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2 SolarTimes

FourthQuarter 2010

editor’s desk It’s All About Energy Sandy LeonVest

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Norman Solomon is an activist and author who lives in the North Bay. His books include “War Made Easy: How 3UHVLGHQWV DQG 3XQGLWV .HHS 6SLQQLQJ 8V WR 'HDWK ´ DOVR DGDSWHG LQWR D GRFXPHQWDU\ ¿OP He is co-chair of the Commission on a Green New Deal for the North Bay.

SLV enjoying the Progressive Festival with my friend Norman Solomon (also pictured below)

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6 SolarTimes

FourthQuarter 2010

California: SF Bay Area CA’s AB 32 Could Save NATURAL GAS: THE MYTH EXPLODES

Billions in Energy Costs

The reported leak rate for PG&E’s ‘high-consequence’ gas lines, according to the Los Angeles Times, “far exceeds national average.”

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When PG&E’s natural gas pipeline H[SORGHG LQWR D ¿UHEDOO LQ 6DQ %UXQR on September 9, it killed eight people, and displaced dozens more. Yet, few of the mega-utility’s customers were aware of its history of pipeline leaks.

That all changed on September 27, when the Los Angeles Times reported that the company’s history of leaks was six times the annual average for other large pipeline operators.

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8 SolarTimes

FourthQuarter 2010

California Massive Solar Project

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SolarTimes 13

FourthQuarter 2010

NATION

Energy Transformation for the 21st Century MICROGENERATION: Small could be Beautiful A green future for the US could depend on micro technology and Distributed Generation It is increasingly clear as we enter the second decade of the 21st century that the movement toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy culture will necessitate transforming not only the ways in which we generate energy -- with an emphasis on generation of clean, renewable power at or near the point of use -- but the ways in which we transmit and distribute it.

One concept of energy distribution being discussed and developed by energy progressives -- albeit, still at the margins of the mainstream energy culture -- is the microgrid.

Microgrids are small ,essentially self-contained electrical ecosystems that produce, transmit and distribute electricity on a local scale.

In many cases, microgrids can be integrated into larger, central grids, but their defining characteristic is that they can operate independently if disconnected from the whole.

This makes microgrids a great choice for university campuses, research parks and other insular environments that want to run a self-contained energy V\VWHP VWDUW WR ÂżQLVK Several trends are fueling the microgridâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s growing popularity. States like California, for instance, are running out of money for high-priced energy transmission projects. Most states canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to spend billions of dollars stringing bulky, unsightly cables across thousands of miles of land mass.

Moreover, transmission lines in the 21st century are aesthetically absurd and, to some extent, functionally impractical.

They account for huge losses in energy HYHU\ \HDU ZLWK VRPH UHVHDUFK ÂżQGLQJ that as much as 10 percent of all energy produced in the US is lost in transmission.

By substantially shortening the difference between where energy is generated and where it is consumed, microgrids eliminate the need for heavyduty transmission infrastructure, and thus reduce the amount of energy simply being lost along the way.

Today, the essential transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of power is prompting energy analysts to rethink what is possible, with a growing number now advocating microgrids as the obvious 21st century choice.

These analysts understand that generating energy for standalone projects, neighborhoods or communities with natural gas or coal is not practicable. Fossil fuelbased electricity requires complex power plants and refineries that cost billions of dollars, and they generally provide electricity to millions of buildings. Rooftop solar panels and small clusters of wind turbines, on the other hand, can generate enough energy to keep the lights on in a few hundred or a few thousand homes and/ or businesses, making the concept of Distributed Generation (DG) increasingly attractive.

energy could easily be compensated for the electricity theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve contributed.

The success of microgrids will to some depend on bringing renewables into Distrust of Big Utilities extent the mainstream, since the two complement fuels microgrid trend each other. But local power has hit The popularity of microgrids has been something of a bottleneck. Distributed given a further boost by ratepayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; VRODU DQG ZLQG WHFKQRORJLHV ÂżUVW QHHG growing distrust of utility companies. As to get to a point where they can be cost pointed out in this edition of SolarTimes competitive with mainstream sources of (pps 6 and 7), it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take long, in the energy. The success of renewables will aftermath of this Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disastrous very much depend on the political climate pipeline explosion in San Bruno, for over the next decade.

Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mega-utility PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to put Ironically, microgrids might be the best its poor management and communication -- and perhaps only -- way to jump the skills on full public display. obstacles to Distributed Generation. For Since at least as far back as the utilities, microgrids have a chance to not 1980s, when the company angered only help them handle peaking demand, Avila Beach residents and anti- but they could also help them hit stringent nuclear activists across the state with targets for renewable energy generation. its construction of Diablo Canyon PG&E, for instance, has been mandated Nuclear Power Plant, PG&E has been by the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s air resources board to losing the public relations battle. derive 20 percent of its retail energy from Back then, the utiltyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PR tactics and renewables by the end of this year. On a its shoddy design of at least one of its larger scale, the state of California has a reactor containment domes got the goal to generate 33 percent of its energy company into hot water. This year, its from renewables by 2020. failed attempt to pass Proposition 16, Microgrids are a practical way for may have proved to be its undoing -- them to get there. But utilities will at least in the eyes of ratepayers. need to offer fair compensation to In the end, PG&E lost this summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents for any clean electricity they Prop 16 bid largely because of community contribute back to the grid if renewables activists, who waged a well-orchestrated are to go mainstream. California, effort to defeat the initiative. In what for example will need to put in place amounted to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;corporate literacy better net-metering policies or feed-in campaign,â&#x20AC;? activists educated ratepayers tariffs to make buying and installing in their own communities, ultimately rooftop panels more attractive to (and convincing them that the utilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affordable for) average people. attempt to prohibit the formation of local, For better or worse, corporate municipal utilities was an undemocratic involvement could be a decisive factor power grab -- which it was. in the success of microgrids. Already, PG&Eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undemocratic behavior companies like IBM, Cisco Systems, during the Prop 16 campaign didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help Intel and General Electric are circling its public image -- and likely contributed the market for the best place to get to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s massive opposition to the their feet in the door. utilityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smart meter roll out in the San Most energy insiders believe that if Francisco Bay Area. corporations back the right plays and Renewable energy advocates should, make every segment of the emerging however, keep in mind that PG&E and microgrid industry more affordable, then other big utilities arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t likely to accept utilities may ease up on the lobbying.

WKH PLFURJULG FRQFHSW ZLWKRXW D ÂżJKW Ultimately, the sooner politicians and While PG&E may have lost its Prop 16 corporations accept once and for all that bid, it did have $46 million to spend on the central power-plant model is dead, the the campaign â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just one indication of sooner the US can get on with that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Clean how much utilities are willing to spend Energy Revolutionâ&#x20AC;? we keep talking about. to maintain the status quo.

Sources for this story (and websites The microgrid imperative where you can learn more about Because they can operate autonomously, Distributed Generation and microgrids offer a logical alternative to microgrids) include: ratepayers seeking to break free of utility http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/06/ monopolies, while still monitoring how microgrids-energy-transmission/ much energy they use and where it goes. www.csicop.org/si/show/critical_ Today, a growing number of energy thinking_about_energy_the_case_for_ experts believe microgrids could be a windecentralized_generation_of_ele/ win for both utilities and the ratepayers www.energyauthority.net/distributedwho donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to be beholden to them. generation-a-solution-or-challenge/ Because microgrids are easily www.powermag.com/business/ integrated into broader grid systems, they Microgrids-promise-improved-powerquality-and-reliability_134.html allow surplus energy generated by rooftop www.sustainablebusinessoregon.com/ solar arrays, small wind farms and the like columns/2010/05/energy_microgrids_ to be fed back into the main power grid. think_small.html Thus, utilities actually get help handling peak demand, and those generating the And microgrids -- which actually connect homes and businesses with the power produced -- tie it all together.

Fossil Fuel Industry Forges Ahead at Full Throttle This summer in Washington, as hundreds of millions of gallons of oil seeped into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress fiercely debated offshore drilling practices, US energy independence, cap-and-trade legislation and the wisdom of moving away from fossil-fuel energy sources.

Yet, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, since the 2010 election cycle began, congressional candidates and federal political committees nationwide have raked in more than $17 million from the oil and gas industry -- a number that could easily exceed that of the most recent midterm election four years ago.

And so far this cycle, more than 20 congressional candidates have raised at least $100,000 from people and political action committees associated with the oil and gas industry, including contributions to their campaign committees and leadership PACs, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics. www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/oiland-gas-contributions-still-rising.html

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Microgrids are the energy solution of the future â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they will transform the way we generate and distribute power,â&#x20AC;? said Guy Warner, founder and CEO of Pareto Energy. Âł7KH\ÂśUH DOVR HIÂżFLHQW secure and often renewable energy sources that create jobs while eliminating the threat of power interruptions that cost Americans billions of dollars every year.â&#x20AC;?

Microgrids are gaining national attention due to an increasing focus on green jobs and renewable energy development, as well as concern over the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electricity infrastructure crisis.

Projects are currently under way in more than 34 US cities. www.howard.edu/newsroom/releases/

14 SolarTimes

FourthQuarter 2010

World

2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hellish Summer The bullet points listed below (courtesy of the Environmental Defense Fund) document some of the most dire consequences of ongoing climate inaction:

â&#x20AC;˘ In 2010, ten US states had their hottest summer on record and all but seven were above normal, while summer night-time heat records were set in 37 states.

June-August global land surface temperature was â&#x20AC;˘ the warmest on record, 1.80 F above the 20th century average of 56.9 F and surpassing the previous record of 1.66 F set in 1998.

For only the third time in the satellite record and the â&#x20AC;˘ third time in the last four years, the Arctic sea ice extent fell below 5 million square kilometers (1.93 million square miles). This summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Arctic sea ice extent fell more than 25% below the 1979-2009 31-year average.

