Big Tech Helped Bring On An Energy Crisis

Daily Standup Top Stories Shell plans job cuts in offshore wind business as CEO refocuses on oil and gas May 29, 2024 Mariel Alumit (Bloomberg) – Shell Plc is preparing to cut staff from its offshore wind business as Chief Executive Officer Wael Sawan moves the company away from the capital-intensive renewable energy sector. The British […]

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Vietnam Shifting Back To Coal

Daily Standup Top Stories Vietnam’s shift back to coal is under EU scrutiny May 28, 2024 Mariel Alumit A heat wave in Vietnam in May and June of last year led to major power shortages across the north of the country. Factories owned by some of the world’s largest tech firms, including South Korean tech giant […] “Big Oil” companies […]

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Texas Flags Endangered Lizard

Daily Standup Top Stories Texas Oil Regulator Flags Endangered Species Designation May 22, 2024 Mariel Alumit In a statement posted on its website, the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) highlighted that the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS) announced that it would be listing the Dune Sagebrush Lizard (DSL) as an endangered […] EIA Warns Severe Hurricane Season […]

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Stu Selected As Debate Moderator?

Daily Standup Top Stories Drowning in Sewage and Dumping Money into a Climate Rathole May 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit We humans dream of colonizing Mars, building flying cars, and achieving immortality. Yet, amidst this fervent pursuit of futures that sometimes drift into fantasy, we’re neglecting critical problems of the present. An example is rampant […] Questions the […]

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Trump Targets Offshore Wind

Daily Standup Top Stories Trump Vows Day One Executive Order Targeting Offshore Wind May 14, 2024 Mariel Alumit Donald Trump vowed to issue an executive order targeting offshore wind development if he wins a second term as president, making his most explicit threat yet toward the growing industry. The presumptive Republican nominee derided […] New Bloomberg Study […]

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EIA Lowers Price Forecast

Daily Standup Top Stories USA EIA Lowers Brent Oil Price Forecasts May 13, 2024 Mariel Alumit The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) lowered its Brent oil price forecast for 2024 and 2025 in its latest short term energy outlook (STEO), which was released recently. In its May STEO, the EIA projected […] EU Unleashes Sweeping Sanctions Against […]

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Sanctions Don’t Work and Pipelines Matter!

Daily Standup Top Stories Lessons from Texas for California, New York and Other Green Virtue Signaling States May 8, 2024 Mariel Alumit Drops in power generation from wind farms, hydro dams and nuclear reactors has forced the operator of the electric grid in Texas – one of the largest power systems in the United States – […]

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\”Shell\” Games with Carbon Credits

Daily Standup Top Stories Shell sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits May 7, 2024 Stu Turley “Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. As […] U.S. Dept. of Energy To […]

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