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Senate energy committee calls for rail safety review in oil and gas report - Ottawa Citizen
Aug 23rd 2013, 00:34


Ottawa Citizen

Senate energy committee calls for rail safety review in oil and gas report
Ottawa Citizen
Senate energy committee calls for rail safety review in oil and gas report. By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press August 22, 2013. Tweet. Story; Photos ( 2 ). Senate energy committee calls for rail safety review in oil and gas report. Senator Richard ...
Senate energy committee set to release findings of oil and gas report CTV News
Senate report calls for sweeping review of dangerous rail traffic Globe and Mail
Senate committee calls for rail safety review Toronto Star

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Gibraltar row: Spain 'misinformed' over artificial reef - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 23:43


Gibraltar row: Spain 'misinformed' over artificial reef
The Guardian
In a column in the Wall Street Journal GarcĂ­a-Margallo also wrote: "The dumping of concrete blocks constitutes a violation of the most basic rules of environmental conservation. These waters account for 25% of the activity of local fishermen … it is ...

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The River Dee dolphin and other adventurous marine life - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 23:43


The Guardian

The River Dee dolphin and other adventurous marine life
The Guardian
Guardian iPhone · iPad edition · Kindle · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · The Guardian home. News · US · World · Sports · Comment · Culture · Business · Money · Environment · Science · Travel · Tech · Media · Life & style · Data · Environment ...
Dolphin spotted swimming in River Dee in Flintshire The Independent
UK's inland dolphin returned to sea BigPond News

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Government reviews effect of windfarms on house prices - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 22:52


The Guardian

Government reviews effect of windfarms on house prices
The Guardian
An internal government review into the impact of renewable energy generation is examining whether windfarms hit rural house prices. Environment secretary Owen Paterson has brought in consultants Frontier Economics to establish the loss to house prices ...

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Coal ministry to merge cases of 40 companies to save time - Economic Times
Aug 22nd 2013, 21:44


Economic Times

Coal ministry to merge cases of 40 companies to save time
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The coal ministry will club legal cases of 40 companies related to cancellation of mining licences and penalties into a single case to save time. The ministry is busy responding to the Central Bureau of Investigation and Public Accounts ...

A Wyoming first: No bids for coal mining tract in Powder River Basin - Casper Star-Tribune Online
Aug 22nd 2013, 21:24


A Wyoming first: No bids for coal mining tract in Powder River Basin
Casper Star-Tribune Online
At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees in Cheyenne gathered to unseal envelopes containing bids and checks from coal companies hoping to score the rights to dig in the Powder River Basin. But there were no envelopes to ...

Environment Reigns Supreme in Julianna Barwick's 'Nepenthe' - New York Times
Aug 22nd 2013, 21:15


Environment Reigns Supreme in Julianna Barwick's 'Nepenthe'
New York Times
There is an elusive quality to the natural light in Iceland, where long, white days of hazy luminosity don't start and end so much as they seem to surreptitiously appear and, eventually, disappear. A similarly evanescent quality can be found in the ...

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Domestic drilling's down side: Fatalities up in oil and gas industry - Atlanta Business Chronicle
Aug 22nd 2013, 20:26


KING5.com

Domestic drilling's down side: Fatalities up in oil and gas industry
Atlanta Business Chronicle
It was a different story for the oil and gas industry, however. As domestic drilling boomed, so did workplace deaths. Fatal work injuries in oil and gas extraction industries jumped 23 percent in 2012 to 138, the highest number for that industry since ...
310 More Workers Returned Home to their Families in 2012 EHS Today
Workplace Fatalities Fell 7% in 2012, Report Shows Wall Street Journal

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Coal ministry traces 16 missing files - Times of India
Aug 22nd 2013, 20:04


Times of India

Coal ministry traces 16 missing files
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Under attack from the opposition for the missing Coalgate files, the Union coal ministry on Thursday managed to trace 16 of the files it had not been able to locate so far. The ministry also told the CBI that "records are being searched" for ...
Files being searched: Coal Ministry tells CBI Economic Times
Coal officer under Supreme Court scanner now hunting for 'missing files' NDTV
Coal ministry responds to CBI, says nothing Hindustan Times
Indian Express  - Zee News
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Environment committee votes for Plasco extension - CBC.ca
Aug 22nd 2013, 19:33