Arctic sea ice volume (extent and thickness) â&#x20AC;˘ reached the lowest level ever recorded, prompting the director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center to predict that the Arctic summer sea ice cover â&#x20AC;&#x153;is in a death spiral. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to recover.â&#x20AC;?

A record Russian heat wave caused massive â&#x20AC;˘ ZLOGÂżUHV DQG GURXJKW DQG PD\ KDYH NLOOHG XS WR people, cost the Russian economy $15 billion, and destroyed a third of the Russian grain crop, causing global ZKHDW SULFHV WR QHDUO\ GRXEOH 3HDW ERJ DQG IRUHVW ÂżUHV ÂżOOHG 0RVFRZÂśV DLU ZLWK FDUERQ PRQR[LGH OHYHOV UHDFKLQJ 6.5 times more than maximum allowable levels.

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Market Economics Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Solve Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Energy Crisis The honorary chairman of Electricite de France, told the World Energy Congress in September that the market alone is not the solution to the planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energy and climate problems, and argued that sustainable growth will require better national policies and global co-operation ...

National energy policies and international co-operation are the prerequisites of sustainable growth, the chairman of the World Energy Council proclaimed as the World Energy Congress wrapped up in Montreal this September. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The global crises have proved the market alone cannot solve our problems,â&#x20AC;? said Pierre Gadonniex, honorary chairman of Electricite de France, in a keynote speech. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The invisible hand of the market cannot address alone all the global issues,â&#x20AC;? he said, pointing to climate change and energy safety issues. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a need for energy policies to balance the market [and] of particular concern is the impact of energy development on water resources and land use ... By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity and two-thirds of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population could be living under water-stress conditions,â&#x20AC;? Gadonniex noted.

Urbanization is another challenge.

A World Energy Council study showed that by 2030, the world will have another 2 billion urban dwellers.

The World Energy Congress, held every three years, is promoted by the World Energy Council, a UNaccredited organization.

About 3,500 delegates from more than 100 countries attended the conference.

But climate activists, who had hoped for at least a small breakthrough with respect to world energy matters came away from the event disappointed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And so ends another World Energy Congress,â&#x20AC;? wrote Greenpeaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Julien Vincent, who attended the conference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The declaration at the end of the Congress managed to contain no meaningful action to cut greenhouse pollution from energy, no recognition of the risks posed by dirty and dangerous fossil fuels and placed no commitment on the industry ... I suppose I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be too surprised. After all, this is the energy industry talking to itself.â&#x20AC;?

Vincent said that comforting words â&#x20AC;&#x153;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much good for those people still cleaning up in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, those people who have had their waterways and their air polluted by dirty energy or those who are suffering at the hands of greenhouse pollution-driven climate change.â&#x20AC;?

Shell Strikes Again Arguably, the most significant moment at Septemberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World Energy Congress in Montreal was when Royal Dutch Shell CEO Peter Voser was confronted by environmentalists (just before his keynote address) to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get the Shell outâ&#x20AC;? of Sacred Headwaters.

The activists, who are protesting Shellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drilling for coalbed methane in British Columbia, distributed a brochure mocked up as a Shell publication, handing it directly to Voser and 1000 Congress attendees.

The mock-up contained a satirical brochure, ridiculing Shellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drilling activities in BCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sacred Headwaters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shell cannot call themselves socially responsible when they have dismissed and undermined clear opposition from residents and communities in the Skeena, Nass, and Stikine watersheds,â&#x20AC;? said Shannon McPhail, Executive Director of Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think the Sacred Headwaters and our wild salmon should be their guinea pigs.

Shell needs to respect our communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demands and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;get the Shell out.â&#x20AC;?

Shell does hold a contract to drill in the area for coalbed methane, a form of natural gas found in coal seams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shell would drill 1,500 to 10,000 wells for commercial-scale extraction.

The pristine landscape would be transformed into an industrial checkerboard of roads, wellpads, and pipelines,â&#x20AC;? said Karen Tam Wu, Energy Campaigner with ForestEthics.

The activists also placed an ad in local newspapers, demanding the company abandon its operations in the headwaters of three major salmonbearing rivers in northwest British Columbia. The headline of the ad, placed

by ForestEthics and Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition reads â&#x20AC;&#x153;Three of the great salmon rivers run from the Sacred Headwaters. So should Shell.â&#x20AC;?

This last March, the Sacred Headwaters were declared the Most Endangered Rivers in British Columbia.

