas and oil drilling platforms near occupied Crimea, known as the Boyko Towers.
Putin fails again as Europe’s gas storage hits 90 percent (www.politico.eu)
The EU has met its gas storage targets more than three months ahead of schedule. But that might not mean lower prices.