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Junkyard Find: 1982 Peugeot 505S Turbodiesel

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I've found an oil-burning 505 in a boneyard in California's Central Valley, so let's take a look. The 504 stayed in production quite deep into the 21st century ( in Nigeria ), and the 505 was its ordained successor. 1982 Peugeot 505 Turbodiesel in California wrecking yard. Like eating caviar and strawberries.

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GE study finds 5% of worlds natural gas production wasted per year by flaring

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A newly released GE study — Flare Gas Reduction: Recent Global Trends and Policy Considerations —estimates that 5% of the world’s natural gas production is wasted by burning or “flaring” unused gas each year, despite some progress on the flaring issue. Click to enlarge.

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ExxonMobil brings Kearl oil sands expansion online ahead of schedule; overall capacity doubling to 220K barrels per day

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Exxon Mobil has started production at its Kearl oil sands expansion project in Alberta, Canada ahead of schedule; the expansion is expected to double overall capacity to 220,000 barrels of bitumen a day, with the expansion itself ultimately expected to reach 110,000 barrels per day. Kearl will access approximately 4.6 Earlier post.).

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Global billionaires unite in “Breakthrough energy coalition” to support development of zero-carbon energy

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Neither government funding nor conventional private investment have been able consistently to bridge the Valley of Death between promising concept and viable product. Aliko Dangote, Founder and Chief Executive, Dangote Group, Nigeria. University of California, Office of the Chief Investment Officer, US.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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The scientific case for such a strategy was laid out in an Op Ed in The New York Times by Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and his colleague, Professor David Victor. million lives lost each year due to black carbon soot.

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IHS CERA meta-analysis finds lifecycle GHG emissions for fuel produced solely from oil sands crude average 11% higher than from average crude refined in the US; high variability

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When the oil sands products refined in the United States are considered—a mixture of oil sands and lower-carbon blending components—the GHG emissions are, on average, 9% higher than the average crude processed in the US. Average values for WTW GHG emissions for oil sands and other crudes, tight boundary. Source: IHS CERA.

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Glencore to pay >$1.1B to resolve government’s investigation into bribery and commodity and price manipulation

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million in payments to be made to intermediary companies in order to secure improper advantages to obtain and retain business with state-owned and state-controlled entities in West Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and Equatorial Guinea. Between approximately January 2011 and August 2019, Glencore Ltd. A former Glencore Ltd.