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Nuclear Energy's Climatic Achilles Heel

By Ross Gelbspan

onAug 10, 2006 @ 08:22 PDT

While many experts, including Britain’s James Lovelock, have been promoting nuclear energy as a greenhouse-gas-free method of generating electricity, recent shutdowns in of nuclear plants in Europe due to overheated cooling water and low-flowing rivers have exposed a very serious danger to a reliance on nuclear energy – and one which will only become worse as the planet continues to heat up.

By Ross Gelbspan

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ByMichael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly

onSep 25, 2023 @ 22:00 PDT

A DeSmog review of 12 large-scale projects reveals a litany of cost-overruns and missed targets, with a net increase in emissions.

A DeSmog review of 12 large-scale projects reveals a litany of cost-overruns and missed targets, with a net increase in emissions.

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How Carbon Capture and Storage Projects Are Driving New Oil and Gas Extraction Globally

ByMichael Buchsbaum and Edward Donnelly

onSep 25, 2023 @ 22:00 PDT

The oil industry’s push to portray carbon capture as a climate solution at COP28 obscures how the technology is really being used.

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Italian Oil Giant Eni Knew About Climate Change More Than 50 Years Ago, Report Reveals

ByStella Levantesi and Benjamin Franta

onSep 24, 2023 @ 21:00 PDT

New research finds Eni continued to push oil and gas agenda despite knowing potential for climate risk since 1970.

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One Billion People Will Die Without Oil Production, Kuwait Official Claims

ByTaylor Noakes

onSep 22, 2023 @ 13:33 PDT

Shaikh Nawaf Saud Al-Sabah dropped this ‘very simple’ projection at a World Petroleum Congress panel in Calgary Wednesday.

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