News About Energy Technology 02-JUL-08 en-us Oslo (AFP) July 1, 2008 - Norway, which already has some of the highest fuel prices in the world, on Tuesday introduced a new tax on petrol and diesel aimed at curbing climate change.]]> ]]> Washington DC (UPI) Jul 02, 2008 - Burdened by a host of energy woes, U.S. government agencies are passing out incentives for a number of renewable energy technologies.]]> Nairobi (AFP) July 1, 2008 - Kenya has given the green light to a project where sugar will be grown to generate power in coastal wetlands, despite objections by environmentalists, its government said Tuesday.]]> York PA (SPX) Jul 02, 2008 - Voith Siemens Hydro and American Municipal Power-Ohio (AMP-Ohio) have signed a contract for the complete supply of mechanical, electrical, automation and balance of plant equipment on a significant hydroelectric project that will add more than 208 MW of emission-free generation to existing dams on the Ohio River and has the potential to bring green manufacturing jobs to Ohio.]]> ]]> Washington (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 - Enter the Dragon in Middle East politics. No, this is not the title of a remake of an old Bruce Lee film; rather, this title refers to China's new policies in countering Western influence for a piece of the Middle East's most important commodity -- oil. ]]> Madrid (AFP) July 1, 2008 - Supply and demand concerns are driving the spike in oil prices as appetite for crude in developing nations is expected to soar over the coming years, the president of Chinese oil major CNOOC said Tuesday.]]> Manama (AFP) June 30, 2008 - The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied.]]> ]]> Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008 - Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible.]]> Erbil, Iraq (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 - The contracts have not been published, but Ashti Hawrami, Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government natural resources minister, insists everything needed to know about what's in the dozens of contracts signed between the KRG and international oil companies is in the public domain.]]> Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2008 - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday told his Ukrainian counterpart that Central Asian countries were urging Moscow to increase gas prices for Ukraine.]]> ]]> ]]> Washington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2008 - The South Korean state-run Korea National Oil Corp. secured the exploration rights for eight oil fields in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. Subsidiaries of the Canadian firm Talisman Energy signed oil deals with Iraq's Kurdish government to produce oil and gas in the northern Iraqi provinces. The oil deals brokered between South Korean and Canadian energy firms and the Kurdish government weigh on regional relations, officials say. Royal Dutch Shell is vying for access to the oil and gas sectors in Iraq as a means to expand its export options in the Middle East and Europe.]]> Argonne IL (SPX) Jun 30, 2008 - The future of high-intensity x-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised a new type of next generation light sources.]]> Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2008 - Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world's energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University.]]> Advertise in Energy Daily and reach thousands of commercial, government and engineering readers the world over.

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