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Thursday 19 February 2009
BP, Verenium start biofuels joint venture PennEnergy, TX LONDON, Feb. 19 -- BP PLC has launched a new joint venture company with Verenium Corp., Cambridge, Mass., to establish the US's first commercial, 36 million gal/year cellulosic ethanol facility in Highlands County, Fla., by 2012. ... |
 BBC News | Iran slows atom plant growth but fuel stockpile jumps Reuters By Mark Heinrich VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has slowed the expansion of its uranium enrichment plant but has built up a stockpile of nuclear fuel, an International Atomic Energy Agency report said on Thursday. The UN watchdog said Iran had increased the ... Syria samples reveal more uranium IAEA: Iran has slowed its uranium enrichment program Iran says has own raw uranium supply |
Algae a "credible source" for biofuel, professor says Brownfield, MO by Julie Harker Algae is a credible source for biofuel, according to a professor in the University of Illinois, with many benefits. Professor Lance Schideman in U of I???s Agriculture and Biological Engineering department says among the various biomass ... |
 New York Times | As OPEC Prepares to Meet, Chu Focuses on US Energy Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN POWER WASHINGTON -- Energy Secretary Steven Chu -- whose agency has long taken the lead on global oil-market policy -- said Thursday he doesn't know what the Obama administration would urge the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ... Energy secretary predicts higher demand for oil DOE to OK stimulus energy projects by early summer Energy stimulus turns into tilting at nuke-powered windmills |
PhotoGraphy workshop visualizes urban ecology as art Arizona State University, Tempe The collaboration is led by Klett, a professor in ASU???s Herberger College of the Arts, and spearheaded by urban ecology students Cutts and Christofer Bang. It will center on photographs depicting Phoenix and its residents provided by Klett and graduate ... |
 FoodBev.com | Pepsi bottlers to distribute Rockstar energy drink Forbes, NY AP , 02.19.09, 04:23 PM EST PepsiCo Inc. added the Rockstar energy drink to its distribution portfolio Thursday as it refocuses its marketing energy on the North American drinks market. PepsiCo (nyse: PEP - news - people ) also sells the Amp and No ... PepsiCo sees $650 million in snacks for women Pepsi Deal Will Rock The Energy Drink Aisle PepsiCo signs multiyear distribution agreement with ROCKSTAR ... |
 TVNZ | Oil Surges 14 Percent After Unexpected Drop in US Stockpiles Bloomberg Inventories fell 138000 barrels to 350.6 million barrels last week, the first decline this year, the Energy Department said today in a weekly report. Stockpiles were forecast to increase by 3.2 million barrels, according to a Bloomberg News survey. ... Oil rises 4% as dollar falls, stock futures gain Oil prices surge on report of falling inventories Oil jumps 14% on surprise supply drop |
 Baltimore Sun | FERC OKs EDF upping stake in Constellation Energy The Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) ??? US regulators approved on Thursday an offer by French power giant EdF to buy nearly half of US-based Constellation Energy's nuclear operations for $4.5 billion. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said in a statement that the ... Energy regulators OK $4.5B sale of Constellation Energy unit to EDF Constellation Energy Swings to Loss on Merger Costs, Plans ... FERC Approves EDF Purchase Of Constellation Energy Stake |
New York Times | DOE to OK stimulus energy projects by early summer Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday he hopes the department can begin approving loan guarantees authorized by the stimulus for renewable energy projects by early summer. Loan guarantees, already authorized by Congress ... Energy Dept. aims to give out stimulus loans by summer Chu Unsure of US Advice to OPEC Chu Unveils DOE Changes, Timeline for Stimulus Energy Spending |
The Ecology of Investment Strategies istockAnalyst.com (press release), OR Any investment strategy can be overused. Part of the job of a portfolio manager is to ask the question ???To what degree am I in or out of the consensus? Where am I in the cycle for my strategy???? Few managers are conscious of the water that they swim in. ... |
 RTT News | Noble Energy lowers '09 capital spending Forbes, NY AP , 02.19.09, 01:54 PM EST Noble Energy Inc. on Thursday said its 2009 capital spending will decrease from 2008 levels, and production levels will edge up slightly from 2008 levels. The oil and gas producer said it set its capital budget at $1.6 ... Noble Energy profit rises on hedging gain Noble Energy, Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript Noble Energy Q4 adjusted profit declines; cuts FY09 capital ... |
Talisman Energy Inc. Conference Call CNNMoney.com Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX: TLM) (NYSE: TLM) has scheduled a conference call for investors, analysts and media on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 11:00 am MST (1:00 pm EST) to discuss Talisman's year end results. Participants will include John A. Manzoni, ... Sanford Bernstein Upgrades Several Oil & Gas Drilling ... |
Corn Biofuel is Toast: Here Comes Crambe CleanTechnica, CA Corn is beginning to seem more and more like the has-been-that-never-was of the biofuel feedstock scene. An inedible, weedy-looking plant called crambe is the latest competitor to come along and stick a fork in it. Never heard of crambe? ... |
