We're not going to
transition out of oil next year or 10 years from now.
As Shell moves its focus towards the renewables industry, Collier has effectively
transitioned out of an oil and gas background into having a good technical grasp of renewables in a short space of time.
Not exact matches
Paris advocates assert that, despite President Donald Trump's decision to pull
out of the agreement, we face an inevitable
transition to a multitude
of new low - carbon energy technologies that will consign hydrocarbons —
oil, natural gas, and coal — to history's dust heap.
The Canadian Labour Congress and the Climate Action Network
of Canada co-hosted a discussion event on Thursday night that focused on job creation and facilitating a
transition for the coal,
oil and gas sectors — all
of which will gradually be phased
out as the world moves to a clean energy economy.
[A] paper by a former University
of California Energy and Resources Group faculty member and a student now on the faculty at Stanford [«Risks
of the
oil transition,» A. E. Farrell and A. R. Brandt] lays this
out in a figure where each axis alone is cause for major worry, and together, the carbon intensity / barrel combined with the fact that if unconventional
oil is now part
of the resource, we have a not near «peak
oil, but are, in fact, only about 1 / 50th
of the way through this resource.
I understand there will be very, very VERY difficult times ahead
transitioning out of coal and
oil and into healthier energy choices, but this is about
oil profit, greed and a nation freaked
out right now about the dire many facets
of our economy, among other things.
We
transitioned away from whale
oil after discovering much more abundant and useful petroleum - derived kerosene, not because we were running
out of whales.
The first, is a major focus on mapping
out the implications
of the energy
transition involved for key stakeholders, with a focus on coal,
oil and gas sectors, on capital expenditure by companies and scenario planning around demand and supply.
[v] Total carbon in conventional fossil fuels (
oil, gas, and coal), if released to the air, is enough to initiate a dynamic
transition to an ice - free climate state, a
transition that would be
out of humanity's control.
Nor did the
transition to the petroleum economy occur because we taxed, regulated, or ran
out of whale
oil.
John Podesta, the co-chairman
of Obama's
transition team, said
of the order under review, «They want to have
oil and gas drilling in some
of the most sensitive, fragile lands in Utah that they're going to try to do right as they — walking
out the door.