Environment committee votes for Plasco extension
CBC.ca
City Councillors on Ottawa's environment committee have extended Plasco's financial deadline for a second time in order to allow the company to secure financing for a proposed plant that would turn garbage into energy. The city had signed a deal with ...
Cancelling city's Plasco contract would be foolish, environment committee ... Ottawa Citizen

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Powder River Basin Coal Lease Auction Receives No Bids For First Time In ... - Huffington Post
Aug 22nd 2013, 19:24


ThinkProgress

Powder River Basin Coal Lease Auction Receives No Bids For First Time In ...
Huffington Post
(AP) — For the first time, nobody has bid on a federal coal tract offered for sale in Wyoming after the company that initially sought to mine the location determined that it couldn't do so profitably. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management held a coal ...
Carbon Catastrophe: Obama Administration To Sell 316 Million Tons Of Coal ThinkProgress
Coal shoulder: BLM sells controversial coal mining lease, but no one's buying Grist
Experts say federal government underpricing Montana coal The Missoulian
De Smog Blog (blog)
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Coal Interests Aim To Defeat Obama's Nominee To Key Energy Post - Huffington Post
Aug 22nd 2013, 19:24


Coal Interests Aim To Defeat Obama's Nominee To Key Energy Post
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- The coal industry is working to defeat a key energy nominee in a battle that has fractured the fossil fuel coalition and threatens to derail the president's climate action plan. Oil and gas interests have formed an unusual alliance with ...

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Millions face arsenic contamination risk in China, study finds - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 17:19


Millions face arsenic contamination risk in China, study finds
The Guardian
Guardian iPhone · iPad edition · Kindle · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · The Guardian home. News · US · World · Sports · Comment · Culture · Business · Money · Environment · Science · Travel · Tech · Media · Life & style · Data · Environment ...

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With An 'All-Out' Federal Renewable Energy Strategy, How Long Before We ... - Forbes
Aug 22nd 2013, 17:03


The Connecticut Mirror

With An 'All-Out' Federal Renewable Energy Strategy, How Long Before We ...
Forbes
That means that for whatever reason, the politics has shifted massively from where it currently stands. There are a lot of roadblocks to 100% renewable energy, but relatively few toward mostly renewable energy — assuming you've solved the politics ...
Why the US Power Grid's Days Are Numbered Businessweek
What's New on Energy Collective
How One Organization Is Making Solar Energy Available To Those Who Can't ... ThinkProgress
IEEE Spectrum  - PakistanToday.com.pk  - Business Spectator
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Suing oil and gas interests to save the coast: author John Barry weighs in - The lens
Aug 22nd 2013, 16:47


Suing oil and gas interests to save the coast: author John Barry weighs in
The lens
The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East has filed a controversial lawsuit seeking to extract a settlement from oil, gas and pipeline interests in compensation for the industry's long-term damage to Louisiana's fragile and rapidly ...

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A scandal at the regulator does a crucial sector no favours - The Economist
Aug 22nd 2013, 16:42


A scandal at the regulator does a crucial sector no favours
The Economist
Rudi Rubiandini, chairman until last week of the country's oil-and-gas regulator, must be hoping for some seasonal clemency. On August 13th the anti-corruption commission, the KPK, arrested Mr Rubiandini after catching him pocketing $400,000 from a ...

US Lags Behind UK on Mining, Oil and Gas Transparency - Triple Pundit
Aug 22nd 2013, 15:15


Triple Pundit

US Lags Behind UK on Mining, Oil and Gas Transparency
Triple Pundit
On June 17, British Prime Minister David Cameron made headlines around the world when he announced he would push for tougher monitoring procedures for mining, oil and gas projects in the UK – what is often referred to jointly as extractive industries.

New regulations create fresh row over biomass power - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 15:07


The Guardian

New regulations create fresh row over biomass power
The Guardian
Tensions between green groups and the biomass industry have been running high for months, as environmental groups have published studies and claims that some forms of biomass, such as imported wood, do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions because ...

