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Sabotage causes Nigeria oil spills, production halt: ShellLagos (AFP) Aug 22, 2011 Sabotage has led to six oil spills from one Shell pipeline in Nigeria since the start of the month, the company said on Monday, while damage to another line has caused a temporary production halt. The six spills have occurred along the Okordia-Rumuekpe trunk line at Ikarama in Bayelsa State in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant said in a statement. A fire broke out at one of the spill sites on August 18, but it has since been put out, the company said. The spills ... read more |
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  Walker's World: The new economy The surprise is that rational people in business and the markets have been so surprised by the double-dip recession. A renewal of the financial crisis was a pretty logical development once the fiscal ammunition ran out. ... more | .. |
 Is oil pricing itself out of the market? University of Alberta researcher Andrew Leach likes the way Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal thinks. A new paper by Leach, an associate professor in the Alberta School of Business, and fellow Univers ... more | .. |
  National Solar Power announces world's largest solar farm finalists National Solar Power announced the names of seven communities in the southeast U.S. that are in serious contention to be the one chosen by the company as the site for the construction and operation ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 BrightSource Energy Launches SolarPLUS BrightSource Energy has launched a new solar thermal power plant solution for utilities. Called SolarPLUS, the offering combines BrightSource's high-efficiency LPT power tower solar thermal technolo ... more | .. |
 New Government Incentive Delivers Massive Upside to China Solar Market The Chinese government's new feed-in-tariff (FIT) incentive program is expected to give a major boost to the country's solar industry, potentially increasing installations by a combined 1.5 gigawatt ... more | .. |
 Expert: Greece in better pipeline position Greece's move to privatize its incumbent natural gas distributor could help it gain leverage in still-fluid southern energy corridor plans, a U.S. expert says. ... more | .. |
 Commentary: New world disorder From a record-breaking drought that has devastated much of the U.S. South and keeps getting worse, to the U.S. economy and what Time magazine's cover story calls "The Decline and Fall of Europe (and maybe the West)"; civil wars in Libya and Syria; renewed terrorism in Iraq and endless fighting in Afghanistan, the good news was hard to detect. ... more |
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  Ford, Toyota to join hands on hybrid trucks Ford and Toyota announced Monday plans to jointly develop a new hybrid system for light trucks and sport utility vehicles. ... more | .. |
 Eight still held after Vietnam protest: media Eight anti-China demonstrators who defied government orders to end an unprecedented series of rallies remain in custody for investigation, an official Vietnamese police newspaper reported on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Iraqis face new kind of power problem Iraqis are used to severe electricity shortages, but residents of the central holy city of Karbala have a new kind of power problem: an electricity tower in the middle of a street. ... more | .. |
  Biden hails US ties with resource-rich Mongolia Joe Biden on Monday hailed the United States' growing ties with Mongolia on a rare visit by an American leader to the Asian nation, which is opening up its vast coal reserves to foreign investors. ... more |
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  Nuclear talks, energy to top Kim, Medvedev summit North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Il meets Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Siberia this week for rare talks expected to focus on energy cooperation, Pyongyang's nuclear programme and hunger in the isolated Communist state. ... more | .. |
Dozens more arrested in US over pipeline protest Fresh arrests Sunday marked a second day of protests at the White House by environmental activists who said they were staging a two-week sit-in in a bid to halt a proposed oil pipeline. ... more | .. |
 Australian manufacturing 'crisis' as BlueScope axes jobs Australia's BlueScope Steel said Monday it will close a blast furnace, abandon its export business and axe 1,000 jobs as unions warned the manufacturing sector was facing its worst crisis in decades. ... more | .. |
GE uranium enrichment plans raise fears: report US conglomerate General Electric is seeking permission to build a $1 billion plant for uranium enrichment by laser, a process which has raised proliferation fears, The New York Times said Sunday. ... more |
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China Focus: Chinese scientist details first planned Mars sample-return mission Tianwen 3
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Hong Kong opens hearing on landmark labour case Hong Kong Monday began hearing a Philippine maid's legal bid for permanent residency, in a landmark case that has sparked debate over the army of domestic helpers sustaining the city's economy. ... more | .. |
 Biden tells China: US will never default on debt US Vice President Joe Biden said Sunday that the world's biggest economy would never default on its debts, during a visit aimed at boosting Chinese confidence in America's beleaguered finances. ... more | .. |
Japan nuclear no-go areas to last 'decades': media Some areas close to Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant will likely remain no-go zones for "several decades", a media report citing an unnamed government official said Monday. ... more | .. |
  BMW to power Leipzig factory by wind energy German auto giant BMW plans to build four wind turbines to power a factory with enough electricity to assemble hundreds of vehicles a day, auto newspaper Automobilwoche will report on Monday. ... more |
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 Lessons Learned from the Two Worst Oils Spills in U.S. History One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson i ... more | .. |
 Clean Energy Collective Receives Approval for Third Community-Owned Solar Garden Commissioners in Eagle County, Colorado have given their blessing to the Clean Energy Collective to build its third community-owned solar garden, 4,160 panels on 5 acres of land in El Jebel, CO. Whe ... more | .. |
  A Quick Way to Grade Grasses for Ethanol Yields U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have developed an inexpensive way to grade the ethanol potential of perennial grasses at the biorefinery's loading dock. That future has been made p ... more |
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 Langan Energy Solutions Completes Rooftop Solar Project Langan Energy Solutions (LES), a leading solar integrator and energy efficiency company based in Elmwood Park, N.J., recently completed a 80-kilowatt rooftop solar system for an office building mana ... more | .. |
 LADWP To Relaunch Solar Incentive Program Under a plan approved by the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) will relaunch its Solar Incentive Program (SIP) next month with double the ... more | .. |
 China to invest $6 bln in Guinea bauxite Chinese state-owned energy giant China Power Investment Corporation plans to invest six billion dollars to develop bauxite production in Guinea, a senior executive said here Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Gator in your tank: Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel Amid growing concern that using soybeans and other food crops to produce biodiesel fuel will raise the price of food, scientists have identified a new and unlikely raw material for the fuel: Alligat ... more |
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 Solis Partners Celebrates Commercial Solar Installation Solis Partners and P and R Fasteners recently celebrated the completion of a 254.8 KW rooftop solar installation at P and R's corporate headquarters in the Somerset section of Franklin Township, N.J ... more | .. |
 Dozens arrested in US as pipeline protest kicks off Dozens were arrested at the White House Saturday as protesters began a two-week sit-in expected to draw over 2,000 opponents of a proposed pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast. ... more | .. |
 Biden visits China economic boom town US Vice President Joe Biden witnessed China's economic awakening at first hand Saturday with a visit to the boom town of Chengdu, as an apparent crackdown on dissent accompanied his visit. ... more | .. |
  Gunmen threaten sister of killed Amazon activist: lawyer In an apparent bid of intimidation, gunmen fired at the home of the sister of an environmental activist who was killed in May amid violent land disputes in Brazil's Amazon region, a monitoring body's lawyer said Friday. ... more |
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