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<i><font size="+1"><b>July 6, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[pipeline shutdown - press releases]<br>
<b>Dominion Energy and Duke Energy Cancel the Atlantic Coast
Pipeline</b><br>
RICHMOND, Va. and CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 5, 2020 /PRNewswire --
Dominion Energy (NYSE: D) and Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) today
announced the cancelation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline ("ACP") due
to ongoing delays and increasing cost uncertainty which threaten the
economic viability of the project.<br>
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Despite last month's overwhelming 7-2 victory at the United States
Supreme Court, which vindicated the project and decisions made by
permitting agencies, recent developments have created an
unacceptable layer of uncertainty and anticipated delays for ACP.<br>
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Specifically, the decision of the United States District Court for
the District of Montana overturning long-standing federal permit
authority for waterbody and wetland crossings (Nationwide Permit
12), followed by a Ninth Circuit ruling on May 28 indicating an
appeal is not likely to be successful, are new and serious
challenges. The potential for a Supreme Court stay of the district
court's injunction would not ultimately change the judicial venue
for appeal nor decrease the uncertainty associated with an eventual
ruling. The Montana district court decision is also likely to prompt
similar challenges in other Circuits related to permits issued under
the nationwide program including for ACP.<br>
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This new information and litigation risk, among other continuing
execution risks, make the project too uncertain to justify investing
more shareholder capital. For example, a productive tree-felling
season this winter is a key milestone to maintaining the project's
cost and schedule. Unfortunately, the inability to predict with
confidence the outcome of the project's permits and the potential
for additional incremental delays associated with continued legal
challenges, means that committing millions of dollars of additional
investment for tree-felling and subsequent ramp up for full
construction is no longer a prudent use of shareholder capital.<br>
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A series of legal challenges to the project's federal and state
permits has caused significant project cost increases and timing
delays. These lawsuits and decisions have sought to dramatically
rewrite decades of permitting and legal precedent including as
implemented by presidential administrations of both political
parties. As a result, recent public guidance of project cost has
increased to $8 billion from the original estimate of $4.5 to $5.0
billion. In addition, the most recent public estimate of commercial
in-service in early 2022 represents a nearly three-and- a-half-year
delay with uncertainty remaining.<br>
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Thomas F. Farrell, II, Dominion Energy chairman, president, and
chief executive officer, and Lynn J. Good, Duke Energy chair,
president, and chief executive officer, said:<br>
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"We regret that we will be unable to complete the Atlantic Coast
Pipeline. For almost six years we have worked diligently and
invested billions of dollars to complete the project and deliver the
much-needed infrastructure to our customers and communities.
Throughout we have engaged extensively with and incorporated
feedback from local communities, labor and industrial leaders,
government and permitting agencies, environmental interests and
social justice organizations. We express sincere appreciation for
the tireless efforts and important contributions made by all who
were involved in this essential project. This announcement reflects
the increasing legal uncertainty that overhangs large-scale energy
and industrial infrastructure development in the United States.
Until these issues are resolved, the ability to satisfy the
country's energy needs will be significantly challenged."<br>
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The Atlantic Coast Pipeline was initially announced in 2014 in
response to a lack of energy supply and delivery diversification for
millions of families, businesses, schools, and national defense
installations across North Carolina and Virginia. Robust demand for
the project is driven by the regional retirement of coal-fired
electric generation in favor of environmentally superior, lower cost
natural gas-fired generation combined with widespread growing demand
for residential, commercial, defense, and industrial applications of
low-cost and low-emitting natural gas. Those needs are as real today
as they were at project inception as evidenced by the recently
renewed customer subscription of approximately 90 percent of the
project's capacity. The project was also expected to create
thousands of construction jobs and millions of dollars in tax
revenue for local communities across West Virginia, Virginia and
North Carolina.<br>
<br>
The companies remain steadfast in the belief that fuel diversity,
including renewables, nuclear, and natural gas, is critical for
reliably and sustainably serving our customers and communities. Both
will continue aggressively pursuing the development of renewables,
storage, nuclear license renewals, electric vehicle infrastructure,
energy delivery infrastructure, as well as energy efficiency and
demand side management programs to meet their customers' needs while
creating jobs and spurring new business growth in the aforementioned
regions.<br>
<br>
Dominion Energy and Duke Energy will separately provide additional
information for their respective stakeholders and shareholders as
relates to the company-specific financial, environmental,
operational, and other impacts of this announcement.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.dominionenergy.com/2020-07-05-Dominion-Energy-and-Duke-Energy-Cancel-the-Atlantic-Coast-Pipeline">https://news.dominionenergy.com/2020-07-05-Dominion-Energy-and-Duke-Energy-Cancel-the-Atlantic-Coast-Pipeline</a><br>
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[dampened]<br>
<b>Rain followed the fireworks at Mount Rushmore</b><br>
Almost one-fifth inch fell shortly after the fireworks ended<br>
Rain fell shortly after the July 3 fireworks show at Mount Rushmore.
