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Study says fossil fuel pollution cost 50,000 American lives a year

Eliminating air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths and provide more than $600 billion in health benefits in the United States every year, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers….

Climate researchers demand 50% fossil energy output shut

Sopuruchi Onwuka New findings by researchers suggest that world governments and institutions should immediately stop nearly 200 new petroleum development projects and divert over $300 billion industry budget towards accelerating energy transition from fossil. The new study, coauthored by Greg…

NSML earns SSA’s 1st terminal environmental certification for NLNG

Managers of the Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) Bonny Terminal, the NLNG Ship Management Limited (NSML), have earned Ecoport Port Environmental Review System (PERS) certification for its terminal, making it the first certification of its kind in any port in Sub-Saharan…

Renewvia feeds 10,000 people with renewable electricity

Renewvia Solar Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Renewvia Energy Corporation, has declared that it has connected nearly 2,000 households in five Niger Delta communities to solar-powered rural electrification minigrids, serving over 6,000 people. The company added that it has also…

The economic war in energy transition, climate change

Sopuruchi Onwuka The prevailing movement for energy transition and the associated stringent measures to quicken the process hold up a flip side which reflects a silent economic war in which the world’s richest and most industrialized countries fight vehemently to…

Climate change: expert questions CO2 storage procedure, energy transition

Sopuruchi Onwuka Carbon capture and storage (CCS), one of the novel technologies that hold promise of diverting industrial emissions to artificial reserves, is yet to address the question of leakages. The question from Professor John Underhill of Heriot-Watt University in…

Energy transition: Africa to host 2 bn cars by 2040

Sopuruchi Onwuka Nigeria and other developing economies of the world must brace to host about two billion vehicles that are fired with petroleum fuels as the industrialized nations that currently champion the global movement for energy transition plan total switch…

Climate change: Key factors COP26 ignored at Glasgow

By Dr Emmanuel Okoroafor The turnout at the recently concluded climate summit was impressive and loaded with declarations and pledges for net zero emissions. However, whether (and how fast) countries redeem their pledges has nothing to do with what their…

Nembe oil spill: Arewa youths accuse Diri of targeting Buhari

Sopuruchi Onwuka Northern socio-political group, the Arewa Consultative Youth Movement, has chided the some Niger Delta groups for exaggerating the scale of oil spill arising from the unfortunate wellhead bow out at the Santa Barbara oil field in Nembe, Bayelsa…

AITEO enlists Boots & Coots in Santa Barbara well kill

Sopuruchi Onwuka Indigenous petroleum firm, Aiteo Eastern Exploration and Production Company (AEEPCO), has declared intensified oilspill response and wild well control at its operated Santa Barbara oilfield, Bayelsa State. The company declared in a media statement it has enlisted the…