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JSW Steel to hike prices by 5% on high coal bill; others may follow - Economic Times
Aug 22nd 2013, 14:47


Economic Times

JSW Steel to hike prices by 5% on high coal bill; others may follow
Economic Times
Our cost of production has been going up due to higher cost of raw materials, especially coal, and the rupee depreciation has made it difficult to absorb the hike," Jayant Acharya, director-marketing, JSW Steel said. An Essar Steel official too ...
JSW Steel to hike price by 4-6% as coal gets costlier Moneycontrol.com

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What Coal Mining Looks Like These Days - The Atlantic
Aug 22nd 2013, 14:37


What Coal Mining Looks Like These Days
The Atlantic
And yet, burning coal is still the cheapest way to produce electricity, if you don't factor in environmental externalities. For that reason, coal is tough to beat, especially in the developing world, where the costs of not having any kind of ...

Bringing back the night: the fight against light pollution - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 14:23


Bringing back the night: the fight against light pollution
The Guardian
But no less a motivation, says France's Environment Ministry, is to "reduce the print of artificial lighting on the nocturnal environment" — a powerful acknowledgement that excessive use of lighting in many parts of the world is endangering our health ...

Highland hearing pits green energy against public health concerns - Pierce County Herald
Aug 22nd 2013, 14:20


Highland hearing pits green energy against public health concerns
Pierce County Herald
Proponents continue to claim that health concerns are unfounded, and generating more green energy is a good idea to help the nation wean itself from dependence on foreign energy sources. In the uproar that followed the town's approval of the project ...

Green Energy is Part of the Past, not Fuel for the Future - Canada Free Press
Aug 22nd 2013, 13:38


Green Energy is Part of the Past, not Fuel for the Future
Canada Free Press
I grew up at the end of the last green energy era – solar energy powered our growing crops and dried the washing, but it was weak in winter and ceased under clouds and at night; wind energy pumped water, but only when the wind blew; draft horses ...

Exxaro Says Coal Prices Curb Earnings as Profit Drops 39% - Bloomberg
Aug 22nd 2013, 13:34


Exxaro Says Coal Prices Curb Earnings as Profit Drops 39%
Bloomberg
"Trading conditions for the coal business continued to be challenging," the company said. "The financial and operational results for the remainder of 2013 are expected to be impacted by continued low coal prices and rand-dollar exchange-rate volatility.".
Exxaro delays coal delivery to Medupi BDlive
Exxaro says low coal prices curb earnings as profit drops 39% Mining Review
Exxaro says low coal prices to affect profit Mining MX
Moneyweb.co.za
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More efficient and economical capture of power plant carbon dioxide emissions
Aug 22nd 2013, 13:00

Scientists have developed a new technology that captures the carbon dioxide emissions of power plants more economically and ecologically. The new technology is based on a combination of traditional circulating fluidized bed combustion and oxyfuel combustion, enabling more extensive use of cheaper fuels and even biomass.

Czech utility decries Romanian rough play on green energy subsidies - EurActiv
Aug 22nd 2013, 12:58


Czech utility decries Romanian rough play on green energy subsidies
EurActiv
The Czech power utility ÄŚEZ has complained to the European Commission about delays by Romania in paying green energy subsidies, saying they may cost it up to €66 million a year. Foreign-owned firms have ploughed billions of euros into wind, solar, ...

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Pesticides, food price rises, and national honey bee day - The Guardian
Aug 22nd 2013, 12:40


The Guardian

Pesticides, food price rises, and national honey bee day
The Guardian
Stories about the declining bee population and its effects on the environment trickle through the news cycle nearly every day. To keep track of the latest bee news and make sense of the issues, we're highlighting the major bee stories each week, with ...
EPA Prepares to Update 'Outdated' Emissions Exemption for Power Plants Nature World News

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Oklahoma oil and gas prices: August 22, 2013 - NewsOK.com
Aug 22nd 2013, 12:30


Oklahoma oil and gas prices: August 22, 2013
NewsOK.com
Alfalfa: Chesapeake Operating, Inc.; State 16-28-10 No. 1H Well; N1/2 N1/2 NW1/4 NW1/4 (SL) of 16-28N-10W; 363 barrels oil per day, 913,000 cu-ft gas per day; TD 9,831. Canadian: Marathon Oil Co.; Longhorn No. 6-21H Well; SW1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 ...