The official Remote Area Weather Station at the Memorial recorded
0.17 inch between 10 p.m. and 12 p.m MDT. In less than an hour the
relative humidity went from 44% to 86%. The rain was followed 24
hours later with another 0.03 inch at 11 p.m. MDT July 4...<br>
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In addition to the 27 fires started at Mount Rushmore by previous
uses of fireworks from 1998 to 2009, many of those concerned about
the environment have additional concerns:<br>
<blockquote>- Putting even more carcinogens in the water. Studies
from 2011 to 2015 by the USGS found 270 times more perchlorate in
the water at Mount Rushmore than in the surrounding area and
determined that it likely came from fireworks. The Centers for
Disease Control says high levels of perchlorate can affect the
thyroid gland, which in turn can alter the function of many organs
in the body. The fetus and young children can be especially
susceptible.<br>
- The trash can never be completely picked up. Left on the
sculpture and in the forest are unexploded shells, wadding, ash,
pieces of the devices, and paper; stuff that can never be totally
removed in the very steep, rocky, rugged terrain.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/07/05/rain-followed-the-fireworks-at-mount-rushmore/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2020/07/05/rain-followed-the-fireworks-at-mount-rushmore/</a><br>
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[online activism]<br>
<b>A VEGAN WORLD BY 2026? HERE'S HOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN - SAYS
LEGENDARY ENVIRONMENTALIST SAILESH RAO!</b><br>
Do you want to know how we will will get to a Vegan world by 2026?
What is a thermostat species? Why must we go from being Homo Sapien
to Homo Ahimsa? Legendary Environmentalist Dr Sailesh Rao, answers
all these questions and more today on the Action Hour! According to
statistical data that Dr Rao will discuss on the show; the world
turning Vegan by 2026 is not only possibility but is probable! Dr
Rao, Founder and Executive Director of Climate Healers and Ray
Kowalchuk, who works with Dr Rao and is an activist and contributor
to Jane Unchained News are my guests today on the Action Hour.
Lindsey Baker hosts #LIVE on the ACTION Hour on JaneUnChained News
Network. #climatechange #actionhour #parisclimateaccord
#greennewdeal #envirtonmentalist #2026 #veganworld2026
#climatehealers #torontopigsave #climatehealers #veganworld2026
#climate #eartthwarming #earthcooling #globalwarming #theenvironment
#animalagriculture #govegan #actionhour #species #extinction
#thermostatspecies<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/612215066343308/">https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/612215066343308/</a>
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[Paleoclimatology in the Journal Nature]<br>
Published: 30 June 2020<br>
<b>Speaking to the past</b><br>
Harry Dowsett <br>
"Speak to the past and it shall teach thee." I first read those
words on a dedication tablet within the John Carter Brown library at
Brown University where I was a graduate student. Little did I know
the phrase would accurately describe the next three and a half
decades of my career. Paleoclimate data are the language we use to
look into the past to understand ourselves and ultimately our
future.<br>
<br>
Our changing climate is an existential threat to the environment,
infrastructure, and public health, often dominating political,
economic and cultural dialogues. The latest climate models project
conditions for the end of this century that are generally outside of
the human experience. Instrumental data extends the climate record
back in time by perhaps a couple of centuries and historical
records, e.g. written records of storms, harvest yields, and
phenological changes, several thousand years for some regions.
