How many people are under lockdown orders in China? A new report found the number covers more people than the entire U.S. population. Under Beijing’s “Zero-Cases Policy,” those who test positive for COVID-19 are sent to quarantine centers. But what happens to their pets? Photos and video of one incident paint a grim picture. Energy…
New York Approves $4.5 Billion Transmission Line Delivering Hydropower From Canada
April 15, 2022
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The New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved plans for a $4.5 billion transmission line by Montreal-based public utility Hydro-Québec that will deliver Canadian hydropower to the Big Apple. According to officials, the 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express (CHPE) will begin delivering 1,250 megawatts of hydropower, created by dams in Canada, to New York City by 2025. Officials…
Regional Tasmania to Deliver Renewable Energy to Mainland Australia
The Australian government will utilise Tasmania’s renewable energy potential through significant investment in an interconnector to bring hydroelectricity to the mainland. The Marinus Link, a 1,500-megawatt capacity undersea and underground cable, will export low-cost, reliable hydroelectricity from Tasmania’s Battery of the Nation and across the state into the national electricity grid when it is most…
The End of the Climate Change Legend
March 22, 2022
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Commentary For many years now, there has been a spirited debate about whether climate change is science, religion, or even perhaps a secret route to socialism. That question remains unanswered, but we’ve now discovered with certainty that climate change is a political albatross around the neck of the Democratic Party. The Left’s spiritual devotion to…
Net-Zero and ESG Are Worsening the Energy Crisis—and Weakening the West
March 18, 2022
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Commentary The day after President Biden announced that the United States would ban imports of Russian oil and gas, a group of eleven powerful European investment funds that includes Amundi, Europe’s largest asset manager, outlined plans to force Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second largest bank, to cut its lending to oil and gas companies. The juxtaposition of these two events…
Second Attempted Takeover of Australian Energy Giant by Green Investors Fails
March 7, 2022
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One of Australia’s largest energy providers, AGL Energy, has rejected a second bid from tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy out the firm and speed up decarbonisation efforts. Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of NASDAQ-listed Atlassian, has been a vocal advocate for renewable energy development in Australia and on March 6, wrote on Twitter that he, along with…
Tech Billionaire’s Bold Takeover Bid Lacks Understanding of Power Grid Stability
February 22, 2022
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Commentary With his bid to buy AGL, an Australian energy giant, and transition it to renewables, Mike Cannon-Brookes shows he does not understand the broader operating characteristics of the electricity market. The early retirement of coal fired power stations will drive up the cost to consumers for electricity. This is because of the requirement to invest…
$9.5 Billion in Hydrogen Spending Through Infrastructure Bill Detailed by Department of Energy
February 15, 2022
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The Department of Energy (DoE) has released more details in formal requests for information (RFI) on two major hydrogen energy initiatives funded through last year’s infrastructure bill. The first release concerns an $8 billion program to finance at least four regional hydrogen energy hubs across the United States. The second release concerns both a $1…
Latin America’s Renewable Energy Gambit Aggravates Drought and Pollution
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia–Only a year after the Paris Climate Agreement was adopted in 2015, Latin American countries quickly gained recognition for boosting existing “green energy” initiatives and paving the way for new ones to follow. Yet, over the past six years, negative environmental consequences from projects like hydroelectric dams and mining operations to supply the manufacturing side…
Irvine Votes to Adopt 100 Percent Renewable Energy, Raising Electricity Costs
February 9, 2022
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IRVINE, Calif.—The City of Irvine voted unanimously on Feb. 8 to adopt 100 percent renewable energy for residents and commercial businesses just two months prior to the service launch of a new “community choice energy” program, though some are concerned about the entity’s financial capacity to sustain its operation and its ability to provide good…
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