Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
Speaking on a panel of the Energy and Climate Ministerial of the Americas (a meeting of energy ministers, industry and non-governmental representatives), I had this to say about the development of high carbon fuels and particularly about the Canadian tar...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil
It’s been a week of press coverage - perhaps a run up to April Fools Day - for Earth Energy Resources, the Calgary-based company that promises a green technology for extracting oil from tar sands (they actually call them tar...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
With input from my NRDC colleague, Simon Mui. In my blog last week on the attack campaigns against the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), an innovative policy tool for reducing the global warming pollution in our fuels, I wrote about...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
There are two major assaults against the shift to cleaner fuels that are rooted to Canada’s dirty tar sands. The first is a campaign to undermine this shift by the Canadian government itself. These efforts were reported in some detail...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
Those of us living in the Washington D.C. area have been bombarded by an ad from the Canadian American Business Council during the Olympic’s coverage on NBC. While the ad features mainly pictures of daisy fields, blue skies, and happy...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
The Air Transport Association (ATA) announced today that a group of mainly U.S. airlines have signed an MOU to purchase fuels derived from coal – so called “coal to liquids”, liquid coal, or CTL for short. This comes during the...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
As the thousands of journalists, government officials and so-called “non-governmental organizations” descend on Copenhagen, the temperature is rising around the tar sands issue. But perhaps the most interesting tar sands development this week happened right here in Washington D.C. Today,...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
Today the Montreal Gazette reported that the lead climate scientist and recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize on behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, said that until technologies are more advanced to address the carbon emissions...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
You remember that old expression, the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Mirriam-Webster defines its meaning as: "one that is dominating or uncontrollable because of great size or power, e.g. like it or not, the 800-pound gorilla usually sets the...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil
Prime Minister Harper is coming to Washington at a time of heightened concern about how tar sands oil is undermining U.S., Canadian and international efforts to curb global warming pollution. He is also coming at a time when all eyes...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
The huge Congressional climate bill has been formally introduced, the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454). Over a month of discussion and heavy dealmaking has finally come to an end, recalling the famous Otto Von Bismarck quote "Laws are...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
In a historic vote last night, California's Air Resources Board passed the implementing regulations for the nation's first low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) by an overwhelming 9-1. This vote will put into action the LCFS first proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
On Saturday, March 28, millions of people and thousands of cities and municipalities participated in "Earth Hour" - a World Wildlife Fund organized event aimed at building awareness and action to stem climate change by turning lights off for the...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
In a forceful speech tonight, President Barack Obama asked America to join him in bringing about a revolution in how we produce and use energy. Already in his young presidency, he has signaled his desire to regulate greenhouse gases from...
Posted by Liz Barratt-Brown in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The tar sands issue will never be the same after the President's visit to Canada this week. It has been catapulted to the top tier issues between the U.S. and Canada. Now the spotlight will be on what can be...
