While these fuels power much of the creation of electricity around the world, as well as most transport and heating, they all need to either be left in the ground...
Coal
Coal has been important, but with the rapid advance of renewables, it is quickly being phased out. In the UK Coal has dropped very fast, and now we go for long periods without any on the grid. Unfortunately, elsewhere they are still building coal power plants, places like China. This is not only bad for the environment, but it is also bad business, and bad for consumers. We, in the west, must help many countries in Africa and the rest of the developing world, to skip coal altogether.
The end of coal powered electricity generation in the UK? Where is the rest of the world on cleaning their power generation
The shrink in the electricity generation in the UK for...
The human race has now issued enough oil gas and coal licences to last until 2050 when we are supposed to be carbon neutral, so no need for any more?
If we have enough oil, gas and coal licenced to last us until we need to be...
Transforming coal into protein for livestock feed uses 0.1% of the space!
Currently, land given over to growing animal feed accounts for 40 million square kg (15.4 million square miles). Given the worlds land mass accounts for almost 60 million square miles...
China has cleaned up its grid, so why is it also making lots of coal power stations
China is planning 100 new coal PowerStation. Given their drive to reduce carbon emissions, and the fact that China manufactures many of the worlds solar panels, this seems to be...
Coal power stations could cut coal use, and therefore emissions by 50%
Coal power plants have to be a thing of the past as soon as possible. This is because no matter how efficient they are, they are powered by digging up...
Manchin has made millions from coal since joining the senate, and he may be able to block Biden’s plan to halve greenhouse gas emissions
This website was designed to simplify wildlife travel - and we are making progress on this (slowly- terrible timing, given the epidemic), however without significant and rapid cuts to the...
The British government have decided to ban burning coal for electricity one year earlier in 2024
Coal is one of the dirtiest power sources, and increasingly around the world it is recognized that its burning must stop if we are to retain a planet easy to...
HSBC is voting on stopping funding coal? about time, but not action for 19 years
Over the last few years it has become increasingly clear that conservationists approach to fossil fuel companies were not working.
The problem is that there is a great deal of...
After foolish coal mine is cancelled MPs are angry
I wrote about a month ago about a deep coal mine in Cumbria that was green-lit. Thankfully this foolish plan was reversed.
At a time when many fossil fuel extraction...
Plans for first deep coal mine in 20 years, the Cumbrian government is now having to reconsider permission for a deep coal mine
At a time when many people are discussing whether we can even afford to continue to extract the fossil fuels we have already started to extract, and when the government...
