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Molopo Energy reports encouraging initial oil and gas production at Fiesta - Proactive Investors Australia
Jan 3rd 2013, 00:11


Proactive Investors Australia

Molopo Energy reports encouraging initial oil and gas production at Fiesta
Proactive Investors Australia
Molopo Energy (ASX:MPO) has achieved an initial 30 day production rate of 238 barrels of oil equivalent per day at its first Bench B well drilled in the Fiesta project in Texas. The Baggett 54-1H well produced 59 barrels of oil and 79 barrels of ...

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Proposed changes to oil and gas regulations don't address Routt County's main ... - Steamboat Pilot & Today
Jan 3rd 2013, 00:02


Proposed changes to oil and gas regulations don't address Routt County's main ...
Steamboat Pilot & Today
Steamboat Springs — The state commission charged with overseeing the regulation of oil and gas wells in Colorado is unlikely to heed Routt County's stance on safeguarding groundwater and domestic water wells next week when it meets in Denver to ...

California releases draft hydraulic fracturing regulations - Lexology (registration)
Jan 2nd 2013, 23:57


California releases draft hydraulic fracturing regulations
Lexology (registration)
On December 18, 2012, California's Department of Conservation (Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources) issued a "discussion draft" of regulations that would govern hydraulic fracturing practices in the state. Although DOC's formal rulemaking ...

Environment Canada survey asked Canadians about carbon tax, oil exports - Toronto Star
Jan 2nd 2013, 23:44


Environment Canada survey asked Canadians about carbon tax, oil exports
Toronto Star
OTTAWA—Months before the Conservatives began their sustained campaign attacking the New Democrats over their proposed cap-and-trade policy, Environment Canada wanted to know how Canadians felt about a federal carbon tax. Many did not like the ...

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EPA loophole in green energy policy allows exporters to siphon millions - Examiner.com
Jan 2nd 2013, 23:37


Examiner.com

EPA loophole in green energy policy allows exporters to siphon millions
Examiner.com
President Obama has been a staunch advocate of green energy, and changing the way America does business using alternative fuels. However, most of his loan policies to green energy companies, as well as changes in EPA regulations for coal and other ...
Was it Fraud? Biofuels Company "Earns" Millions from EPA Loophole The Green Optimistic (blog)

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SS Badger coal ash permit could be in limbo through early 2013 - Mlive Kalamazoo
Jan 2nd 2013, 22:57


Mlive Kalamazoo

SS Badger coal ash permit could be in limbo through early 2013
Mlive Kalamazoo
Lake Michigan Carferry has applied for a new permit to continue discharging its coal ash into Lake Michigan for another five years while it explores alternatives to coal and now awaits a decision from federal environmental regulators in the EPA ...

Work progressing on Iron and Coal building - Times-Journal
Jan 2nd 2013, 22:30


Work progressing on Iron and Coal building
Times-Journal
Work progressing on Iron and Coal building Huck Treadwell Times-Journal | 0 comments. Fort Payne Mayor Larry Chesser said restoration of the Iron and Coal building will be an ongoing process. The city has been gradually restoring the building for more ...

Students initiate new grant program for renewable energy research - Appalachian State University
Jan 2nd 2013, 21:35


Appalachian State University

Students initiate new grant program for renewable energy research
Appalachian State University
BOONE—Students at Appalachian State University believe so strongly in reducing their environmental impact while on campus that they charge themselves a fee to support renewable energy projects. Now, they have begun using some of that revenue to ...

London Data Exchange Delivers 100 Percent Renewable Energy to LDeX1 Data ... - Web Host Industry Review
Jan 2nd 2013, 21:28


London Data Exchange Delivers 100 Percent Renewable Energy to LDeX1 Data ...
Web Host Industry Review
Data center services provider London Data Exchange announced on Wednesday that it has formed a deal with a new energy supplier to deliver 100 percent renewable energy to its northwest London data center LDeX1. Opened last spring, the 22,000 square ...

