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Russia: Explosion in Coal Mine Kills at Least 17 - New York Times
Feb 12th 2013, 01:01


Voice of America

Russia: Explosion in Coal Mine Kills at Least 17
New York Times
An explosion in a coal mine in northern Russia killed at least 17 miners in a shaft saturated with methane gas, rescue workers said Monday. The blast occurred about 2,500 feet underground near the city of Vorkuta. Rescue workers said 23 people had been ...
Methane blast kills 18 at Russia coal mine Reuters
At least 16 killed in Russia coal mine blast DAWN.com
Deadly Blast Hits Russian Coal Mine Wall Street Journal
USA TODAY  - Voice of America
all 88 news articles »

Proposal for tax holiday for new oil and gas wells dies - Denver Business Journal
Feb 12th 2013, 00:46


Proposal for tax holiday for new oil and gas wells dies
Denver Business Journal
The House State, Veterans & Military Affairs Committee on Monday killed a proposal to spur new oil and gas drilling that offered a two-year holiday from severance taxes for wells drilled in the next two years. The 7-4 vote was along party lines. Had it ...

Whitehaven Jumps After Gaining Coal Mine Approval: Sydney Mover - Bloomberg
Feb 12th 2013, 00:24


Sydney Morning Herald

Whitehaven Jumps After Gaining Coal Mine Approval: Sydney Mover
Bloomberg
Australia's Environment Minister Tony Burke yesterday approved Whitehaven's proposed Maules Creek coal mine in New South Wales state, while asking for additional work including limiting clearance of vegetation to minimize its environmental impact.
Burke approves huge gas and coal plans Sydney Morning Herald
Burke locks state out of coal talks The Australian
Australian government approves coal projects in New South Wales Energy Global
Finance News Network  - Sky News Australia  - Australian Mining
all 37 news articles »

DOJ suit against ATP Oil and Gas alleges Clean Water Act violations - Houston Business Journal
Feb 11th 2013, 23:39


FuelFix

DOJ suit against ATP Oil and Gas alleges Clean Water Act violations
Houston Business Journal
The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a lawsuit in New Orleans against Houston-based ATP Oil and Gas Corp. alleging violations of the Clean Water Act, including the discharge of oil and an unpermitted chemical dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico.
US files suit against ATP charging illegal oil release Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Justice Department Sues ATP Over Alleged Oil, Chemical Discharges in Gulf NASDAQ
DOJ: ATP Oil Accused of Masking Oil Discharges in Gulf of Mexico Rigzone

all 10 news articles »

Colorado oil and gas well setback fight headed to state legislature - Denver Post
Feb 11th 2013, 23:18


Moneycontrol.com

Colorado oil and gas well setback fight headed to state legislature
Denver Post
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved 500-foot buffers between new wells and homes on Monday, but the state legislature may have a final say on the issue. The oil and gas industry opposed the new setback, which will replace a ...
Colorado oil and gas commission votes for 500-foot drilling setback Longmont Daily Times-Call
Colorado oil and gas panel approves 500-foot oil well buffer The Coloradoan
Oil and gas panel approves 500-foot buffer for wells Denver Business Journal
Oil & Gas Journal  - Camden News  - Pakistan Observer
all 18 news articles »

Supervisor Farr to Testify at State Senate Hearing on Hydraulic Fracturing - Noozhawk
Feb 11th 2013, 22:46


Supervisor Farr to Testify at State Senate Hearing on Hydraulic Fracturing
Noozhawk
Santa Barbara County Third District Supervisor Doreen Farr will be offering testimony regarding hydraulic fracturing (commonly referred to as "fracking") on Tuesday morning to the Senate Committees on Natural Resources and Water and Environmental ...

Gov't fines IDF for exposing troops to asbestos - Jerusalem Post
Feb 11th 2013, 22:44


Gov't fines IDF for exposing troops to asbestos
Jerusalem Post
Despite the fact that the Environment Ministry had ordered the army to evacuate an asbestos hazard from an area adjacent to Beersheba's Natan Shalid base seven months ago, the IDF has failed to do so, according to the ministry. Related: Netanyahu lauds ...

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Coal-generating company to set power plant with foreigners - Hurriyet Daily News
Feb 11th 2013, 22:12


Hurriyet Daily News

Coal-generating company to set power plant with foreigners
Hurriyet Daily News
Until their own power plant is completed, the company will sell the coal it produces to Eren Holding, which has a power plant dependent on imported coal in Zonguldak. They need to build a port in the region to transfer the coal, the board member said ...

