Prediction: Coal has fallen. Nuclear is next then Oil.

[nwdiver]

In a first, a cargo ship strikes an offshore wind turbine [update]

A cargo ship struck an offshore wind turbine at the 330-megawatt (MW) Gode Wind 1 wind farm in the German North Sea.

electrek.co

OK, so also dangerous to ships whose crew are not paying attention.

It's too wind turbines are generally unmanned. Might have been a good transcript.

 

[mspohr]

New York to Ban Natural Gas, Including Stoves, in New Buildings

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a state budget deal on Thursday with the first statewide ban on the use of natural gas in new buildings.

www.nytimes.com

 

[mspohr]

Biden denies ‘bomb train’ permit to ship liquid gas through populated areas

Gas giant New Fortress Energy’s cars would have taken a route from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, hauling its explosive cargo

www.theguardian.com

The Biden administration’s transportation department has denied a special permit request from gas giant New Fortress Energy that was needed to run up to 200 liquified natural gas “bomb train” cars daily from north-east Pennsylvania to a New Jersey shipping terminal. The proposal’s opponents warned prior to the recent East Palestine wreck that a derailment would likely result in a catastrophe, and those fears were amplified in the Ohio train disaster’s wake.

 

[mspohr]

Brazil Marxists take cattle land from the elite and grow vegetables.

If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It

Despite the landless movement’s aggressive tactics, the Brazilian courts and government have recognized thousands of settlements as legal under laws that say farmland must be productive. The proliferation of legal settlements has turned the movement into a major food producer, selling hundreds of thousands of tons of milk, beans, coffee and other commodities each year, much of it organic after the movement pushed members to ditch pesticides and fertilizers years ago. The movement is now Latin America’s largest supplier of organic rice, according to a large rice producers’ union.

Ms. Manthay and the other uninvited settlers are part of the Landless Workers Movement, perhaps the world’s largest Marxist-inspired movement operating within a democracy and, after 40 years of sometimes bloody land occupations, a major political, social and cultural force in Brazil. The movement, led by activists who call themselves militants, organizes hundreds of thousands of Brazil’s poor to take unused land from the rich, settle it and farm it, often as large collectives. They are reversing, they say, the deep inequality fed by Brazil’s historically uneven distribution of land.

Beef as a symbol of, power, corruption, inequality

 

[mspohr]

Petrochemical industry in Louisiana plans a ‘defense’ amid growing opposition

Chevron and ExxonMobil are among the companies in a ‘sustainability council’ countering grassroots activists

www.theguardian.com

After residents of America’s “Cancer Alley” in Louisiana put a national spotlight on their fight for a healthy environment, the state’s economic interests and petrochemical giants are backing the creation of a new “sustainability council” to counter grassroots activists, documents show.

 

[eevee-fan]

The US’ largest clean energy infrastructure project is kicking off construction

SunZia, a massive wind power and transmission line project in the US Southwest, is ready to start construction.

electrek.co

Evening wind in NM powering residents in AZ and CA.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

The US’ largest clean energy infrastructure project is kicking off construction

SunZia, a massive wind power and transmission line project in the US Southwest, is ready to start construction.

electrek.co

Evening wind in NM powering residents in AZ and CA.

Fun math:
$5B
3GW x 8766 h/yr = 26.496BkWh/yr

 

[nativewolf]

Don’t get me wrong, great to see but apply a capacity factor of 30% to your calculation.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Don’t get me wrong, great to see but apply a capacity factor of 30% to your calculation.

We don't know what the capacity factor of the HVDC will be.

And of course it's 2-way. The electricity always flows from the cheaper market to the more expensive market.

 

[eevee-fan]

China’s first deep-sea floating wind platform is complete

The construction of China’s first deep-sea floating wind power platform, Haiyou Guanlan, is ready to come online.

electrek.co

 

[eevee-fan]

China’s first deep-sea floating wind platform is complete

The construction of China’s first deep-sea floating wind power platform, Haiyou Guanlan, is ready to come online.

electrek.co

I would think the Chinese would have their diesel electric subs recharge there to increase dwell time. LOL

 

[eevee-fan]

The annual US health cost of oil and gas production is $77B – here's how we fix that

The US oil and gas sector was responsible for $77 billion in total health impacts in 2016, according to a newly released study.

electrek.co

Though none as devastating as those living in Cancer Alley.

 

[eevee-fan]

E-fuels may get 'as low as' $7.50/gallon + value of carbon credits. LOL

 

[mspohr]

E-fuels may get 'as low as' $7.50/gallon + value of carbon credits. LOL

Desperately denying reality

 

[mspohr]

Opinion | Will Texas Blow Up Its Energy Miracle to Bolster Fossil Fuels?

