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You are positively glowing this evening, my dear Champagne vineyards threatened by radioactive contamination	Corey McKrill	05 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Global warming isn't the only thing threatening wine. In France, groundwater less than 10 km from the famous Champagne vineyards has tested positive for radioactive contamination, caused by a nearby leaking nuclear waste dump:'We have been told for decades that nuclear dumpsites will not leak and that the best standards are being applied. In reality the dumpsite in Normandy is a disaster, and radioactivity is already leaking from the dumpsite in Champagne,' said Shaun ...
Topics: agriculture, energy, food, France, nuclear power, waste (all these topics)

And the Sand Played On World's deserts will become more desert-y, says U.N.		05 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
And the Sand Played On World's deserts will become more desert-y, says U.N. Happy World Environment Day -- we got you some bad news! As climate change progresses, desert temperatures will rise up to 12.6 degrees F by the end of the century; rainfall in most deserts will decline by up to 20 percent; water will become scant, or too salty to drink or use for crops. So warns a chipper new Un ...
Topics: desertification, energy, news, solar voltaic power, United Nations (all these topics)

Can we replace oil and maintain energy supply?	David Roberts	02 Jun 2006	Gristmill
This piece on EnergyBulletin is brilliant, and by that I mean it makes arguments I like to make. Can we simply switch out oil for other fuels? No: The question is: can production from non-conventional sources such as the Alberta tar sands or synthetic fuels using coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology be ramped up to anything even approaching a supply deficit of 22 million barrels per day by 2015? The answer appears to be a clear no. Not by a long shot ...
Topics: energy, green living, oil, placemaking (all these topics)

Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms		02 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Under the Radar FAA shuts down work on proposed wind farms The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down work on at least 15 Midwest wind farms pending ... wait for it ... more research. Last year, Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), a critic of the Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound, added an amendment to a military spending bill directing the Defense Department to study wind turbines' effec ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Midwest, news, wind power (all these topics)

Why we're not Brazil	David Roberts	01 Jun 2006	Gristmill
BioD already mentioned it in comments, but I thought I'd draw above-the-fold attention to this post from Robert Rapier on The Oil Drum. One often hears that Brazil is the model for biofuels usage: They've come close to achieving energy independence by creating ethanol with sugar cane. As Tom Daschle and Vinod Khosla said in their recent NYT op-ed, "Brazil has it figured out; why can't we?' Rapier explains exactly why: Yes, Brazil has in fact "fig ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, energy (all these topics)

A Penny Saved Is a Penny Spurned Bush admin looks to cut funding for energy efficiency		01 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
A Penny Saved Is a Penny Spurned Bush admin looks to cut funding for energy efficiency To fund long-term research into speculative future energy sources, the Bush administration wants to cut guaranteed present-day energy savings: The proposed 2007 Energy Department budget would eliminate $152 million (roughly 16 percent) from its energy-efficiency programs. A program to improve the efficiency of heav ...
Topics: climate, Department of Energy, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Warts and Ethanol A new reliance on coal could sap green cred from the ethanol industry	Amanda Griscom Little	26 May 2006	Muckraker
As ethanol boosterism spreads far and wide -- from Bush's bully pulpit to the New York Times editorial page to green-group press releases -- a quietly emerging trend is threatening to undermine the biofuel's environmental credibility. How green is this ethanol plant? Photo: iStockphoto. More and more ethanol manufacturers are looking to power their plants with cheap coal i ...
Topics: coal, energy, ethanol, Muckraker (all these topics)

Oil She Wrote On canola oil	Umbra Fisk	24 May 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I recently saw "organic canola oil" on a salad dressing bottle. I looked up the origin of canola oil, and it looks like it is a genetic modification of rapeseed. I thought organic certification disallowed genetically modified foods. What's the scoop? Tom Grundy Nevada City, Calif. Dearest Tom, Have you noticed yet that May is food month here on floor 2B? Food and plants, in honor of spring -- and to counter last month' ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, food and agriculture, GMOs, organic food (all these topics)

