Biofuel Demo Site at St Marys Cement Toronto-based Pond Biofuels has a pilot project that pumps smokestack emissions from St. Marys Cement plant and feeds algae that are grown in large tanks. The algae is then harvested, dried and burned in the plant’s kiln to displace the burning of petroleum coke. It’s a first of [...]
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Global Warming – Is It Too Late? The Independent published an article this week from a group of Russian scientists who found: “Dramatic and unprecedented plumes of methane – a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide – have been seen bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean by scientists undertaking an [...]
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Global Warming Point of No Return International Energy Agency warns that dangerous climate change will be essentially irreversible within five years. Drastic changes to energy and industrial practices are needed, the IEA said in its World Energy Outlook. Such a shift looks unlikely given the current economic environment. Emerging economies continue to focus on cheap [...]
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Carbon Tax Passes in Australia Starting in July 2012, Australia will introduce a Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne for the countries 500 largest companies. The price will float, based on market pricing, starting in 2015. Money generated by the Carbon Tax, will go towards increased pensions and household payments, to offset costs increases to [...]
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A.E.P. Cans Clean Coal Project American Electric Power cancelled their plans to build a full-scale carbon-capture plant at Mountaineer, a 31-year-old coal-fired plant in West Virginia, where the company has captured and buried carbon dioxide in a small pilot program for two years, per a report from The New York Times. So much for work [...]
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Making Every Hour Earth Hour From Earth Hour Site Turning off lights on March 27 is great, but we can all make a difference for the environment 365 days a year! Here are 10 easy ways you can start: 1. Leave the car at home. If you have an errand to run close by or [...]
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Copenhagen is Over, Now What “If (former Vice President) Dick Cheney can argue that even a 1 percent chance of a terrorist attack is 100 percent justification for preemptive action, then surely, when scientists tell us that climate change is nearly a 100 percent certainty, we ought to be able to stand together…and join in [...]
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Weather vs Climate Weather – what’s happening outside your door today, tomorrow and next week. Boy it’s hot (or cold) today. Looks like a storm is coming… Climate – What’s happening all around, not just outside YOUR door, on a Long Term basis – Yearly or Decades. Boy, we sure had a lot of hurricanes [...]
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