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Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil platform sends crew into sea New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2010 
An oil platform explosion Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to dive into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster.
Fire engulfed the offshore platform 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of the Louisiana coast shortly after 9:00 am (1400 GMT) and massive plumes of gray smoke billowed into the sky as rescuers rushed to fish out the worker ... read moreFinnish court rejects lawsuit to block Nord Stream pipeline 
Helsinki (AFP) Sept 2, 2010A regional administrative court in Finland on Thursday rejected suits by environmental groups trying to block Nord Stream's construction of a massive natural gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. "The court rejects demands to overturn the decision (to grant the permit) on the basis of ... shortcomings of its environmental impact study," court documents said. In a decision that co ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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BP removes cap from plugged well in Gulf of Mexico
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2010BP on Thursday removed a massive cap which had stemmed the flow of oil from its ruptured well deep in the Gulf of Mexico in a key step toward killing the well once and for all, officials said. "Under the direction of the federal science team and US government engineers, BP has completed the capping stack removal procedure," retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said in a statement. Alle ... more Fire out on Gulf of Mexico rig, no oil slick: Coast Guard 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Sept 2, 2010Crews managed to extinguish a massive blaze on a rig in the Gulf of Mexico Thursday and have not been able to locate an oil slick spotted earlier in the day, the Coast Guard said. "The fire is out, and Coast Guard helicopters on scene and vessels on scene have no reports of a visible sheen in the water," Captain Peter Troedsson, chief of staff for the Eighth Coast Guard District, told report ... more Geothermal power gaining attention 
Washington (UPI) Sep 1, 2010 The heat in the upper six miles of Earth's crust contains many times the energy found in all the world's oil and gas reserves combined, experts say. Despite the abundance, researchers say, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide, Inter Press Service reported. The oil, gas, and coal industries have been providing cheap fuel ... more Poland, Germany face off over LNG terminal 
Warsaw, Poland (UPI) Sep 1, 2010 Germany and Poland have faced off over a Polish liquefied natural gas terminal to be built on the Baltic Sea coast. Poland in July signed a deal with a consortium led by Italy's Saipem to build an LNG terminal at the port of Swinoujscie, next to the border with Germany. Construction was to start this month but Germany has called for a re-evaluation of the permits. Berlin asked Po ... more |
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Can CO2 Be Stored Safely Underground
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2010Coal-fired power stations release more carbon dioxide per kWh than any other fossil fuel facility, and Germany has a large number of just this sort of power station. It is estimated that around 40 billion tons of coal are stored in potential open cast deposits in Lusatia and the Lower Rhine Basin. That makes up 14 percent of world reserves. The question is, can the carbon dioxide emissions ... more GoSolarUSA Funds Development Of PREEcharge For iPAD And Kindle 
New Orleans LA (SPX) Aug 31, 2010GoSolarUSA has announced that management has inked another groundbreaking deal with PREE Corp to configure its proprietary PREEcharge technology for use with the iPAD and Kindle. On Monday, GSLO President Tyson Rohde met with the PREE team to discuss the patent application, development and future capital needs for the commercialization of PREEcharge technology. By Friday they had reached another ... more Activists scale Greenland rig to halt drilling: Greenpeace
Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 31, 2010Four Greenpeace activists climbed onto an Arctic oil rig Tuesday and halted drilling in a bid to pressure Britain's Cairn Energy to stop operations off Greenland's coast, the group said. "Campaigners have evaded a huge military security operation to scale a controversial oil rig in the freezing seas off Greenland," the environmental watchdog said in a statement. Greenpeace said its four ... more Bolivia's future powered by lithium 
La Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Aug 30, 2010 Bolivia's economic future appears set to be transformed by its vast lithium reserves - half of all proven deposits on Earth - after President Evo Morales clinched a deal with South Korea for mining and infrastructural development. Lithium is widely seen by industrial analysts as the metal of the future as the likely key component in electric cars, a full-scale substitute for gasoline- ... more |
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