Kennedy You Hear Me Now? Another wind-power project proposed for Massachusetts waters		24 May 2006	Daily Grist
Kennedy You Hear Me Now? Another wind-power project proposed for Massachusetts waters Wind-power developers can't get enough of Massachusetts, it seems. Nantucket Sound has the contentious Cape Wind project; now a new wind farm is being proposed for nearby Buzzards Bay. The South Coast Offshore Wind project would consist of three clusters of 30 to 40 turbines each, up to 450 feet high, from two to four miles offsho ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, wind power (all these topics)

Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development		24 May 2006	Daily Grist
Old Pipeful National parks' air and land under threat from energy development Thousands of miles of new pipelines and power lines could soon snake through national parks, national forests, and other public lands in the West. The energy bill signed into law last year called on federal agencies to speed up approval of new energy corridors by putting them under a single, overarching environmental review instead of ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, news (all these topics)

Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill		19 May 2006	Daily Grist
Who Are You, and What Have You Done With Our House? House shows its green side with votes on Interior Department bill The House of Representatives was on an eco-roll yesterday as it fixed up an Interior Department spending bill to send to the Senate. Over the objections of top Republicans, lawmakers approved 252-165 a measure that would put oil and gas ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, mining and drilling, news, oil, politics, toxics, US EPA, wetlands (all these topics)

Better Late Than Clever Democrats unveil plan to cut dependence on oil imports		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
Better Late Than Clever Democrats unveil plan to cut dependence on oil imports Yesterday, Senate Democrats presented a proposal to cut U.S. dependence on oil imports 40 percent by 2020. The Clean EDGE Act contains nary a mention of increased fuel-economy standards, gas taxes, or other such excessively bold proposals; instead, it proclaims that ethanol will save us all. Under Clean EDGE, a quarter of U.S.-sold cars ...
Topics: energy, Harry Reid, news, oil, politics (all these topics)

My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound		18 May 2006	Daily Grist
My Name Is Prince and I Am Gunky Exxon Valdez disaster still screwing up Prince William Sound Wildlife in Alaska's Prince William Sound is still threatened by oil spilled from the tanker Exxon Valdez in 1989. According to a new study by researchers at the National Marine Fisheries Service, some 100 tons of oil still pollute the sound shoreline and are potentially accessible to forag ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics)

Big Ethanol ...	David Roberts	15 May 2006	Gristmill
... wins again. House Majority Leader John Boehner's attempt to lower the ethanol tariff (and thus allow ethanol-hungry oil refineries to purchase ethanol from overseas) has gone down in flames: Boehner, who is from Ohio, said last week that the United States was not producing enough ethanol to meet demand and that a temporary reduction in the 54-cent-a-gallon tariff could help boost available supplies and lower gasoline prices. ... Farm state ...
Topics: biofuels, economy, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast		12 May 2006	Daily Grist
The Best Big Wind Farm in Texas Biggest U.S. offshore wind farm planned for Texas coast Yesterday, officials approved a plan to build the biggest offshore wind farm in the U.S. off the coast of Padre Island, Texas. Say it with us now: everything's bigger in Texas. Superior Renewable Energy LLC plans to erect as many as 170 turbines, with the capacity to power about 125,000 homes. Some conservation groups are up in arms, as ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

In the Pipeline of Fire Pipeline explosion kills up to 200 in Nigeria		12 May 2006	Daily Grist
In the Pipeline of Fire Pipeline explosion kills up to 200 in Nigeria Between 150 and 200 Nigerians were instantly incinerated when locals siphoning gasoline from an overground pipeline near Lagos, Nigeria, caused an explosion today. Nigeria is the biggest oil producer in Africa and the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to the U.S.; as a consequence, it's become quite wealthy. But in keeping with the notorious "resource ...
Topics: energy, news, Nigeria, oil (all these topics)

