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NNadir

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1. Denmark continues to drill, pump, and sell North Sea Oil and gas.
Mon Dec 9, 2013, 09:07 PM
Dec 2013

They've been soothsaying for decades about what they do is to line their pockets with oil and gas money.

Like most "renewables will save us" types, they're full of fecal matter, and not just in their biodigesters.

The Danish Energy website, a poster child for anti-nuke hypocrisy, has a whole page dedicated to it's filthy North Sea operations.

http://www.ens.dk/en/oil-gas

If they're really interested in phasing out oil and gas, why don't they just do it, rather than dump responsibility for their inaction on future generations.

In the preface of their Energy Agency's report (link that follows) they happily note that they spent 1.2 billion Danish Kroner in 2012 to explore for new oil and gas fields, and note as well they have fields that have been pumping climate destroying grease and gas out of the North Sea since 1972.

http://www.ens.dk/sites/ens.dk/files/dokumenter/publikationer/downloads/oliegas_rapport_uk_-_2012.pdf

Their 1972 fields are not closed and they expect them to operate well beyond the 40 years they've been aiding the destruction of the planetary atmosphere. One can be sure that the fields they've drilled this year will still be killing people with air pollution late into the 21st century.

And one might reasonably ask how is it that their colonial empire in Greenland is being explored for oil and gas?

http://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/126559/Greenland_Minister_Will_Issue_New_Oil_Exploration_Licenses

This sort of reminds me of the dumb anti-nuke Amory Lovins, who has spent an entire career trying to destroy the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free primary energy while consulting for oodles of oil and gas companies, including "Suncor" operators of the world's most filthy oil source, the Canadian Tar Sands fields.

Famous Anti-nuke Amory Lovins describes his revenue sources:

Mr. Lovins’s other clients have included Accenture, Allstate, AMD, Anglo American, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter, Borg-Warner, BP, HP Bulmer, Carrier, Chevron, Ciba-Geigy, CLSA, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Dow, Equitable, GM, HP, Invensys, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Monsanto, Motorola, Norsk Hydro, Petrobras, Prudential, Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch/Shell, Shearson Lehman Amex, STMicroelectronics, Sun Oil, Suncor, Texas Instruments, UBS, Unilever, Westinghouse, Xerox, major developers, and over 100 energy utilities. His public-sector clients have included the OECD, the UN, and RFF; the Australian, Canadian, Dutch, German, and Italian governments; 13 states; Congress, and the U.S. Energy and Defense Departments.

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Denmark continues to drill, pump, and sell North Sea Oil and gas. NNadir Dec 2013 #1
The right-wing spin you promote about Denmark is demolished by the facts in the OP kristopher Dec 2013 #2
The IRONY is really FUNNY!! PamW Dec 2013 #5
I simply called up the Danish Energy Website. NNadir Dec 2013 #9
By comparison, total Danish C02 is less than Nebraska, or less than half that of West Virginia. Iterate Dec 2013 #3
Well said! Champion Jack Dec 2013 #4
There's no "Danish grid" PamW Dec 2013 #6
It was metaphor. Iterate Dec 2013 #7
It's hard to tell.. PamW Dec 2013 #8
So it would be wrong to tout the French "grid" as being low carbon also, right? kristopher Dec 2013 #10
THATS a PROOF???????????? PamW Dec 2013 #12
No, it isn't a proof at all. kristopher Dec 2013 #13
Those are great visualization aides. kristopher Dec 2013 #11
If we can get by the disruption for the moment... Iterate Dec 2013 #14
Emission of CO2 from the Danish power and CHP generation fell by 17.3 per cent in 2012 Iterate Dec 2013 #15
Thanks. kristopher Dec 2013 #25
electricity at triple the normal price quadrature Dec 2013 #16
It's working for them. Maybe you ought to challenge your own assumptions. Iterate Dec 2013 #17
Please rephrase that kristopher Dec 2013 #18
True enough. Iterate Dec 2013 #19
Denmark's economy resembles an amusement park quadrature Dec 2013 #20
Every nation needs to find its own solution. Iterate Dec 2013 #21
Postcard from the Future: 122% Wind Power in Denmark kristopher Dec 2013 #22
Validation??? Validation of NOTHING!!! PamW Dec 2013 #23
NRG CEO Crane: Power grid will soon be 'last resort' kristopher Dec 2013 #24
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