Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2009 - US Vice President Joe Biden pushed green jobs Friday as a way to help the middle class weather hard economic times, saying better pay and social benefits will flow from producing environmentally friendly goods and services.
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 27, 2009 - China National Petroleum Corp has agreed to buy Canada's Verenex Energy Inc, including its Libyan oil assets, in a deal worth 499 million Canadian dollars (400 million US dollars), the Calgary-based company said.
New York NY (SPX) Feb 27, 2009 - Micromem Technologies has developed an oil sensor device to provide simple, easy-to-use monitoring of the basic properties of engine oil, and allow vehicle owners to change the oil at intervals that optimize engine performance.
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2009 - Grupo ZIV's Zamudio Technological Park (Vizcaya) branch has endorsed the CIAD (Smart Centre for Distribution Automation) Project presentation. This project, which is being carried out by seven corporations and three Basque Country Technological Centres, will yield the first-ever Smart Power Transformer Station.
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2009 - Nigerian leaders are promising to move ahead with planned efforts to reform the country's oil and gas sector despite the continuing violence plaguing the petroleum-rich Niger Delta.
Hong Kong (UPI) Feb 26, 2009 - The People's Republic of China recently dispatched two navy ships -- its most advanced No. 171 Chinese Aegis class DDG and No. 169 Chinese Sovremenni class DDG -- to the waters near Somalia to engage in anti-pirate operations. As a Chinese expression goes, Why use an ox-cleaver to kill a chicken? (Part 2: Recognizing China's new strategy of global projection of naval power to protect its vital imports)
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2009 - Japan's Honda Motor Co., seeking a boost in the race to build greener automobiles, said Thursday it would open a research centre to develop and produce bio-ethanol fuel from non-edible plant matter.
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2009 - President Barack Obama will propose raising new revenue through a greenhouse gas cap and emissions trading scheme when he unveils his first budget on Thursday, US media reported.
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2009 - Top Democratic lawmakers Thursday urged Congress architect Stephen Ayers to switch the Capitol's century-old power plant from burning coal to using natural gas, in keeping with an initiative launched in 2007.
Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - As the world lurches deeper into recession, the energy markets, especially oil, have been hit by falling prices. As the world retools for a more austere 21st century, one energy source that will continue to rise in prominence is natural gas. For the first time, Russia, currently the world's leading producer of natural gas, is now poised to enter the liquefied natural gas market, opening an LNG facility in Sakhalin. For Europeans worried about Russia's reliability as an exporter following its pricing dispute with Ukraine earlier this year, the good news is that its first project is directed at the Asian market.
La Paz, Bolivia (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - State meddling is holding back Bolivia's hydrocarbons industry, which showed early promise of growth but more recently has seen production fall, findings published Thursday indicated.
Beijing (AFP) Feb 25, 2009 - China said it would subsidise the sale of 100 million energy-efficient light bulbs this year to cut energy use and pollution, double the number subsidised in 2008.
Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - Research by TU Delft proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind forecasts.
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Feb 25, 2009 - Richard Hawkins, Canada Research Chair in Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, says there is no evidence that information technologies necessarily reduce our environmental footprint.
Jakarta (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - Indonesia's new environmental law could result in a 40 percent drop in the country's oil and gas production.
Buenos Aires (UPI) Feb 25, 2009 - Latin American unease over the ongoing Falklands oil row is rising amid public comments by prominent leaders that are helping to fan the sentiments against the United Kingdom for its support of oil prospecting in the Falklands waters.
