Green energy

By Anne workforce / September 6, 2019

Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny

Most of the world’s top companies extracting key minerals for electric vehicles, solar panels and wind turbines have been linked with human rights abuses in their mines, research has found.

Analysis published by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC), an international corporate watchdog, revealed that 87% of the 23 largest companies mining cobalt, copper, lithium, manganese, nickel and zinc – the six minerals essential to the renewable energy industry – have faced allegations of abuse including land rights infringements, corruption, violence or death over the past 10 years.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 30, 2019

Former California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Thursday that the collapse of a renewable energy project in Texas proves the so-called “Green New Deal” cannot be scaled up to cover the rest of the nation.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 28, 2019

Open letter calls for changes to policies sector says threatens to hold green economy back

Boris Johnson’s support for Britain’s “world leading” battery sector risks being undermined by government policy, according to the industry.

A coalition of trade groups and technology firms have written an open letter to the Guardian that calls for urgent changes to policies they say threaten to hold the sector back.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 28, 2019

Japanese conglomerate backs solar utility BBOXX to expand service in south Asia and Africa

A British energy firm lighting up homes in Africa with pay-as-you-go solar power has secured £40m to extend its reach to Asia with the help of Japan’s Mitsubishi.

The conglomerate has taken a stake in off-grid solar company BBOXX through the start-up’s latest funding round, which will power the Africa-focused company deeper into Asia.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 27, 2019

“What we need to do is have an aggressive federal government saying that we are going to produce a massive amount of energy from solar and from wind and from other sustainable energies.”

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 27, 2019

Tesla solar energy systems reportedly ignited at an Amazon warehouse in Redlands, California last June, and the Seattle e-commerce titan confirmed that it has no further plans to buy solar energy systems from Tesla.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 27, 2019

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 27, 2019

Judy Eames on the news that investors in the Grand Designs presenter’s property firm could face big losses

You report (Grand Designs’ McCloud faces property nightmare, 23 August) that shareholders could make big losses after being promised big returns by a property company run by Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud. I’ve lost count of how often this has happened. For some it’s loss of gambling money; for others life savings are involved. In the McCloud HAB case, the risks were flagged up in these pages in January 2017. How many investors read the financial pages and heed the advice?

Localised small-scale cooperative ventures are more appropriate for many investors. A while ago I made a small investment in a local solar energy development, for environmental reasons and not expecting large returns. But it has done well. A regular feature about investments in such projects would be a great help to readers like me.Judy EamesAston, Oxfordshire

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 21, 2019

After Elon Musk touts Tesla solar on Twitter, Walmart sues the electric vehicle and clean energy company over store rooftop panels that ignited.

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Green energy

By Anne workforce / August 21, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said it before, and she’ll say it again: We’re still not doing enough when it comes to combatting climate change.

“I don’t think that we are discussing climate change the way we need to be discussing climate change as a country,” she told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “It is such a huge, broad, systemic issue, and you can’t just say, ‘Is Miami going to exist in 50 years?’ We need to say, ‘What are you going to do about this?'”

AOC went on to praise the young people pushing for a larger climate debate, which she described as a good idea.

“Climate change is an infrastructure issue, it’s a jobs issue, it’s an energy issue, it’s a foreign policy issue,” she said. “We can’t just talk about the Copacabana, you know what I mean?” Read more…

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