2 Colorado men indicted in oil and gas fraud case - Denver Business Journal
Feb 11th 2013, 21:49


2 Colorado men indicted in oil and gas fraud case
Denver Business Journal
"Investors received a 'confidential memo' describing an oil and gas venture that promised high rates of return. They also guaranteed that some investors would have an ownership stake in their next drilling project if the well known as Two Sisters #1 ...
Men who operated Centennial company indicted for securities fraud Denver Post

all 2 news articles »

Green energy grant recipient fined for paying employees in pesos - Washington Free Beacon
Feb 11th 2013, 20:17


Green energy grant recipient fined for paying employees in pesos
Washington Free Beacon
A fuel cell manufacturer that received more than $70 million in federal grants has been fined for illegally paying employees in pesos. The Labor Department announced last week that it was ordering Bloom Energy—the board of which includes former ...

Colombia Coal Sector Hit by Labor Unrest, Environmental Incidents - Fox Business
Feb 11th 2013, 20:03


Colombia Coal Sector Hit by Labor Unrest, Environmental Incidents
Fox Business
Colombia's coal sector, which typically sits in the shadow of the country's dominant oil industry, has been thrust to the spotlight as labor unrest and environmental incidents pushed coal prices higher. A workers strike at top producer Cerrejon and an ...
RPT-Colombian coal railway to comply with nighttime train ban Reuters UK

all 3 news articles »

Patriot Stor-All to be Largest, Private "Green Energy"-Powered Company in Lee ... - Naples Daily News
Feb 11th 2013, 18:55


Patriot Stor-All to be Largest, Private "Green Energy"-Powered Company in Lee ...
Naples Daily News
Patriot Stor-All to be Largest, Private "Green Energy"-Powered Company in Lee Co. under new owner Jim Nickerson. Patriot Stor-All, has undergone many changes to improve its appearance, safety, efficiency and environmental footprint—including the ...

The Great Indian Coal Bailout - Huffington Post
Feb 11th 2013, 18:54


Livemint

The Great Indian Coal Bailout
Huffington Post
Those paying attention to the Indian coal sector know that it's in a state of crisis. Coal supplies for the number of planned plants are largely an illusion, plants that have been built are going bankrupt, and financiers publicly call it a 'distressed ...
Coal Miner's $1.4 Billion Rail to End Imports: Corporate India Bloomberg
Coal Ministry moves to fast-track environment, rail link clearances Hindu Business Line
Coal India may offset penalty with 'as-is' offer Daily News & Analysis
Indian Express  - Economic Times  - Livemint
all 16 news articles »

Wind power is now cheaper than coal in some countries - New Scientist
Feb 11th 2013, 18:36


Wind power is now cheaper than coal in some countries
New Scientist
When many countries are choosing their next generation of power stations, they will be tempted to pick wind turbines. Thanks to better design, building wind farms can now be cheaper than building new coal or gas power stations. Figures from Bloomberg ...

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Green Energy's Hazardous Wastes - National Review Online (blog)
Feb 11th 2013, 18:28


The Inquisitr

Green Energy's Hazardous Wastes
National Review Online (blog)
When we think about green energy, we think about the sun or the wind, which are indeed renewable and clean energies — but the technology in the solar panels and wind turbines needed to harness them are not. For instance, manufacturing a turbine, ...
Solar Energy Still Has Hazardous Waste Problem The Inquisitr
Solar energy industry confronts waste issue Fort Worth Star Telegram

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Report: Obama to bypass Congress on gay rights, environment - CBS News
Feb 11th 2013, 18:05


San Francisco Chronicle

Report: Obama to bypass Congress on gay rights, environment
CBS News
The president may take executive actions to increase cybersecurity in the private sector, increase gay rights, assist struggling homeowners and boost environmental regulations , according to the Washington Post. U.S. getting cyber-robbed "every single ...
Obama Mulls Exec Orders on Gay Rights, Environment Newser

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World Environment Day coming to Portland - Portland Tribune
Feb 11th 2013, 17:52


World Environment Day coming to Portland
Portland Tribune
Portland was selected to host World Environment Day 2013 by the United Nations Environment Programme's North America office. As a host city, Portland would stage a variety of events starting with Earth Day on April 22 and leading up to World ...

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German environment minister: 'we want to limit fracking' - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 16:39


Rigzone

German environment minister: 'we want to limit fracking'
The Guardian
Germany's environment minister said on Monday he did not want to make it easy for companies to "frack" for shale gas and could not see the practice happening in his country in the "forseeable future". Pending rules for the drilling techniques would ...
German environment minister: no fracking for shale gas in Germany any time soon Fox News
UK Fracking: A Safe Regulatory Environment? Rigzone
No fracking for shale gas in Germany any time soon: German environment minister Montreal Gazette

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GES Introduces Courses In Oil And Gas For SHS Students - Ghana
Feb 11th 2013, 16:38


GES Introduces Courses In Oil And Gas For SHS Students
Ghana
"One has to have a science background to enable one to study courses in oil and gas. So the Chemistry syllabus was reviewed to enable students' study how the oil is formed, methods of exploration, types of crude oil, refinery, trade names, among other ...

