Brussels (AFP) Oct 3, 2008 - Europe's plan of action to tackle climate change is being undermined by pressure from industry and may no longer achieve its original green goals, the environmental group WWF said Friday.
Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2008 - If there's one easy target for American consumers to revile, it's energy cartels, with OPEC having been the media's favorite whipping boy for years as the dark force perceived to be behind high oil prices. For Europeans, the focus is somewhat different, as Russia's state monopoly Gazprom increasingly consolidates its position as Europe's major supplier of natural gas, leaving Washington increasingly to mutter about the European Union's dependency upon Russia, which currently supplies about 25 percent of the European Union's natural gas imports.
Newcastle, UK (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - Wind farms pose less of a threat to farmland birds than previously feared, new research has found. The study, published this week in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, helps resolve a potentially major environmental conflict: how to meet renewable energy targets at the same time as reversing dramatic declines in biodiversity on European farmland.
Den Haag, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - There is considerable worldwide demand for new types of reactors for the rapid and well- controlled production of high value chemicals. Charl Stemmet has developed the porous foam reactor, which has an energy efficiency ten times higher than traditional reactors at comparable production rates.
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - Conditions within the power industry have changed significantly in recent years. The rising cost of natural gas has made this an expensive source of power, while concern about global warming and the introduction of limits on CO2 emissions will have a profound effect on the use of coal for power generation, at least in the developed world.
San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - Tesoro has announced that its operating subsidiary, Tesoro Refining and Marketing Co., has filed a lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to prevent the implementation of a new regulation, which would essentially mandate the addition of more crop-based ethanol to gasoline in the State of California.
Woods Hole, Mass. (UPI) Oct 2, 2008 - U.S. scientists are calling for sustainable practices in the nation's biofuels production that will reshape the Earth's landscape in a significant manner.
Oslo, Norway (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - Trac Networks, a division of Trac-ID Systems AS, and Wavefield Inseis ASA has announced the successful implementation of a Stabilized DVB-RCS system on M/V Malene Ostevold in Seismic worldwide operation.
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - ProLogis has announced that it will participate in a new, national study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to speed market adoption of current technologies and design solutions that yield significant, measurable energy savings for commercial buildings.
Ashland WI (SPX) Oct 02, 2008 - Xcel Energy has announced that it will submit an application to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW) to install pioneering technology at the Bay Front Power Plant in Ashland, Wis. to allow it to generate electricity from biomass in all three operating units.
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2008 - The final phase of the Department of Defense (DoD) Wearable Power Prize competition began yesterday when 20 teams powered up their systems at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif.
Baghdad, Iraq (UPI) Sep 29, 2008 - Iraqi oil and gas deals aren't just for Big Oil as smaller firms already active in the country are better placed, the head of Petrel Resources said in a statement in which he said the Irish firm has settled payment disputes over a field it is helping develop.
Berlin (UPI) Sep 29, 2008 - Cooperation in clean technology and competition over new energy supplies will likely dominate the European-U.S. energy relationship once a new U.S. president takes office in January.
Shanghai, China (SPX) Sep 29, 2008 - China Energy Recovery, Inc. (China Energy Recovery or CER), a leader in the waste-heat energy recovery sector of the alternative energy industry, today announced that the company has entered into a design service contract with Sinochem Fuling Chongqing Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Sinochem Fuling) for the detailed engineering design of a 30 MW Heat Recovery Power Generation System. The value of the design service contract is estimated to be RMB 960,000 (approximately $140,000 as of the date of this press release). The announcement was made by the Chairman and CEO of China Energy Recovery, Mr. Qinghuan Wu.
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 29, 2008 - The main beneficiaries of more than $700 billion of federal energy incentives over the past five decades have been the oil and natural gas industries, a new study reveals. The oil and natural gas industries together garnered 60 percent of federal incentives between 1950 and 2006, with 46 percent of the roughly $725 billion in federal support going to the oil sector, according to the report by the consulting firm Management Information Services Inc (MISI).
Portland ME (SPX) Sep 29, 2008 - USA Biomass, the nation's leading association of biopower companies, urges our national leaders to take a cue from the recent announcement by Georgia's Oglethorpe Power Corporation (OPC) that it will undertake the single largest biomass initiative in that state - and maybe the country - by building as many as three 100-megawatt (MW) biomass electric generating plants by 2015.
