Publications | Energy
Added:Nov 06, 2008May/June 2006. "Brave New Nuclear World: First of Two Parts," by Karen Charman, World Watch Magazine. See page 26 (PDF page 28).Tags:- Added:Nov 06, 2008December 21, 2005. "Mighty Mice," by Amory Lovins, in Nuclear Engineering International. Also available in PDF version.Tags:
Added:Oct 01, 2008Updated estimates of subsidies to nuclear energy showing that 60-90% of the cost of new nuclear power is the result of public subsidy rather than private investment. Prepared for the Nuclear Policy Institute Symposium on Nuclear Power and Global Warming, November 2005. (In Powerpoint).Tags:- Added:Jan 09, 2009Tad Patzek. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2004. Web version of article linked to here updated most recently in May 2005. Detailed review (100 pages) of the corn-ethanol fuel cycle concludes that production is a net loser from both an energy and an environmental perspective.Tags:
Added:Oct 01, 2008Learn about the power of Policy-Enhanced Investing to turn nuclear power from the dog of Wall Street into the
Tags:- Added:Jan 05, 2009Amy Taylor, Matthew Bramley, and Mark Winfield, The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development. This report, commissioned by the Climate Action Network Canada, identifies and quantifies federal government expenditure on Canada's oil and gas sector. It also investigates both federal and provincial support for oil sands developments. Useful information, though the subsidy numbers were lower than expected for resource-rich Canada. There may be programs or subsidy types that have not yet been counted.
- Added:Jan 05, 2009Produced by Revenue Watch of the Open Society Institute, the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, and the International Budget Project. Guidance manual for how to track oil and gas revenues using government budget documents.
- Added:Jan 06, 2009International Center for Technology Assessment. Review of costs of defending oil shipments from the Persian Gulf and other sources, such as Colombia. Also includes Strategic Petroleum Reserve and other domestic security maintenance services in shipping lanes and roads.Tags:
Added:Sep 29, 2008General introduction to the measurement and concepts associated with government subsidization of energy industries. Includes a review of a generic fuel cycle which identifies the most common types of subsidies at each stage and which energy types they tend to support within a global context. Also provides an overview of the challenges of successfully implementing subsidy reform. Much more on the Encyclopedia of Energy is available from the publisher.Tags:
Added:Sep 29, 2008Anja Von Moltke, Colin McKee, and Trevor Morgan. United Nations Environment Programme, 2004. (Earth Track peer review, not authorship).
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Added:Jan 02, 2009Robert S. McIntyre and T.D. Coo Nyugen, Citizens for Tax Justice.
Added:Sep 29, 2008Program line review of federal fiscal subsidies to energy for fiscal year 2003, to support the work of the National Commission on Energy Policy. Aggregate subsidies were worth between $37 a
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Added:Dec 31, 2008Matthew Savage with Paul Baruya and Jack Cunningham for the European Environment Agency. Reviews subsidy types, estimation techniques, and benefits of reform within the EU context.
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Added:Dec 31, 2008Antony Froggatt for Greenpeace.
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Added:Jan 02, 2009Though this specific bill is gone, the report provides useful background on a variety of energy subsidies that are either already enacted or regularly crop up in legislative initiatives.Tags:
