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Peter Kent canned as Canadian Minister of the Environment - Treehugger
Jul 15th 2013, 23:54


Treehugger

Peter Kent canned as Canadian Minister of the Environment
Treehugger
And now, it appears that our Minister of the Environment is being has been shuffled out of his job. Kent was previously a newsreader for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and knew his way around a teleprompter, which made him the perfect sock ...

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Coal Ministry struggles to find missing information required by court - Economic Times
Jul 15th 2013, 23:32


Economic Times

Coal Ministry struggles to find missing information required by court
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The coal ministry is struggling to locate files on coal blocks, particularly information on why some companies were not granted mines, prompting the government to hurriedly set up an inter-ministerial search committee to gather information ...

ALS launches $580m oil and gas play - Sydney Morning Herald
Jul 15th 2013, 23:24


The West Australian

ALS launches $580m oil and gas play
Sydney Morning Herald
Laboratory testing group ALS, formerly known as Campbell Bros, has dived into the oil and gas sector, with the $US533 million ($A579 million) purchase of a large oil and gas operator, Reservoir Group. The purchase will be funded through a 1-for-11 ...
ALS in $500m oil and gas foray The West Australian
ALS to Pay SCF $533 Million for Oil Well Analyzer Reservoir Bloomberg

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Public 'wants green energy but is sceptical of providers' - Telegraph.co.uk
Jul 15th 2013, 23:07


Telegraph.co.uk

Public 'wants green energy but is sceptical of providers'
Telegraph.co.uk
Many home owners would also resist attempts to produce green energy near their homes, the report added, with 54 per cent of people saying they would oppose the building of a new nuclear power station in their area and 21 per cent against a new local ...
Poll: Brits concerned over UK energy dependence Business Green (blog)

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Board members quit Eike Batista's CCX coal company - Reuters
Jul 15th 2013, 22:47


Board members quit Eike Batista's CCX coal company
Reuters
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15 (Reuters) - Brazilian coal miner CCX , part of billionaire Eike Batista's EGX group, said on Monday that two of its board members had resigned, the latest high-profile departures from the conglomerate of mining, energy and ...

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Aglukkaq takes environment post as Ottawa seeks to win over First Nations, US ... - Globe and Mail
Jul 15th 2013, 22:38


Nunatsiaq News

Aglukkaq takes environment post as Ottawa seeks to win over First Nations, US ...
Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has moved his cabinet's lone aboriginal minister into the sensitive portfolio of Environment as the government works to win crucial First Nations' support for new pipelines and other resource-development projects. In the ...
Leona Aglukkaq named new environment minister CBC.ca
Nunavut's MP moves from health to environment Nunatsiaq News
Canada environment minister replaced in cabinet shift Point Carbon (subscription)
The Vancouver Observer  - HQ Yellowknife  - APTN National News
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RWE npower says green policies will mean higher energy bills - Financial Times
Jul 15th 2013, 22:35


Daily Mail

RWE npower says green policies will mean higher energy bills
Financial Times
RWE npower became the first of the big six power suppliers publicly to warn that the government's green policies will cost consumers more, saying energy bills would rise by more than 19 per cent by the end of the decade. The intervention mounts a ...
We don't trust energy firms' green claims, say customers who don't know how ... Daily Mail
Government says gas not policies is pushing up energy bills Business Green (blog)

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Unions protest EPA regulations causing coal plant closings - Daily Caller
Jul 15th 2013, 20:59


Unions protest EPA regulations causing coal plant closings
Daily Caller
In the wake of recently announced coal plant closings, Pennsylvania unions are speaking out against strict federal environmental regulations. Union members held a rally Friday to protest policies aimed at promoting clean energy, but which local workers ...

Fort Collins may extend moratorium on oil and gas operations - The Coloradoan
Jul 15th 2013, 20:57


Fort Collins may extend moratorium on oil and gas operations
The Coloradoan
Council members on Tuesday are expected to consider extending a moratorium on accepting applications for operations related to oil and gas extraction, such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for five months or seven years. A moratorium established ...

