Obeid coal property not a weekender: ICAC The Australian FORMER Labor minister Eddie Obeid only visited a property his family owned in a coal-rich part of NSW three or four times in two years despite it supposedly being a weekender, an inquiry has heard. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) ...
Greenfellas: The Italian Mafia Muscles In On Green Energy Racket Investor's Business Daily It's the latest chapter in an ongoing story of corruption continuously surrounding green energy. In 2009, Italy's National Association of Wind Energy boss Oreste Vigorito was busted for building wind farms on public subsidies that sopped up state cash ...
Coal industry's decline hits Western states Courierpress/news/gleaner/ ASSOCIATED PRESS This undated photo provided by Ambre Energy shows a dragline moving earth at the Decker Coal Mine in Decker, Mont. The mine laid off 59 workers in January amid slack demand for coal in U.S. markets even as the fuel's global ... Wyoming coal production, jobs cut in 2012 Casper Star-Tribune Online
Will New York Implement Hydraulic Fracturing? WKBW-TV BUFFALO, NY (WKBW/RELEASE) - The controversial process of hydraulic fracturing has sparking local lawmakers to join together and urge the governor for more transparency on the issue. Leaders with local municipalities gathered inside Buffalo City Hall ...
China lacks quality environment assessment agencies People's Daily Online The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) publicized a report after a three-year survey into the country's environment assessment agencies. By the end of 2012, 1,163 such organizations had been registered. However, their overall performance and ...
We did not hinder oil and gas blocks, says Defence Ministry The Hindu The Defence Ministry has rejected the Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry's claim that clearances for 46 oil and gas blocks stuck with its various establishments were cancelled at a later stage, leading to stoppage of work and blockage of nearly $13.5 ...
Turkey trading coal for gas in electricity Hurriyet Daily News The traditional wintertime smell of burning coal across Turkey appears set to become far more prevalent as the country turns to smoke-generating, coal-burning plants in an effort to break its large dependency on natural gas. Applications for ...
Obama's Inaugural Invitation: Will Renewable Energy Leaders Respond? Huffington Post It was a coveted invitation by the president of the United States to renewable energy leaders to make their case that a U.S.-led green industrial revolution is the answer to much of what ails America and the planet. One would think President Obama's ...
Eden Project to axe up to 70 jobs The Independent The xx, Sigur Ros and Eddie Izzard are all due to perform at open-air gigs at the venue this summer. The venue, famed for its hexagonal-panelled biomes, has also attracted a succession of high-profile environmental guest speakers, including Energy ...
SA values the economy over the environment ABC Online South Australia's decision to axe successful recycling agency Zero Waste SA, is disappointing. And it's not only from the perspective of recycling. THE RECENT ANNOUNCEMENT BY the South Australian Government that it will disband recycling agency, Zero ...
China is cleaning up its coal industry at an astonishing pace MINING.com State news provider Xinhua reports the China National Coal Association (CNCA) has announced that the number of China's large-scale coal ventures decreased by 1,500 to 6,200 in 2012 through a number of measures. China shut down 628 small coal...
Makeover for Environment Southland division The Southland Times Vacancies are popping up in the troubled compliance division of Environment Southland as work continues to fix its problems. Environment Southland chairwoman Ali Timms said yesterday there were several vacancies in the compliance division but said she ...
Natural Resource Partners: An insider likes coal and dividends MarketWatch The coal industry can be divided into two verticals, both of which have been experiencing demand pressures. Thermal coal, which is used by utilities to generate electricity, has been increasingly replaced by natural gas as high production has driven ...
Bank Deal Targets Top Green Energy 'Hurdle' Bahamas Tribune Acknowledging that renewable energy penetration in the Bahamas was "probably still less than 1 per cent", Guilden Gilbert, vice-president of Alternative Power Solutions (APS), told Tribune Business that the bank's agreement to provide its clients with ...
Have NA Oil and Gas Services Margins Bottomed Out? Motley Fool With greater than half of its annual revenue coming from North America, Halliburton (NYSE: HAL ) investors always keep their eye on how this segment performs. Luckily for them, things could be turning around in 2013. Company management believes that ...
