transizione ecologica

The Osage tribe of Oklahoma got one historic victory for indigenous rights against the Italian energy giant Enel, accused of exploiting their land without permission in the drive towards the energy transition.After a long legal battle, the court ruled that Enel will almost have to pay $260 million to remove 84 wind turbines from the lands of the Osage Nation.This is one of the first rulings in the United States to require decommissioning of a wind project in operation;a subsequent trial will establish how much the company will have to pay in compensation. «Enel, it will cost you a fortune not to have asked us for a permit.That was all you had to do,” he told the Financial times the president of the Osage Minerals Council, Everett Waller, whose tribe had been massacred in 1900.Martin Scorsese's film also takes up their story, Killers of the Flower Moon, nominated for an Oscar.The film tells how the Osage people initially became rich with the discovery of oil on their land, b...

The billionaire nuclear deals of the "philanthrocapitalist" Bill Gates have landed at the Conference of the Parties on climate change, COP 28, where an agreement was signed declaration to triple nuclear energy by 2050 (compared to 2020), so as to achieve the objectives of zero net emissions.The tycoon has long been involved in design of new nuclear reactors for the production of clean energy, through a company he founded in 2008, Terra Power, whose first power plant was located in Kemmerer, a town in Wyoming with less than 3 thousand inhabitants.The billionaire entrepreneur's goal is to "save the planet" from global warming by promoting the energy transition through new sources of clean energy.With this goal, the founder of Microsoft did not hesitate to influence government policies promoting its vision of the energy future at COP 28.The declaration to increase nuclear energy was signed, in fact, by 22 countries, including the USA, Great Britain and France, under ex...

“We are convinced that biofuels can also fall into the category of neutral fuels in terms of overall CO2 balance and contribute to the progressive decarbonisation of the sector.We will therefore work, as part of the procedures for approving the legislative acts indicated by the Commission, to also have biofuels considered among neutral fuels in terms of CO2". The comment by the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin tries to mask the disappointment of the Meloni government which has to take another European bitter pill on biofuels. In fact, on 28 March, the Energy Council of the European Union, in which the government representatives of the 27 member states were present, approved the regulation setting stricter CO2 emissions performance standards for new cars and vans.In application of Fif for 55 measurement package, with which the European Union intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels, the...