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Energy Daily Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Energy Daily Editorial Team produces Energy Daily's coverage of the global energy industry. We report on oil and gas, power grids and utilities, energy markets and policy, and the renewables and storage reshaping how the world is powered. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Energy Daily takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Legacy Reports

Green Campaigners Keep Watch On Dubai Man-Made Isles

Dubai (AFP) Jul 05, 2007 - Giant islands taking shape off the coast of Dubai are sparking interest not only from celebrities but also from environmental campaigners jittery about the man-made structures so large they can be seen from space. Work is all but complete on the Palm Jumeirah, the first of three palm tree-shaped islands, which developers Nakheel say is more than one and a half times the size of New York's Central Park and will eventually house thousands of luxury apartments, beachside villas, upmarket hotels and restaurants.

Jul 5, 2007
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Hot Economy Means China May Miss Energy Efficiency Targets

Beijing (AFP) Jul 05, 2007 - China may not achieve its much-trumpeted five-year goal on improving energy efficiency due to runaway economic growth, the nation's top planning officials said in comments published Thursday. The trend of overheated economic development has not been contained, the Beijing News quoted Ma Kai, China's top economic planner, as telling a government panel on energy efficiency on Wednesday.

Jul 5, 2007
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Lula Defends Brazil Biofuels Industry

Brussels (AFP) Jul 05, 2007 - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended biofuels Thursday aimd growing concerns about their drawbacks, saying they offer an opportunity to lift developing countries out of poverty. The Brazilian leader said that the success his country's booming biofuels industry has enjoyed could be reproduced in some of the poorest parts of the world, helping to alleviate poverty. I am convinced we can repeat these results in any poor and developing country in Africa, Central America and in the Carribean, Lula told an international conference on biofuels in Brussels.

Jul 5, 2007
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Malaysian Rainforests Not Cleared For Palm Oil In A Decade

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 05, 2007 - A minister on Thursday defended Malaysia's plantation industry and said tropical rainforests have not been cleared to plant palm oil in the last 10 years. Plantations Minister Peter Chin was refuting allegations that palm oil production destroys rainforests and wildlife habitats or that it increases greenhouse gas emissions and leads to a loss in biodiversity. I would like to reiterate here that Malaysia is not destroying rainforests for palm oil production, he said.

Jul 5, 2007
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Nearly Half Of Electricity From Renewable Resources By 2030 Says Berlin

Berlin (AFP) Jul 05, 2007 - Germany plans to boost the percentage of electricity generated by renewable resources to 45 percent by 2030 in a bid to curb global warming, environment minister Sigmar Gabriel said Thursday. Gabriel told reporters that a progress report on a renewable energy law (EEG) passed in 2000 showed that the country had already surpassed the quota of 12.5 percent set for 2010. He said Berlin was now setting a more ambitious target to produce at least 20 percent of electricity used in the country with renewable resources such as wind and solar power by 2020 and 45 percent by 2030.

Jul 5, 2007
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Cities To Boom In Africa And Asia

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2007 - The urban populations in Africa and Asia will at least double over the next 30 years to 1.7 billion, adding more people than the Chinese and U.S. populations combined. According to a recent U.N. study, urban populations are growing at more than 1.2 million people a week. In 2008, for the first time in history, city residents outnumber rural population, the report's principal author George Martine said at a press conference in Washington last Wednesday.

Jul 3, 2007
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India-Iran-Pakistan Talks On Gas Pipeline Still To Continue

New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2007 - India, Iran and Pakistan failed to reach a compromise on tariffs on natural gas deliveries and will continue talks on signing a tripartite gas pipeline agreement in July, the Indian press said citing government sources. Talks ended in New Delhi Friday on the $7.5 billion pipeline, which will have annual capacity of at least 21.1 billion cubic meters and is expected to come on stream in 2011.

Jun 30, 2007
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Gazprom Neft Says Pipeline Bypassing Bosporus Will Cost A Billion More

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007 - A planned oil pipeline to bypass Turkey's strait linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean would cost over $1.2 billion, a Russian contractor from Gazprom's oil-producing arm, Gazprom Neft, said Wednesday. Nikolai Seryogin told the Fifth Russian Petroleum and Gas Congress that the planned $900-million pipeline between the Bulgarian port of Burgas and Greece's Alexandroupolis would be more expensive that previously thought, because of projected inflation, and likely growth in metals and pipe prices.

Jun 29, 2007
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Russia Pipeline No Threat To Europe Caspian Project Says Gazprom

Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007 - Russia's South Stream pipeline project is not politically motivated and does not threaten Nabucco, Europe's $6-billion gas pipeline project linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, the Gazprom head said Friday. The Russian energy giant and the Italian gas company Eni SpA signed June 23 a memorandum to construct the South Stream gas pipeline, which will stretch for 900 kilometers (560 miles) along the seabed of the Black Sea from Russia to Bulgaria, reaching a maximum depth of over 2 kilometers (1.2 miles).

Jun 29, 2007
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Statoil And Shell Scrap Carbon Capture Plans To Pump More Oil

Oslo (AFP) June 29, 2007 - Norwegian oil group Statoil and Britain's Shell said Friday they were scrapping plans to use carbon dioxide (CO2) to increase oil production. An evaluation showed that though the value chain is technically feasible, it is not commercial viable, Statoil said in a statement. The project, announced in March 2006, involved the construction of a gas-fired power plant and a methanol production facility in Tjeldbergodden in central Norway, from which CO2 would be directly injected into the Draugen and Heidrun offshore fields to enhance oil and gas recovery.

Jun 29, 2007
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GE Unit’s First Investment In NY Wind Energy To Boost State’s Wind Power By Over 70 Percent

Essex CN (SPX) Jun 28, 2007 - GE Energy Financial Services will help boost wind energy capacity in New York State by more than 70 percent with an investment in three Noble Environmental Power windparks that will generate 282 megawatts in Clinton and Wyoming Counties. The GE unit's first investment in wind energy in New York State will increase the state's wind energy capacity to 671 megawatts. The projects, located in the towns of Clinton and Ellenburg in Clinton County, and Bliss in Wyoming County, New York, represent a $564 million investment in clean, renewable energy that will bring an estimated $352 million in new revenue to the regional economies over the next 20 years.

Jun 28, 2007
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PSE And G To Install More Energy Efficient Equipment

Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 28, 2007 - The Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE And G) announced plans to invest in more efficient electric delivery equipment, a move expected to reduce energy use and cut carbon emissions by some 60,000 tons by the year 2020. Energy efficiency is considered the most cost-effective carbon reduction method available, reducing greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for new generation.

Jun 28, 2007
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Southern Company And Georgia Tech Study Offshore Wind Power Potential

Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 28, 2007 - Southern Company said that a thorough two-year study conducted with the Georgia Institute of Technology has identified several conditions potentially favorable for wind power generation off the coast of Georgia, but that high costs and regulatory issues still need to be resolved. Launched in 2005, the joint study examined in detail a variety of factors -- including wind resources, technology, siting, environmental, weather conditions, permitting and economics -- associated with sites off Georgia's coast.

Jun 28, 2007