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Alaska's salmon-swatting bears caught on HD live stream - The Guardian
Jul 15th 2013, 20:19


The Guardian

Alaska's salmon-swatting bears caught on HD live stream
The Guardian
It's an encounter relived every summer through the ages: thousand of salmon swimming furiously upstream towards their spawning grounds – and the brown bear lying in wait to swat them out of the water and devour them. Only now, the meeting between fish ...
Live stream: Katmai National Park bears New Zealand Herald

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Dominion Completes Coal-to-Biomass Plant Conversion - Motley Fool
Jul 15th 2013, 19:51


Power Engineering Magazine

Dominion Completes Coal-to-Biomass Plant Conversion
Motley Fool
"Today marks another achievement guided by Dominion's philosophy that balanced fuel diversity – from coal to natural gas to nuclear to renewables – leads to reasonable rates that best serve the needs and interests of customers and shareholders," said ...
Dominion converts first of 3 coal plants to biomass The Virginian-Pilot
Dominion converts 1st of 3 coal plants to biomass WWBT

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More Green Energy Equals More Green Car Buying - EarthTechling
Jul 15th 2013, 19:01


EarthTechling

More Green Energy Equals More Green Car Buying
EarthTechling
Would you be more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) such as a Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf if you knew the power which fueled it came from a more renewable source? If so, you wouldn't be alone, according to a new study which took a look at ...

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Stock's Trend Analysis Report - Eco Building Products Inc, LIVEWIRE ... - SBWire (press release)
Jul 15th 2013, 18:58


Stock's Trend Analysis Report - Eco Building Products Inc, LIVEWIRE ...
SBWire (press release)
Green Energy Renewable Solutions Inc (OTCMKTS:EWRL) added 10% and was moving within a range of $0.02-$0.02. Its current trading price is $0.0220. The share price hit its 52-week low of $0.002 and $0.30 was the best price. The stock completed the ...

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Oil and gas securities scheme results in fraud indictment - Denver Post
Jul 15th 2013, 18:43


Oil and gas securities scheme results in fraud indictment
Denver Post
Robert Allen Zickefoose, owner and president of Choice Energy Group and Zickefoose Reserves in Colorado Springs, has been indicted on four counts of securities fraud and three counts of theft in an alleged oil and gas securities scheme. Zickefoose, 48 ...
Colorado Springs man faces fraud counts on oil and gas investment offerings Denver Business Journal (blog)

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Consol Leads Coal Stocks Higher - Barron's (blog)
Jul 15th 2013, 18:00


Dividend.com

Consol Leads Coal Stocks Higher
Barron's (blog)
This morning, the company announced that it produced 13.8 million tons of coal in the second quarter, ahead of its previous forecast of 13.25 million to 13.75 million tons. Total coal inventory reached a 15-year low, dropping by by 47,000 tons to 917,000.
Two Analysts Raising CONSOL in Coal Turnaround 24/7 Wall St.
Consol Energy of NYSE top gainers as coal output beats guidance Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Consol's coal inventory hits 15-year low Pittsburgh Business Times (blog)
StreetInsider.com (subscription)  - Wall Street Journal  - CoalGuru.com
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Energy department focused on green economy - Mihajlovic - InSerbia News
Jul 15th 2013, 17:08


InSerbia News

Energy department focused on green economy - Mihajlovic
InSerbia News
BELGRADE – Serbian Energy Minister Zorana Mihajlovic said Monday that her department is focused on green economy and that in addition to major infrastructure projects, the government and the energy ministry's strategic goal is to improve energy ...

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Markets exist: Argentina offers attractive incentives to promote oil and gas ... - MercoPress
Jul 15th 2013, 16:54


Markets exist: Argentina offers attractive incentives to promote oil and gas ...
MercoPress
They will also be able to sell oil and natural gas slated for export in the domestic market at international prices if the local supply is insufficient, the government said. Companies that qualify for the plan will also be granted foreign currency ...
Argentina Offers Energy Investors Export, Forex Incentives Wall Street Journal
Argentina tax deal for energy exporters Financial Times

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OIL AND GAS SPILLS: Many mishaps among drillers, but few fines - Environment & Energy Publishing
Jul 15th 2013, 15:29


