Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2008 - Plutonic Power joined with GE Energy Financial Services in submitting two bids for hydroelectric power projects costing more than $4 billion, which would be Canada's largest single private sector hydroelectric generation investment.
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 4, 2008 - Hey DJ! Play that funky music! might be one of the more unusual rallying cries for saving the planet.
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2008 - Ontario is turning to wind turbines to help create jobs and power a green energy future. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty helped open a 44-turbine wind farm near Port Alma, on the shores of Lake Erie on November 13. The Kruger Energy Port Alma Wind Power Project will produce enough clean electricity for 30,000 households.
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced it is now transporting commercial batches of denatured ethanol along with gasoline shipments in its 16-inch Central Florida Pipeline (CFPL) between Tampa and Orlando, Fla., making CFPL the first transmarket gasoline pipeline in the United States to do so.
London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - The 2008 Frost and Sullivan South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award is presented to Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels (RNRF). The company is building the biggest soybean processing facility in Africa, a particularly strategic choice of location since South Africa has the greatest demand for biofuels in Southern Africa.
Grapevine TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - Greenhunter Biofuels gas announced that startup of biodiesel production at the Company's biodiesel refinery in Houston has been initiated following repairs and recovery from Hurricane Ike. Located along the Shipping Channel in Houston, Texas, the Company's biodiesel refinery, one of the country's largest, sustained a direct hit from Hurricane Ike in mid-September of 2008.
Des Moines IO (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - The American Future Fund (AFF) has launched Race, a radio ad which urges Hoosiers to call the Indy Racing League (IRL) and tell them to continue using American ethanol in its race cars.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2008 - VIASPACE has announced the Company is cultivating a new fast-growing hybrid grass to be used for production of cellulosic ethanol, methanol, biocrude and green gasoline. VIASPACE is taking a leadership position in the development of feedstock for sustainable biofuels, targeting the growing $25 billion global biofuels market.
Poznan, Poland (AFP) Dec 3, 2008 - The world market in greenhouse gases was worth 38 billion euros (48.26 billion dollars) in the first half of 2008, an increase of 41 percent over the figure for the same period in 2007, the UN climate conference heard on Wednesday.
Ottawa (AFP) Dec 2, 2008 - Extraction and refining of heavy oil from Canada's oil sands threatens to kill as many as 166 million migratory birds over the next 30 to 50 years, according to a report released Tuesday.
Springfield IL (SPX) Dec 02, 2008 - The Illinois Senate has passed SB 1987, the Clean Coal Portfolio Standard legislation, which will enable development of coal gasification with carbon capture and storage projects in Illinois including the Taylorville Energy Center.
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 02, 2008 - Reports have begun to surface this week of canceled alternative energy projects including up to $1 Billion in wind power projects. With Wall Street in a panic, credit sources are canceling commitments to build out much needed wind infrastructure in America.
Ames IA (SPX) Dec 02, 2008 - James McCalley likens the task ahead to a major machinery rebuild. You're starting with working equipment full of expensive parts. So you don't want to throw everything away and start over. You want to put together just the right combination of existing parts and new pieces to make the most cost-effective, sustainable and resilient machine possible.
College Station, Texas (UPI) Dec 2, 2008 - U.S. researchers say they are utilizing materials known as piezoelectrics to move science closer to self-powering devices, such as cellular telephones.
Shanghai (AFP) Dec 1, 2008 - Shenzhen-listed Nanshan Power, a state-owned thermal power generator, may lose two million dollars in unauthorized oil derivative deals with a Goldman Sachs subsidiary, state media reported Monday.
