Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 31, 2010 - Four Greenpeace activists climbed onto an Arctic oil rig Tuesday and halted drilling in a bid to pressure Britain's Cairn Energy to stop operations off Greenland's coast, the group said.
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 - Coal-fired power stations release more carbon dioxide per kWh than any other fossil fuel facility, and Germany has a large number of just this sort of power station.
Brussels (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 - The European Commission has reacted coolly to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's request for $6.3 billion a year to stop illegal African immigrants from entering the European Union.
New Orleans LA (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 - GoSolarUSA has announced that management has inked another groundbreaking deal with PREE Corp to configure its proprietary PREEcharge technology for use with the iPAD and Kindle. On Monday, GSLO President Tyson Rohde met with the PREE team to discuss the patent application, development and future capital needs for the commercialization of PREEcharge technology. By Friday they had reached another deal.
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 31, 2010 - Intertek has announced that it has made significant investments in new battery/energy storage test equipment throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.
Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2010 - Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych traveled to Berlin to offer Germany a key role in the modernization of the aging Ukrainian natural gas transit infrastructure but Kiev will have a hard time convincing the West to invest, an expert said.
Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2010 - A bid to recover a key valve that failed to prevent the blowout of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico has been delayed because of bad weather, the pointman for the US response to the oil spill said Monday.
La Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Aug 30, 2010 - Bolivia's economic future appears set to be transformed by its vast lithium reserves -- half of all proven deposits on Earth -- after President Evo Morales clinched a deal with South Korea for mining and infrastructural development.
Abuja, Nigeria (UPI) Aug 30, 2010 - Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has announced plans to tackle the country's notoriously inefficient and corrupt power sector.
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 - Iraq on Sunday slammed as illegal an agreement between its autonomous Kurdistan region and the German energy firm RWE that is expected to help supply the planned Nabucco gas pipeline to Europe.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 - China will hold live-fire naval exercises in the Yellow Sea this week, state media reported Sunday, after voicing opposition to similar war games to be staged there by the United States and South Korea.
Moscow (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday opened the Russian section of a long-awaited oil pipeline that will carry Russian crude to China in a bid to diversify its oil exports away from Europe.
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 27, 2010 - Imagine devices that capture electricity from the air ? much like solar cells capture sunlight ? and using them to light a house or recharge an electric car. Imagine using similar panels on the rooftops of buildings to prevent lightning before it forms.
Beijing (AFP) Aug 27, 2010 - China will build a multi-million-dollar research base on its east coast as it steps up its efforts to search for energy sources and rare earths on the ocean floor, state media said Friday.
Moscow (UPI) Aug 27, 2010 - Russia said it would drastically reduce the gas price for Ukraine if Gazprom is allowed to merge with Ukraine's state-owned utility Naftogaz.
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2010 - As Sacramento, Calif., prepares to host the 2010 Geothermal Energy Expo, the geothermal energy industry's largest annual event, the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) recognizes the 50th anniversary of utility-scale geothermal power in the United States.
