Posted in Comment on 02/22/2010 09:43 am by Stephen Tindale
Later this week, a new Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, will be inaugurated. The word “Ukraine” means borderland and, to most outsiders, that is exactly how the country is regarded: the place between the EU and Russia or the place through which Russian gas travels to the EU – unless the Russians turn off the taps, as they did in 2006 and 2009. However, it is more important than that, and not only to Ukrainians.
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Posted in Comment on 11/22/2014 10:08 am by Stephen Tindale
Simon Henry, Chief Finance Officer of Shell, spoke at the launch of my policy brief on international climate negotiations. Afterwards I interviewed him for CER’s website.
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Posted in Comment on 03/24/2010 09:58 am by Stephen Tindale
Last week, the Norwegian government announced that it is on track to meet its new renewables target for 2011. On the face of it, this isn’t significant. However, Norway is significant on climate change and has played a major role in climate policy for many years.
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Posted in Comment on 04/26/2012 12:41 pm by Stephen Tindale
Germany is planning several new coal and gas power stations – without CCS – to replace its nuclear stations. This is bad for the climate and also a waste of money.
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Posted in Comment on 10/27/2015 07:49 am by Jon Trevelyan
A post by Melody Waterworth on energy in Ghana, where she is currently volunteering.
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Posted in Comment on 10/28/2011 11:25 am by Stephen Tindale
The failure of the UK’s first CCS competition was because the then (Labour) government restricted it to post-combustion on the grounds that this could be retrofitted, then allowed proposals for new power stations to join the competition, and took far too long making decisions. The current coalition government can learn from these mistakes, and says it remains committed to CCS.
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Posted in Comment, Policy on 12/07/2015 09:30 am by Stephen Tindale
The advance represented by Energy and Climate Secretary Amber Rudd’s ‘reset’ speech on 18 November has been pretty comprehensively destroyed by Chancellor George Osborne.
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Posted in Comment on 06/07/2010 11:28 am by Stephen Tindale
Low carbon energy sources – renewables, CCS and nuclear – all require public financial support. In the UK, the new government has said that there will be no subsidy for new nuclear power stations. Before the general election, the Conservatives said that there would be no subsidy and the Liberal Democrats remain anti-nuclear. Without financial support, no new nuclear stations will be built. Nor will any renewables or CCS – offshore wind and CCS are, in the view of many, going to be even more expensive than nuclear.
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Posted in Policy, Technology on 08/23/2010 04:21 pm by
With around 95% of its electricity generated from coal, Poland comes up higher in coal statistics than Australia, the US, South Africa or even China. The coal intensity of electricity generation in Poland is not only a legacy from the past, but also a conscious choice of consecutive Polish governments. As the most abundant energy resource in the country, coal is considered an important pillar of Poland’s energy security. And yet, despite the central position of coal for the energy sector and the environmental pressure from Brussels, there is little enthusiasm for CCS technology among Polish decision-makers and energy sector stakeholders.
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Posted in Policy on 04/07/2014 04:44 pm by Stephen Tindale
My comments to the European Commission, saying that it should approve the UK government’s application to sign a contract with EDF energy to build a new nuclear power station.
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Posted in Comment on 04/12/2014 05:54 am by Stephen Tindale
My CER blog on how Europe should reduce its dependence on Russian gas
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Posted in Comment, Policy on 03/28/2015 07:30 pm by Stephen Tindale
Climate campaigners should be more pragmatic and more prepared to make compromises. Pragmatism often delivers progress; idealism rarely does.
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Posted in Answers to your questions, Policy on 09/28/2009 07:49 pm by Administrator
What about boring old natural gas? I can’t find any mention of it anywhere on your site and I wonder how much you or your readers know about the recent revolution in unconventional “shale” gas which has meant some geologists think that there is nine times more natural gas available on a planetary scale than thought as little as two or three years ago.
Nick Grealy
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Posted in Policy on 05/08/2014 09:29 am by Stephen Tindale
For climate and air quality reasons, we need more gas. Shale gas is less bad than liquified natural gas – and better than coal.
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