Are The Finger Lakes The Place To Store Natural Gas?
It's something few people think about, but all that natural gas-and other fossil fuels- being produced by hydrofracking has to be -stored- somewhere before it gets to the consumer. Often used for the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Group Pushes Port Of Vancouver On Safety Information
Historically, Washington state has gotten its crude oil by way of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline system, delivering Alberta crude, and from oil tankers and barges, mostly transporting crude...
View ArticleGabon Makes Rare Challenge To China Over Oil Practices
Gabon has taken the exceptional step of withdrawing the right of Addax Petroleum, a subsidiary of Chinese oil giant Sinopec, to exploit an oilfield, raising concerns over possible repercussions on the...
View ArticleVietnam Journalist Falls Ill In Algeria; Old Well Water Blamed
A Vietnamese journalist was seriously poisoned by water from an old well in the Sahara Desert while reporting on a Vietnamese oil company currently operating in Algeria, claimed his employer, Nang...
View ArticleYanzhou's Yancoal Plan Contrary To Australia Approval, RBC Says
China's Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Ltd. (1171) 's plan to de-list and buy the rest of its 78 percent-owned Yancoal Australia Ltd. (YAL) unit is contrary to conditions imposed by the Australian...
View ArticleFukushima Radioactive Groundwater Readings Rocket
Toxic radioactive substances in groundwater at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have rocketed over the past three days, its operator said, admitting it did not know where the leak was coming from.
View ArticleRPower Subsidiary Gets Carbon Credit Nod
The accreditation is for a 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in Rajasthan. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) allows companies to gain so-called carbon...
View ArticleRadiation Level Up 90-Fold In Groundwater At Japanese Nuclear Plant
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said today it had found levels of radioactive material in groundwater had risen sharply at a damaged Japanese nuclear power plant....
View ArticleTanzania Wants Energy Firms To Speed Up Gas Production
Tanzania wants energy firms to speed up production of natural gas that it hopes will help end poverty in east Africa's second-biggest economy. Discoveries in Tanzania's and Mozambique's waters have led...
View ArticleMaersk Drilling Gets $58 Mln Rig Contract
Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk has received a jack-up rig contract from Danish energy group Dong Energy worth about $58 million....
View ArticleSolar Power Cheaper Than Coal Foreseen By German Solar CEO
In a new interview with Deutsche Welle, the CEO of a Germany-based global solar developer made a good case for the potential for solar power to become cheaper than coal sooner rather than later. That...
View ArticleGreens Are Divided On Whether To Regulate Fracking Or Hold Out For A Ban.
During the fight in Illinois, we saw the state AFL- CIO and other labor groups join with industry to lobby for this legislation. Elsewhere, the building trades unions have helped lobby for fracking in...
View ArticleAwards Honor Social And Student Housing
San Jose-based FreeHotWater picked up an award for its 15th Street solar thermal and PV project in San Francisco. The dual technology project is located on student apartments in the city and is...
View ArticleOPEC Sees U.S. Shale Boom Eroding Demand For 2014 Crude
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries forecast the world will need less of its crude next year, even as global oil demand growth rebounds to its strongest pace since 2010, amid competing...
View ArticleStage-I Forest Clearance Held Up For Nalco's Utkal-E Coal Block
The Central mines ministry has urged the Odisha government to expedite resolution of issues pertaining to forest rights to ease the process of forest land diversion for Utkal-E coal block alloted to...
View ArticleWhat's The Sense In The Nigeria LNG-NIMASA Row? By Ifeanyi Izeze
By Ifeanyi Izeze Nigeria as a country is full of absurdities specially perpetrated by people in authourity and this is typified by the ongoing row between the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited...
View ArticleBig Oil Companies 'Double-Dipped' Minnesota Fund
Chevron, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips have agreed to repay $7.4 million to Minnesota after state investigators found the oil giants collected from a state tank-cleanup fund while also getting...
View ArticleResidents Challenge Pilgrim's Permit For New Nuclear Waste Site
The town of Plymouth already granted the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant a permit to start construction. But opponents say the plan needs a special permit that requires public hearings.
View ArticleCoastal Hydropower Proposes Quincy $300m Deal For Two Hydro Projects
Canadian power company Coastal Hydropower has proposed the Quincy City Council in Massachusetts, US, an investment deal of nearly $300m for the development of Locks 24 and 25 hydroelectric plants.
View ArticleNewmont Selling Stake In Canadian Company
Newmont Mining Corp., which ranks as the largest gold producer in the United States, is going to sell off a minority stake in a Canadian company that's after black gold, Bloomberg reports. The...
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