Chinese Coal Miner Up Big As 'Cliff' Averted - Seeking Alpha
Jan 2nd 2013, 21:16


Chinese Coal Miner Up Big As 'Cliff' Averted
Seeking Alpha
Stock markets around the globe are up significantly in the wake of the deal to avoid the Fiscal Cliff. Many stocks are benefiting, even those with seemingly indirect links to the U.S. and its fiscal woes. One Chinese stock is up more than 6%, but ...
Yanzhou Coal Mining Stock Rating Upgraded by Zacks (YZC) Jags Report

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Floodplains that should remain just that - The Guardian
Jan 2nd 2013, 21:00


Floodplains that should remain just that
The Guardian
The River Nene meanders through Ferry Meadows, but it has risen over its banks and most of the floodplain is indeed that. Fields and paths are submerged by a muddy inundation, and trees, hedges and bushes mark out what is more usually land. The river ...

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Alt Fuels January 2, 2013 Green Energy Wins In Last-Minute US 'Fiscal... - Green Car Reports
Jan 2nd 2013, 19:59


Alt Fuels January 2, 2013 Green Energy Wins In Last-Minute US 'Fiscal...
Green Car Reports
But the final measure turns out to contain some good news for green energy, long a priority of president Barack Obama. As Reuters reports, the 157-page bill contains an "eclectic mix" of "sweetener" provisions, among them roughly a dozen relating to ...

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Oil & Gas Tax Provisions Are Not Subsidies For "Big Oil" - Forbes
Jan 2nd 2013, 18:44


For Argyll

Oil & Gas Tax Provisions Are Not Subsidies For "Big Oil"
Forbes
The truth is that the oil and gas industry receives the same kinds of tax treatments that every other manufacturing or extractive industry receives in the federal tax code. There is nothing uncommon or out of the mainstream of tax treatments about any ...
Scotland's economic future: the role of oil and gas For Argyll

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Green Energy Avoids Tumble Off Fiscal Cliff - 24/7 Wall St.
Jan 2nd 2013, 18:27


Green Energy Avoids Tumble Off Fiscal Cliff
24/7 Wall St.
Any tax legislation worth the name carries with it a host of hangers on that represent special gifts to special interests, and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is no different. In addition to the tax changes we all know about, a number of ...

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Seafloor Observatory Reveals Arctic Ocean Environment - Yahoo! News (blog)
Jan 2nd 2013, 18:23


Seafloor Observatory Reveals Arctic Ocean Environment
Yahoo! News (blog)
A new observatory at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean will help keeps tabs on the delicate environment, relaying information continuously throughout the year for the first time ever, according to a release from Canada's University of Victoria, which runs ...

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Alaska Proposes Changes to Hydraulic Fracturing Rules - Rigzone
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:50


Alaska Proposes Changes to Hydraulic Fracturing Rules
Rigzone
The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC) has proposed to adopt changes to rules governing hydraulic fracturing activity in the state. AOGCC said Dec. 20 it proposed regulations changes in Title 20, Chapter 25 of the Alaska Administrative ...
Alaska fracking proposal draws praise UPI.com
Alaska Taking Public Comments on Proposed Frack Rules NGI's Shale Daily (subscription)
Alaska proposes new rules to regulate fracking Gas Business Briefing

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COGCC to consider groundbreaking new oil and gas rules - Journal-Advocate
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:48


COGCC to consider groundbreaking new oil and gas rules
Journal-Advocate
State oil and gas regulators on Monday completed groundbreaking proposals for groundwater protection and the reduction of drilling impacts near homes for consideration next week before the nine-member Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Colorado proposes bigger oil and gas drilling setbacks from homes Denver Post
Oil and gas lawsuits may dominate 2013 Longmont Daily Times-Call
Oil and Gas Officials Release Proposed Drilling Regulations KREX News Channel 5
The Coloradoan  - Summit County Citizens Voice  - CBS Local
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Violators of environment norms to be dealt with sternly in Himachal Pradesh - Times of India
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:28


Violators of environment norms to be dealt with sternly in Himachal Pradesh
Times of India
SHIMLA: Violators of environment norms will be dealt with sternly, newly-appointed chairman of Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board, Kuldeep Singh Pathania, said today. Private universities and hydropower projects flouting environment norms will ...

