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Sunday 3 June 2007
| Report condemns UK energy approach Manchester.com, UK - Britain's approach to energy supply and security is destined to fail, a report from Oxford University has warned. A high-level taskforce says government ... |
| Ofgem awards 'stars' for environmental energy Independent, UK - Businesses looking to reduce their carbon footprint will be able to compare the environmental credentials of green energy deals more easily under new ... Green energy tariffs ???not always what they seem??? |
| UK ENERGY SAVING PROMOTES SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL AS THE HOLIDAY SEASON ... UKPRwire (press release), UK - As the summer months approach, www.uk-energy-saving.com is promoting sustainable travel for all those enjoying some leisure time. ... |
| Green Energy Conference in Pasadena to Introduce Significant New ... Epicos.com (press release), Switzerland - GreenTech 2007, (www.greentech2007.com) a day-long company showcase, will introduce the most exciting innovations in green and sustainable energy emerging ... Green Energy Conference in Pasadena to Introduce Significant New ... |
| Biofuel boom creates rapeseed demand in Argentina Gulf News, United Arab Emirates - Buenos Aires: Yellow fields of flowering rapeseed are a rare sight in Argentina, but strong global demand for biofuels is tempting more farmers to ... |
| Training Seminar On Installation of Renewable Energy Products ... RenewableEnergyAccess.com, NH - They will also preview their new Solar Synapse??? Pre-Wire Kit for New Construction, designed to help Builders increase energy efficiency of new homes and ... |
 Epoch Times | OAS Assembly focuses on energy costs World Peace Herald, DC - PANAMA CITY -- Cutting high energy costs throughout the Western Hemisphere will be high on the agenda of the leaders meeting today at the Organization of ... Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly Panama Hosts OAS General Assembly |
| NEW ENVIRONMENT STRATEGIES / Biofuel crops take root in EU The Daily Yomiuri, Japan - Thanks to the European Union's biofuel promotion policy, we have bright business prospects," boasted Rastislav Trecak, the company's commercial director. ... |
| Ethanol industry may create nearly 600 new jobs in biotechnology Mason City Globe Gazette, IA - FORT DODGE (AP) ??? Nearly 600 new jobs in the ethanol industry may be created in Iowa over the next three years in fields like biofuels and biotechnology. ... |
 Servihoo | China urges local officials to prepare energy efficiency plans Financial Express.bd, Bangladesh - BEIJING, June 3 (AFP): China urged local officials today to prepare their own energy efficiency plans in a bid to save a floundering plan to drastically ... China urges local officials to prepare energy efficiency plans |
| Legislature OKs energy reform bill Connecticut Post, CT - Environmental activists said that parts of the bill would cut pollution linked to global warming and promote clean energy to try to obtain 20 percent of the ... |
| Ecologist, Limnologist Robert Sterner Appointed NSF Division Director NewsBlaze, CA - Sterner has served on the board of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and is chair of the 2008 Gordon Conference on Metabolic Ecology. ... |
| Regulating Wind Energy South Dakota Politics - Nick Rahall, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is pushing legislation that would more strictly regulate wind energy to protect birds, ... Push for tougher rules on wind industry Push for tougher rules on wind industry At windmills, dead birds, bats by the hundreds |
| Several states opposing energy companies Washington Times, DC - The Los Angeles Times said Sunday that while energy companies have historically been able to freely gain access to such underground sources, certain states ... Several States Opposing Energy Companies Several states opposing energy companies |
| China to stick to strict energy-saving, enviroment-protection plans Xinhua, China - BEIJING, June 3 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government has reiterated its intention to meet strict energy efficiency and pollutant reduction targets, ... |
 Sofia News Agency | Bulgaria's Ousted Energy Minister Dodges "Golden Skunk" Award Sofia News Agency, Bulgaria - Bulgaria: Rumen Ovcharov, Bulgaria's former Energy and Economy Minister, who left the government in the wake of a corruption scandal, did his best not to be ... |
Epoch Times | Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly RedBolivia.com - Leaders of the Organization of American States called the general assembly in Panama to discuss the importance of energy for sustainable development and its ... Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly Panama Hosts OAS General Assembly Energy for sustainable development, main issue in OAS summit |
| Push for Tougher Rules on Wind Industry San Francisco Chronicle, CA - Nick Rahall, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is pushing legislation that would more strictly regulate wind energy to protect birds, ... Tougher wind energy legislation proposed |
| SmartPower in Redding? Board considers renewable energy program Redding Pilot, CT - SmartPower is a national nonprofit marketing company that is promoting clean energy by getting electricity from sources such as wind, solar and water. ... |
| Warning: expand agriculture or choose between fuel and food Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - The executive director of the institute, Mick Keogh, said: "Biofuels have been promoted ??? as a major part of the answer to future energy needs, ... Australia must look before it leaps on biofuels Biofuel industry doubts |
| Biofuel industry doubts The Age, Australia - PROMOTING a biofuel industry makes little economic or environmental sense unless agriculture expands in the tropical north, a farming think-tank says. ... |
