Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A Supreme Court of CanadaĀ rulingĀ that bankrupt oil and gas companies must clean up their abandoned wells before paying creditors might sound like good news, but it doesnāt solve a growing crisis in Western Canadaās aging oil patch.
Neither side truly understands the real driving force behind the collapse of Venezuela: we have moved into the twilight of the Age of Oil.
After two years in office, the president is still learning that politicsāwhether in the District of Columbia or Albian, Iowaāisnāt played like real estate or the casino business.
Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that theyāll recognize the danger signs in time.
Are investments in energy transition, especially for public dollars in the form of incentives or subsidies, worth it? Do investments in energy efficiency truly pay off, or does efficiency just make energy cheaper because weāre using less of it, encouraging customers to useĀ moreĀ of itāa phenomenon known as the rebound effect, the backfire hypothesis, and the Jevons Paradox?
But in the swamps of the Atchafalaya Basin, roughly a million acres of bayous, lakes, and wetlands that span upwards from the Gulf of Mexico for 140 miles into Louisiana, thereās one thing that hasnāt responded as it should to the rising waters: construction of Energy Transferās Bayou BridgeĀ pipeline.
As long as investors continued to plow money into U.S. shale oil companies, the industry seemed unstoppable. But with the flow of those funds all but stopped, has the U.S. shale oil industry entered a death spiral?
The use of heavily armed RCMP to enforce a court injunction and tear down an Indigenous blockade against TransCanadaās Coastal GasLink pipeline in northwestern British Columbia last week was part of a familiar pattern, say criminologists.
Why do civilizations collapse? It is a question that has been haunting the nebulous entity we call “The West” from the time when Edward Gibbon published his “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” in 1776.
Climate action advocates have underestimated the strength and sophistication of decades-long fossil fuel-funded misinformation campaigns and need a coordinated set of strategies to fight back, say leadingĀ academics.
So what has changed to finally bring hydrogen to the forefront of global energy plans? Jenny Hayward, senior research scientist at CSIRO and co-author of its 2018 National Hydrogen Roadmap, says more favorable economics have played a significant part.
The climate data for 2018 is now mostly in, though the ongoing shutdown of the US government has caused some datasets to be delayed.
