There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B. - Emmanuel Macron (President of France)

2025.09.19 National Bank only one among 6 major lenders to finance more renewables than fossil fuels

Which Canadian banks financed the most fossil fuels or renewables last year? (CBC)

2025.09.18 "weeks on end of the generator shutting down and the windmill actually producing power"

Turbine producing no power as Kluane First Nation celebrates wind project anniversary (CBC)
Some takeaways: the wind turbine can displace the diesel generator because a 500 kW battery is part of the microgrid that provides the regulated AC electricity to the community.
Renewable energy works reliably, even in northern Canada, to displace expensive fossil fuels, reducing pollution and environmental damage and restoring quiet to communities.
It takes time and commitment to become self-reliant. While this community is reducing its dependence on expensive, imported diesel fuel (and the bills), it still can't maintain the equipment.
The current power production is more than the community needs, so there is potential to connect to the Yukon grid and export clean electricity to others and bring revenue to the community.

2025.09.18 A new report highlights the disruption of the global energy system driven by low-cost, efficient 'electrotech' technologies

“Too cheap to contain and too big to ignore:” The electrotech revolution that will sweep away fossil fuels (Renew Economy)

2025.09.17 Solar power is now the cheapest form of electricity in most countries, including New Zealand, and its global uptake is growing exponentially.

Solar power cuts electricity bills and carbon emissions – NZ needs to scale up faster (The Conversation)

2025.09.17 When you pit politics and propaganda against nature and science, nature and science always win - eventually

Climate change 'beyond scientific dispute,' National Academies report says (Politico)
You can find the 135-page report here. (free PDF or to read online)
I recommend the 2-page Summary.

2025.09.17 Studies suggest LNG for export can't be 'green', but some facilities are worse than others

Canada calls this newly approved LNG project green. For now, it will run on fossil fuels (The Narwhal)

2025.09.17 Fossil fuels development is devastating to democracies, which was the origing of term 'resource curse'

Renewable companies see remarkable progress in improving human rights (Renew Economy)

2025.09.16 Expect the trend to continue due to collapse of the U.S. economy under the new regime, not because of continuing positive policy measures.

Per Capita Energy-Related CO2 Emissions Decreased in Every US State between 2005 & 2023 (CleanTechnica)
Not mentioned in the article, The main reason for the shift to renewables is that they are the lowest cost form of electricity production, and - political permitting barriers aside - the fastest to install and bring online.

2025.09.15 With a solid sense of financials, a plan and commitment, fossil fuel use is being reduced (California)

‘Broken’ trust: senior political staffers met by jeers at meeting with rural Albertans (The Narwhal)
Alberta’s oil and gas well problem is a ‘giant stinking pile of shit,’ according to the premier’s special advisor, who wrote the province’s strategy to address the issue and is on the Alberta Energy Regulator board"
In my opinion, that's an understatement. The province has fastidiously given the oil and gas industry a free ride on cleaning up their orphaned well messes via strategic engineered bankruptcies of shell companies holding only the distressed 'assets' (end of life wells), and left landowners - notably farmers - holding the financial bag. So much so that even when the federal government put up a bucked of money to pay for cleanup and remediation, the province didn't even bother to take the money.
(Because of another experience I had regarding oil pollution, I have a couple of ideas / tools that could help with soil remediation and oil pollution removal. We can do better than 'scoop and dump'. This is for landowners, I know from experience the province (AER, orphaned well fund) won't look into these options, and the oil and gas industry have no incentive to admit liability for their pollution.

2025.09.14 With a solid sense of financials, a plan and commitment, fossil fuel use is being reduced (California)

California Refineries Close as Gasoline Demand Slips into Permanent Decline (CleanTechnica)

2025.09.13 With a solid sense of financials, a plan and commitment, fossil fuel use is being reduced (Australia)

Gas power cut to a single megawatt, as PV and batteries reshape the grid (Renew Economy)

2025.09.11 Not available in Canada. Pity. (house battery purchase rebates)

Bigger home batteries are taming the solar duck - and creating more room for rooftop PV (Renew Economy)

2025.09.05 This 2009 paper was mentioned in something I was reading, and it underlines the problem of CO2 emissions

(PNAS) In short, the CO2 we emit today by burning stuff (coal, oil, gas, wood, waste ...) stays in the atmosphere for a really long time, continuing to warm the planet for at least a thousand years. So the CO2 emitted by the Industrial Revolution are still contributing to warming - and consequently climate change - today. The gotcha is, the impacts of additional emissionts are cumulative. That's why some are talking about direct air capture and sequestration now.

My take (still): if we want a survivable planet (open for debate given current government 'action'), we need a strategic plan, then real execution.

1) shut down 'natural gas' fugitive emissions now. That might allow us to survive in the short term. Methane gas has an impact of at least 100x that of carbon dioxide over a 10-year period, and methane largely degrades (mostly to CO2) within a decade. This definitely includes LNG, but also piping for new buildings. We also need to accelerate housing away from NG use (furnaces, stoves, clothes dryers ...).

2) Stop burning stuff that makes CO2 and other GHGs. We can make electricity from sunlight and wind, and battery storage makes that energy reliable (dispatchable). We can power ground transportation with electricity, much more efficiently and at lower cost than using internal combustion engines - but we have to actually try for that to work. We can heat and cool buildings with heat pumps. The solution set is available, but we do have actually choose to use it.

