London (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - The OPEC oil cartel could lose 4.0 trillion dollars in revenue between now and 2030 if a UN conference in Copenhagen next month strikes a deal on global warming curbs, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Paris (AFP) Nov 10, 2009 - The economic crisis gives the world a chance for a low-carbon revolution to ensure energy supplies and fight global warming, but it will cost a huge chunk of worldwide output, the IEA warns.
London (UPI) Nov 10, 2009 - High-value investors including the pension funds are pushing oil as an instrument of high-yield investment, a factor that is keeping oil prices high amid low interest rates and low energy demand, a London think tank said Tuesday.
Otago, New Zealand (UPI) Nov 10, 2009 - New Zealand's environment court has rejected a plan to develop the country's biggest wind farm, on the grounds that it would ruin the surrounding landscape.
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 - Experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lighting Research Center (LRC) estimate that about half of the approximately 13 million streetlights in America have the opportunity to significantly reduce energy consumption by as much as 50 percent, translating to an annual savings of 1 billion kWh, and a reduction in power plant CO2 emissions of 546,000 tons per year.
Murray Hill NJ (SPX) Nov 10, 2009 - Waste Management and Linde North America have announced that their joint venture company has begun producing clean, renewable vehicle fuel at its facility located at the Altamont Landfill near Livermore, California. The facility is the world's largest landfill gas (LFG) to liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.
London (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 - British energy company Globeleq said Monday it was withdrawing from a giant wind farm project in northern Kenya after failing to reach agreement on buying a controlling stake.
Canberra, Australia (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 - Even where coal is king -- for domestic energy and as a lucrative export industry -- the case is being made for Australia to wean itself off coal, reports The Age.
Oroville, Calif. (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 - If the plans of innovators in the emerging high-altitude wind power sector come to fruition, huge floating helium devices and whirlybirds could be part of the aerial landscape.
New York (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 - Oil prices rebounded Monday on dollar weakness and concerns over Hurricane Ida's potential damage to petroleum installations in the Gulf of Mexico despite being downgraded to a tropical storm.
Washington (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 - The U.S. space agency says it has awarded $900,000 in prize money to a Seattle company for creating a wireless energy beaming technology.
Sopot (AFP) Nov 9, 2009 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero Monday signed an agreement for the purchase of carbon dioxide emission rights from Poland worth 25 million euros (37 million dollars).
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Nov 9, 2009 - Venezuela and Iran are considering a wide-ranging energy cooperation deal that will give Iran a sanctions-busting option to import up to 20,000 barrels a day of gasoline from this Latin American country.
St Andrews, Scotland (AFP) Nov 8, 2009 - The G20 talked big but delivered little on climate finance, campaigners said Sunday, as the clock ticks down to the UN's key Copenhagen summit in just one month's time.
Algiers (AFP) Nov 8, 2009 - Top oil-producing countries fear that the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen next month could levy new taxes on the oil and gas industries, Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil was quoted as saying on Sunday.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2009 - Japan is considering plans to build a port at a remote Pacific atoll in a bid to secure its territorial claim to the region, a newspaper reported Saturday.