Sources for this article included: www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/ Blogs/climate/and-the-2010-world-energycongress-declaratio/blog/26426 www.montrealgazette.com/news/Market+a lone+answer+congress+told/3538047/story. html#ixzz0zp7EF9mg www.forestethics.org/ceo-of-royal-dutchshell-confronted-by-protestors-duringworld-energy-congresshttp://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/ CTVNews/20100913/mtl_energy_100913/20 100913/?hub=MontrealHome

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Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nuclear

Backpedaling Triggers Massive Protests

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nuclear Renaissanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on Life Support

by Harvey Wasserman

Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much hyped â&#x20AC;&#x153;reactor renaissanceâ&#x20AC;? is facing a quadruple E\SDVV ,Q DFWXDO QHZ construction, proposed projects and overseas sales, soaring costs are NLOOLQJ QHZ QXNHV $QG WKH ROG RQHV are leaking like Dark Age relics WHHWHULQJ RQ WKH EULQN RI GLVDVWHU As renewables plummet in cost, and SULYDWH ÂżQDQFLQJ VWD\V QLO WKH QXFOHDU industry is desperate to gouge billions from Congress for loan guarantees to build Tens of thousands protest QHZ UHDFWRUV 7KXV IDU FLWL]HQ DFWLYLVP Anti-nuclear organizers say some 100,000 KDV VWRSSHG WKHP %XW WKH LQGXVWU\ LV people took to the pouring all it has into this fallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short streets of Berlin in session, yet again demanding massive 6HSWHPEHU WR YRLFH QHZ VXEVLGHV WR VWD\ RQ OLIH VXSSRUW their anger over Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lab report: the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6RDULQJ FRVWV DW 9RJWOH WKH 86ÂśV RQH decision to extend the active new reactor project, have stuck lifespan of Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Georgia ratepayers with $108 million atomic reactors, LQ XQSODQQHG RYHUFKDUJHVÂŤ DQG WKDWÂśV while Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just for starters at a site where actual police reported that FRQVWUXFWLRQ KDV EDUHO\ EHJXQ *HRUJLDÂśV â&#x20AC;&#x153;at least 40,000 38& QRZ VD\V LW ZLOO KLNH UDWHV E\ QHDUO\ peopleâ&#x20AC;? joined the [ DV PXFK DV WKH RULJLQDO PRQWK 6HSWHPEHU SURWHVW SURPLVHG ZKHQ LW ÂżUVW DJUHHG WR VRDN The protest was UDWHSD\HUV IRU WKH SODQW LQ DGYDQFH organized by a coalition 7KLV QHZ KLNH ZDV RSSRVHG E\ WKH 38&ÂśV of environmental and own staff,which blasted the whole deal anti-nuclear groups, IRU EHLQJ VKURXGHG LQ VHFUHF\ with high-ranking Currently calculated to cost a politicians from VXUH WR VRDU ELOOLRQ WKH 9RJWOH RSSRVLWLRQ SDUWLHV DOVR WDNLQJ SDUW SURMHFW JRW ELOOLRQ LQ IHGHUDO ORDQ JXDUDQWHHV IURP 2EDPD LQ )HEUXDU\ www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe&LWL]HQ WD[SD\HU JURXSV KDYH VLQFH 11194117 sued to see the details, which the www.dw-world.de/dw/ DGPLQLVWUDWLRQ LV NHHSLQJ VHFUHW article/0,,6018507,00.html 6XFK VRDULQJ UDWHV DQG VOLSSLQJ VFKHGXOHV GHÂżQHG WKH ÂżUVW JHQHUDWLRQ of â&#x20AC;&#x153;too cheap to meterâ&#x20AC;? reactors, which almost without exception came in years ODWH DQG ELOOLRQV RYHU EXGJHW &RVWV RI WKH WZR RULJLQDO 9RJWOH UHDFWRUV MXPSHG by 1,263%---from an original $660 million budget to nearly $9 billion--forcing up statewide rates more than &RQVWUXFWLRQ ZDV SURPLVHG IRU \HDUV EXW DFWXDOO\ WRRN 7KH )UHQFK JLDQW $5(9$ÂśV ÂłQHZ generationâ&#x20AC;? projects in Finland and Flamanville, France, have also soared KXJHO\ RYHU EXGJHW DQG EHKLQG VFKHGXOH 6R WKHUHÂśV HYHU\ LQGLFDWLRQ WKH QHZ generation of reactors will be as catastrophically behind schedule and RYHU EXGJHW DV WKH ÂżUVW John Rowe, the CEO of Exelon, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top reactor owner (17 in 3 VWDWHV VD\V ORZ JDV SULFHV FRXOG GHOD\ construction of new merchant nukes LQ WKH 86 E\ D ÂłGHFDGH PD\EH WZR ´ Merchant power plants sell electricity LQWR RSHQ FRPSHWLWLYH PDUNHWV %HFDXVH atomic energy canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t compete with QDWXUDO JDV RU UHQHZDEOHV DQG HIÂżFLHQF\ Exelon has withdrawn its application to EXLOG WZR UHDFWRUV LQ 9LFWRULD &RXQW\ 7H[DV Âł:H KDYHQÂśW WRWDOO\ DEDQGRQHG´ WKH SURMHFW VD\V 5RZH %XW ÂłLWÂśV YHU\ Author and anti-nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman XQOLNHO\ ZH ZRXOG GR LW IRU D ORQJ WLPH ´ American reactor component makers DUH DQJU\ ZLWK ,QGLD IRU SDVVLQJ D QHZ

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Fossil Fuel Industry Goes on Major Rampage Even as extreme catastrophic climate events become more commonplace across the globe, the fossil fuel industry is picking up speed in an attempt to claim whatever hydrocarbons remain beneath the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surface ...