3) Start capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide for real, in a permanent way. Growing plants and trees was a viable solution until we chose (by inaction) to set fire to the planet on an annual basis, turning trees and grassland into carbon dioxide. Solar-powered fans and capture materials aren't going to keep up with the conflagrations.

We have those abilities. We have to decide if we are going to allow a habitable planet for our children and grandchildren.

2025.09.04 In a greed-driven megacorp world, short-term profit always wins the decision. So much for "Don't be evil".

Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website (National Observer)

2025.09.03 Trees are not a carbon sink if you burn them all down.

Canada's out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts (National Observer)

2025.09.02 How do you get entities driven by short-term greed and fueled by extraction to act in the long-term interests of non-shareholders?

'Every company wants to produce the last barrel sold': the treaty to stop fossil fuel production (The Guardian)

2025.09.27 From 2021 to 2024, 65 of the world's largest banks poured $1.6 trillion into fossil fuel expansion. That’s trillion with a T.

Download the 62-age 'Banking on Climate Chaos' 2025 PDF here (Banking on Climate Change)

2025.08.22 The oil and gas sector is cleaning up in BC; BC taxpayer money, that is.

Oil and gas companies are pocketing most of BC's 'clean' industry funding (National Observer)

2025.08.20 But, it was always OK for big oil in Canada to artfully lie about net-zero 'commitments' before.

Cenovus, Enbridge accused of 'greenwashing' under securities law in what may be a first for Canada (Financial Post)
We can be pretty sure the fossil foolers drafted enough of Bill C-59 to ensure it wouldn't be a threat to them.

2025.08.18 Land owners can't get straight answers about royalty payments for wells on their land from the oil industry

They can't get answers from the oil industry. North Dakota's oversight program hasn't helped. (MinnPost)

2025.08.18 With sufficient range to make the Vancouver-Victoria return trip on a charge, 1-way crossing in under 20 minutes at cruising speed

Testing REGENT Craft's electric seagliders on Narragansett Bay (The Providence Journal)

2025.08.18 Albania and Norway both produce over 99% of their electricity from renewable sources - it can be done.

Mapped: Renewable Electricity's Share Across Europe (Visual Capitalist)

2025.08.17 Not only should the exploding AI data centre demand be building its own power plants, they should have to be based on renewables and storage

The U.S. AI Datacenter Boom Is So Massive That the Nation's Power Grid Is In a "Critical Bottleneck" Right Now; Big Tech is Forced to Build Its Power Plants (wccftech)
Renewables are the fastest to deploy and lowest cost options on a lifetime basis, beating new-build nuclear, natural gas and coal.
Storage is relatively inexpensive, and is required by both the traditional grid and providing 24x7 operation (blackouts happen). The combination is just good business for the AI sector, if they believe they're going to be around for a few years or more. Carbon capture puffery and propaganda from the fossil foolers doesn't work, never gets delivered, and isn't good enough.

Is this a big deal? Well, in 2024, Google said its greenhouse gas emissions rose last year by 48% since 2019 to support AI compute load. That doesn't include OpenAI, Microsoft, or the other major AI players.

2025.08.15 The more we build electric and hybrid-electric equipment, the faster we'll get GHG emissions under control

Campbell River manufacturer designs and builds first hybrid-electric logging yarder (Campbell River Mirror)

2025.08.13 Once again, a fossil fuel major has promised a renewable world to get more fossil permits, then rug-pulled the emissions reductions.

Enbridge (Ontario) Sustain dropping clean energy options for Ontario developers (The Narwhal)
The lack of outrage from the Ontario provincial government is deafening. The same Premier that killed over 700 renewable projects the first week he was in office, and now thinks massive wildfires are a problem for the federal government. Oops, turns out forests are a provincial jurisdiction, like energy, which is what is driving climate change and wildfires. By now, you'd think Doug would know what his job includes.

2025.08.13 The value of education in place of corporate and government disinformation to combat climate change

People often miscalculate the impact of climate choices - like owning a dog - study says (CBC)

2025.08.12 Spoiler alert: it's geothermal steam.

Officials stunned after tapping into well of limitless power source: 'An age of vibrant ... energy' (TCD)

2025.08.11 The canaries in the tropics 'coal mine', succumbing to extreme heat

70 years of data show extreme heat is already wiping out tropical bird populations (The Conversation)

2025.08.10 The value of education in place of corporate and government disinformation to combat climate change

Oil giants turn heads after walking away from critical international effort: 'The more we delay, the more cover we are providing' (TCD)

2025.08.08 File under "petro-automotive disinformation". Honda never had an All-Electric Dream to give up on.

Honda Is Giving Up on the All-Electric Dream (Gizmodo)
The picture at the top of the article is a NISSAN LEAF, not a Honda product. That's because there isn't a Honda BEV to use for a graphic. There is one "Honda" EV available in North America: it's a rebadged GM Equinox, built on a GM production line (GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico). For the rest of the world, Honda has contracted out BEVs to China.
What Honda has given up on is the ruse of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
So the point of this disinfo article is to plant the headline that 'another automaker has given up on EVs'. In fact, Honda (via subcontracting) is now producing MORE Honda-badged BEVs than they ever have before (more than none), the complete opposite of what the headline indicates.

2025.08.04 As Canada is literally on fire this month, the choice between a rational path and Trump-fealty delusion should be clear. Why isn't it?

Opinion | EVs have become a litmus test for whether we're still America's buddy - or ready to be a global Canada (Toronto Star)

2025.08.03 U.S. article, but the same will be true of Canada, just a bit later.

Climate disasters are killing small businesses (National Observer)

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