Brussels (AFP) Dec 9, 2008 - EU governments and the European Parliament agreed Tuesday on a bill obliging Europe to use renewable sources for 20 percent of its energy needs by 2020, negotiators told AFP.
Broomfield CO (SPX) Dec 09, 2008 - Fellows Energy is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement, subject to due diligence, to acquire two advanced geothermal projects in the Andes Region of Argentina from Geothermia Andina, SA, a private Argentine entity.
Nuuk, Greenland (AFP) Dec 9, 2008 - With a recent vote on self-rule fresh in hand, Greenland now controls the potentially lucrative natural resources under its icecap, boosting hopes of political and economic independence.
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 9, 2008 - Pilot drilling using new technology has revealed awesome potential for geothermal power in East Africa's Great Rift Valley, the UN talks on climate change heard here on Tuesday.
Seoul (AFP) Dec 9, 2008 - A worldwide shipping association has urged a court to reach a just decision when it rules Wednesday on whether a Hong Kong supertanker was partly to blame for South Korea's worst oil spill.
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 8, 2008 - It's been 50 years since Peter Redman drilled wells on Iraq's Zubair and Rumaila fields on behalf of British Petroleum, a major stakeholder of the Iraq Petroleum Co., which controlled Iraq's oil until it was kicked out in the 1970s in the nationalization campaign. Now he's back.
Brussels (AFP) Dec 8, 2008 - The European Union decided to phase out traditional household light bulbs by September 2012 in favour of new energy-saving models that use a fraction of the electricity.
Paris (AFP) Dec 8, 2008 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told UN delegates locked in climate talks Monday that the world economic crisis should not slow down the fight against global warming.
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2008 - Japan protested Monday after two Chinese survey ships entered what Tokyo considers its waters, reigniting a long-simmering territorial row between the two Asian giants.
Berlin (AFP) Dec 8, 2008 - Chancellor Angela Merkel, who campaigned to make world industrial powers cut greenhouse gas emissions, vowed Monday to fight any EU climate deal that jeopardised German jobs as recession tightens its grip.
Washington DC (UPI) Dec 05, 2008 - Following several weeks of testimony that included recollections of torture and killings, U.S. oil giant Chevron was cleared in a lawsuit brought forward by a group of Nigerians who accused the company of colluding with the Nigerian military in the late 1990s to break up a protest over Chevron practices in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Baghdad (UPI) Dec 5, 2008 - Iraq's oil minister called on the global oil industry to assist Iraq in an ambitious plan to increase the ability to produce, utilize and export oil and gas.
Miami (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 - Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States.
Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 - One of the foreign policy batons that the Bush administration is seeking to pass to the Obama government next month is its persistent warnings to the European Union about the perils of becoming overly dependent on Russian energy imports.
Burlington MA (SPX) Dec 04, 2008 - KEMA has released a report highlighting the benefits of energy storage technologies for system regulation in Independent System Operator (ISO) markets.
Seal Beach CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2008 - The City of Glendale, California has awarded a 10-year contract to Clean Energy Fuels to build, operate and maintain a new large-scale public access compressed natural gas (CNG) station to support the City's CNG vehicle fleets and serve surrounding communities.
