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Tuesday 6 May 2008
Fischer Boel comes to the defence of biofuels Scotsman, United Kingdom - By Andrew Arbuckle AS THE price of food has risen in recent months, public enthusiasm for biofuels has dimmed. However, yesterday the European commissioner ... |
 Seattle Post Intelligencer | Are Seattle, King County biofuels green? Seattle Post Intelligencer - Targeted Growth Seattle and King County governments routinely issue press releases boasting of their efforts to increase their use of biofuels. ... |
HK Energy Partners cancels plans for IPO Forbes, NY - AP 05.06.08, 5:25 PM ET Oil and natural-gas developer HK Energy Partners LP has canceled its plans for an initial public offering, according to a Securities ... Pioneer Southwest Energy closes IPO of 9.5M shares Pioneer Southwest Energy Partners LP Announces Closing of Initial ... |
ARNOLD ARBORETUM HAPPENINGS Wicked Local West Roxbury, MA - Douglas Tallamy, professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware is the instructor of this program, ... |
Wal-Mart selects 20 capitols for energy audits Chicago Tribune, United States - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced partnerships with 19 states, including Iowa, and Puerto Rico to help them save on energy and electricity costs at their ... |
 ABC News | Sachs to EU: Food Aid Won't Solve Crisis BusinessWeek - The American economist also added his voice to the growing criticism of biofuels saying: "We should cut back significantly on our biofuels programmes, ... US, EU must cut back on biofuels: UN adviser Sachs - Europe and US must cut biofuels and fund poor farmers EUROPE: Warnings Against Biofuels Get Louder |
Global Ecology Corp Announces $2M in Sales from Mexico Project TMCnet - By Eve Sullivan The Global Ecology Corporation (GEC), formerly the Homeland Security Network (News - Alert), is announcing that it has received their ... Global Ecology Corporation Announces $2 Million in Initial Sales ... |
 RTT News | Spectra Energy Reports First Quarter 2008 Net Income Up 56 Percent ... FOXBusiness - This quarter, Field Services paid distributions of $112 million to Spectra Energy. An additional $250 million special dividend was paid to Spectra Energy in ... Spectra Energy net up 56% on commodity boost Spectra Energy to buy back shares, boost dividend Spectra Energy's 1Q profit jumps 55 percent |
Basic Energy Services Reports Selected Operating Data for April 2008 FOXBusiness - Basic Energy Services provides well site services essential to maintaining production from the oil and gas wells within its operating area. ... Basic Energy profit falls on lower well-servicing results Basic Energy Services Q1 Profit Declines - Update |
 Canadian Content | Energy Sector Roundup: Oil jumps to high near $123 a barrel Forbes, NY - The Energy Department now expects average monthly gasoline prices should peak at $3.73 a gallon in June, while regular-grade gasoline is expected to average ... Video: Oil Soars on Goldman Sachs Prediction Oil prices may 'super-spike' to $US200 Oil Prices: Should They Go Even Higher To Settle Energy Market? |
 AFP | Africa's biggest oil producer goes green AFP - LAGOS (AFP) ??? In his office in Lagos, Alain Salleras, a Frenchman of about 50 for whom biofuels are something of a crusade, is working away at his pet ... |
Atlas Energy Resources, LLC Announces Follow-on Debt Offering WELT ONLINE, Germany - On January 23, 2008, Atlas Energy completed a private placement for $250 million of senior unsecured notes due 2018 to qualified institutional buyers under ... Atlas Energy sells 600000 Class B units |
Energy Biosciences Institute makes first 49 biofuel grants Bizjournals.com, NC - ... 19 projects focused on finding less costly methods of isolating sugar molecules -- a necessary step in cellulosic biofuel production -- plus five ... |
PNG cassava biofuel project to create 5000 jobs Radio Australia, Australia - Cassava is a staple food crop for many in the Pacific region, but its economic potential as a source of biofuel is also beginning to be realised. ... |
Living In A Privatized Idaho New West, MT - EPA officials say they???re not alarmed by the presence of lead because that is one of the materials American Ecology is permitted to handle in Idaho. ... LaRocco to Otter, Risch: No Contaminated Sand to Idaho |
Biofuels not raising food prices - German ministers guardian.co.uk, UK - BERLIN, May 6 (Reuters) - The global production of biofuels is not behind the recent rise in world food prices, two German ministers said on Tuesday. ... Germany Says US Must Cut Biofuel Subsidies to Help Rainforest |
 AFP | Biofuels answer to climate change: UN, EU AFP - ATHENS (AFP) ??? Biofuels must be developed more selectively to prevent competition with food-related crops, but they are still an answer to climate change, ... UN official: Some biofuel plans not headed in 'right direction' |
 MSN India | EU official bristles at biofuel backlash Houston Chronicle, United States - The 27-nation EU is seeking to limit the effect of higher biofuel production on food prices by reducing the amount of land that farmers are forced to leave ... EU defends support for biofuels, says the crops unfairly blamed ... Mariann Fischer Boel says biofuels are a 'scapegoat' EU farm chief defends biofuels, mulls tighter rules |