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Environment ministry in grip of factional power struggle - The Nation
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:26


Environment ministry in grip of factional power struggle
The Nation
It seemed the conflicts inside the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry were over when the Cabinet resolved on December 18 to appoint Manophat Huamuangkaew as the new director-general of the National Parks and Plant Conservation Department ...

Czechs, Poles to Keep German Green Energy Out - Atlantic Sentinel
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:18


New Eastern Europe

Czechs, Poles to Keep German Green Energy Out
Atlantic Sentinel
The Czech Republic and Poland intend to build switches on their borders to keep German energy off their nets. Hopes of achieving a pan-European electricity market are undermined by Germany's embrace of unreliable green energy production. Germany ...
Poland And Czech Republic Ban Germany's Green Energy Canada Free Press

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Coal Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average - Bullish for KOL - Forbes
Jan 2nd 2013, 17:11


Coal Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average - Bullish for KOL
Forbes
In trading on Wednesday, shares of the Coal ETF (AMEX: KOL) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $25.84, changing hands as high as $26.06 per share. Coal shares are currently trading up about 2.5% on the day. The chart below shows the one ...

FreeSuperStocks Up to Their Neck in Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc ... - HotStocked
Jan 2nd 2013, 16:12


HotStocked

FreeSuperStocks Up to Their Neck in Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc ...
HotStocked
Having been one of the most heavily promoted penny stocks in 2012, Green Energy Renewable Solutions, Inc. (PINK:EWRL, EWRL message board) is on the promotional go again. This comes hardly as a surprise to us. Nor will the outcome be any different, ...

Environment protests hit Sumatra gold mine - Financial Times
Jan 2nd 2013, 14:43


Environment protests hit Sumatra gold mine
Financial Times
As construction workers put the finishing touches to a waste water pipeline at the hilltop Martabe gold mine in North Sumatra, dozens of police and soldiers armed with machine guns and knives keep close watch nearby. Like many other international ...

European Commission Opens Consultation On Hydraulic Fracturing in ... - Bloomberg BNA
Jan 2nd 2013, 14:33


European Commission Opens Consultation On Hydraulic Fracturing in ...
Bloomberg BNA
BRUSSELS--The European Commission opened a public consultation Dec. 20 on the use in the European Union of hydraulic fracturing for unconventional fossil fuel deposits, such as shale gas. The Commission said the consultation was aimed at individuals ...

Nitish seeks Montek's intervention in coal linkage for Bihar thermal power ... - Times of India
Jan 2nd 2013, 14:30


IBNLive

Nitish seeks Montek's intervention in coal linkage for Bihar thermal power ...
Times of India
PATNA: Seeking to fast track the execution of various power projects in Bihar, chief minister Nitish Kumar has urged Planning Commission to facilitate early coal linkage/coal blocks in the state. In a letter to the Planning Commission deputy chairman ...
Bihar demands coal linkages for thermal plants Newstrack India

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Fiscal cliff bill includes favors for Hollywood and green energy - BizPac Review
Jan 2nd 2013, 13:56


BizPac Review

Fiscal cliff bill includes favors for Hollywood and green energy
BizPac Review
Two groups who backed President Obama's reelection bid — green energy and Hollywood — were each rewarded for their support this week with provisions contained within the so-called "fiscal cliff" bill. Wind energy tax credit: One item within the bill ...

The Arctic holds 25% of the world's oil and gas, but its rough seas still ... - Quartz
Jan 2nd 2013, 13:17


TIME

The Arctic holds 25% of the world's oil and gas, but its rough seas still ...
Quartz
As a whole, the Arctic is estimated to hold 25% of the world's remaining oil and natural gas, and is becoming more accessible to oil exploration because of global warming. Yet even as the ice melts, the seas have not calmed, and are not forecast to. At ...
At grounded Alaska oil rig, response crews on tense standby Los Angeles Times
Shell drilling rig accident in Alaska could jeopardize future Arctic oil projects Hydrocarbon Processing
Shell faces crucial test in the Arctic Financial Times
Rigzone  - Fox Business  - Oil & Gas Journal
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Kentucky coal mine fatalities down by half in 2012 - WATE-TV
Jan 2nd 2013, 13:06