OIL AND GAS SPILLS: Many mishaps among drillers, but few fines
Environment & Energy Publishing
There are thousands of oil spills at the nation's onshore oil and gas well sites every year. But the data are scattered amid databases, websites and even file drawers of state agencies across the country. EnergyWire spent four months mining the data ...
Oklahoma is No. 2 in Oil Spills StateImpact Oklahoma

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Eastern Kentucky's future chained to coal despite millions spent on ... - Lexington Herald Leader
Jul 15th 2013, 15:22


Lexington Herald Leader

Eastern Kentucky's future chained to coal despite millions spent on ...
Lexington Herald Leader
Yet the region remains so coal-reliant that mine closings in the past two years have devastated many counties. In Knott County, coal production dropped 45 percent in 2012, and its mining jobs dropped 63 percent. The county entered 2013 with an official ...

Global warming games - playing the man not the ball - The Guardian
Jul 15th 2013, 15:16


The Guardian

Global warming games - playing the man not the ball
The Guardian
I hate to talk about myself, so this first part will be short. A little biography is necessary to set the stage for this post. A few years ago, I heard well-known climate contrarian Christopher Monckton speak on human-caused climate change. Monckton ...
Want to Help Our Climate Scientists? It's Simple: Here's How ThinkProgress

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Power companies accused of ripping off poor, minority customers - Daily Caller
Jul 15th 2013, 14:56


Power companies accused of ripping off poor, minority customers
Daily Caller
Update: This article has been changed to reflect that the power companies in question, including Starion, are not "green" energy companies. Follow Michael on Twitter. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to ...

CEA confirms coal supply for Punjab power plants - The Hindu
Jul 15th 2013, 14:18


The Hindu

CEA confirms coal supply for Punjab power plants
The Hindu
The Central Electricity Authority has confirmed supply of one lakh tonnes of coal for the trial run of the first unit of Rajpura thermal power plant, slated to be made operational during January, 2014. A spokesperson of the Chief Minister's Office said ...

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RPT-Australian coal port workers to hold week of rolling strikes - Reuters
Jul 15th 2013, 14:16


RPT-Australian coal port workers to hold week of rolling strikes
Reuters
PERTH, July 12 (Reuters) - Workers at Australia's Newcastle port, the world's largest thermal coal export facility, plan to hold another round of rolling strikes next week in a continuing standoff around proposed changes to their employment contract ...
Industrial action at PWCS Newcastle terminals unnerves coal buyers Coal Explorer (subscription)

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Wastewater with Toxic Chemicals from Oil and Gas Drilling Rigs for ... - Center for Research on Globalization
Jul 15th 2013, 13:57


Wastewater with Toxic Chemicals from Oil and Gas Drilling Rigs for ...
Center for Research on Globalization
Millions of gallons of water laced with toxic chemicals from oil and gas drilling rigs are pumped for consumption by wildlife and livestock with the formal approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to public comments filed ...

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UK climate movement planning to 'relaunch' in spring 2014 - The Guardian
Jul 15th 2013, 13:54


UK climate movement planning to 'relaunch' in spring 2014
The Guardian
Or so says a "confidential" consultation document which is currently being distributed among the broad coalition of environmental and development campaign groups known as Stop Climate Chaos (SCC). The document, entitled "Stop Climate Chaos ...

China's environment ministry among world's most 'embarrassing' - The Guardian
Jul 15th 2013, 13:51


The Guardian

China's environment ministry among world's most 'embarrassing'
The Guardian
China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has been described by its own minister as being among the world's "four major embarrassing departments". The comments by Zhou Shengxian are the latest admission by a member of the Chinese government that ...