When it comes to climate change, natural disasters and extreme weather events, 2010 has had a lot to say. (See page 14). NASA reported the hottest January-July on record and the agency announced recently that 2010 is shaping up to be the warmest overall year to date. July of 2010, writes NASA, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is what global warming looks like.â&#x20AC;?

On August 12, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) declared that an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprecedented sequence of extreme weather eventsâ&#x20AC;? matches scientistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming.

Climate scientists say a host of other environmental events, including calving ice chunks the size of Manhattan are reason for â&#x20AC;&#x153;grave concern.â&#x20AC;?

Here in the US, the American Red Cross reported that by the end of the summer of 2010, it had already responded to nearly 30 large disasters in 21 states and territories, and WKDW ÂłĂ&#x20AC;RRGV WRUQDGRHV DQG VHYHUH ZHDWKHU´ FRQWLQXH WR GHVWUR\ KRPHV DQG XSURRW OLYHV 6HYHUH Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ VWUXFN New England in March, Nashville in May, and Arkansas and Oklahoma in June.

And while the eastern US was still mopping up after Hurricane Earl this September, Hurricane Karl forced the shut down of dozens of oil rigs and a nuclear power plant in Mexico.

Still, relative to the rest of the world, the US has fared pretty well on the climate front -- at least so far.

This summer, much of Russia was engulfed in f lames even as temperatures hit record highs and the country all but smothered in its own greenhouse JDVHV 'URXJKW DQG ÂżUHV GHVWUR\HG D TXDUWHU RI WKH countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crops, prompting the Russian government to ban grain exports for the rest of this year in hopes of keeping domestic food prices under control.

Japan recorded its hottest summer on record as a massive heatwave engulfed nearly the entire northern KHPLVSKHUH DQG 3DNLVWDQ H[SHULHQFHG WKH ZRUVW Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ in its history, with an estimated 2 million left homeless and tens of millions still suffering food and water shortages, violence and unemployment in the aftermath of the deluge. The UN has called that crisis the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worst humanitarian disaster in recent history. Niger too ZDV SXPPHOOHG E\ UHFRUG UDLQIDOO DQG Ă&#x20AC;RRGLQJ These extreme events are all consistent with climate change predictions, and most experts say they portend more catastrophes as greenhouse gas pollution spews unchecked from power plants, vehicles, and factories.

Fossil fuel industry spends tens of millions lobbying Congress, as hydrocarbon boom sweeps US In light of such dramatic climate developments, one would think the fossil fuel industry would make more of an effort to reposition itself for a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cleaner, greenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; future. Or that its lobbyists would at least consider putting a lid on high SURÂżOH HIIRUWV WR EULEH 86 OHJLVODWRUV LQWR VXEPLVVLRQ %XW no. If anything, the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to stave off the inevitable transition from fossil fuels to clean, renewable sources of energy have become more zealous than ever.

by Sandy LeonVest

of the country that also happened to have the scarcest water resources - California, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountain states, and the Upper Great Plains.

It takes four to six gallons of water to produce one barrel of tar sands oil, which is four times more water than it takes to produce oil from conventional reserves, according to a 2009 study by Argonne National Laboratory.

Moreover, producing tar sands oil, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council, generates as much as three times as many greenhouse gases per barrel as conventional oil production.

Extracting unconventional fossil fuel reserves uses copious amounts of water because getting to them requires rupturing the deep shale to create crevices WKURXJK ZKLFK WKH RLO DQG JDV FDQ Ă&#x20AC;RZ 7KH SXOYHUL]LQJ process, called hydraulic fracturing or â&#x20AC;&#x153;hydrofracking,â&#x20AC;? involves sinking drill bits two miles deep and turning them to move horizontally through the shale. An armada of tank trucks hauls several million gallons of water to each well site, where pumps shoot it down the well at such super high pressure that the rock splits.

An oil well being fracked in North Dakota ruptured this summer, and the blowout leaked 100,000 gallons RI IUDFWXULQJ Ă&#x20AC;XLG DQG FUXGH RLO EHIRUH EHLQJ SOXJJHG two days later. Fracking has caused contamination of surface and groundwater in other states and harmed drinking water in some communities, according to reports from local environmental organizations.

The explosion in development of these unconventional fossil fuels raises a troubling question at the national level, writes Schneider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At a time when the country Even as climate change seems to be spinning out of should be embracing a renewable energy revolution, it control -- perhaps already having passed the proverbial is hurtling in the opposite direction, developing on a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tipping pointâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; -- the fossil fuel industry is rushing to massive scale sources of energy that cause considerably develop evermore toxic and unconventional sources more environmental harm than conventional oil and of oil and gas. Those hydrocarbons can be extremely gas drilling.â&#x20AC;?