WOUB

Kentucky coal mine fatalities down by half in 2012
WATE-TV
(AP) - The number of coal miners killed on the job in Kentucky fell to four in 2012, down from eight the previous year when the state led the nation in fatalities. Kentucky Coal Association President Bill Bissett said Monday the industry is making ...
Coal Mining the Old-Fashioned Way In These Times
W.Va. led nation in 2012 mining deaths Charleston Gazette
West Virginia Names New Mine safety Chief ClaimsJournal.com

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Bill Dinning Leaves Kames Capital for Coal Board Pension Fund - Bloomberg
Jan 2nd 2013, 13:05


FT Adviser

Bill Dinning Leaves Kames Capital for Coal Board Pension Fund
Bloomberg
Bill Dinning quit as head of investment strategy at Kames Capital Plc, the Edinburgh-based fund unit of Dutch insurer Aegon NV (AGN), to become investment strategist for Coal Pension Trustees Services Ltd., which oversees funds for retired mineworkers, ...
Kames Capital's Dinning quits for coal board pension job Investment Week

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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SEEKS BALANCE BETWEEN GREEN ENERGY ... - U-T San Diego
Jan 2nd 2013, 12:09


SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SEEKS BALANCE BETWEEN GREEN ENERGY ...
U-T San Diego
Hundreds of square miles of Southern California desert, both public and privately owned, could be targeted for renewable energy development under a comprehensive plan balancing state clean-power mandates with efforts to conserve wild habitat. State and ...

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Seal spotted swimming in flooded Cambridgeshire field 50 miles inland – video - The Guardian
Jan 2nd 2013, 11:04


The Guardian

Seal spotted swimming in flooded Cambridgeshire field 50 miles inland – video
The Guardian
In an amateur video viewed on YouTube more than 12,000 times, a seal is spotted clambering over flood defences at Fen Drayton lakes in Cambridgeshire. The reserve is more that 50 miles from the coast at Kings Lynn in Norfolk, where the seal is thought ...

Big Oil's Big Data Push Changing the Future of Energy - Wall Street Journal- India (blog)
Jan 2nd 2013, 11:00


Wall Street Journal- India (blog)

Big Oil's Big Data Push Changing the Future of Energy
Wall Street Journal- India (blog)
Innovations in IT, including powerful new data imaging and predictive analytics, are making it possible for companies such as Shell BP PLC and Chevron Corp. to map and exploit previously uncharted oil and gas fields locked in shale and "tight" rock ...

India offers 17 coal blocks for exploration in inaugural auction - Platts
Jan 2nd 2013, 10:33


Economic Times

India offers 17 coal blocks for exploration in inaugural auction
Platts
India is offering 17 coal blocks for exploration via an auction -- the first time the government is offering such blocks via a competitive bidding process -- the Ministry of Coal said in a statement on December 31. But this auction will be open only to ...
35 power companies sign fuel pact with Coal India: Government NDTV
Government to prepare list of power companies for coal on priority basis Economic Times
Coal India achieves 93% of output target during April-November Hindu Business Line
Newstrack India  - Business Standard  - Press Information Bureau (press release)
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The Year for Big Coal – Not So Big - Triple Pundit
Jan 2nd 2013, 10:17


Triple Pundit

The Year for Big Coal – Not So Big
Triple Pundit
The Sierra Club's nationwide campaign—Beyond Coal—to phase out coal burning in the United States won victories from coast to coast, including the coal plant retirements and record investments in wind and solar. The coal industry experienced numerous ...

Coal's Share of World Energy Mix Hits Record High - Triple Pundit
Jan 2nd 2013, 10:12


Triple Pundit

Coal's Share of World Energy Mix Hits Record High
Triple Pundit
Worldwatch Institute Peter Ward OECD IEA Germany coal china With the New Year and newly minted, well-intentioned resolutions upon us, I thought it might be a good time to post some compass readings with respect to the world energy picture. My year-end ...
Coal and Natural Gas Use Still Rising EP Magazine
1 Billion Reasons Coal Has a Bright Future DailyFinance
Future of coal unclear Fierce Energy
The Daily Telegraph  - Energy Collective  - Government News
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Capture winter flocks in flight - The Guardian (blog)
Jan 2nd 2013, 09:01


Capture winter flocks in flight
The Guardian (blog)
Winter in the UK can be an exciting time for the photographer, with the arrival of many new visitors to our shores. Wading birds that spent the summer breeding in the high Arctic return south; starling numbers growing as we receive European birds ...

