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Sky News: Half of France’s nuclear reactors taken offline, adding to electricity demand on European grid
And we are still being told that “reliable” nuclear energy will solve climat breakdown Read Here
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Katie Kedward: Forget greenflation, central banks need to tackle fossilflation
Monetary policy needs to evolve to meet rapid changes in the macroeconomic and ecological landscape Read Here Photo: Kenueone / Wikimedia
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Euractiv: Netherlands to ban fossil heating from 2026, make heat pumps mandatory
The Netherlands bans new natural gas heating systems, requiring heat pumps, hybrids, or district heating by 2026. Subsidies for installing clean heat accompany the ban. Huge move in a country where gas currently provides 70% […]
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Politico – EU climate emissions higher than before pandemic
With the German hypocrites forcing through the green (Russian) gas taxonomy in the EU to maintain its export economy and subventioning car fuel prices, who is surprised? This is the price to pay for having […]
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Corporate Europe Observatory – EU plans to import hydrogen from North Africa
The EU’s plan to drastically increase imports of renewable hydrogen from North Africa is not realistic from a cost or energy perspective, and instead diverts renewable electricity away from local needs and local climate targets. […]
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Michael Davies-Venn – Europe’s decarbonisation plans derailed?
To divest from Russian gas, the EU is importing LNG from the US. But instead of a short-term fix, it locks Europe into more fossil fuel infrastructure Michael Davies-Venn is a public policy analyst and […]
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City A. M.: BP and Shell set to unveil massive profits and payouts amid growing calls for windfall tax
It is the duty of the European liberal democratic political class to defend these profits. Mario Draghi appears to be the exception. Let us see. Read Here Photo: Andrewrabbott licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share […]
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Transport & Environment – True cost of Big Oil’s profits: Trillions in unpaid health and environmental costs
BP, Eni, Repsol, Shell, and TotalEnergies have paid back just 5% of the €13 trillion in societal and environmental debt. Read Here
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Sky News: Half of France’s nuclear reactors taken offline, adding to electricity demand on European grid
So much for the reliability of nuclear powerplants. Half of France’s nuclear power plants are currently out of action, energy supplier Electricité de France (EDF) has confirmed. Read Here Photo: Gralo licensed under the Creative […]
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Mark Diesendorf – Net zero by 2050 will hit a major timing problem technology can’t solve. We need to talk about cutting consumption
Shutterstock Mark Diesendorf, UNSW Sydney Many climate activists, scientists, engineers and politicians are trying to reassure us the climate crisis can be solved rapidly without any changes to lifestyle, society or the economy. To make […]