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[:en]Boom and Bust tracking the global coal plant pipeline[:]
[:en][by Christine Shearer, Nicole Ghio, Lauri Myllyvirta, and Ted Nace on action.sierraclub.org] From 2005 to 2012, worldwide coal-fired generating capacity boomed, growing at three times the previous pace. The increase in the global coal fleet was twice the size of the entire existing U.S. coal fleet. That boom is now busting. In India, projects shelved or cancelled since 2012 outnumber project completions by six to one, and new...
![[:en]Prices fail to reflect fossil fuels’ real costs[:]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/gas-petrolio-240x240.jpg)
[:en]Prices fail to reflect fossil fuels’ real costs[:]
[:en][By Tim Radford on climatenewsnetwork.net] The price consumers pay for the fossil fuels we use are appreciably lower than their true cost to society, US researchers say, and by the same logic renewables are seriously over-priced. LONDON | Forget the price of petrol at the pumps. The true cost of any fossil fuel is much greater if social costs are factored in, according to new research. A climate scientist in the US reports...
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[:en]Operations of Capital[:]
[:en][By SANDRO MEZZADRA and BRETT NEILSON in (1/2015) di South Atlantic Quarterly – Extraction, Logistics and Finance] Extraction, finance, and logistics provide strategic conduits of analysis to unearth key logics and trends that otherwise remain obscured in discussions of contemporary capital and capitalism. In this sense, they are more than important sectors through which to observe emerging dynamics shaping the current...
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[:en]Summer School on Degrowth and Environmental Justice[:]
[:en]ICTA UAB has the pleasure of inviting you to the second edition of the summer school on degrowth offered by ICTA and Research & Degrowth, this year with environmental justice as a special focus. The summer school will take place between the 6th and 15th of July at the premises of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the social centers Can Masdeu (Barcelona) and Can Decreix (Cerbere), France. As a way of refreshing your...
[:en]The Hague Rules Against Chevron in Ecuador Case[:]
[:en][by Nick on www.ejolt.org] The international court ruled in favor of Ecuador in its case against the U.S. oil giant for causing one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters. The International Court of Justice (CIJ) ruled Thursday a prior ruling by an Ecuadorean court that fined the U.S.-based oil company Chevron US$9.5 billion in 2011 should be upheld. The money will benefit about 30,000 Ecuadorians, most of them...
No prospect of relief from constant nuclear headache
Keeping nuclear waste safe costs billions of dollars a year, but what to do with it in the long-term is still no nearer being resolved by Paul Brown on Climate News Network LONDON | A private consortium formed to deal with Europe’s most difficult nuclear waste at a site in Britain’s beautiful Lake District has been sacked by the British government because not sufficient progress has been made in making it safe. It is the latest...