Vitter to become top GOP senator on environment panel - The Advocate
Jan 2nd 2013, 05:14


Vitter to become top GOP senator on environment panel
The Advocate
Vitter, one of the Senate's staunchest conservatives, becomes the ranking GOP member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in January, when he will have to work closely with Sen. and committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

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N.C. House leader hopes to stop green-energy mandate - Winston-Salem Journal
Jan 2nd 2013, 05:01


N.C. House leader hopes to stop green-energy mandate
Winston-Salem Journal
CHARLOTTE — The N.C. House's new Republican majority whip believes he has the votes to stop North Carolina's green-energy mandate – the first in the Southeast when it was enacted in 2007 – in its tracks. The law says electric utilities have to derive ...
Power companies want to pay less for solar energy WWLP 22News

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The EPA's Tainted Fracking Tests - Wall Street Journal
Jan 1st 2013, 23:50


The EPA's Tainted Fracking Tests
Wall Street Journal
Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," uses water and trace amounts of chemicals to create tiny fissures in deep-rock formations and coax energy-laden molecules to flow toward the surface. Fracking technology is driving America's oil and shale-gas boom ...

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Musings: Bad News for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry Outlook - Rigzone
Jan 1st 2013, 16:27


Sky News Australia

Musings: Bad News for Canada's Oil and Gas Industry Outlook
Rigzone
Within the last two weeks, the oil market delivered some bad news for oil and gas companies operating in Western Canada. The bad news can be summarized by the headline of an article on the commodity page of the Financial Times: "Canada's oil becomes ...
COMMODITIES-Oil and metals start year strongly after US fiscal deal Reuters
US budget decision strengthens oil prices Financial Times
Oil: Price jumps as US averts 'fiscal cliff' Tulsa World

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Malaysia Timber Tycoon Strikes Oil and Gas Deal - Rigzone
Jan 1st 2013, 11:38


Malaysia Timber Tycoon Strikes Oil and Gas Deal
Rigzone
Low-profile timber baron Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King has quietly diversified into Malaysia's oil and gas sector. His company RH Petrogas Ltd, which is one of the largest upstream exploration and production (E&P) companies listed on the Singapore Exchange ...

The debate over fracking
Dec 30th 2012, 15:45

Fracking - a process to extract natural gas embedded in shale rock - has led to an energy boom in the United States. But detractors of the process say that it contaminates drinking water, poisoning both humans and animals. David Pogue digs into what is known about fracking.
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Time: 07:43 More in News & Politics

Hydraulic fracturing party!
Sep 15th 2012, 01:42

Bring your dust mask or respirator because you may leave with silicosis! Range is once again using their latest and greatest (right!) fracking techniques in western Pennsylvania. Fracking party location: Jonathan Temple Unit Independence Township, Washington County, Pa. GPS: 40.22624 -80.44734 What are the risks of breathing silica dust? ACUTE SILICOSIS: Silicosis that develops a few weeks to 5 years after exposure to high concentrations of respirable silica dust. This is also known as silicoproteinosis. Symptoms of acute silicosis include more rapid onset of severe disabling shortness of breath, cough, weakness, and weight loss, often leading to death. The x-ray usually reveals a diffuse alveolar filling with air bronchograms, described as a ground-glass appearance, and similar to pneumonia, pulmonary edema, alveolar hemorrhage, and alveolar cell lung cancer. SOURCE: Wikipedia
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Hydraulic Fracturing: How it Works
Jul 30th 2012, 13:49

An animation explaining the process of hydraulic fracturing, from drilling and perforation to chemical treatments and the rise of hydrocarbons to the surface.
Views: 724
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Time: 02:22 More in Education

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