| Dynamotive Adds BioOil to the Biofuels Mix Resource Investor, VA - "Cellulose-based fuels present the next frontier in sustainability and Dynamotive's pioneering position in advanced generation biofuels is further enhanced ... |
| Push for tougher rules on wind industry Houston Chronicle, TX - WASHINGTON ??? Birds and bats have a powerful advocate in the new Congress, and he is making the wind energy industry nervous. ... Push for tougher rules on wind industry House chairman pushes tougher regulation for wind industry At windmills, dead birds, bats by the hundreds |
| Progress Energy to put off new reactor Chapel Hill News, NC - WAKE COUNTY -- Progress Energy will delay building a new reactor at the Shearon Harris nuclear plant in Wake County and instead push customers to use less ... Progress Energy puts nuclear, coal on hold Progress Energy puts nuclear, coal on hold Progress Energy to delay nuclear plant |
Epoch Times | Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly Chosun Ilbo, South Korea - Top officials from across the Americas are gathering in Panama for a meeting of the Organization of American States to discuss concerns about the energy ... Energy for sustainable development, main issue in OAS summit |
| NH ranks low in energy use, global warming emissions Portsmouth Herald News, NH - CONCORD, NH -- New Hampshire uses less energy as a state and less energy per resident than most other states, according to a government report. ... |
 Buffalo News | QUEST FOR BETTER BIOFUELS Buffalo News, NY - Very recently the great potential that certain plants have to not only produce abundant cellulose for conversion to biofuels, but to do so while adding ... |
Servihoo | China urges local officials to prepare energy efficiency plans Turkish Press, MI - China urged local officials Sunday to prepare their own energy efficiency plans in a bid to save a floundering plan to drastically reduce energy consumption ... China sets energy efficiency as performance target Efforts urged to curb energy consumption, pollution |
| How green is Duke Energy? Charlotte Observer, NC - Still, Duke Energy chief executive Jim Rogers invited them to dinner at an exclusive Raleigh club. He wanted their advice for Duke to become a greener ... Duke Energy further invests in wind |
| ECO VIEWS: Whit Gibbons Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL - The style of the book is different from a basic field guide that identifies animals or plants or an ecology book that discusses the general biology of ... |
| WNY commuters begin to consider car pooling and mass transit Buffalo News, NY - The transportation planning group contracted with Ecology & Environment to make the online service available for local commuters. ... Minnetonka park-and-ride to open Monday |
| Energy Legislation Passed By Senate Stresses Conservation TheDay, CT - Hartford ??? The state Senate gave final approval Saturday to new energy legislation that would devote millions to conservation efforts aimed at reducing ... A Power Struggle Over The Future Of Deregulation Legislature Agrees On Energy Reform Proposal |
| Biofuels pilot plant passes Gainesville Sun, FL - Absent from last week's headlines about Gov. Charlie Crist's veto of a 5 percent tuition hike for universities was an important piece of good news: The ... |
| GE Energy expands power project capabilities in Middle East Al-Bawaba, Jordan - Further expanding its local capabilities in the region???s robust power generation industry, GE Energy is establishing new power generation projects offices ... |
| China sets energy efficiency as performance target Reuters South Africa, South Africa - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese government leaders and major companies were put on notice on Sunday that energy efficiency and pollutant reduction will be key ... Efforts urged to curb energy consumption, pollution |
| Biofuel plants generate new air, water, soil problems for Iowa DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - The buzz about biofuels centers on a huge environmental perk. During its production and use in vehicles, corn-based ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, ... From the reporter: A greener fuel, but not pristine Air: Plants emit higher levels of toxics than expected Water use: Biofuel plants' thirst creates water worries |
| Renewable energy firm buys Essex elevator DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. said Friday that it has purchased Essex Elevator Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The elevator is about five miles ... Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. Announces Agreement to Acquire ... |
 Deseret News | State defends energy plant emissions Billings Gazette, MT - "We're the largest net exporter of energy of any state in the country," Gov. Dave Freudenthal said. "That combined with the fact that we're the lowest ... California curbs carbon emissions with energy efficiency |
| GE Energy expands power project capabilities in Middle East AME Info (press release), United Arab Emirates - Further expanding its local capabilities in the region's robust power generation industry, GE Energy is establishing new power generation projects offices ... GE Energy Names Joseph Anis To Lead Middle East Region GE Energy Expands Power Project Capabilities in Middle East GE Energy opens offices in Saudi Arabia and UAE |
| California curbs carbon emissions with energy efficiency Napa Valley Register, CA - California has less heavy industry than many other states, and its mild climate means it doesn't use as much energy -- or spew as many greenhouse gases ... |
 Washington Post | US refineries won't answer oil needs Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - In 2005, imported liquid fuels - mostly oil and an increasing amount of gasoline - accounted for about 60 percent of US consumption, according to the Energy ... US industry plans one new refinery Gas, Oil Futures Jump on Supply Worries Oil prices flat as traders assess US energy reserves, Nigeria |
