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Green World - Aug 25, 2018
More and more evidence is mounting this week to suggest that Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office has banned government agencies from talking about climate change online. Yesterday, we published an email in which a social media coordinator for Ontario Parks told staff that they were "not allowed to mention climate change in social media content," as per the Premier's Office.

Every Ontario ministry now banned from talking about climate change

More and more evidence is mounting this week to suggest that Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office has banned government agencies from talking about c...

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Green World - Aug 17, 2018
It claims that Tesla was left out of a program that allows purchasers of other brands to still get rebates during a transition period. “The decision has already inflicted substantial harm on Tesla Canada in the form of lost sales and the creation of an impression among Ontarians that Tesla Canada may be singled out for future arbitrary treatment under the law,” says the statement filed Aug. 10. It asks the Ontario Superior Court to quash the “arbitrary and entirely unreasonable” decision, adding that the government has given it no reason for its exclusion from the rebate extension. None of Tesla’s claims has been proven in court. The company said it would not provide further comment.

Tesla sues Ontario over EV rebates | The Star

Electric car maker Tesla Motors Canada ULC is suing the Ontario government, claiming it has been treated unfairly in the government's decision to cancel an electric vehicle rebate.

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Green World - Dec 20, 2017
“A lot of people are worried about the high energy consumption of cryptocurrencies,” said Nadine Damblon, the co-founder and chief executive officer of HydroMiner in Vienna. “It’s a huge factor.”

This Cryptocurrency Miner Says It Solved Bitcoin's Power Problem

A green-energy startup says it can solve bitcoin’s surging electricity consumption without boosting pollution, an issue threatening to halt the meteoric rise of the virtual currency.

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Green World - Dec 5, 2017
Study co-author James Tate of the University of Leeds told The Guardian, “We were surprised and encouraged because, as we scale up production, [pure] electric vehicles are going to be becoming cheaper and we expect battery costs are going to fall.”

Electric cars are actually less expensive to own and operate than gas-guzzling vehicles, according to study

Exciting news for electric car enthusiasts: the clean vehicles cost less over four years than diesel or petrol cars in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, according to a new study.…

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Green World - Dec 1, 2017
Jeffrey Osborne, a stock analyst with Cowen, says the big automakers don't just build cars and trucks efficiently, they build assembly lines and car plants efficiently.

Tesla Going At 'Warp Speed,' But Lags In Race To Produce Mass Market Electric Cars

You can see how different Tesla is from the rest of the car companies at a place like the LA Auto Show. The tiny Tesla booth has only one car on display. There's no glitz, or models leaning seductively. But it was swamped during a showing for journalists.

NPR.org - Sonari Glinton
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Green World - Nov 16, 2017
Fisker's solid-state batteries have a long way to go before they make it into a car, however. The company projects the tech won't be ready for mass production until "post 2023."

Fisker claims it will build an electric car that charges in 1 minute

Fisker, the luxury electric auto startup founded by renowned designer and former Tesla consultant Henrik Fisker, claims it's developed a breakthrough that could knock Tesla off its perch as the world's premier electric carmaker — and many completely change the way we use batteries in the process

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Green World - Nov 14, 2017
Its important to separate the meaning of peak demand from the previously understood meaning of peak oil. That term, commonly referred to as Hubbert’s Peak, suggested that economically extractable oil reserves were finite and that the peak of what was globally economic to extract was going to occur. Hubbert himself suggested the 1980s would see this, while others suggested every year since. They were all, similar to Malthus, wrong.

6 Factors Will Hasten Or Defer Peak Oil Demand

We haven’t reached peak oil consumption globally, also known as peak demand. We are likely to reach it globally by 2050, but it’s unlikely to occur before 2030 at the very earliest. There are six major factors which make defining exactly when it will occur very difficult. I haven't seen any modelled analysis (including my

CleanTechnica - Michael Barnard
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