“We use more wood, coal, oil, and gas today to generate energy than at any point in history. We have come to accept…there are no solutions, only tradeoffs.” — Cenovus CEO
Will NJ consumers be hit with zero-emission surcharge for nuclear?
It may not have been able to compete with fossil fuels but global warming has given nuclear power an edge: on more subsidies. The example of New Jersey shows how desperation on the global warming front is jeopardizing decision-making and ignoring the penalties and perils of “clean energy’s” new good guy.
Carbon credit rort has to stop
Turns out New Zealanders have been buying carbon credits from the Ukraine. In the wake of the country’s Climate Cheats scandal, Andrew Dickens, for New Zealand’s Newstalk ZB, calls out the Emissions Trading Scheme as “rortable”.
Queen’s Park the biggest winner with cap and trade
Cap and trade will provide endless reasons for interest groups to lobby Queen’s Park for access to the many exemptions and potential political favours embedded in the legislation.
“Carbon Crooks” now available to US viewers
“Carbon Crooks,” the compelling 2013 documentary on fraud in carbon markets and the failure of carbon trading to address climate change, is now available to U.S. viewers.
Uncertainty over Barro Blanco’s CDM approval
As tensions rise over western Panama’s UN-approved Barro Blanco dam project, the highly contested dam looks set for completion … eventually. Carbon Market Watch reports.
Talk about following a bad example
(December 24, 2013) As Europe’s carbon market crumbles, China decides it’s time to set one up. On a side note, this has crazy corruption written all over it!
Criminals see value of intangible carbon market – Interpol
(August 19, 2013) Vulnerable because of its intangible nature, carbon credit trading has become a haven for a new and emerging type of crime says Interpol, the world’s largest international police organization.
Small dam construction to reduce greenhouse emissions is causing ecosystem disruption
(June 20, 2013) A new report says the global push to reduce greenhouse gases by building small dams, with the help of the Kyoto Protocol, is causing unanticipated and potentially significant losses to habitat and biodiversity.
Deutsche Bank staff jailed in carbon trading fraud crackdown
(December 21, 2012) As carbon credit fraud continues to escalate, five employees at Germany’s biggest money lender have been accused of money laundering or obstruction of justice in relation to a carbon trading scheme. In related news, the UK’s Financial Services Authority is now asking anyone who has invested in carbon credits to fill in an online survey, in an effort to better illuminate the problem of fraud. Meanwhile, a new interactive map has been launched by the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) and Ecofys to show the status of emissions trading schemes around the world.
‘Trendy, green – and hard to understand’
(December 18, 2012) A police raid of a suspected carbon credit fraud ring in the U.K. uncovers how easy it is to dupe private investors with green scams.
The perverse rewards of carbon credits
(August 15, 2012) The UN’s carbon trading scheme to reduce global concentrations of greenhouse gases has provided a handful of factories in developing nations with a perverse incentive to massively increase them.
U.K. carbon credit tax scammers get stiff sentences
(June 19, 2012) Three men have been sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for running a carbon credit tax racket that cheated U.K. taxpayers out of 39 million pounds ($US60 million) in just 69 days.
France orders carbon tax fraudsters to pay back millions of euros
(January 12, 2012) The first of many trials to come involving carbon trading tax-frauds lands one group in jail, with an order to pay the French state a total of 43 million euros.
Europe’s largest emissions-related tax fraud lands six in jail
(December 21, 2011) One of the European Union’s largest probes into carbon credit tax fraud places six traders from Britain, Germany and France behind bars.
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