Are Environmentalists Rethinking Nuclear Power?
You can't find one major environmental organization, from activist groups like Greenpeace to mainstream conservation groups like the Nature Conservancy or the National Audubon Society, that has come...
View ArticleCounty Debates Geothermal Heating, Cooling Systems
The debate has raged since a Garfield Lake couple sought a variance for their system this spring after the Environmental Services Office received a complaint about a leak causing erosion on their lot....
View ArticleDaines Urges Approval Of Keystone Pipeline
Daines used his time to share his perspective on the political climate in Washington, and one topic he says is heating up again back east id the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline....
View ArticleThe World's 25 Biggest Oil Companies
Love em or hate em, oil and natural gas companies keep the world running, and will for many years to come. The following 2012 ranking of the world's biggest is based on the combined volumes of oil and...
View ArticleExtension Of Boulder County Fracking Moratorium Deemed A Win For Many
In convincing the three Boulder County commissioners to extend a moratorium on new applications for oil and gas development in unincorporated areas by another 18 months, activists obtained a result...
View ArticleNRG Vehicle Uses Solar Power To Provide Disaster Relief
A worker walks past a display of solar panels during a demonstration of a solar-diesel powered disaster relief vehicle and trailer from NRG Energy. The vehicle will deliver power, access to information...
View ArticleDoha To Host GCC Electrical, Electronic Engineers' Meeting
Supporting companies and organisations for the event include Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Foundation, ictQATAR and Qatar Electricity and Water Company....
View ArticleTenaska Drops Taylorville Coal-Plant Project
A Nebraska company dropped plans to build a $3.5 billion coal-based power plant in central Illinois, saying it instead will focus on developing natural gas-fueled and renewable facilities elsewhere.
View ArticleBP Shuns Advanced Biofuels Investment In Europe; Turns To US..
"At the moment we are not contemplating investing in second-generation cellulosic (ethanol) in Europe simply for the reason that there is not enough certainty on what the market conditions will be...
View ArticleCabinet To Consider Plan For No-Bid License For Offshore Natural Gas Storage...
The rights to the Mary B natural gas drilling site off the coast of Ashkelon, which was discovered in 1999 and will soon be depleted, will not be returned to the state, if an Energy and Water Resources...
View ArticleWhisky By-Product Powers National Grid
COMMERCIAL operations have officially started at a biomass plant in Speyside that is generating electricity for the national grid and producing liquid animal feed from the by-products of whisky...
View ArticleKuwait Sends $200m Worth Of Oil To Egypt
Kuwait has in the past coordinated policy with Saudi Arabia and the UAE by pledging financial aid for Gulf neighbours hit by social unrest such as Bahrain and Oman, but also Arab states further afield...
View ArticleAGR's Seabed Intervention Entering Into Strategic Alliance
The two ultra deep -water specialist recovery and excavation companies have decided to form a strategic alliance in a move that will deliver practical and cost effective solutions to its clients in the...
View ArticleTaiwan Solar Cell Makers Hope For Higher EU Anti-Dumping Tariffs On...
While the European Union (EU) and China are still in negotiations toward settlement of the dumping of China-produced PV modules, Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers hope that the EU...
View ArticleThe United Mine Workers And The Patriot Coal Bankruptcy
This impotent stunt--so alien to the long history of militant struggles by American coal miners --was aimed at promoting a sense of powerlessness and cowardly submissiveness before the coal companies...
View ArticleArgentina Offers Attractive Incentives For Oil & Gas
Argentina will offer energy companies incentives if they invest US$1 billion or more over a five-year period as the country struggles to lift output and pare fuel imports a year after seizing a...
View ArticleOil Pipeline In Archie, Mo., Sparks Worry Over Water
Enbridge Energy's "Flanagan South" pipeline would run roughly parallel to an aging, smaller line for 600 miles from central Illinois to a crude oil terminal in Oklahoma....
View ArticleContinental Coal Carves Out A Niche
In contrast, a few miles away, endless trains of hopper cars dump Wyoming coal to be burned in power generators. Less sulfurous, the product of the Powder River Basin also sells for about a third of...
View ArticleAmeren Leads The Way To Help Environment And Customers
We are testing fuel cell technology with Lewis and Clark Community College, and the company has been actively working on a small modular nuclear reactor technology partnership with Westinghouse....
View ArticleOil And Gas Development In Isles Awaits Legal Framework
FOREIGN companies should get prepared for oil and natural gas exploration in Zanzibar, a minister has said. "Soon the government will allow companies to search and extract oil and gas for the interest...
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