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Answers To Huge Wind-Farm Problems Are Blowin' In The Wind Champaign IL (SPX) Dec 30, 2008 
While harnessing more energy from the wind could help satisfy growing demands for electricity and reduce emissions of global-warming gases, turbulence from proposed wind farms could adversely affect the growth of crops in the surrounding countryside. Solutions to this, and other problems presented by wind farms - containing huge wind turbines, each standing taller than a 60-story building ... read moreDominion And Shell Complete NedPower Mount Storm Wind Project 
Mt. Storm WV (SPX) Dec 30, 2008Dominion and Shell WindEnergy have announced the completion of the NedPower Mount Storm wind energy project in which they each own a 50 percent interest. Sited along the high ridges of West Virginia, the project is now fully operational, generating up to 264 megawatts of electricity from a renewable energy source for the mid-Atlantic power grid. NedPower Mount Storm, whose construction beg ... more
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Gas OPEC Will Not Fiddle With Prices
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Speaking at the opening of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said: "The era of cheap gas is coming to an end." However, his forecast is not likely to come true in the near future. Now that the GECF has adopted a charter, it has become an official institution, but the charter does not provide ... more Gazprom Continues Talks With Ukraine Despite Harsh Rhetoric 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Gazprom is continuing to hold gas talks with Ukraine and hopes to reach an agreement by the yearend to avoid supplies cuts over Kiev's outstanding debts, a deputy CEO at the Russian gas giant said Monday. "Three days remain before the New Year, and of course no one would like the sad events of the past to be repeated. But if we are doing everything required on our side to avoid that, we unfortu ... more Imported Coal Power Would Undermine RGGI 
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 30, 2008The Northeast's cap-and-trade system for global warming pollution - the first of its kind in the nation - will be compromised unless utilities are prevented from importing additional coal-fired electricity, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which applies to power plants in 10 Northeastern states, ... more  |
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Oil companies bullish on shale oil
Denver (UPI) Dec 28, 2008 The recent drop in oil prices is not likely to derail the push to develop shale oil deposits in the western United States, an oil executive says. Despite sagging crude prices and growing concern about the amount of water used to extract oil from shale, energy companies are forging ahead to exploit reserves on federal lands that last month were opened to production. "As long as we ... more Tourism trouble on Thailand's tropical island of Phuket 
Phuket, Thailand (AFP) Dec 29, 2008As Thai women in tartan schoolgirl outfits writhe listlessly around poles on the bar top, Dawan Blades scribbles in a black ledger and shakes her head. The numbers simply don't add up. This year's tourist season on Thailand's biggest island of Phuket looks set to be the worst since Blades took over Sharky's Bar six years ago. Located at the entrance of a huge bar complex in Patong Beach, ... more Myanmar signs gas deal with SKorea, India, China: state media 
Yangon (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Military-run Myanmar has signed a deal with South Korean and Indian companies to pipe natural gas from the energy-rich nation's offshore fields to China, state media reported Monday. The Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise inked the deal last Wednesday with South Korean companies Daewoo and Korea Gas Corporation and Indian energy firms ONGC Videsh and GAIL to supply gas to the China National Unite ... more Japan to reimport nuclear fuel from France: source 
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 29, 2008Japan plans to start buying back reprocessed nuclear waste from France as early as April as the resource-poor country looks to start using the fuel for the first time, a French company source said Monday. Japan ships spent nuclear fuel to France but it would mark the first time since 2001 it has received back reprocessed fuel amid safety concerns by local residents. French nuclear giant ... more |
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