Germany Says US Must Cut Biofuel Subsidies to Help Rainforest Bloomberg - Prices for staple foods such as rice and wheat have reached records as biofuel production has soared. Global food prices surged 57 percent in March from a ... Biofuels not raising food prices - German ministers |
EDF board to discuss joint bid with Centrica for British Energy ... Forbes, NY - PARIS (Thomson Financial) - The board of French energy group EDF is to hold a special meeting on Wednesday or Thursday on a possible joint bid with UK group ... EDF is clear frontrunner in British Energy bid Centrica in joint venture talks to bid for British Energy EDF, RWE, Iberdrola set to bid for B.Energy-source |
MSN India | EU farm chief defends biofuels, mulls tighter rules Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's agriculture commissioner criticized the media storm surrounding biofuels on Tuesday, but said the EU's executive ... EU defends support for biofuels, says the crops unfairly blamed ... Mariann Fischer Boel says biofuels are a 'scapegoat' EU official bristles at biofuel backlash |
 Environmental Data Interactive | Biofuel moratorium 'would slash food prices Environmental Data Interactive, UK - A moratorium on grain and oilseed-based biofuels could slash food prices by up to 20% within the next two years, according to leading agricultural ... Women farmers face eviction in biofuels boom |
AFP | UN official: Some biofuel plans not headed in 'right direction' International Herald Tribune, France - Plans to expand biofuel production in many parts of the world are coming under closer scrutiny following a recent spike in food prices and fears that two ... Biofuels answer to climate change: UN, EU |
Neste launches biofuel for all diesel motors Reuters - HELSINKI, May 6 (Reuters) - Refiner Neste Oil (NES1V.HE: Quote, Profile, Research) launched its green diesel on Tuesday in Finland, calling it the world's ... Neste oil launches unique renewable diesel commercially in Finland |
Energy reduction plan would hike bills Bizjournals.com, NC - National Grid has filed a proposal with the state Public Service Commission designed to reduce energy usage but will require adding as much as $3 onto the ... Energy reduction plan would hike bills National Grid unveils plan to cut energy costs Utility pushes energy savings effort |
Indian soyoil futures rise on biofuel hopes Reuters India, India - "The sharp rise in crude oil prices may attract soyoil based biofuel as an alternate energy source," brokerage Karvy Comtrade Ltd said in a report. ... Indian oilseeds futures rise on record crude oil |
Linde, Sued Chemie form biofuel alliance Forbes, NY - MUNICH (Thomson Financial) - Linde AG. and Sued Chemie AG. have set up an alliance to develop and market plants for the production of second-generation ... Joint press release from Sud-Chemie and Linde: Sud-Chemie and ... Linde, Sud-Chemie in cellulosic ethanol venture Joint press release from S??d-Chemie |
Johnson gets Blatchley scholarship Indianapolis Star, United States - Johnson will use the scholarship to study forest ecology in local forest communities with Professor Keith Clay. Johnson, a former resident of Greenfield, ... |
 Financial Post | US consortium snaps up Calgary's Saxon Energy Globe and Mail, Canada - CALGARY -- Swept up in a wave of consolidation that could hit more Canadian oil field services firms, Saxon Energy Services Inc. is being acquired by a ... Saxon Energy Services is selling itself light. Schlumberger, First Reserve to Buy Saxon Energy (Update5) Saxon Energy Services agrees to takeover offer |
 PhysOrg.com | Santa Monica High wins US Energy Department's National Science ... Los Angeles Times, CA - By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Santa Monica High School students won the US Department of Energy's National Science Bowl on Monday, ... Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Energy Samuel W ... Santa Monica High School from Santa Monica, Calif. Wins US ... Science squad places at nationals |
 Azerbaijan Business Center | Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Azerbaijan Republic Ministry of Ecology and ... Azerbaijan Business Center, Azerbaijan - Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Huseyn Bagirov said the Ministry researches on beaches status. ???Now held researches show that microbiologic status ... 50 module typed water purification plants installed in Azerbaijan |
 Jamaica Gleaner | Livebroadcast clears the air with Biofuel Song Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica - He believes the demand for biofuel is behind the jump in prices and lets his views be known on his latest production, Biofuel Song. "The government needs to ... |
New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private ... Science Daily (press release) - Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants, Functional Ecology, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2008.01415.x, ... |
Official says no need for India to use maize for biofuel Economic Times, India - 6 May, 2008, 0603 hrs IST, PTI NEW DELHI: Unlike the US, India need not use crops like maize to produce biofuel, an alternate fuel that consumes a large ... Hybrid maize to create bigger revolution than bt cotton 'Need better policy to boost maize production' |