New Mexico Highlands University offers oil and gas management degree program - Farmington Daily Times
Aug 22nd 2013, 12:28


New Mexico Highlands University offers oil and gas management degree program
Farmington Daily Times
This fall semester, the university, in partnership with San Juan College, started offering bachelor's and master's degrees in business administration with a concentration in oil and gas management. Students who have graduated from San Juan College with ...

EIB, Central America back green energy - UPI.com
Aug 22nd 2013, 12:13


EIB, Central America back green energy
UPI.com
EIB said it would work through a joint program with the Central American Bank for Economic Integration to support hydropower, wind, geothermal and photovoltaic renewable energy schemes across Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Costa Rica ...

Our Voice: Use tax code reform to grow green energy - The Desert Sun
Aug 22nd 2013, 10:14


Our Voice: Use tax code reform to grow green energy
The Desert Sun
The Desert Sun supports the congressional effort to boost renewable energy through tax reform. Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Palm Desert Democrat, joined New Jersey Republican Jon Runyan and Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer in a letter urging action by the ...

Renewable Energy Overpowers ALEC - BillMoyers.com
Aug 22nd 2013, 09:08


Renewable Energy Overpowers ALEC
BillMoyers.com
But perhaps the most urgent discussion point was the one surrounding what are known as renewable portfolio standards (RPS) — laws that promote cleaner energy sources to better protect our fragile environment. For the past year, ALEC and its members ...

San Francisco government infrastructure operating on 100% renewable energy - San Francisco Examiner
Aug 22nd 2013, 07:22


San Francisco government infrastructure operating on 100% renewable energy
San Francisco Examiner
Should these sources not meet demand, clean energy is purchased from other sources. While the agency was heading toward cleaner-energy usage, in 2011 a state law required any gaps in hydroelectricity to be filled by state-certified renewable energy.

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Fearless Coal Slurry Protests Launched: Activists Paddle Boat Across Deadly ... - Huffington Post
Aug 21st 2013, 17:17


Huffington Post

Fearless Coal Slurry Protests Launched: Activists Paddle Boat Across Deadly ...
Huffington Post
In one of the most daring protests this summer, two activists paddled a boat this morning onto the massive Shumate coal slurry impoundment in Raleigh County, in an attempt to draw attention to state inaction on the controversial and deadly 2.8 billion ...
Coal-slurry protesters highlight concerns Charleston Gazette
Protesters address coal slurry West Virginia MetroNews
Activist 'locked to dirty water' to protest coal slurry impoundments Bluefield Daily Telegraph

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North Sea faces record fall in oil and gas production - Telegraph.co.uk
Aug 21st 2013, 05:05


Telegraph.co.uk

North Sea faces record fall in oil and gas production
Telegraph.co.uk
Oil & Gas UK said it now expected average output to fall to between 1.2m and 1.4m barrels of oil and gas per day (boepd) this year, down from 1.54m boepd in 2012. Malcolm Webb, Oil & Gas UK chief executive, warned of a "worrying decline" in the amount ...
UK oil and gas output fall set to run into next year Financial Times
Sharp decline of oil and gas from off-shore UK is 'worrying' says annual report MercoPress
Fears over oil and gas production in UK waters Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Blue & Green Tomorrow  - Business Green (blog)  - stv.tv
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Fracking frenzy slows as oil and gas assets plummet in price - Grist
Aug 21st 2013, 04:31


Fracking frenzy slows as oil and gas assets plummet in price
Grist
You know that domestic oil-and-gas boom that's been sweeping the country for the past few years, turning places like Williston, N.D., into Sin City? Well, the party's winding down — or maybe it was never that ragin' in the first place. Oil and gas ...

Using Hydraulic Fracturing and Horizontal Drilling for Natural Gas Production
Sep 17th 2012, 19:10, by Chevron

Geologists have long known about huge natural gas deposits trapped in shale rock formations, but it is only over the past decade that energy companies have c...
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