Tag: fossil fuels
The government specifies its strategy to get France “out of its dependence on fossil fuels”
The first offshore wind farm in France, opposite Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique), January 5, 2023. LOIC VENANCE / AFP France’s major energy choices, affirmed since the Belfort speech by Emmanuel Macron, in…
the 50 most polluting industrial sites sign their contracts with the State
When Emmanuel Macron received the leaders of the fifty industrial sites emitting the most CO2 in France, on November 8, 2022 at the Elysée, the Minister of Industry, Roland Lescure,…
“For oil and gas, there is substantial risk from a regional escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
Lhe developments in the war between Israel and Hamas are being closely followed by energy markets, as it raises geopolitical risks for oil and gas in an already tense global…
Ukrainian officer named as perpetrator of sabotage of Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines
Disturbances on the coast of the Danish island of Bornholm, off the Baltic Sea, due to sabotage of the Russian Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, September 26, 2022.…
“Blackrock may have found a way to make amends with the Big Oil cowboys”
In Stanton (Texas, United States), June 8, 2023. SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP BlackRock has a problem with Texas. In this Republican stronghold, the world’s leading financier is seen as a…
why French banks can finance fossil fuels despite their climate commitments
Can we finance multinational champions of oil and gas while proclaiming that we have stopped supporting the expansion of fossil extraction projects? Yes, at least in the paradoxical world of…
“Large oil and gas companies are using wind and solar power to produce even more oil”
Ln October 4, Pope Francis wrote: “The necessary transition to clean energy like wind and solar, away from fossil fuels, is not happening fast enough. Consequently, what is being done…
“At present, each oil company has its own definition of carbon neutrality”
Lat 28e Conference of States Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which will be held from November 30 to December 12 [en anglais Conference of the…
“The Israel-Hamas war would amplify the effects of the restrictive OPEC policy supported by Russia and those of the war in Ukraine”
The Saudi Aramco oil refinery in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2018. AHMED JADALLAH / REUTERS Lhe worst is never sure, but… But the price of a barrel of…
Fuel prices: “Elastic taxation would help fight inflation and economic slowdowns”
The two economists Patrice Geoffron and Quentin Perrier propose, in an article in “Le Monde”, to vary the tax rates inversely to the price of fuel, in order to help…
“Living and struggling in a toxic world. Environmental violence and health in the age of oil”: necropolitics of “black gold”
Book. Human beings have certainly deployed more energy since 1900 than between the beginning of humanity and that date. This observation by the American historian John McNeill, cited in the…
between France and Germany, a compromise under high tension
Dor months, unprecedented tensions have opposed France and Germany over the reform of the European electricity market. And, for ten years, the two countries have been throwing the virtues of…