Candor Town Board Town does more research on biofuels Montgomery Herald, NC By Linda Beaulieu Candor officials learned more about biofuels in a report at the town board???s Feb. 9 meeting. Commissioners Tim Privett and Layton Booker, along with Town Clerk Tammy Kellis and Public Works Director Brice Hollis reported on their ... |
National Algae Association Announces 'Algae - Our New Biofuel ... Newswire Today (press release), UK NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Sedalia, KY, United States, 02/19/2009 - The Mid-South Chapter of the National Algae Association will host a one-day algae biofuels commercialization and research workshop on February 27 in Atlanta, Georgia. ... Algae Association to Hold Biofuels Workshop |
Ecology Coatings - the Coating Industry's Cleantech Innovator PR Newswire (press release), NY "We are all about innovation," stated Ecology Chairman Rich Stromback . "Over the last two years, customers have clearly indicated that we are their creative resource team - the company they look to for problem solving through innovative coatings that ... |
 RealClimate | Linking the climate-ecology attribution chain RealClimate Many are obviously curious about whether certain current regional environmental changes are traceable to global climate change. There are a number of large-scale changes that clearly qualify???rapid warming of the arctic/sub-arctic regions for example, ... |
Proposed water well curbs draw fire in Sequim forum Peninsula Daily, WA The state Department of Ecology hosted "Water for People, Farms and Fish," a public workshop on how and why water from the Dungeness River must now be managed instead of allowed to flow freely into an unlimited number of households, lawns, ... |
Photos trace Florida reef fish decline MarketWatch (press release) McClenachan's said her studies, which involved analyzing approximately 1275 fish from photographs, are part of an emerging field called historical marine ecology, in which scientists study photographs, archives, news accounts and other records to help ... |
Why the Promise of Biofuels is a Lie CounterPunch, CA By ROBERT BRYCE For years, the US has been inundated with claims that it should follow Brazil???s lead on biofuels. These arguments have largely been made by a small, but influential group of neoconservatives who claim that the US should quit using oil ... Brazilian Ethanol Policy: Lessons for the United States |
 The Associated Press | Energy prices drive up wholesale costs International Herald Tribune, France By Jack Healy NEW YORK: Stabilizing energy prices halted a five-month decline in producer prices last month, the government said Thursday, but inflation remained a remote concern during a deepening recession. The producer price index, which measures ... Wholesale prices higher than expected ECONOMIC REPORT US producer prices rise 0.8% in January US wholesale prices rise 0.8% |
Biofuels Council Founder Appointed to Advisory Board Domestic Fuel, MO The Latin American biofuels development firm of Santiago & Sinclair has appointed Sean O???Hanlon, founder and executive director of the American Biofuels Council (ABC), to their advisory board. The firm is comprised of experts who assist organizations ... |
 The Money Times | Biofuels boom could destroy rainforests MarketWatch (press release) STANFORD, Calif., Feb 19, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A US researcher is warning the boom in the production of biofuels might lead tropical farmers to destroy rainforests to plant biofuel crops. Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford ... UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News Biofueling Climate Change |
Fruit Flies Sick From Mating Science Daily (press release) "We monitor how genetic expression is impacted by mating and show that the most common process that is affected is the immune defense system," says Ted Morrow at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Uppsala University. ... |
Green Ink: Big Biofuel and Cheap Solar Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY Big Oil is getting serious about biofuels. BP and Verenium announce a deal to build what will be the world???s largest cellulosic biofuel plant in Florida, just weeks after inaugurating a much smaller demonstration plant in Louisiana, in the WSJ (sub ... |
 Reuters | Will the Stimulus Help Wind and Solar? New York Times, United States ???Unfortunately, the tight debt markets will still keep many projects from moving forward immediately,??? said Craig Mataczynski, president of Renewable Energy Systems Americas, a wind developer, in an e-mail message. ???When the debt market thaws a little ... Stimulus package gives a boost to clean energy Solar energy rakes up heat Energy choices |
 Proactive Investors UK | BP Jumps Into Next-Generation Biofuels With Plans to Build Florida ... Wall Street Journal By RUSSELL GOLD Moving quickly to produce the next generation of biofuels, energy giant BP PLC said it is making a major investment in extracting transportation fuel from plants. The British company said Wednesday it is extending an existing ... BP and Verenium form biofuels joint venture BP building cellulose biofuel business from grasses Biofuels Venture Set to Grow |
 Dexigner | Green Roofs: Awards of Excellence Dexigner The Green Roof Awards acknowledge excellence in innovative and integrative green roof design and raise awareness of the multiple benefits that green roofs can provide clients and the general public. The program recognizes distinction in three the areas ... How Seattle can help green roofs to really grow |