In a recent interview, Rod Adams, publisher of the excellent Atomic Insights, discusses nuclear and renewable energy with Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. It’s a bit lengthy, and you will need something that can play iTunes. But it is an excellent example of the logic underpinning the arguments in favour...
Natural gas
Bart’s Comet and the Japan nuclear blackout: how long will mob logic rule?
It has been 437 days since a violent earthquake unleashed a tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast, killing tens of thousands and destroying the homes and livelihood of hundreds of thousands. The country has rebounded admirably, but is far from returning to the life it had prior to March 11 2011. And due to...
Earth Day 2012: time for greens to walk the walk when it comes to clean energy
Clean energy is energy that comes with no air emissions, and that comes with low or no lifecycle environmental impacts. By that measure, what’s clean? This: That public service announcement is from Energy Northwest, a public power utility in Washington state. I was in Gatineau Park last Sunday. The day started sunny but by...
Three years of cheap gas spells NO RELIEF for Ontario electricity consumers
The price of North American natural gas has been ridiculously low since before the recession of 2008. In that time, the fossil component of the Ontario electricity supply essentially shifted from coal-fired power generation to gas-fired. The provincial grid still supplied mostly with nuclear, but the fossil supply is now mostly gas. As I...
Greenpeace loves natural gas, and supports LNG exports to South Korea and Japan
The shutdown of Japan’s nuclear fleet because of the casualty-free Fukushima meltdown will produce more scenes like this: That was the Cosmo oil Chiba refinery, east of Tokyo, after it exploded during the March 11, 2011 earthquake. It only took a couple of weeks to put that fire out. Who knows how many people...
Polls
Loading ...