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Penplusbytes To Roll Out Project On Oil And Gas For Journalists - Ghana
Feb 11th 2013, 16:38


Penplusbytes To Roll Out Project On Oil And Gas For Journalists
Ghana
The International Institute of ICT Journalism (Penplusbytes) is to roll out a new project on transparency and accountability of Ghana's Oil and Gas Industry. A release signed by Mr Kofi Mangesi, Director of Penplusbytes and copied to the Ghana News ...

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Why the State Doesn't Regulate Oil and Gas in Osage County - StateImpact Oklahoma
Feb 11th 2013, 16:19


Why the State Doesn't Regulate Oil and Gas in Osage County
StateImpact Oklahoma
In any other county in Oklahoma, the state's oil and gas regulator could address the dangerous hydrogen sulfide gas venting from escaping from wells. But things are different in Osage County, the Journal Record's Sarah Terry-Cobo reports. The ...
Osage Nation residents worried over lax drilling regs Native Times

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Malibu Lags Competition as GM Maintains Green Focus - National Legal and Policy Center
Feb 11th 2013, 16:09


National Legal and Policy Center

Malibu Lags Competition as GM Maintains Green Focus
National Legal and Policy Center
That seems like anything but remarkable to me, but green energy extremists never seem to let logic get in the way of ideology when reporting on the Volt. And the Obama-appointed management at GM seems to want to continue the misguided focus as it now ...

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DO-IT-OURSELVES WEATHER? - Green Energy News
Feb 11th 2013, 16:07


Green Energy News

DO-IT-OURSELVES WEATHER?
Green Energy News
by Bruce Mulliken, Green Energy News. I like shiny black cars, but I'll never own one. I don't call black cars black anyway. I call them dirty black cars. Take your black car through the car wash, or spend a morning washing and waxing it, and it's only ...

Wind power capacity grew 20% globally in 2012, figures show - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 15:50


Wind power capacity grew 20% globally in 2012, figures show
The Guardian
Wind power expanded by almost 20% in 2012 around the world to reach a new peak of 282 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity, while solar power reached more than 100GW, having more than doubled in two years. More than 45GW of new wind ...

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European Coal for 2014 Little Changed as Colombian Strike Starts - Bloomberg
Feb 11th 2013, 15:40


European Coal for 2014 Little Changed as Colombian Strike Starts
Bloomberg
European coal for 2014 was little changed as Deutsche Bank AG said that higher exports from the U.S. may damp the effect of a strike at Colombia's largest mine. Thermal coal for delivery to Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Antwerp rose 5 cents to $100.85 a ...

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Walmart, BMW lead for on-site renewable energy generation - GreenBiz.com
Feb 11th 2013, 15:39


GreenBiz.com

Walmart, BMW lead for on-site renewable energy generation
GreenBiz.com
Every quarter, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency updates its Green Power rankings for U.S. businesses and communities making investments in clean, renewable energy. One list we watch closely is the one that follows on-site generation, because it ...

CORRECTED-Australia oil and gas wages highest in industry -survey - Reuters
Feb 11th 2013, 14:01


ArabianBusiness.com

CORRECTED-Australia oil and gas wages highest in industry -survey
Reuters
(Corrects company name in paragraph 2 to Hays Oil & Gas and Oil and Gas Job Search from Hays Oil and Gas Job Search). * Australian expatriates earned $171,000 on average. * Industry average wages up 8.5 percent. * Lowest expat wages in Sudan at ...
MidEast oil and gas wages soar - study ArabianBusiness.com
Wages gush higher for Aussie workers The Motley Fool

all 3 news articles »

BBC removes climate claim from repeated final Africa episode - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 12:48


BBC removes climate claim from repeated final Africa episode
The Guardian
Subscribe. Subscribe to the Guardian · iPhone app · iPad edition · Kindle · Extra · Guardian Weekly · Digital edition · All our services · The Guardian home. The Guardian, Environment, User comments. News · Sport · Comment · Culture · Business · Money ...

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Environment Plus Pest Control Awarded GSA Schedule Contract - The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Feb 11th 2013, 12:46


Environment Plus Pest Control Awarded GSA Schedule Contract
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
11, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ -- Environment Plus Pest Control, LLC, a leading eco-friendly pest control firm, is pleased to announce that they have been awarded GSA Schedule 03FAC contract (GS-21F-0015Y) and are now certified to supply commercial pest ...

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Gas company targets protected Manú park - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 12:22


Gas company targets protected Manú park
The Guardian
An energy company is eyeing up the gas reserves of a national park in the Peruvian Amazon whose biodiversity Unesco says "exceeds that of any other place on Earth" and is home to indigenous people who have no regular contact with the outside world, ...