GLIÂżFXOW WR DFFHVV EHFDXVH PDQ\ DUH WUDSSHG LQ FDUERQ Fossil fuel companies are spending $15 billion annually rich shales and sands located throughout the western to develop the tar US and Canada. And, as Yale Environment 360 recently sands in Alberta, UHSRUWHG ÂłVR IDU JRYHUQPHQW RIÂżFLDOV KDYH VKRZQ now the single little concern for the environmental consequences of largest source of this new fossil fuel development boom.â&#x20AC;? oil imports to the Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming hold oil shale reserves US and the fastestestimated to contain 1.2 trillion to 1.8 trillion barrels growing source of of oil, according to the US Department of Energy, half CO2 emissions of which the department says is recoverable. in Canada, â&#x20AC;&#x153;With astonishing speed,â&#x20AC;? writes energy according to the correspondent Keith Schneider at Yale Environment Pembina Institute, 360, â&#x20AC;&#x153;US oil companies, Canadian pipeline a Canadian builders, and investors from all over the globe are e nv i ron me nt al spending huge sums in an economically promising think tank. and ecologically risky race to open the next era of According hydrocarbon development.â&#x20AC;? to company The industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enthusiasm is apparently not reports and state dampened by government studies showing that HFRQRPLF GHYHORSPHQW RIÂżFHV WKH RLO LQGXVWU\ LV exploiting unconventional fossil-fuel reserves generates spending a total of nearly $100 billion annually in the more C02 emissions than drilling for conventional oil US to perpetuate the fossil fuel era.

DQG JDV DQG XVHV WKUHH WR ÂżYH WLPHV PRUH ZDWHU Earlier this year, ExxonMobil paid $41 billion to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pact with the devil,â&#x20AC;? one energy analyst buy XTO Energy, a major player in unconventional told Schneider. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tar sands and shale oil and fossil fuels production, especially natural gas. shale gas require a lot of water. It sets up a collision Meanwhile, the US Department of State has quietly course for the West.â&#x20AC;? backed the new energy boom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The increasing demand Writes Schneider: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The tar sands region of northern for crude oil in the US cannot be entirely met by efforts to Alberta, Canada contains recoverable oil reserves FRQVHUYH XVH RI UHÂżQHG SHWUROHXP SURGXFWV RU WKH LQFUHDVHG conservatively estimated at 175 billion barrels, and with use of renewable energy,â&#x20AC;? the department told Schneider. new technology could reach 400 billion barrels. Deep gas-bearing shales of the Great Plains, Rocky Mountain Sources for this article included: http://climateprogress.org/2010/08/12/nasa-hottestWest, Great Lakes, Northeast, and Gulf Coast contain year-on-record-what-global-warming-looks-like/ countless trillions of feet of natural gas.â&#x20AC;? http://e360.yale.edu/feature/a_high-risk_fossil_fuel_ A 2006 study by the Department of Energy that looked boom_sweeps_across_north_america/2324/ at rising energy demand and diminishing freshwater www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/10/oil-and-gassupplies found that the collision between the two was contributions-still-rising.html occurring most violently in the fastest-growing parts Despite a series of highly publicized greenwashing campaigns, the fossil fuel industry and its allies are spending record amounts lobbying Congress in an effort to block the majority of climate mitigation strategies by states or the federal government.

In October, the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) reported that so far this cycle, more than 20 congressional candidates have raised at least $100,000 from people and political action committees associated with the oil and gas industry, including contributions to their campaign committees and leadership PACs. Congressional candidates and federal political committees nationwide, according to the CRP, have received more than $17 million from the oil and gas industry so far during the 2010 election cycle. This scenario played out as debate raged in Congress about offshore drilling, energy independence, cap-and-trade legislation and moving away from fossil-fuel energy sources And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the worst of it.

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Global economy reveals crippling shortcomings as climate teases tipping point For thirty years, wrote Liu “Oil prices were sky Cheng recently for Global high, which meant higher Labor Strategies, “global transport costs and fossiland national economies fuel-based fertilizer prices. have been guided by policies Biofuel policy, particularly of neoliberal deregulation, in the US, shifted land and often known as the crops from food into ethanol ‘Washington Consensus.’” production, diverting food Neoliberalism, a political from stomachs to fuel tanks. philosophy with origins “Financial speculators in the 1960s, stresses the piled into food commodities, In Mozambique, food shortages erupted into chaos importance of economic driving prices yet further and violence on the streets this fall. growth and asserts that social beyond the reach of the justice is best maintained by minimal government poor ... some retailers used the opportunity to raise interference and free market forces. prices still further, and while commodity prices For more than a decade, Cheng has written about have fallen back to pre-crisis levels, most of us have the failure of neoliberalism, which he argues has yet to see the savings at the checkout.” been “disastrous for workers across the world,” an In 2009, the number of people without enough food opinion widely shared by anti-globalization activists, was a documented 1.02 billion – the highest levels labor groups and some progressives who argue that since records began. And according to one survey, last neoliberal policies are pitting workers against one Christmas 2009 in the US, 57 million Americans weren’t another in a race to the bottom, making it all but sure where their next meal was coming from. impossible to protect their interests.

