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Ontario could easily phase out polluting fossil gas – if it wanted to

Enviromental Defense

Between 2009 and 2016, Ontario built over 2000 MW of solar power and about 3000 MW of wind power. Wind and solar are now the cheapest forms of new power generation in most of the world, and are coming at very low costs here in Canada too , out-competing natural gas. This is completely doable. And it would cost a lot less too.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Edouard Stenger

Any energy use entails carbon emissions, some more than others. — Ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Source: Bloomberg ) as their prices dropped in the past decade, making them already more than competitive with coal and natural gas. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt

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September 5 PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% 23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4%

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59 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

23 Innovative CEOs Enabling And Expanding Decarbonization; Part Of Global Clean Energy Action Forum [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Suburban Philadelphia Firm Bets On New Technology to Store Solar Power 24/7 -- Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6

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Critical Insights on the Mineral Boom

Legal Planet

An offshore wind plant requires 9 times the mineral resources of a natural gas-fired power plant. Rather than start with the ongoing rush for minerals, Turner began “a long time ago in a galaxy far far away… in 2009” when the U.S. UCLA Law Professor William Boyd began Panel One with some staggering numbers. Fabian said the U.S.

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Climate Feedback Unscientifically Confuses "Disasters" & Weather Events & Endorses Pseudoscientific Claim That We Are in A "Sixth Mass Extinction"

Environmental Progress

Hausfather admits my claim, “Carbon emissions are declining in most rich nations and have been declining in Britain, Germany, and France since the mid-1970s” — is true, but then adds that it "overstate[s] the long-term success that rich countries have had"? And, again, he imagines me to be saying something I am not saying.

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Why Ceding Nuclear to China and Russia Threatens National Security: Michael Shellenberger's Congressional Testimony July 28, 2020

Environmental Progress

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas. Today, the US uses just 0.5

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