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Environmental groups accuse utilities of dodging Missouri renewable energy ... - Columbia Missourian
Feb 11th 2013, 12:15


Environmental groups accuse utilities of dodging Missouri renewable energy ...
Columbia Missourian
Renew Missouri and other renewable energy advocates are engaged in a legal battle with Ameren Missouri, Empire District Electric Co. and Kansas City Power & Light. Renew Missouri has accused the utilities of not adhering to the state's renewable energy ...

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Blast at Russia coal mine kills 18 - USA TODAY
Feb 11th 2013, 12:02


Blast at Russia coal mine kills 18
USA TODAY
MOSCOW (AP) — A blast at a coal mine in northern Russia on Monday killed 18 people, officials said Monday. Rescuers have recovered 10 bodies at the Vorkutinskaya mine in Russia's Komi region, Vadim Kolesnikov, a duty officer at the Russian Interior ...

Oil and gas company has a bull's-eye on one PitCo well - Aspen Daily News
Feb 11th 2013, 10:53


Oil and gas company has a bull's-eye on one PitCo well
Aspen Daily News
Once the well is complete, pipes would be cemented in place some 5,500 feet down in order to reach the gas in the sandstone of the Corcoran Formation, a geological layer of rock where natural gas tends to pool. The well could then last for 30 to 40 years.

Horsemeat scandal: legal action expected across Europe - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 10:22


The Guardian

Horsemeat scandal: legal action expected across Europe
The Guardian
Legal action over the horsemeat scandal is to be mounted in Europe, the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, has said as he described the contamination of beef products as a case of fraud against the public. Paterson said the scandal appeared to be ...
Horsemeat scandal: Focus shifts to luxury 'high value' ready meals as ... The Independent
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson: Horsemeat could be dangerous The Sun
Ban on meat imports possible if health risks identified, environment secretary ... Telegraph.co.uk
stv.tv  - Irish Examiner  - ITV News
all 548 news articles »

Spanish Renewable Energy Investments Slow with US Regulatory Changes - Triple Pundit
Feb 11th 2013, 10:09


Triple Pundit

Spanish Renewable Energy Investments Slow with US Regulatory Changes
Triple Pundit
wind energy sustainable development Supply Chain Spanish wind power Spanish solar power solar energy renewable energy Renewable energy investments in the U.S. had a bumper year in 2012, and Spanish wind investors, like Iberdrola Renewables, ...

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Explosion Rips Through Russian Coal Mine - Voice of America
Feb 11th 2013, 10:01


Voice of America

Explosion Rips Through Russian Coal Mine
Voice of America
Russian officials say an explosion at a coal mine in the country's north has killed 18 miners. Some reports say the cause of the blast was a build-up of methane gas. The reports have not been confirmed. Officials say 10 bodies have so far been brought ...

Russia Coal Mine Explosion: 9 Miners Killed In Blast, 8 More Feared Trapped - Huffington Post
Feb 11th 2013, 09:27


Russia Coal Mine Explosion: 9 Miners Killed In Blast, 8 More Feared Trapped
Huffington Post
MOSCOW, Feb 11 (Reuters) - An explosion at a Russian coal mine on Monday killed nine people and eight more were feared trapped under rubble at the pit in the northern Komi region, the Interior Ministry said. The Emergencies Ministry had said earlier on ...

Scotland's green energy target 'would be threatened by independence vote' - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 09:05


Scotland's green energy target 'would be threatened by independence vote'
The Guardian
Alex Salmond could be forced to abandon his ambitious 100% green energy target if Scotland votes for independence, a team of academics has warned. The group of energy specialists from four universities across the UK argues that an independent ...

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Scotland's green energy target 'would be threatened by independence vote' - The Guardian
Feb 11th 2013, 09:05


Herald Scotland

Scotland's green energy target 'would be threatened by independence vote'
The Guardian
The report, 'Delivering Renewable Energy Under Devolution' and funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, follows warnings from the US investment bank Citigroup in 2011 and from the Perth-based electricity giant SSE, which owns a ...
Salmond told green targets impossible without UK cash Herald Scotland
Scottish government rejects 'mistaken' renewables claims Blue & Green Tomorrow

all 142 news articles »

State DEP moving closer to finalizing oil and gas rules - Scranton Times-Tribune
Feb 11th 2013, 06:11


NorthcentralPa.com

State DEP moving closer to finalizing oil and gas rules
Scranton Times-Tribune
State environmental regulators are moving closer to a major revision of Pennsylvania's oil and gas rules to address surface impacts caused by the development of pipelines, pits, impoundments and well sites. The Department of Environmental Protection ...
United States: Pennsylvania DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For ... Power Engineering Magazine

all 3 news articles »

Scott Kurkoski testifies at a Public Hearing on DEC's High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations
Feb 8th 2013, 05:20

Scott Kurkoski testifies at a Public Hearing on DEC's High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing Regulations on Monday, February 4, 2013.
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