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Exxon Mobil Membrane Could Save Billions In Energy Costs
2016-08-29 17:00:00| Chemical Processing
Engineers develop a new way to separate chemicals that could save $2 billion a year in energy costs in the U.S and avert 45 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Focus: Nuke plan diverts billions from climate change
2016-07-06 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sandiego Union Tribune: Last month, Californias largest utility unveiled a deal with environmental groups to scrap Diablo Canyon, the states last nuclear power plant, by 2025. Regulators may get details later this month. The idea seems absurd, given the states campaign to combat climate change. Replacing the nukes output -- cheap, zero-carbon power for 1.7 million homes -- can only hurt the planet, as well as cost consumers billions of dollars that could otherwise go toward displacing fossil fuels. So the only...
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Lower Mainland vulnerable to significant flooding, costing billions in losses
2016-05-30 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kabylie: If a major Fraser River flood is to occur in the coming decades it could trigger losses upwards of $30 billion amounting to the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. That's according to a study out Monday and commissioned by the Fraser Basin Council (FBC) as part of a strategy on behalf of 43 government and private sector partners. And Hansen says the problem will get worse the longer time goes on, thanks to rising sea levels and what he calls "other projected impacts of climate change"....
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Switch to low-carbon transport could 'save UK billions'
2016-04-20 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press Association: A switch to low-carbon transport such as electric cars would save countries including the UK billions of pounds a year, a report has suggested. Global policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector would reduce demand for oil, driving down prices and cutting global spending on the fossil fuel by 232bn a year worldwide between 2020 and 2030. Cheaper oil for importing countries could free up billions of pounds which could be spent in other parts of the economy, the analysis...
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Gatwick oil 'worth billions' to economy
2016-04-18 08:27:22| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Oil production in the South of England could add billions to the economy and help offset the decline in North Sea production, a report says.
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