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Dallas Judge Reverses Jury Verdict, Awards TXU Nothing In Dispute Over Wind Energy Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 18, 2008 
In a court battle closely watched by the growing wind energy industry, a Dallas judge has reversed an earlier jury verdict and ruled that Dallas-based TXU Corp. is not entitled to any damages in a contract dispute with major wind farm operator FPL Energy. The dispute centered on claims that Florida-based FPL Energy had not supplied levels of wind energy from three West Texas wind farms as agreed ... read more
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Babcock And Brown Acquires Seven US Wind Farms Under Development
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008International investment and specialized fund and asset management group Babcock and Brown, a leading wind energy developer and operator, announced it has acquired seven Midwestern wind energy projects, under various stages of development, from Gamesa Energy USA and Navitas Energy, a subsidiary of Gamesa. The seven wind energy projects, totaling more than 750 megawatts (MW), enough to powe ... more GE Unit Boosts 2010 Renewable Energy Investing Target, Announces Its Largest Wind Deal 
Stamford CT (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Reinforcing GE's ecomagination program, GE Energy Financial Services announced that it has raised its 2010 renewable energy investing target by 50 percent to $6 billion, and has just topped $3 billion. GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, crossed the $3 billion mark with its single highest-value wind deal, a $300 million investment in wind projects spanning four states. GE Energy Fi ... more Unconventional Natural Gas Reservoir In Pennsylvania Poised To Dramatically Increase US Production 
Union Town PA (SPX) Jan 18, 2008Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal drilling techniques, according to a Penn State and State University of New York, Fredonia, team. "The value of this science could increment the net worth of U.S. energy resources by a tri ... more Norway aims to be carbon neutral by 2030 
Oslo (AFP) Jan 17, 2008Norway's government said Thursday the country would dramatically slash its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and aim to be completely carbon neutral by 2030 -- 20 years ahead of schedule. "The climate agreement gives Norway a long-term climate policy that will stand regardless of changing governments," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement issued after his centre-left government ... more Biomass Production - Careful Planning Can Bring Many Benefits 
Gotenborg, Sweden (SPX) Jan 18, 2008One way of supplying energy is to grow plant material and burn it. If managed well most of the carbon released by burning the material will be captured by the growing plants, and so have a low impact on overall levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Better still, the growing plants could be used to help solve other environmental problems. In a review of current systems, Goran Berndes from t ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 16, 2008US President George W. Bush has called major world economies to a second round of climate change talks on January 30-31 in Hawaii, the White House's Council on Environmental Quality announced. "The two day meeting will further the shared objectives of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing energy security and efficiency, and sustaining economic growth, and will help to advance the neg ... more Tainted tap water forces 1,000 Chinese to seek treatment: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2008More than 1,000 residents have fallen ill with symptoms of poisoning in a northeastern Chinese city after drinking tainted tap water, state media reported Wednesday. More than 2,636 households in the Gaode Garden community in Fuxin city were affected in the incident on January 9 and 1,139 residents have been given medical treatment, with 59 hospitalised, the Beijing News said. Symptoms i ... more Slovakia halts EU legal challenge over CO2 emissions 
Bratislava (AFP) Jan 16, 2008Slovakia's government decided Wednesday to halt its legal challenge to a European Commission order to cut its carbon dioxide emissions after a compromise was reached, an official said. The commission has agreed to increase Slovakia's carbon dioxide emissions quota from 30.9 to 32.6 million tonnes, according to the ministry of environment in Bratislava. "We considered the 1.7 million (ton ... more Walker's World: Coupling and decoupling 
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2008Five months ago, when the subprime crisis began to bite, the Asian Development Bank was among the expert institutions that suggested that the U.S. financial troubles would not affect China. The fashionable word of the day was "decoupling." This was the assumption that China and India and the booming Asian economies were becoming a freestanding economy no longer dependent on the United S ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Jan 17, 2008Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth's second warmest year in a century. Goddard Institute researchers used temperature data from weather stations on land, satellite measurements of sea ice temperature since 1982 and data from ships for earlier years. The greatest warming in 2007 occurred in the ... more High spirits drive speedy recovery after Indonesian quake 
Bantul, Indonesia (AFP) Jan 16, 2008With every step he takes, Sukasdi feels a shard of pain shoot down his back, reminding him of the day two years ago that a powerful earthquake destroyed his home and broke his spine. "I had to stay more than a month in hospital. I didn't know what had happened to my family and home, so I insisted on going home," says the wiry survivor who still moves slowly but speaks with a lively sparkle i ... more Germans, Japanese automakers push diesel in the US 
Detroit, Michigan (AFP) Jan 16, 2008Two decades after Americans abandoned diesels as smelly, loud and unreliable, German and Japanese automakers are placing bets that they can entice a new generation of drivers with clean diesel technology. Japan's Honda Motor recently announced plans to introduce clean diesel under its luxury Accord brand next year, while Toyota Motor said Sunday it would bring diesel versions of its Tundra t ... more Analysis: Iraq oil flow actually lower 
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2008New reports on Iraq oil production find it flat, possibly decreasing, dampening expectations the sector was steadily advancing in the final months of 2007. The needs of Iraq's oil sector to continue and expand are not new. But the inability to exact levels of oil flow -- particularly the exports that bring in the tens of billions of dollars a year that support the federal budget -- hig ... more
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