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¶ In 2013, renewables accounted for 5% of Africa’s needs but this figure could reach 22% over the next 15 years, the International Renewable Energy Agency said in its Africa 2030 report. Africa’s energy production must double and its electricity production triple to keep up with the pace of development and meet demand. [Yahoo7 News]

Portion of the Cookhouse Wind Farms in South Africa. Photo by NJR ZA. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikimedia Commons.

¶ Genex Power has unveiled plans to build a 150-MW solar PV project at an old mine in Queensland, adjacent to a proposed 330-MW pumped hydro storage project. If it goes ahead, it could be the biggest solar plant in Australia, but it certainly will be the largest combined solar and storage project, and a world first on the latter metric. [CleanTechnica]

¶ VW has company. Emissions Analytics has tested almost…

Faced with the major security threat of climate change, senior representatives from NATO states are adding their voice to the growing call for action ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris this December.

In a resolution set to be approved by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly today, 250 senior members of parliament from member states warn that climate change is a significant security threat and “its bite is already being felt.”
French Parliamentarian Philippe Vitel and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s special rapporteur of the Science and Technology Committee said:
“If the world wants to stop irreversible damage to the planet, all governments must agree in Paris to clear, fair and ambitious targets to reduce emissions … The security of alliance members is at stake, climate change is increasing the risk of violent conflict by exacerbating known sources of conflict, like poverty and economic shocks. The time to act is now.”

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¶ So far, about 150 nations have promised the UN to curb CO2 emissions, but analysts say the pledges are not enough. One think-tank estimates current promises will lead to a global temperature rise of about 2.7° C, well over the 2° C “safety threshold.” At a meeting of 36 nations in Morocco, governments will judge for themselves. [BBC]

How fast are countries prepared to decarbonise their economies?

¶ Sunlabob Renewable Energy Ltd recently finalized a contract to provide turnkey implementation of eleven solar-powered micro-grids in remote communities of Myanmar. The micro-grids will provide reliable, clean energy access at the household level in eleven villages throughout Shan State and Chin State, Myanmar. [pv magazine]

¶ German utilities’ reserves for the country’s planned exit from nuclear power are adequate, the ministry for economics and energy says, citing a government-commissioned report on the matter. “The affected companies…

If you want to know how absolutely bonkers our Western leaders are, especially leaders like Cameron and his ilk you only have to look at the news that broke today: RAF fighters stationed in Iraq are ow authorised to shoot down Russian jets they judge to be threatening.

This is paramount to declaring war on Russia because whether jets are threatening is in the eye of the beholder something that can be spun by our corporate owned MSM in any direction they want, and I’m sure Cameron hopes that his “boys” will shoot one down with hopefully some forceful reaction of Russia. This is just absolutely madness. Russian can destroy the Western world several times over. In fact it can probably destroy this planet several times over and to engage in war with this military giant is just sheer unadulterated madness.

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As relations between the West and Russia steadily…

Canadian Mining Company Cameco’s Crow Butte ISL Uranium mine in Nebraska, across the border from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The White River and multiple tributaries cut across the Pine Ridge Reservation.

“Allen, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, has the lowest per capita income in the country“. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation

American Indians, and non-American Indians, have to fight foreign mining company Cameco, and other foreign mining companies, to protect America’s land and water. The fight against Crow Butte expansion has been going on for almost a decade. Things really haven’t changed much in the last 100 years, except that uranium mining poisons the land and water so that the land’s not good for agriculture or grazing. Who steals land only to pass it on to a third party to destroy it?


Obama pretends to care about American Indians, but if he did then they…

Figure 1, There’s something ironic about a Tory energy secretary who has committed to a policy that is unworkable and all but guarantees future power cuts standing under a banner labelled “stability”

At the Tory conference there was an awkward moment when Amber Rudd was required to speak of the Tories recent “achievements” in her field. Of course, she had very little that one could put a positive spin on, given that the Tory party has in the space of a few months reneged on everyone of its commencements on environmental issues. Even some of the few positives from the Thatcher era, the NFFO (non-fossil fuel obligation) has essentially gone.

So she spent most of the time pointing out that the Tories weren’t as bad as UKIP (who are at least honest enough to confirm their climate denial credentials, unlike the Tories who like to…