Ground breaking set for western Ky coal terminal - MiamiHerald.com
Jul 15th 2013, 13:18


Ground breaking set for western Ky coal terminal
MiamiHerald.com
PADUCAH, Ky. -- Work is scheduled to begin on a new coal terminal in western Kentucky after five years of delays in getting the project off the ground. Southern Coal Handling crews are set to begin moving dirt within 39 days with work scheduled to be ...
SCH starts construction on long-delayed Ohio River coal terminal Platts

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Kuwait discovers new oil and gas field: top official - GlobalPost
Jul 15th 2013, 13:14


The Daily Star

Kuwait discovers new oil and gas field: top official
GlobalPost
The Gulf state of Kuwait has discovered a new oil and gas field in Kabed area close to the well-known Manageesh oilfield, Hashem Sayed Hashem, CEO of state-owned Kuwait Oil Co said on Monday. Hashem gave no estimates of the reserves in the field ...
New oil well discovered in western Kuwait Kuwait News Agency

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Kuwait discovers new oil and gas field - Fox News
Jul 15th 2013, 13:09


Kuwait discovers new oil and gas field
Fox News
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) – The Gulf state of Kuwait has discovered a new oil and gas field in Kabed area close to the well-known Manageesh oilfield, Hashem Sayed Hashem, CEO of state-owned Kuwait Oil Co said on Monday. Hashem gave no estimates of the ...

US can't afford to cede green energy industry to its competitors - Christian Science Monitor
Jul 15th 2013, 12:58


Christian Science Monitor

US can't afford to cede green energy industry to its competitors
Christian Science Monitor
The clean energy industry is as American as fireworks on the Fourth of July. It invented the solar cell. It designed and perfected the electric wind turbine. The sector has largely defied the economic recession, with worldwide investments soaring 600 ...

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Chevron granted access to environmental activists' email accounts - The Guardian
Jul 15th 2013, 11:55


Chevron granted access to environmental activists' email accounts
The Guardian
Oil giant Chevron has been granted access to "more than 100 email accounts, including environmental activists, journalists, and attorneys" involved in a long-running dispute involving damage "caused by oil drilling" in Ecuador, reports the Electronic ...

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German green energies law in focus of EU antitrust regulators 15.07.2013 - Deutsche Welle
Jul 15th 2013, 11:16


The Local.de

German green energies law in focus of EU antitrust regulators 15.07.2013
Deutsche Welle
German green energies law in focus of EU antitrust regulators. Generous German state subsidies for green energy producers have led to a boom especially in the photovoltaics sector, raising at the same time electricity bills to finance the renewables ...
Commission to probe German renewable energy laws: Report EurActiv
EU 'could revoke' green German energy rules The Local.de
Is German green energy subsidy against competition laws? Energy Live News
4-traders (press release)
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Give your opinion on how to improve access to environmental justice - EU News
Jul 15th 2013, 10:59


Give your opinion on how to improve access to environmental justice
EU News
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on ways to improve access to justice in the field of the environment. Access to justice – the right to challenge decisions or omissions by public bodies that are suspected of not complying with ...

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Environment: What future for our food system? - EU News
Jul 15th 2013, 10:59


Environment: What future for our food system?
EU News
In Europe we waste about 89 million tons of food every year. Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik said: "This is morally and economically unacceptable and is all the more horrific when you consider the true scale of the resources required to produce ...

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For oil and gas workers, Pa. hotels learning the drill - Philly.com
Jul 15th 2013, 07:15


Philly.com

For oil and gas workers, Pa. hotels learning the drill
Philly.com
To endear a hotel to the oil and gas crowd, give them a place to eat and sleep at all hours of the day, a place to wash their boots, a warm place to smoke in the winter, and a cold beer once in a while. So goes the formula developed by Tejas Gosai ...

Hydraulic fracturing: misinformation vs. legitimate concerns - Grand Rapids Business Journal (subscription)
Jul 15th 2013, 03:01


Hydraulic fracturing: misinformation vs. legitimate concerns
Grand Rapids Business Journal (subscription)
Then, thousands of feet below bedrock, the hydraulic fracturing process is applied to the well. It involves injecting water, sand and a mixture of chemicals into the target formation under very high pressures. This treatment creates fractures in the ...
Fracking issues linger ReporterHerald.com

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Whether By Train Or By Pipeline, Oil and Gas Transport Is Unsafe - De Smog Blog (blog)
Jul 14th 2013, 19:31


Whether By Train Or By Pipeline, Oil and Gas Transport Is Unsafe
De Smog Blog (blog)
Some observers cite this accident as reason to consider pipelines, rather than trains, as the safer choice to transport oil and gas fossil fuels. Two new major reports, however, reveal that this question misses a much larger point: oil, gas, and coal ...

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