An eclectic mix of energy and climate news stories from around the world:
This week’s feature story raises the intriguing question of whether Russia, already a de facto OPEC member, shouldn’t become a de jure one. We follow up with a series of unusually optimistic stories on the future of oil and gas; France’s load-following nuclear plants; China’s new nuclear mega-company; Fukushima as a tourist destination; the EU acts to keep coal and gas plants afloat; a climate skeptic in charge of EU environmental policy; cuts in US clean energy spending; Maine’s wind moratorium; the UK’s recent capacity market auction; Australia’s heatwave inflates power costs; Ex-Obama adviser rejects battery storage; a 500-year solar cycle and how climate change turns big beetles into little ones.
I found some optimism of push back toward the AGW religion in the following two articles and to a lesser degree in some other articles.
“Climate Skeptic Takes Charge Of EU Environment Policy”
“White House seeks 72 percent cut in clean energy research”
In general though, the push toward impoverishing western energy users continues mostly through carbon taxes and regulatory penalties. In Canada the current Federal government and a number of provincial governments have swallowed Al Gore’s AGW fraud and are actively pursuing taking Canada right out of resource extraction and export, and at the same time impoverishing the people through higher energy costs.
Huh?! So oo oo when Obama slams the door against ANY deep water drilling in the Caribbean … MEXICO opens a window !?
Or did Trump push the first domino, and MEXICO just knocked their own dominos in response. Game, set, match, Mr. Trump.
And now, I am totally OUT of metaphors