Deep-time records of paleoclimate provide insight into the climate
system over millions of years sampling conditions very different
from the present day, and in some cases similar to model projections
for the future. Thus, paleoclimatology provides essential context
for the scientific understanding of climate change needed to inform
international policy decisions.<br>
<br>
Paleoclimatology does not just provide isolated, anecdotal facts
about the past. By integrating paleoclimate data gleaned from
geological archives with computer modelling, we learn important
lessons about how the climate system may respond under conditions
markedly different than present day3. Past intervals of both recent
and deep-time provide estimates of climate sensitivity to greenhouse
gas forcing, magnitude and rates of change, as well as impacts of
change on the biosphere, hydrosphere and cryosphere. Paleoclimate
data are the foundation of how we understand the inner workings of
the climate system and its behavior under different conditions, and
thereby inform adaptation strategies related to the ecological
health of the environment.<br>
<br>
Paleoclimate data encompass an array of data types and
methodologies. An informal three-part organization might be primary,
secondary, and model-generated data (Fig. 1). Primary data are
observations, collections and measurements. Examples include
population censuses or quantitative counts of fossil taxa, tree
rings, measurements of stable isotopes or trace elements
incorporated in preserved fossil material or other natural archives,
or measurements of biomarkers contained in sediments. Secondary data
are derived by analysis and calibration of present-day primary data
to climate variables like sea-surface temperature or mean annual
rainfall, providing a means to produce estimates of climate
variables (e.g. temperature, salinity, precipitation) for times in
the past. It is important to note that while secondary data
(interpretations of primary data) may change with new understanding,
primary data never change and thus retain value far beyond the
purpose for which they were developed. Time series of secondary data
from a single site can provide information about the temporal
evolution of climate at that location. Secondary data from a
specific chronologic horizon at a number of locations provides a
snapshot of regional or even global paleoclimate conditions. The
combination of time-series and time-slice data allow a better
understanding of the dynamic development and evolution of climates
and environments. Paleoclimate data can also be derived from
reconstructions based upon model simulations, model-produced
bioclimatic variables, and re-analysis products using data
assimilation techniques. These model-generated data sets provide
high spatial and temporal resolution reconstructions that facilitate
research on the causes of climate variability and the impacts of
climate change on environmental, ecological, and evolutionary
studies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0531-6">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-020-0531-6</a><br>
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[video update on promising technology]<br>
<b>Liquid Air Batteries. Literally energy from thin air. Seriously.
Literally!</b><br>
Jul 5, 2020<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Energy storage from thin air sounds a bit too good to be true, but
the beauty of this potentially transformational technology is the
simplicity of a design that utilises tried and tested components
that have been reimagined and re-engineered to perform a vital
function for electricity grids, now and in the future. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLu9Dtw9yI</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
July 6, 2010 </b></font><br>
Washington Post writer Ezra Klein observes:<br>
<blockquote>"There's a range of likely outcomes from a tax on
carbon, and we can handle most of them. There's also a range of
outcomes from radical changes in the planet's climate, and we've
really no idea which we can handle, and which we can't. We don't
even really know what that range looks like. And although a tax
can be undone or reformed, there's no guarantee that we can
reverse hundreds of years of rapid greenhouse gas buildup in the
atmosphere. If you want proof, look at our inability to deal with
an underwater oil spill, and consider how much more experience we
have repairing oil rigs than reversing concentrations of gases in
the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
"One of the oddities of the global warming debate, in fact, is
that the side that's usually skeptical of government intervention
is potentially setting up a future in which the government is
intervening on a planetary scale. I don't think of myself as
particularly skeptical of the feds, but I'm a lot more comfortable
with their ability to levy a tax than their capacity to reform the
atmosphere. That's why, when faced with the choice between being
risk averse about a tax or about the planet, I tend to choose the
planet."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/the_case_for_being_careful_wit.html">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/the_case_for_being_careful_wit.html</a><br>
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