| Lawmakers Take Step To Lower Energy Bills Hartford Courant, CT - With the state Senate's action Saturday in passing an energy bill, consumers are being promised that they may eventually get relief from their sky-high ... Senate OKs energy bill Allows UI, CL&P to produce power Highlights of the energy reform legislation Senate takes up energy reform bill |
 Philadelphia Inquirer | Rendell's ambitious energy effort Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - But the reason it quit may help illustrate the future of energy in Pennsylvania - especially if Desmond's boss, Gov. Rendell, persuades the legislature to ... |
| Energy and politics News & Observer, NC - Instead, in a surprising move, the state Senate passed a budget that includes a provision to virtually eliminate the State's Energy Office. ... ...energy inefficiency Budget would bust up state's green-energy agency |
| NGO in Bacolod wins int'l award for pioneering renewable energy Visayan Daily Star, Philippines - The Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation Inc. based in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City, is one of 10 renewable energy pioneers from across the ... |
 Seattle Times | Woman dead in New Zealand after 'Murder Energy' cut electricity Green Left Weekly, Australia - Muliaga's family said she had pleaded with the contractor from Mercury Energy to ???just give us a chance???, but the contractor said he was just doing his job. ... Grieving Muliaga family calls for directors to resign Mercury Energy apologises to family, suspends cutting power Gravity of Muliaga's illness irrelevant, lawyer says |
| APEC energy summit pursues oil security Green Left Weekly, Australia - In light of the increasingly uncertain global oil supply, Washington has turned to biofuels as an alternative, an approach endorsed by the APEC energy ... |
| Ethanol industry may create nearly 600 new jobs in biotechnology Sioux City Journal, IA - FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) -- Nearly 600 new jobs in the ethanol industry may be created in Iowa over the next three years in fields like biofuels and ... Ethanol jobs likely to grow ??? in short term |
| Trouble brews in Germany as biofuel boom jacks up price of beer nwitimes.com, IN - The German government subsidizes biofuel crops at the rate of $24.60 per acre, according to the Agency for Renewable Energies, part of the Agriculture ... |
 Philadelphia Daily News | Gas, Oil Futures Jump on Supply Worries Newsday, NY - The increase in gasoline futures prices came despite Thursday's Energy Department inventory report, which showed that gas supplies grew by 1.3 million ... Oil prices flat as traders assess US energy reserves, Nigeria |
| Biofuel brews trouble in Germany Newark Star Ledger, NJ - BY KIRSTEN GRIESHABER. AP. AYING, Germany -- Like most Germans, brewer Helmut Erdmann is all for the fight against global warming. ... |
| Senate OKs energy bill Allows UI, CL&P to produce power New Haven Register (subscription), CT - HARTFORD ??? The state Senate gave final approval Saturday to a long-awaited energy bill, but lawmakers conceded that it won't have any immediate impact on ... |
| Tulsa company to produce biodiesel from waste vegetable oil Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, OK - Their company, Tulsa Biofuels, will use waste vegetable oil from restaurants to produce its biodiesel fuel. The vegetable oil will be supplied by waste ... |
| Envirepel Energy, Inc. Submits Historic 240 MW of Renewable Energy ... PR Newswire (press release), NY - The request for offers to companies like Envirepel Energy answers California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Renewable Energy mandate that utilities ... Envirepel Energy, Inc. Submits Historic 240 MW of Renewable Energy ... Envirepel hits ???zero emissions??? renewable energy target with ... |
| Budget ax puts science, degrees, animals in peril Online Athens (subscription), GA - Luhring, who's studying salamanders in his work with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, uses a trash can to catch specimens. ... Ecology lab gets brief reprieve Facility catches a break for now SRS lab to remain open through June |
 Dallas Morning News (subscription) | Tax breaks become a tool for shaping Texas energy policy Austin American-Statesman (subscription), TX - Rick Perry signs House Bill 2994 into law, a growing list of energy companies planning to build nuclear facilities ??? including TXU Corp., Exelon Corp. and ... Texas nuke plant deals gaining steam |
| California curbs carbon emissions with energy efficiency North County Times, CA - California has less heavy industry than many other states, and its mild climate means it doesn't use as much energy -- or spew as many greenhouse gases ... |
| Energy Costs Focus of OAS Assembly Voice of America - Top officials from across the Americas are gathering in Panama for a meeting of the Organization of American States to discuss concerns about the energy ... Energy for sustainable development, main issue in OAS summit OAS head and Panamanian president hold talks |
| Environmental group urges use of energy-saving light bulbs China Post, Taiwan - An environmental group yesterday urged consumers in Taiwan to switch to energy-saving light bulbs, claiming that each household's use is equivalent to ... |
| Biofuel gangs kill for green profits Times Online, UK - Charities working with local peasants claim that paramilitary forces in league with biofuel conglomerates ??? some of them financed by US government subsidies ... |
| Landowners gain ground in West's energy turf wars Los Angeles Times, CA - The energy boom across the West has created tens of thousands of jobs and funded state scholarships, teacher raises ??? even top-of-the-line sports centers in ... |
| Ask an Expert: Combine energy audit with new furnace San Jose Mercury News, CA - Before replacing your furnace, I encourage you to have a home energy audit. An audit will tell you which improvements - such as upgrading insulation or ... Record Year for Thermal Energy Ventures |