Eviction begins at final Bexhill-to-Hastings road protest camp The Guardian One man was arrested on Monday by police in East Sussex as they moved in with bailiffs to clear the final stronghold of campaigners who have been protesting for weeks against plans for a 5.6km link road. A dozen people remain around 60ft high in trees ...
Capacity of US Department of Defense Renewable Energy Installations Will ... Green Building Elements The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) currently spends approximately $20 billion per year directly on energy, consuming 3.8 billion kilowatts hours (kWh) of electricity and 120 million barrels of oil per year. The effort to reduce energy costs and ...
Homer delays vote on contract with coal mine Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette Sunrise Coal in Terre Haute, Ind., has asked Homer to provide its proposed Bulldog coal mine in Vermilion County with treated water and sewer services, and the two have been working the last several months on an agreement. The coal mine has also asked ...
Oil and Gas Short Interest Rises on Spike in Transocean (BHI, BP, CHK, CVX ... 24/7 Wall St. We have tracked the key short interest changes as of December 15 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK); Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: ...
CCAC and Oil and Gas Companies to Reduce Emissions AllAfrica.com The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) has being tasked to work with leading oil and gas companies to achieve substantial global methane and black carbon emission reductions. More than a dozen Ministers from countries around the world released a ... UK backs action on gas flaring AirQualityNews
PSI Repair Services Keeps Green Energy Efficient with 10000th Wind Turbine ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com LIVONIA, Mich., Jan. 28, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ -- PSI Repair Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries and leading independent service provider (ISP) to the wind energy industry, recently reached a service milestone with the shipment ...
Oil and Gas Industry Services Provider Goes Paperless With ProntoForms, by ... Marketwire (press release) Based in Texas and serving oil and gas industry firms in an equipment rental capacity, Wolf Pack Rentals deploys equipment and personnel at multiple sites throughout the United States. "We had to move more quickly and away from paper, and eliminate ...
Kendall-Jackson Goes Green With Renewable Energy Commitment Justmeans 21052_454606545421_1266977_n Kendall-Jackson and parent wine company Jackson Family Wines, based in Santa Rosa, California, have joined the alternative energy revolution by joining Green-e Marketplace with a purchase of 36,000 megawatt-hours ...
Akins dealership coasting into green energy Barrow County News Akins Ford Dodge Chrysler Jeep is going green and integrating a leaf in its logo. A massive energy makeover has been undertaken to update the 37-year-old family dealership's facilities to bring modern efficiencies and future savings. Lighting is new in ...
Blast in Pakistan Mine Kills 8 Coal Miners ABC News A Pakistani mining official says a methane gas explosion in a private coal mine in the southwest has killed eight miners. Senior mining inspector Iftikhar Ahmed said two miners were found unconscious after Monday's blast, in Duki village. He said two ...
How to deal with potholes The Guardian (blog) The pothole season is upon us. A combination of water seepage followed by freezing conditions and a thaw means many of the UK's roads will be pockmarked with potentially wheel-crunching, fork-snapping craters in the coming weeks. Incidents involving ...
Green deal 'unlikely to deliver promises', say experts The Guardian Link to video: Will the green deal cut UK households' energy bills? — video. The government's flagship "green deal" home insulation programme provides no guarantee of saving money for cash-strapped households, and is unlikely to rescue many from fuel ...
Green deal: can it make millions of homes more energy efficient? The Guardian (blog) The government has finally launched its 'green deal' which finances energy-efficiency improvements. But will it see off its critics? Leo Hickman, with your help, investigates. Post your views below, email leo.hickman@guardian.co.uk or tweet @LeoHickman ... Government's Green Deal goes live 24dash (press release)
Green energy projects for R49bn approved BDlive Picture: THINKSTOCK. RENEWABLE energy will loom large this year after 28 projects worth R49bn were awarded in the first round of tenders, the South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors said. This will provide impetus for South Africa's ...
Force.com the best database developer environment? ZDNet John Appleby, whose day job is as business development director at SAP SI Bluefin Solutions specialising in HANA, test drove access to a bunch of the database development environments. It is something of a 'drive by' rather than a scientific or ...
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