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I Met The Fracking Protesters

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“It turns out that quite a few people are opposed to this new method of sourcing energy. Their protest efforts have so far been focused on the fracking plant at Balcombe in Sussex. Some people uncharitably claim that they’ve chosen Balcombe, out of all the possible fracking sites, because it’s the easiest to get to from London. But I was sure there must be more to it. So I went to meet them, to find out what all the fuss was about.”

http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/exclusive/4596/i-met-the-fracking-protesters/

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Green Party MP Caroline Lucas arrested at UK fracking protest

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“More than 400 officers from Sussex Police were deployed to the demonstration. They said they moved in to clear people from an emergency access route.  Around 30 people had been arrested, police said.  ‘Protesters encamped along the roadside had been joined by hundreds more from the nearby camp that had been established last Thursday, many locking arms and blocking the road and others gluing themselves together or attaching themselves to fencing and other items,’ Sussex Police said in a statement. ‘Officers had earlier removed a number of bicycles that had been locked together and left lying across the road, creating a serious safety hazard for the large group that had gathered there.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/green-party-mp-caroline-lucas-arrested-at-uk-fracking-protest/

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Copenhagen Bike-Sharing Program To Be Most High-Tech Yet

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Copenhagen Bike-Sharing Program To Be Most High-Tech Yet

“For the next generation of bike-sharing innovations, take a look at Copenhagen and smile. Trains and a bike-sharing program working as one travel option now offer a GPS built into the bike. Not only do you know where to pick up your next connection – you have a schedule of all local train times between your front bars. The Europeans and Copenhageners (again) increase a bike lover’s convenience in transit with this new innovation. With an Android tablet offering a built-in GPS, real-time train departures and ticket integration, and real-time info on available bikes and docks in the area, one glides easily from destination to destination.”

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/19/copenhagen-bike-sharing-program-to-be-most-high-tech-bike-sharing-program-yet/

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British Politicians Aim To Ban Non-Hybrid Cars By 2040

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“While some American politicians may take issue with the government’s investment in green automobiles, it pales in comparison to the debates taking place in England. There, the Liberal Democrats have proposed a bill that would outlaw all non-hybrid cars from English roads by 2040. It sounds insane, but stranger things have happened. Ambitious but left with a lot of blanks to fill, one of the key components of the Liberal Dems Britain of the future is eliminating all but ultra-low emissions non-freight vehicles from British roads. That would mean only hybrids, electric cars, or super-efficient diesels would be allowed to drive British streets.”

http://gas2.org/2013/08/14/british-politicians-aim-to-ban-non-hybrid-cars-by-2040/

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Chinese Leadership Announces New Focus on Green Energy

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“The government is upgrading the environmental sector to the rank of a ‘key industry,’ a title that had been reserved for the steel and pharmaceutical industries, as well as biotechnology. Under the new guideline, the sector is expected to earn a massive $728 billion (€545 billion) by 2015, and to grow at twice the rate of the rest of the economy. Beijing wants to boost manufacturers of energy-efficient power plant equipment, significantly increase the number of cars and buses running on liquefied natural gas and further expand the number of wind and solar farms, as well as nuclear power plants, using investments, tax breaks and direct subsidies.”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/chinese-leadership-announces-new-focus-on-green-energy-a-917389.html

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A Solar System Is Installed in the US Every 4 Minutes

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“If market growth continues at its current pace, the American solar industry could be installing a system every minute and twenty seconds by 2016. That’s a dramatic difference from 2006, when installers were only putting up one system every 80 minutes. Solar is on an extraordinarily fast growth trajectory. Two-thirds of all distributed solar in the U.S. has been installed over the last 2 1/2 years. And by 2016, cumulative installations of distributed PV will double. That means the U.S. will hit 1 million cumulative residential solar installations by then — making the market in 2016 ten times larger than it was in 2010.”

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/america-installs-a-solar-system-every-four-minutes

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Bailout Buffett: The Sage of Solar

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“Buffett sees the light (no pun intended). He’s decided to risk his own capital to help save us from the climate.  Except, in this case, ‘risk’ is for suckers. California utilities are under legislative mandate to get 33% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020.  Twenty-nine other states also have similar mandates.  What can be better than circumventing the market, and having the law say that people must use your good or service? It’s like having your own printing press!  It gets even better for Buffett. Utilities are already signing contracts for the renewable energy. And guess what? The cost is way higher than current market prices.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/01/bailout-buffett-sage-of-solar.html

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Short Circuiting The Market

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“One of the hallmarks of the Soviet System was top-down central planning – with ‘incentives’ provided by the government. Natural market mechanisms were crippled. You got what the government decided you needed – at whatever price the government decided was appropriate. The result – back then – was the Trabant and Lada. Today, the result is electric lemons like the Tesla and Chevy Volt and Honda Fit EV.  GM just announced it will drop the price of the 2014 Volt by $5,000 – to $34,995. This is before GM’s partner – the government – cuts the price down by another $7,500 via a taxpayer-funded individual  subsidy.”

http://ericpetersautos.com/2013/08/07/short-circuiting-the-market/

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Audit finds bloated budget for green jobs training despite lack of open positions

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“A federal audit shows that nearly a half-billion dollars in government funds was spent on training workers for so-called ‘green jobs.’ The only problem is that not enough positions in the growing industry exist. The findings — released in a June report by the Government Accountability Office — showed that only 55 percent of those trained were able to place in a new job, many of which were not technically green jobs. The $501 million in funding came from the 2009 stimulus law.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/04/audit-finds-bloated-budget-for-green-jobs-training-despite-lack-open-positions/

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China’s Spending on Renewable Energy May Total 1.8 Trillion Yuan

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“China may invest another 2.3 trillion yuan in key energy-saving and emission-reducing projects, Xie Zhenhua, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said today at a conference in Beijing. The government aims to have 100 gigawatts of wind-power installed capacity and more than 35 gigawatts of solar power by 2015, Xie reiterated today. China’s targets have encouraged companies including China Petrochemical Corp., also known as Sinopec Group, to strengthen their commitment to protect the environment.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-30/china-s-spending-on-renewable-energy-may-total-1-8-trillion-yuan.html

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