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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Fossil fuel industry"”.
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
This dissertation examines how the fossil fuel industry and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate …
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Global Capitalism and the Energy Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities Associated with a Transition to Renewables
<p>Since the Industrial Revolution, fossil fuels have provided a cheap and efficient source of energy. Reliance on fossil fuels, especially oil, supported economic growth under capitalism but also has led to climate change. As peak oil approaches, a transition towards renewable sources of energy is …
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CLEAN(ING) COAL: THE ENTHYMEMATIC QUALITIES OF IMAGES, EDITING AND COLOR IN CLEAN COAL ADVERTISING
… order to avoid strict regulation. In response, industry is attempting to co-opt green rhetoric by suggesting that energy production and environmental protection are not in opposition. Appeals to "clean coal" highlight such a rhetorical tactic. The attempt by the coal industry to rebrand coal as …
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“A resource in and of itself”: Grid-scale Batteries and the Politics of Storage
… their potentials (and proponents) extend to the fossil fuel industry as well: They are ‘fuel-neutral’, allowing all kinds of electrons to become more cost-efficient. In these multivalent contexts, I suggest, securing the status and value of a battery’s stored electricity, or trading on its …
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Building solidarity and growing a movement : the story behind the People's Climate March
… impacts of climate change and the broader fossil fuel industry. Never before had the social justice implications of climate change been given such prominence at a major U.S. climate protest, where environmental policy themes often dominate. This thesis tells the story of how these unique …
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Access to finance barriers affecting women owned SMMEs in the renewable energy sector: a case of South Africa
The renewable energy industry has been acknowledged as one of the fastest-growing industries globally. Consequently, the industry presents various opportunities, not only for economic growth but for gender mainstreaming as well. This industry may serve as a means to address the shortcomings of the …
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Identifying water contamination from fossil fuel development using geochemical and isotopic fingerprints
<p>Fossil fuels continue to be a major component of the energy economies in North America, accounting for 60% of electricity generation in the U.S. Recent incidences (i.e. spills) and limited regulation of the fossil fuel industry has generated public concern about the risks fossil fuel development …
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Banking on sustainable development: the role of development finance institutions in advancing constitutional obligations in light of South Africa's just energy transition
… sustainable. It is no secret that the burning of fossil fuels for energy generation is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions; and this finds itself in a region particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and already crippled by the triple challenge of poverty, inequality …
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On Combustion: Contemporary British Poetry and the Pyrocene (1990-2017)
… consumed a Canadian city dedicated to maximising fossil-fuel extraction from the Albertan tar-sands. This introduction concludes by detailing the specific poetic tradition under scrutiny in the thesis, as well as the forms of reading and criticism which such writing has tended to invite. Having …