Oil and gas firm with troubled record hosts safety conference The Advocate LAFAYETTE — An oil and gas producer with a poor safety record, including a deadly platform fire in 2012, gathered its vendors Wednesday for a conference on how to provide a safer environment in the Gulf of Mexico, where workers face a fatality rate ...
Toyota might not sell an EV in Europe, citing coal-fired electricity as a ... Digital Trends "We are looking with some concern at the German plan of having 1m electric vehicles on the road by 2020. If more and more of their electricity is going to come from coal, then this does not solve the problem. It just shifts the emissions to another ...
South Australian oil and gas major Santos faces court action in NSW over ... Adelaide Now South Australian oil and gas major Santos faces court action in NSW over Eastern Star's reporting breaches. From: The Advertiser; June 13, 2013 9:05AM. Increase Text Size · Decrease Text Size · Print · Email · Share · Add to Digg · Add to del.icio.us ...
Rubbish becomes a burning issue in global push for green energy The National "Waste is oxidized at a very high temperature, during a process that provides optimum conditions for clean conversion of rubbish into renewable energy." In the US, there are currently 86 waste-to-energy facilities operating in 24 states, processing ...
Farmers fail to feed nation after extreme weather hits wheat crop The Guardian The full impact of the hard winter is only now being seen, according to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Its latest analysis says the total income from farming decreased by £737m in 2012 to £4.7bn, with farmers facing both ...
AidData researchers join Stockholm summit on aid, changing environment William and Mary News Mike Tierney, co-director of the Institute for the Theory & Practice of International Relations (ITPIR) at William & Mary, joined co-author Chris Marcoux of DePauw University in presenting their paper, "Environmental and Climate Finance in a New World ...
San Francisco State University votes to divest investment in coal, tar sands San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco State University will stop investing its endowment in coal and tar sands companies, joining a growing list of universities that are avoiding investments in fossil fuels, the school said Tuesday. The university's ...
At home in her environment UMN News "As I was studying more and more biology I got more into the environmental work because I had this realization that the things I really loved were under threat," she says. She also studied Norwegian, which led to her spending a summer in Norway and ...
Oil and gas giants forced to publish payments under new rules EUobserver.com BRUSSELS - Oil and gas giants will be required to publish all payments they make to governments, under EU transparency rules backed on Wednesday by the European Parliament. The reforms, which are included in the EU's Accounting and Transparency ...
UK environment secretary Paterson: Climate change isn't real AMERICAblog (blog) Environment Minster Paterson: I have to take practical decisions. The climate's always been changing. Peter mentioned the Arctic. I think in the [unintelligible] you can see there were beaches there. [Audience begins to murmur] When Greenland was ...
The clearest lake in the world – in pictures The Guardian The visibility of distilled water is about 80 metres. Blue Lake, in New Zealand's South Island, clocks in at 76 metres. Here are the first-ever photos of this newly discovered natural wonder, taken by Klaus Thymann of Project Pressure and supported by ...
An interconnected environment and economy- Shark tourism in Palau Scientific American (blog) Sharks are a massive component of the tourism industry in Palau, which is fortunate because they are a renewable resource- it is expected that they will stay in Palau attracting divers as long as they are safe and their environment is taken care of. In ...
Carbon Trading and Coal: Making the Right Choice Greenpeace International (blog) It's time for the EU to make some decisions about its own future and the future of its citizens. There are two things at stake; the fiscal impetus of recovering a carbon emissions trading scheme which is perilously close to imploding, and the physical ...
GM crops: UK environment secretary to push for relaxation of EU rules The Guardian The UK environment secretary is to lobby the EU to relax strict restrictions on growing GM crops for human consumption for fears of being "left behind", it emerged on Wednesday. In a speech due to be given next week, Owen Paterson is expected to ...
Stop using birdsong apps, nature reserve tells visitors The Guardian To the long list of nature reserve do's and dont's can be added a thoroughly 21st-century injunction: don't use your apps to pap the feathered denizens. Worried by visitors using bird-call apps to entice seldom-seen species before their cameras, Dorset ...
Merkel vows to rein in renewable subsidies Reuters "I want a renewable energy law amendment in which feed-in tariffs are not given up, that is an incentive to push things forward, but it will be necessary for those who get support for renewable energy to participate more in grid expansion, energy ...
Welcome to Renewable Electricity Nirvana Energy Collective Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. He has published a book on diet and science, CSIRO Perfidy. Back in 2011, the federal Department of Climate Change and Energy...
Dubious defense on oil and gas case The Virginian-Pilot Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wants the public to believe his office intervened in a lawsuit on behalf of powerful interests solely to uphold a state law pertaining to oil and gas drilling. And, he said, he rejects "in the strongest possible terms ...
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