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Three Cheers for Diminished ‘Just Stop Oil’

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 7, 2025

On social media, Christopher Nguyen gave praises for the retreat (surrender?) of Just Stop Oil, a development reported last week at MasterResource. He should know, being a UKer (Scotland).

He wrote:

No more roadblocks, no more anti-art actions, no more helping UN’s Net Zero “inspired” politicians legislate or promote:
🚫🚗Clean Air Zones, (Ultra) Low Emission Zones (Anti-motorist Zones), 15 minute cities, 20 minute neighbourhoods,
🚫🥩🍼meat and dairy exclusionary contracts,
🚫✈️flight shaming,
🚫🧥shaming buying clothes,
🚫🐮🐶carbon taxes.

Praise God. Let us rejoice!
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One leg down. More to come down.
Do you comply with the Net Zero Carbon consumption targets?
🚫🍼Absolute Zero dairy
🚫🥩Absolute Zero meat
🚫👗3 items of clothing per year
🚫✈️1 return flight per 3 years
🚫🚗Absolute Zero private vehicles

Source:The Future of Urban Consumption in a 1.5°C World, 2019, c40 cities, p.78, 82, 86, 90 https://lnkd.in/ejhTfy8N

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Ecologists Question Renewable Energy Sprawl

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 4, 2025

“Large-scale solar farms, wind turbines, and associated infrastructure are touted as solutions to the climate crisis, but their development comes at the cost of native forests and critical habitats.”

“Until conservation charities disentangle themselves from government funding and corporate influence, they risk becoming complicit in the very destruction they were created to prevent.” – Kelly Jones (Carbon8 Fund) below

One of the great ironies of our age is the double standard of Big Environmentalism toward wind and solar, which commit numerous eco-sins that would not be tolerated otherwise. Dilute, intermittent, and thus inefficient? Yes. Energy sprawl requiring service roads and transmission lines in the wild? Yes. A threat to wildlife on land and in the water? Yes. And mining issues, even using child labor? Yes.

But it is “anti-CO2 or bust” for the foes of modern, prosperous living in a free society.…

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Biden Lives! Nuclear Power Welfare from U.S. Department of Energy

By Kennedy Maize -- April 3, 2025

“What’s lacking are the products – the SMRs. It’s not the government’s job to pick winners and losers in the race to develop the products. That’s how free markets are supposed to work.”

The Department of Energy last Tuesday (March 24) announced a $900 million pot of money to “de-risk the deployment of Generation III+ light-water small modular reactors (Gen III+ SMR).” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said (although it’s more likely someone wrote the words for him), “America’s nuclear energy renaissance starts now.”

Really? The new solicitation is a dead ringer for the Biden administration’s October 2024 $900 SMR solicitation, in many cases word-for-word, including a ‘two-tier’ structure: $800 million for the first, $100 million for the second. The residue of the Biden initiative has been scrubbed from DOE’s website, probably in hopes that no one would remember it.…

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US Military Exits Climate Change After Wasteful Decade

By Steve Goreham -- April 2, 2025
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John Berger: “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Sustainable Energy Future

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 1, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: March 31, 2025

By -- March 31, 2025
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‘Just Stop Oil’ … Stops

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 28, 2025
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The Myth of a Hydrogen Economy

By Administrator -- March 27, 2025
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Alaska’s Proposed Climate Change Commission: Did Harris/Waltz Win?

By -- March 26, 2025
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Nuclear Subsidies in Texas? Ouch!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- March 25, 2025
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