| June 26, 2009 |  |
Energy-Daily Advertising Kit |
 Quito, Ecuador (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 
A report submitted this week to a court in Ecuador finding dangerous levels of contamination at oil wells Chevron says it cleaned up in the 1990s is expected to reinforce a fraud indictment against two Chevron lawyers in a $27.3 billion environmental lawsuit against the oil company. Seven Ecuadorian officials were also included in the indictment last September for helping the Chevron ... read more 
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit this week to Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's biggest oil producer, to sign natural gas deals threw down the gauntlet to energy-hungry China, which has been aggressively sinking its commercial hooks in the mineral-rich continent for the last few years. Medvedev is the first Russian president ever to visit Africa, underlining the importance Russia ... more
|
|
|||||||||||||||
| Previous Issues | Jun 25 | Jun 24 | Jun 22 | Jun 21 | Jun 19 |
Abu Dhabi (AFP) June 25, 2009The oil-rich United Arab Emirates insisted on Thursday that it has every right to host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) even though critics say that per capita it has the largest carbon footprint in the world. "Many see that there is a contradiction between us being one of the largest oil exporters in the world and our seeking to house the agency," Reem ... more  
Yavne, Israel (SPX) Jun 26, 2009AORA has launched the world's first hybrid solar thermal gas turbine power station at Kibbutz Samar in southern Israel. This marks the first time that a CSP solar power station has the capability of providing environmentally-friendly, or "green" power 24 hours a day, seven days a week - at a local level. "The size and relative price of our solar power system means it can be implemented in ... more  
Beijing (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 China's discovery this week of a giant iron ore deposit with estimated reserves of 3 billion metric tons couldn't come at a more opportune time for the country, which is the world's largest importer of the product with an ever growing demand for it. Geologists found the deposit, claimed as Asia's largest, in Benxi city in the northwest province of Liaoning province, the state media said ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Representatives of Dow Corning and representatives of America's top solar energy companies visited Washington D.C. to call for new federal policies to encourage the growth of a domestic solar energy industry that will promote economic growth, create jobs, and help meet greenhouse gas emissions goals. "Solar energy is a clean, efficient and readily available technology that with the right ... more |
. |
       |
. |
 
 |
. |
Memphis TN (SPX) Jun 26, 2009The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Buckeye Technologies, and Myriant Technologies have announced plans for a research and demonstration plant that will explore ways to harness byproducts from some of the most promising cellulosic ethanol techniques to make environmentally friendly versions of petroleum products. The plant is to be located at Buckeye's ... more 
Burtonsville MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2009New Energy Technologies has announced that new tests of the Company's ultra-small solar cells for use in its transparent SolarWindow have demonstrated substantially superior performance over current thin-film and solar photovoltaic technologies at generating electricity from artificial light - an important advantage over conventional solar technologies which are limited by their capacity to ... more 
Lake Mary FL (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced that it has signed a Letter of Intent with Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE), an Autonomous Institution of the Government of Costa Rica. Under the terms of the letter of intent, ICE will evaluate NGBF's biofuels, leading ultimately to the potential licensing of NGBF technology and to the construction of its ... more 
Missoula MT (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Vega Promotional Systems has announced through its wholly owned subsidiary, Natural Fuels Industries, it is planning to construct a manufacturing facility in the State of Georgia to produce alternative energy from organic waste. According to a recent Forbes Magazine article entitled "America's Best Places For Alternative Energy," the abundance of biomass in Georgia's Bioenergy Corridor ... more |
. |
     |
. |
  
AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department |
. |
| Previous Issues | Jun 25 | Jun 24 | Jun 22 | Jun 21 | Jun 19 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2009 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