Legislators are moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuels.

www.nytimes.com

The Texas Legislature is moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuel production. This would make the task of reducing emissions much harder. And it comes even though oil and gas production has continued to grow, though not at the pace of the market’s embrace of wind and solar.

Now Texas stands to benefit more than any other state from the recent federal Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tens of billions of dollars of new clean energy projects have been announced in Texas, which will further boost the state economy while accelerating cuts in emissions. That is, unless the Texas political leadership gets its way.

Lawmakers are debating a range of bills that would mandate and subsidize more natural gas power plants, provide tax incentives for fossil fuels, punish renewables and make it easier to stop clean energy projects.

 

[Oil4AsphaultOnly]

Opinion | Will Texas Blow Up Its Energy Miracle to Bolster Fossil Fuels?

Legislators are moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuels.

www.nytimes.com

The Texas Legislature is moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuel production. This would make the task of reducing emissions much harder. And it comes even though oil and gas production has continued to grow, though not at the pace of the market’s embrace of wind and solar.

Now Texas stands to benefit more than any other state from the recent federal Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tens of billions of dollars of new clean energy projects have been announced in Texas, which will further boost the state economy while accelerating cuts in emissions. That is, unless the Texas political leadership gets its way.

Lawmakers are debating a range of bills that would mandate and subsidize more natural gas power plants, provide tax incentives for fossil fuels, punish renewables and make it easier to stop clean energy projects.

crony capitalism at its finest.

 

[ItsNotAboutTheMoney]

Opinion | Will Texas Blow Up Its Energy Miracle to Bolster Fossil Fuels?

Legislators are moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuels.

www.nytimes.com

The Texas Legislature is moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuel production. This would make the task of reducing emissions much harder. And it comes even though oil and gas production has continued to grow, though not at the pace of the market’s embrace of wind and solar.

Now Texas stands to benefit more than any other state from the recent federal Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Tens of billions of dollars of new clean energy projects have been announced in Texas, which will further boost the state economy while accelerating cuts in emissions. That is, unless the Texas political leadership gets its way.

Lawmakers are debating a range of bills that would mandate and subsidize more natural gas power plants, provide tax incentives for fossil fuels, punish renewables and make it easier to stop clean energy projects.

Just as solar PV is coming to complement wind, and batteries are coming to take away the most lucrative generation markets.

 

[mspohr]

Could Guyana’s Exxon ruling scare big oil off risky exploration?

Ruling requiring ‘unlimited guarantee’ from oil firms to cover costs of spills could change offshore drilling throughout region

www.theguardian.com

A ruling from Guyana’s high court could change the face of offshore oil drilling throughout the Caribbean, according to financial and legal analysts. The ruling ordered the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require an independent liability insurance policy from Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) and an “unlimited guarantee” from its parent company, ExxonMobil, in the case of any damage caused by the company’s oil and gas development in the country

Meanwhile, environmental lawyers are looking to the case for inspiration. “Lawyers from around the world who are fighting oil and gas, off the coasts of southern Africa, off the coast of Mozambique, and in other places in the Caribbean are going to be looking at this decision and, and paying close attention to whether the financial guarantees being provided in other oil and gas exploration and development permits are at an equivalent level,” said Carroll Muffett, the CEO and president of the Center for International Environmental Law. The ruling has also prompted two new shareholder resolutions proposed in the leadup to Exxon’s annual meeting on 31 May. One seeks disclosures that would allow investors to better evaluate the scope of potential liability associated with a worst-case spill.

 

[15Peter20]

Desperately denying reality

Ugh. Unfortunately this crap has some heavy-hitters behind it.

 

[mspohr]

It Will Cost Up to $21.5 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites. The Industry Won’t Make Enough Money to Pay for It.

An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits.

www.propublica.org

An expert used California regulators’ methodology to estimate the cost of cleaning up the state’s onshore oil and gas industry. The study found that cleanup costs will be triple the industry’s projected profits.

Compounding the problem, the industry has set aside only about $106 million that state regulators can use for cleanup when a company liquidates or otherwise walks away from its responsibilities, according to state data. That amount equals less than 1% of the estimated cost. Taxpayers will likely have to cover much of the difference to ensure wells are plugged and not left to leak brine, toxic chemicals and climate-warming methane.

ProPublica reported last year, the major oil companies that long dominated in California and have the deep pockets necessary to pay for environmental cleanup are selling their wells and leaving the state, handing the task to smaller and less well-financed companies.