Wind farm follies	David Roberts	11 May 2006	Gristmill
So, it seems they're going to build the nation's largest wind farm off the coast of Padre Island in Texas. Environmentalists are up in arms about ... wait for it ... the birds. Oy. This bit from Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is amusing: "Those who are concerned about view sheds shouldn't have a problem," he said. "There's nobody there to look at it." Nice bank shot! Speaking of view sheds and wind farms, I confess I haven't been ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, Ted Stevens, Texas, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Yeah ... coal does that Greenwashing coal with platitudes	Corey McKrill	11 May 2006	Gristmill
In the same vein as the half-pint shill with a skateboard who's 'stoked' about how clean coal is, this greenwash site for Peabody Coal tries to appeal to the bumpersticker platitude crowd in its latest ad: ENERGY FOR THE 21st CENTURY Flip a switch. Play a tune. Warm your home. Fuel your car. Yeah ... coal can do that.And really, what can't coal do? Insipidity and people's high tolerance for it never cease to amaze. But the technologies and promises for a bright, ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Oops Oil leaks all over everything		11 May 2006	Daily Grist
Oops Oil leaks all over everything Oil, oil everywhere! And not in a good way. In its dubiously named Sustainability Report, oil behemoth Royal Dutch Shell reports that oil spills at its facilities rose 50 percent from 2004 to 2005. Hurricane damage was responsible for a goodly portion of the spillage, and sabotage of a major pipeline in Nigeria didn't help either. The amou ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Gulf of Mexico, news, oil, Texas (all these topics)

Common cents The high cost of cheap gas.	Adam Browning	10 May 2006	Gristmill
The New York Times is running an interesting article called 'The High Cost of Cheap Gas and Vice Versa.' The author calculates the current average cost of driving at 15 cents a mile, up from 6.6 cents in 1998, and down from 20.1 cents in 1980 (in 2006 dollars). He also puts up a cost-per-mile calculator, in case your math skills have deteriorated since you last took the SAT.My colleague JP Ross tells me that a Toyota Prius in electric-only mode uses .26 kWh to go a mil ...
Topics: business, energy, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, Prius (all these topics)

You Can Count on You On global warming and you	Umbra Fisk	10 May 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I love the scientific ins and outs, really I do, but what oh what can we do about global warming? And I mean us ordinary folks with a house and mortgage and some percentage point of kids and a few compact fluorescents and maybe even a hybrid in the driveway. We're right there with you, so please don't leave us hanging. Peter Kelley College Park, Md. Dearest Peter, Right. Sorry. I got frowny last month, and for ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, business, climate, energy, energy efficiency, green living, politics (all these topics)

The military-industrial complex wins again	John McGrath	10 May 2006	Gristmill
Theoretically, the oil shale in the American West could provide enough oil to power the world, Saudi-free, for decades or more. The problem is that while oil shale is a hydrocarbon, it's not a terribly attractive one. Massive amounts of energy must be used to extract useful fuel, making it a loser in terms of economics and energy balance.Fortunately, Raytheon (makers of the missiles and radars used by the USAF) is there to save the day, via The Energy Blog:Radio frequen ...
Topics: energy, oil shale (all these topics)

Corrode to Perdition BP closes two more North Slope pipelines		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Corrode to Perdition BP closes two more North Slope pipelines Oil giant -- oops, beyond oil giant -- BP is shutting down two more of its pipelines on Alaska's North Slope, at the expense of 22,000 barrels of crude (worth some $1.5 million) a day. Neither pipe had leaked yet, but BP officials have been monitoring serious corrosion problems, treating the pipes with chemicals to prevent further deterioration. The two pipes will lik ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, news, oil (all these topics)

Village of the Dammed China nears completion of massive Three Gorges Dam, plots more dam-building		09 May 2006	Daily Grist
Village of the Dammed China nears completion of massive Three Gorges Dam, plots more dam-building Construction of the world's largest hydroelectric dam -- the Three Gorges Dam in China -- may be completed as soon as May 20, nine months ahead of schedule. The $22 billion dam on the Yangtze River will eventually flood the homes of some 1.3 million people. Evacuees worry they'll be placed in villages with no farmlan ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, news, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support		08 May 2006	Daily Grist
Cape of Good Hope Cape Wind outlook better after Bush administration voices support The controversial Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound has found new allies in a strange place: the Bush administration. On Thursday, Undersecretary of Energy David Garman sent a letter urging Congress to drop a measure that would allow the Massachusetts governor (currently Mitt Romney, a Cape Wind ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, New England, news, politics, wind power (all these topics)

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