Posts tagged energy
Anyone else here see the ironic double-meaning of the term “masterclass”? Don’t ask me how I came across this document…
For Capitalists: How to make a killing off not-so-clean coal sold to your toiling, corporate-energy-dependent serfs
Clean Power Investment Masterclass
Aligning Clean Power Investment with New Business Opportunities in Indonesian Power
…and the population isn’t asked whether solar panels should be a huge freaking priority, regardless of who’s producing them!
Seriously - I can’t stand to see the government make vague hints about the importance of green energy, and then keep cheap green energy OUT of the country, made by those who are willing to produce it… protecting their local solar producers, but also protecting their dependence on fossil fuel industries…
Can someone please enlightenment me? or support me? this is ridiculous. WTO cares about trade, nation-states, corporate agendas, not people’s priorities. Prove me wrong…
Dear US government,
I would love it if you gave inordinately high subsidies to solar panel production.
Sincerely,
Me
The Obama administration bows down to oil companies - yet again.
Obama announced a proposed rule that would require companies to disclose chemicals used during hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking). However, in a compromise with corporations, such as ExxonMobil and XTO Energy, companies would only have to disclose such information after the well has been drilled, not before.
The original policy would have required companies to disclose chemicals at least 30 days prior to drilling. But Obama cracked under pressure by oil industry lobbyists to loosen regulations on oil & gas drilling.
Fracking has been known to contaminate groundwater, cause tremors & earthquakes, pollute at incredible rates, cause cancer from mishandling of waste & cause other health concerns from contaminated water, such as headaches, nausea, coughing & even memory loss.
So freaking ironic. Obama’s crew just released an add against the Romney campaign, painting them as slaves to Big Oil, and Obama as all squeaky clean and green.
If we do a few minutes of homework and record checking, it’s easy to see that the Obama administration has indeed “bowed down to big oil”, as thepeoplesrecord pointed out.
So, like the Obama campaign suggested in their add, I’m gonna get on “Tumblr or whatever that is”, and call their bluff.
Incredible hypocrisy
Class A bullshit
Why don’t the new sources replace the old? York identifies two key reasons: the inertia of a huge existing fossil-fuel infrastructure, and the power and influence of the coal and oil corporations.
“The failure of non-fossil energy sources to displace fossil ones is probably in part attributable to the established energy system where there is a lock-in to using fossil fuels as the base energy source because of their long-standing prevalence and existing infrastructure and to the political and economic power of the fossil-fuel industry.”
This is for realz. No lie. Check it out here.
Please, write your representatives and tell them you’ve forgotten about the Gulf of Mexico. bit.ly/n2rzw7
“More than 90% of the water used by humans is used by agriculture and industry.”
”Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why now, with all the world at stake, do so many people retreat into these entirely personal “solutions?”
Part of the problem is that we’ve been victims of a campaign of systematic misdirection. Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organized political resistance. An Inconvenient Truth helped raise consciousness about global warming. But did you notice that all of the solutions presented had to do with personal consumption—changing light bulbs, inflating tires, driving half as much—and had nothing to do with shifting power away from corporations, or stopping the growth economy that is destroying the planet? Even if every person in the United States did everything the movie suggested, US carbon emissions would fall by only 22%. Scientific consensus is that emissions must be reduced by at least 75% worldwide. ”
BP Public Relations