[GWSG] Dead methane plant; shale gas splutters; methane wars; Himalayan melt; salvation by burger; Americans in Europe

[Tilley, Al]

1. GE is closing its Inland Empire methane plant in Riverside CA. The plant, commissioned in 2009, is no longer profitable. It will be dismantled, and the site will be sold to a battery manufacturer. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/21/ge-will-shutter-california-natural-gas-plant-20-years-early/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=6b59d1698b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-6b59d1698b-331994013
[https://cleantechnica.com/files/2019/06/GE-Inland-Empire-generating-station.png]<https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/21/ge-will-shutter-california-natural-gas-plant-20-years-early/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=6b59d1698b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-6b59d1698b-331994013>
GE Will Shutter California Natural Gas Plant 20 Years Early<https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/21/ge-will-shutter-california-natural-gas-plant-20-years-early/?utm_source=CleanTechnica+News&utm_campaign=6b59d1698b-Daily+Email+CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b9b83ee7eb-6b59d1698b-331994013>
cleantechnica.com
General Electric is shuttering a natural gas powered generating station in southern California 20 years before the end of its normal useful life. Competition from solar and wind power plants have ...


2. The shale methane industry is shaky. https://climatecrocks.com/2019/06/25/will-shale-gas-bring-on-the-next-collapse/
[https://climatecrock.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/frackingpad.jpg]<https://climatecrocks.com/2019/06/25/will-shale-gas-bring-on-the-next-collapse/>
Will Shale Gas Bring on the Next Collapse? | Climate Denial Crock of the Week<https://climatecrocks.com/2019/06/25/will-shale-gas-bring-on-the-next-collapse/>
climatecrocks.com
The dodgy finances of the oil and gas fracking industry are a big story, much too big to summarize here, but there's a lot being written on this, which I'll be delving into in coming months. DesmogBlog: Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at…


3. Some utilities are moving to renewable power but others, such as Duke Energy, are building methane plants. At stake is—pretty much the future of the planet. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/climate/natural-gas-renewables-fight.html
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As Coal Fades in the U.S., Natural Gas Becomes the Climate Battleground - The New York Times<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/climate/natural-gas-renewables-fight.html>
www.nytimes.com
America’s coal-burning power plants are shutting down at a rapid pace, forcing electric utilities to face the next big climate question: Embrace natural gas, or shift aggressively to renewable ...

The claim that new technologies are needed to carry out the transition to fossil fuels is easily countered by pointing to regions which have already run carbon-free. Whether methane power is cheaper than renewables is entirely beside the point, which is to begin countering the climate crisis.

4. Snowmelt in the Himalayas provides water and hydropower for about 800 million Asians. The melt rate has doubled this century due primarily to rising temperatures, threatening eventual water and power shortages. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190619142538.htm

5. Timothy Egan, enthusiastic about the Impossible Whopper, believes that fake meat may save us. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/fake-meat-climate-change.html
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Opinion | Fake Meat Will Save Us - The New York Times<https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/21/opinion/fake-meat-climate-change.html>
www.nytimes.com
The Anthropocene is an old idea, dating perhaps to the first atomic bomb, given fresh scientific imprimatur this spring. More than 500 million years after life took hold on earth, humans are ...


6. The US fossil fuel industry is funding not only our own apocalypse-friendly right wing but Brexiteers, neo-Nazis, and other climate deniers in Europe. https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/brexit-climate-deniers
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How US climate deniers are working with far-right racists to hijack Brexit for Big Oil, by Nafeez Ahmed (Le Monde diplomatique - English edition, June 2019)<https://mondediplo.com/outsidein/brexit-climate-deniers>
mondediplo.com
N ew evidence reveals how a tightly concentrated global network of politicians and corporations with close ties to the Trump administration is working on behalf of powerful US fossil fuel interests in Britain and Europe.. Several candidates who were in the running to become the next British Prime Minister — Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Dominic Raab, Michael Gove, Andrea Leadsom, and Steve ...


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