“Not only are the hungry still around,” writes In a recent article, Cheng Patel, “but food riots have writes that the current continued. In India, doubleclimate crisis, which is now GLJLW IRRG SULFH LQÀDWLRQ affecting “every nation, was met by violent street every locality, and every protests at the end of 2009. worker,” could, without The price rises were again immediate global action, the result of both extreme quickly turn catastrophic. and unpredictable monsoons He argues that neoliberal in 2009, and an increasingly deregulation, “because it faulty social safety net to dismantles the means for prevent hunger.” public steering of society to The year 2010 has seen an increase in the number of meet social needs,” has also made it nearly impossible to public protests in Egypt (over the price of wheat), and correct the global climate crisis. both Serbia and Pakistan have seen an uptick in public These realizations, along with the failure of demonstrations over food costs. neoliberalism, writes Cheng, “will define the Even former president Bill Clinton, one of the most struggle for the interests of poor and working people zealous of the free trade zealots, has had an epiphany for the next century.” with respect to food. He stated publicly this year that, “At the same time,” he says, “the necessity to counter “food is not a commodity like others… it is crazy for climate change may provide an opportunity to address us to think we can develop a lot of these countries [by] the broader problems of neoliberal deregulation.” treating food like it was a color television set.”

Another article written in September by author and Yet, as Patel points out, global commodity activist Raj Patel also challenges the neoliberal model speculators continue to treat food as if it were the same of market economics. In his piece, “Food Rebellions: as television sets, with little end in sight to what the Mozambicans Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” World Development Movement has called “gambling Patel argues that the current global economic model RQ KXQJHU LQ ¿QDQFLDO PDUNHWV ´ is only exacerbating the impact of climate change on The recent US Wall Street Reform Act attempted to some of the world’s poorest countries. address the problem with measures designed to curb For instance, writes Patel, “Since Russia is one of speculative activities, but their full scope has yet to be the world’s biggest grain exporters, when it banned FODUL¿HG (XURSH VWLOO KDV QR PHFKDQLVP LQ SODFH WR grain exports this summer, the move resulted in a regulate speculative trading at all. spike in the price of wheat on the global market.

“Neither grain speculation, nor forcing countries to rely Mozambique’s ‘food riots’ are at least partially on international markets for food, nor encouraging the use attributed to that. The riots are further evidence of agricultural resources for fuel instead of nourishment are of what happens when extreme natural phenomena natural phenomena,” writes Patel. “These are eminently intersect with social and economic injustices.” political decisions, taken and enforced by legions of largely In Mozambique, the immediate cause of the unaccountable international development professionals.”

[September] food riots was a 30-percent price “These protests are going to end,” Diamantino increase for bread, “compounding a recent Nhampossa, of the Mozambican National Peasants Union, double-digit increase for water and energy.” With told Patel. “But they will always come back. This is the gift Mozambique importing over 60% of the wheat its that the development model we are following has to offer.” people needs, Patel says the country has been held Like many Mozambicans, says Patel, “he knows full hostage by international markets. well which way the wind blows.”

This article contains numerous excerpts from the works of authors Raj Patel and Lie Cheng.

To read more, please visit: http://rajpatel.org/2010/09/04/food-rebellions-mozambicans-know-which-way-the-wind-blows/#more-2393 www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/05/mozambique-food-riots-patel www.zcommunications.org/globalization-neoliberalism-and-climate-change-by-liu-cheng www.pewclimate.org/blog/gulledgej/climate-risks-lessons-from-2010%E2%80%99s-extreme-weather

German Nuke Deal Could Hurt Renewables Germany’s municipal electric utilities DUH VHHNLQJ ¿QDQFLDO FRPSHQVDWLRQ WR offset losses they expect to incur from the country’s decision to extend the lifespan of its nuclear power plants Germany’s electric utilities and wind energy operators believe their investments in renewable technologies are jeopardized by Berlin’s decision on September 5th to extend the lifespan of the country’s 17 nuclear power plants.

Germany’s municipal utilities argue that the longer lifespans -- averaging about 12 years -- could cost them billions of euros.

A utility executive told Germany’s Berliner Zeitung newspaper that the capacity utilization of his power plants would drop significantly because of the government’s nuclear deal. He noted that the lifespan extension could seriously damage municipal electricity suppliers.

The reason for this, according to Frankfurt Mayor Petra Roth, who heads the German Municipalities Association, is that cities and their utility companies have invested heavily in renewable energy generation.

“Longer lifespans without compensation only improves the competitive position of the large energy suppliers,” Roth told reporters.

