Carbon Bubble News #108

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, June 14, 2016

A supplement to Eco Unionist News:

Lead Stories:

• Coal And Gas To Begin ‘Terminal Decline’ In Less Than A Decade, Bloomberg Says - By Joe Romm, Think Progress, June 13, 2016
• Venezuela and the Future of the Latin American Left - By John Feffer, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016; [related]: Calling All Venezuelans to the Table - By Lisa Sullivan, CounterPunch, June 10, 2016
• BP: Global coal use fell by largest recorded margin in 2015 - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, June 9, 2016
• Renewables versus climate change - the battle heats up! - By Jeremy Leggett, The Ecologist, June 7, 2016
• Cheap Money Helped Inflate Energy Balloon - By Rani Molla and Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg, June 6, 2016
• “Other People’s Money” – Trump University and Coal Exports - By Ross Macfarlane, DeSmog Blog, June 6, 2016
• Regulators Fear $1 Billion Coal Cleanup Bill - By Michael Corkery, New York Times, June 6, 2016

Other Carbon Bubble News:

• How shale oil ignited economic change - By Brian Rausch, FuelFix, June 13, 2016
• Is oil’s bull market already reaching its end? - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 13, 2016; [related]: Crude falls as drillers mover to resume production - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 13, 2016
• US coal production drops to lowest level since 1981 - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, June 12, 2016
• Do We Need Coal To Keep The Lights On? - By Stephanie Joyce, Inside Energy, June 10, 2016
• Don’t Look Now, But There Was Just a Mass Exodus of Oil Companies From the Arctic - By Jason Schwartz, Greenpeace, June 10, 2016
• India cancels four major new coal plants in move to end imports - By Tim Buckley, REnew Economy, June 10, 2016
• Oil & Gas UK figures show impact of oil price downturn on jobs - By staff, OilVoice, June 10, 2016
• Why Saudi Arabia Really Can Get To 9 GW Renewables Now - By Susan Kraemer, Clean Technica, June 10, 2016
• DTE to retire 8 Michigan coal units - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, June 9, 2016
• Global Primary Energy Consumption Grew By Only 1% In 2015, According To BP - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 9, 2016
• Montana coal production down a third - By Tom Lutey, Billings Gazette, June 9, 2016
• Does Ground-Breaking India-U.S. Announcement Put Clean Energy in the Catbird Seat? - By Carl Pope, EcoWatch, June 8, 2016
• Last Oil Company Pulls Out Of Arctic Offshore Drilling Efforts In Chukchi Sea - By Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
• The looming coal cleanup crisis - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, June 8, 2016
• Natural gas glut to continue through decade, IEA says - By Rob Gavin, FuelFix, June 8, 2016
• Platts China Oil Analytics: China Oil Demand Fell 1.3% Year over Year in April - By staff, OilVoice, June 8, 2016
• Rainy U.K. Gets More Power From Solar Than Coal For The First Time In Over A Century - By Samantha Page, Think Progress, June 8, 2016
• Renewables Closing In On Coal In The US, Says IEEFA - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 8, 2016
• Saudi Prince Plans To End Country’s “Oil Addiction” - By Derek Markham, PlanetSave, June 8, 2016
• Solar Battle Continues In North Carolina As Nonprofit Fights Duke Energy - By Alex Kotch, DeSmog Blog, June 8, 2016
• Analysis: Solar beats coal over a whole month in UK for first time - By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief, June 7, 2016
• During oil boom, Casper wage growth among highest in the nation - By Laura Hancock, Casper Star Tribune, June 7, 2016
• ERCOT: Coal to drop below 10% of Texas fuel mix by 2030s as solar booms - By Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, June 7, 2016
• The Shale Bankruptcy Boom Moves Midstream - By Joseph V. Schaeffer, Breaking Free, June 7, 2016
• UK electricity is secure without coal, says Conservative thinktank - By Sophie Yeo, Carbon Brief, June 7, 2016
• Washington D.C. Pension Fund Announces Full Fossil Fuel Divestment - By Zahra Hirji, Inside Climate News, June 6, 2016; [related]: Another Giant Pension Fund Divested From Oil, Coal, And Gas Companies - By Jeremy Deaton, Think Progress, June 6, 2016; [and]: Washington, D.C., announces divestment of $6.4 billion pension fund from coal, oil and gas companies - By Hayden Higgins and Laura Marks, DC Divest, June 6, 2016
• General Electric shedding another 360 oil jobs in Texas - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, June 6, 2016
• ArcelorMittal suspends Quebec mine project on weak market - By Reuters, CNBC TV 18, June 3, 2016
• The Collapse of Coal - Taylor Kuykendall interviewed by Chris Nelder, The Energy Transition Show, June 1, 2016
• Era of oil nearing its end - By Gordon Laxer, Winnipeg Free Press, May 31, 2016

Utility Death Spiral News:

• Apple Is Generating So Much Renewable Energy It Plans to Start Selling It - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, June 11, 2016
• Top 10 Policies Hindering Solar Advancement - By Brooke Nally, Renewable Energy World, June 10, 2016
• Australia could be 100% renewable – with no “baseload” – by 2035 - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, June 8, 2016; [related]: Australia Can Be Powered 100% By Renewables Without Fossil Fuel ‘Baseload’, Reports WWF - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, June 8, 2016
• French nuclear under pressure – from German renewables - By Craig Morris, REnew Economy, June 7, 2016 

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