Tokyo (AFP) Oct 15, 2009 - A Japanese shipmaker said Thursday it planned to launch the world's first large electric ferry -- the latest innovation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
London (AFP) Oct 15, 2009 - Nairobi and Beijing are mulling a huge project to develop a port on the Kenyan coast and a corridor creating a new export route for China's oil in Sudan's secessionist south, the Financial Times reported Thursday.
Lagos, Nigeria (UPI) Oct 15, 2009 - Nigerian insurgents vowed Thursday to renew their five-year war against Africa's largest oil industry when a unilateral cease-fire expires, even though some of their leaders have surrendered under a government amnesty in recent weeks.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - Researchers and companies are racing to turn algae into a viable source of renewable energy. Leaders in the field will present progress and challenges in bringing algae biofuels and chemicals to the marketplace at the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) 2009 Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy, to be held Nov. 8-11, 2009 in Honolulu.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - Foley Hoag has been retained by the government of Bangladesh in two just-filed arbitration actions against the neighboring states of Myanmar (Burma) and India over maritime borders in the resource-rich Bay of Bengal.
Kingston, Jamaica (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 - Caribbean clean energy development received a boost with new funding made available for innovative projects that are designed to ease the burden of fuel costs for the region's poor countries and help them switch over to sustainable sources for domestic and industrial use.
Baghdad (UPI) Oct 14, 2009 - Iraq's independence-minded Kurds are clashing once again with the Baghdad government over the increasingly tendentious question of sharing oil revenues.
Columbia MD (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - Renewable fuels provider New Generation Biofuels Holdings has announced that it has signed a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Ace Biofuels of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Under this LOI, Ace Biofuels would license product formulations, manufacturing technology and know-how from NGBF with the intent of constructing a biofuel manufacturing facility and marketing NGBF biofuel in Puerto Rico.
Pennington NJ (SPX) Oct 14, 2009 - Lockheed Martin and Ocean Power Technologies have signed a commercial engineering services agreement to develop OPT's wave energy systems for use in future utility-scale power generation projects.
Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2009 - Cutting greenhouse gases along the lines of a climate bill pending in Congress would modestly impact the US economy over the next few decades, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday in a report.
Georgetown SC (SPX) Oct 13, 2009 - The future of algae energy has come. Renewed World Energies unveiled an operational prototype of its photo-bioreactor at the Algae Biomass Summit in San Diego, CA on October 8, 2009. The energy company has achieved the technology breakthrough that will forever transform the dream of algae energy into a reality; making algae green the new black gold.
London (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - New technology to capture carbon emissions and store them safely must be part of climate change talks in December, ministers from a 23-country group said at a meeting here Tuesday.
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - Russian gas giant Gazprom on Tuesday signed a framework agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to provide natural gas to the energy-hungry Asian giant, officials and state media said.
Pleasant Prairie WI (SPX) Oct 13, 2009 - We Energies, Alstom and The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) jhas announced that a pilot project testing an advanced chilled ammonia process has demonstrated more than 90 percent capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue stream of at a coal-fueled power plant in Wisconsin.
Rolla MO (SPX) Oct 13, 2009 - Dr. Nam, Asst. Professor of Chemistry at Missouri University of Science and Technology is partnering with a coal plant in Chamois, Mo to produce algae in large pools near the plant's coal stacks. The algae feeds off the CO2 emissions from the coal plant and multiplies more quickly.
Sydney (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - A second attempt to plug a massive oil spill leaking from a rig off Australia's northwest failed Tuesday, but the operator said it hoped to try again within days.
