RWE Npower Puts The Brakes On World's Largest Biomass Plant
In a setback to renewable energy expansion in Europe, RWE npower has announced it will halt work on the development of its 750 MW biomass-fueled Tilbury Power Station.
View ArticleBLM Approves NM Natural Gas Pipeline
The Bureau of Land Management has issued its approval for a 234-mile natural gas. Enlarge. Thinkstock. The Bureau of Land Management has issued its approval for a 234-mile natural gas pipeline crossing...
View ArticlePiper Alpha Disaster To Be Remembered 25 Years On
The wreckage of the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea, off Aberdeen. Credit: PA The 25th anniversary of the world's worst offshore disaster, in which 167 men were killed, is being...
View ArticleTocardo And Clifford Chance Partner To Support Tidal Energy Projects Worldwide.
Tocardo and Clifford Chance Partner to Support Tidal Energy Projects Worldwide. Tocardo Tidal Turbines, producer of tidal and free-flow water turbines, and leading international law firm Clifford...
View ArticleWe Must Face The Problem Of Climate Change
The president proposed steps to limit heat-trapping pollution from coal -fired power plants and to boost renewable energy production on federal property. My energy plan will cut carbon ......
View ArticleSDGE Warns Of Expensive Electric Bills After San Onofre Closure
While the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station has created an untimely reduction in our region's energy resources, we have taken steps to ensure a reliable supply of energy for the...
View ArticleRio Tinto Resumes Coal Shipments
The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto has resumed the shipment of coal along the Sena railway line from its mine in Moatize in the western Mozambican province of Tete to the port of Beira after...
View ArticleBristol Community College Scraps Turbine Plan
Bristol Community College has scrapped a proposed campus wind turbine project due to changing "best practices" in turbine construction and is exploring alternative uses for a $600,000 state grant it...
View ArticleFarming Started In Several Places At Once
Iran's gasoline production capacity will reach 71 million liters per day in the near future, Head of the National Iranian Oil Refining And Distribution Company (NIORDC) Alireza Zeighami said....
View ArticleNIOC Finds $550 Billion Worth Of Oil, Gas Reserves In One Year
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced that it discovered 552.5 billion dollars of oil and gas reserves last year, while it spent only 229 million dollars for exploration operations....
View ArticleIsrael Capable Of Tapping Lebanese Gas Resources
Lebanon: Lebanese energy minister Gebran Bassil has said that Israel has the technical ability to draw from Lebanese underwater gas fields, and called for an urgent parliamentary session to define gas...
View ArticleCoal, Jobs And Climate Change The Debate
Coal, jobs and climate change the debate. While there is no serious dispute among scientists that climate change is human caused and happening, the timetable and specifics of its consequences are more...
View ArticleLebanon Says Israel Could Access Its Offshore Oil
Lebanon says Israel could access its offshore oil Recent Israeli discoveries of oil and gas deposits in the Mediterranean Sea have raised tensions between Lebanon and Israel, which technically are in a...
View ArticleIranian Oil Minister Visits Research Center In Moscow
Managing-Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Ahmad Qalebani announced that early production from Yaran, Yadavaran and Northern Azadegan oil fields will start before the end of the...
View ArticleMore Water Used For Lawns Than Oil, Gas Fracking
A lot has been written about hydraulic fracturing. Some has been true, but most has been either a distortion of the facts or outright misstatements made intentionally to make fracturing seem like a new...
View ArticleBhutan Banks On 'White Gold' Hydropower
Hydropower plants have already harnessed the country's water flows to light up nearly every Bhutanese home, generating electricity that is sent to remote villages by cables strung through rugged...
View ArticleXcel Optimistic While Others Worry About Push For More Emission Limits
The ground didn't suddenly start shaking under Xcel Energy's Comanche Generating Station following President Barack Obama's recent call for still more emission limits, including coal-fired power...
View ArticleUtility Expecting Greenhouse Gas Rules, But Not Ditching Coal Just Yet
Montana's dominant electric utility, NorthWestern Energy, is already assuming the White House push for action on climate change isn't going away, its president and CEO says.
View ArticleJapanese Wind Power Company To Bring Jobs To Billings
A Japanese company that developed an innovative vertical-axis wind turbine at City College at Montana State University Billings is moving forward with plans to bring manufacturing jobs to Billings....
View ArticleBakken Crude Continues To Slip Relative To WTI Cushing
A huge surge in oil production in North Dakota has caused differentials between Bakken crude and WTI Midland crude to fluctuate and blow out at several points over the past several years as takeaway...
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