Hermann Albers, president of Germany’s National Wind Energy Association, called the nuclear power deal the “final nail in the coffin for renewable energies and wind power.” www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5981183,00.html

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Solar energy should continue to expand rapidly in France The government has already reduced incentives for as falling costs help offset decreasing tax breaks in the the sector by lowering the tariffs at which electricity countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 budget, according to Jean-Louis Borloo, from solar installations is sold to the grid, and the the French energy Marin County, CA planned cut to tax The county of Marin has begun laying down the and environment breaks has raised minister. infrastructure for a clean energy economy. concerns among Solar energy Eight cities in Marin will receive free electric-vehicle companies in the (EV) charging stations thanks in part to a federal program capacity increased sector. designed to ensure that enough charging stations will be sevenfold between The halving of the 2007 and 2009, in place to support the growing demand for plug-in cars. consumer tax break The stations, which are being manufactured by EHQHÂżWWLQJ IURP represents a saving 40 percent Coulomb Technologies, will come just in time to charge a of 150 million euros an array of new electric car models hitting the market annual drop in for the government in coming months, and will be donated to the cities as costs, Borloo told from next year, while reporters at a part of Coulombâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $37 million ChargePoint America. a separate move The program, which will provide 4,600 charging presentation of the to exclude solar stations to nine regions throughout the country, budget measures. installations from â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the most including the Bay Area, is also being supported by ÂżVFDO VXSSRUW LQ the Department of Energy, which contributed $15 dynamic market in overseas territories Europe. We will be million to the effort. is expected to save More than 20 stations have already been installed three or four times another 230 million LQ WKH %D\ $UHD EXW WKHVH ZLOO EH WKH ÂżUVW LQ 0DULQ above our target in euros from 2012.

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County, a mecca of hybrid and electric cars.

Borloo also underlined Franceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fast growth in France has set its target for installed solar wind power, with capacity now at 5,000 MW, up They will be connected to Marin Clean Energy, the community-based power company designed to energy capacity at 5,400 megawatts (MW), the 84.5 percent in the past two years. provide a higher percentage of renewable energy equivalent of six nuclear reactors, by 2020 and expects to hit this figure next year. than mega-utility PG&E. The Marin Energy Authority allocated $5,000 to www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68S4IW20100929 cover the cost of installing electric vehicle charging stations in member jurisdictions. At $1,000 per station, the $5,000 allocation will pay for five stations. The first two charging stations, which are among the first in the county, will be at a public parking garage in San Rafael on C Street.

State Republicans Want PA To Be Leader In Natur al Gas Industry Natural gas drilling is one of the most hotly debated issues in Pennsylvania right now, and there is growing controversy surrounding the creation of a state tax on the drilling.

House Republicans this September unveiled what they called the Marcellus Works Plan, which has nothing to do with the proposed tax, but instead focuses on their vision on how to make the most of the industry.

In 2009, 44,000 new jobs were created and the state collected $389 million in tax revenue from the Marcellus Shale industry. This year, those figures are expected to double.

Using that tax revenue, House Republicans are proposing a four-step plan that they say will create demand for natural gas and sustain tens of thousands of new jobs for generations of Pennsylvanians -- jobs in construction, manufacturing and the legal and service industries, not to mention less dependence on foreign oil.

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Wind energy Could Power Much of East Coast The strong winds off the Atlantic Ocean could become a cost-effective way to power much of the East Coast - especially North and South Carolina, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia, a new study says.

The report by the conservation advocacy group Oceana argues that offshore wind could generate 30 percent more electricity on the East Coast than could be generated by the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s untapped oil and gas. It predicts that wind from the ocean could be cost competitive with nuclear power and natural gas to produce electricity.

The study comes as new developments are starting to push US efforts to catch up with Europe and China on tapping the energy in offshore wind.

Great Britain recently started up the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest wind farm and China built its first pilot offshore wind farm in 2008, using turbines from the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest wind turbine producer.

The Department of Energy has issued a draft plan for creating a US offshore wind energy program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Offshore wind energy can help the nation reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, diversify its energy supply, provide cost-competitive electricity to key coastal regions, and stimulate economic revitalization of key

sectors of the economy,â&#x20AC;? the study says.

7KH QDWLRQÂśV ÂżUVW RIIVKRUH ZLQG IDUP &DSH :LQG in Massachusetts, has received all its permits, but is embroiled in lawsuits. Three offshore wind projects are in the permitting process - one off Rhode Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Block Island, another off Atlantic City, N.J., and a third off Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. A pilot project is planned in Lake Erie, off Cleveland.

Opponents say the wind project could alter the habitat, risking migratory birds, sea mammals and other wildlife. In addition, they say that government subsidies tilt the economics of wind farms to give the appearance that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re economically feasible.

Oceana opposes offshore drilling and presented its study as a better alternative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 20 years we assume weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll use up all the oil, but we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use up all the wind,â&#x20AC;? said Oceanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jackie Savitz, one of the studyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s authors.

The study concludes that offshore wind could generate 127 gigawatts of power, or 48 percent of the electricity in the top 11 states with the best wind - which it ranks in order as Delaware, Massachusetts, North Carolina, New Jersey, Virginia, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Maryland, Florida, New York and Georgia.

Read full story at: www.energycentral.com/news/17136499/Wind-energy-can-power-much-of-East-Coast-study-says?

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hurricane k arl shuts down oil rigs, nuclear reactor in mexico Hurricane Karl smashed into Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gulf Coast on September 17th, reportedly killing at least two people and forcing the country to shut down its only nuclear power plant and its central Gulf Coast oil platforms.

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