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maribo: Climate change’s third rail
After a fisheries seminar this morning, someone asked what key issue the research and conservation community was missing. The immediate answer from a senior colleague was meat consumption.
Given how growing feed and raising livestock is responsible for a large proportion of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, it is quite amazing that we don’t talk about it more.
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WattHead: Blast! Coal Company Recieves Permit to Destroy Coal River Mountain
the West Virginia Department of “Environmental Protection” (seems like a misnomer today!) granted Massey Energy a permit to begin blasting away Coal River Mountain as soon as the company is ready. Massey plans to decimate the mountain to extract coal using a destructive mining practice know as mountain top removal
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Curtailment, Negative Prices Symptomatic of Inadequate Transmission – Renewable Energy World
Negative electricity prices and wind energy curtailment are occurring with increasing frequency in several regions of the country, a telltale sign that expansion of the nation’s electricity transmission infrastructure is lagging behind the rapid growth of wind energy.
