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Tuesday 14 April 2009
Florida Corporate Moves Business Facilities By Fred Felton Highlands County, FL, soon will be home to the world's largest facility to make biofuels from inedible plants, including grasses, according to an announcement from BP PLC and Verenium Corp. The British energy giant is investing $112.5 ... Florida still hopes to produce ethanol from citrus waste |
Budget bills could extend water rights backlog Seattle Times, United States Officials with the state Department of Ecology were close to helping it get new water rights for its growing population, but the effort recently failed. Now, with proposed budget cuts to the Ecology Department's water resources program, ... Budget bills could extend water rights backlog |
 Sky News | Biofuels 'Like Pouring Vodka Into Beer' Sky News, UK Biofuels could produce twice the carbon emissions of the fossil fuels they replace, environmentalists have claimed. Friends of the Earth have said rules introduced a year ago requiring a percentage of UK transport fuels to be "green" could have created ... Biofuels 'may have created an extra 1.3m tonnes of Co2' |
Ethanol Report on Global Biofuels Policy Domestic Fuel, MO ... Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) and the organization???s goals for providing scientific information about life cycle assessment and greenhouse gas reduction, as well as the importance of expanding biofuels production for developing countries. ... US will approve higher ethanol blend: group Blend of ethanol in gasoline may increase |
 Emirates Business 24/7 | OIL FUTURES:Crude Sinks Below $50/Bbl On Weakening Econ Wall Street Journal The US Energy Information Administration is due to release weekly inventory data Wednesday at 10:30 am EDT. A previous string of relatively positive economic data had created a window for a broad rally that carried many commodities and US equities ... NYMEX-Crude dips, post-settle, after big API build Energy Roundup: Brazil, Russia Hinder OPEC Cuts, GE Blows Away ... Oil Falls Below $50 on Sluggish Retail Sales |
Beware of canisters on Washington beaches Seattle Post Intelligencer The state Ecology Department says people cleaning up Washington coastal beaches on Saturday should watch out for silver canisters that could have poisonous contents. Some of these 1 liter containers were found last year along the Northwest coast. ... |
 Indian Express | Oil prices fall on US retail sector, demand concerns Channel News Asia, Singapore NEW YORK: Oil prices dropped on Tuesday after data showed retail sales shrank expectedly in the United States, the world's largest energy consumer, and amid persistent market concerns about contracting global oil demand. ... OIL FUTURES: Crude Drops As IEA Revises Down Oil Demand MARKET WATCH: Energy markets weaken after pre-Easter rally Crude falls as IEA revises lower demand forecast |
Budget bills could extend water rights backlog Seattle Post Intelligencer Officials with the state Department of Ecology were close to helping it get new water rights for its growing population, but the effort recently failed. Now, with proposed budget cuts to the Ecology Department's water resources program, ... |
We Energies named one of best ???Green Power??? programs Bizjournals.com, NC The Energy for Tomorrow program created by We Energies has been named one of the Top 10 Utility Green Power Programs in the nation by the US Department of Energy???s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. We Energies, the public utility subsidiary of ... We Energies Recognized for Having One of the Nation's Best Utility ... PGE's residential green power program No. 1 nationally for fourth year Sr. Power System Engineer |
Wash state to smugglers: stop bootlegging soap Seattle Times, United States Hoping to stem the smuggling of banned phosphate-laden detergents into Spokane County, the state Department of Ecology is highlighting the benefits of eco-friendly brands. By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press Writer Hoping to stem the smuggling of ... Spokane Phosphate Ban Has Mixed Results |
 Seattle Post Intelligencer | Food, energy costs push down wholesale prices Bizjournals.com, NC The drop largely was driven by declining food and energy costs. Gasoline prices plummeted 13.1 percent, while home heating oil fell 13.2 percent, the sharpest drops for both since December. Food prices fell 0.7 percent. Excluding volatile food and ... Producer prices slip unexpectedly Wholesale prices fall unexpectedly in March US Producer Prices Fall in March; Core Unchanged |
Massey Energy CEO's compensation drops 17 percent The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) ??? The chairman and chief executive of coal miner Massey Energy Co. received compensation valued at $19.7 million in 2008, a 17 percent decrease from the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of data filed with ... |
Koreans to invest in biofuel plants in Tarlac, Gensan Business Mirror, Philippines TWO Korean firms are set to invest P8 billion for the construction of two biofuel plants in Tarlac and General Santos City this year, according to the Philippine Agricultural Development and Commercial Corp. (Padcc). PADCC, an attached agency of the ... Gov???t looking to soon ink P8B in biofuel investments Korean firms investing P8B in biofuels |
 Sonoma Valley Sun | Prestwood students raise trout in partnership with Sonoma Ecology ... Sonoma Valley Sun, CA In Susan Foshay???s fifth-grade class, raising trout is part of a long-standing partnership with Sonoma Ecology Center???s environmental education program for fifth graders. ???Former students come back to visit and always and ask if we???re still raising fish ... |
Biofuels, the Next Generation CounterPunch, CA By CARMELO RUIZ-MARRERO The promotion of biofuels is a central component of president Obama's energy policy. But biofuel crops, which are mostly corn, sugar cane, oil palm and soy, are in big trouble because of the overwhelming and continuously growing ... |
 CTV British Columbia | CANADA STOCKS-TSX falls as energy shares stumble Reuters By Frank Pingue TORONTO, April 14 (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index was lower on Tuesday morning as the price of oil fell and sent energy shares tumbling, with much of the rest of the index following along. Oil is a key Canadian export its price ... Commodity gains extend TSX rally CANADA STOCKS-TSX falls on oil after hitting 3-month high CANADA STOCKS-TSX lower as energy shares slip on oil price |
 The Southern Ledger | Economic weakness seen keeping summer gas prices low: DOE MarketWatch By Jeffry Bartash WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The global slowdown and lower demand will cut summer fuel prices to the lowest level in at least four years and increase inventories, said the Department of Energy on Tuesday. The agency forecast gasoline ... Oil Industry Braces for Drop in US Thirst for Gasoline World 2009 oil demand seen 180000 bpd less-EIA EIA Reports Natural Gas Surplus, Prices Drop with Low Demand |
 The Moscow Times | Russian ecology official quits to run green group Reuters UK, UK By Olzhas Auyezov MOSCOW, April 14 (Reuters) - Russian ecology official Oleg Mitvol, known for his high-profile attacks on Western resource companies, is leaving his job to run an environmental movement seeking representation on Russian city ... Mitvol Quits Ecological Agency in Disgust |
 HispanicBusiness.com | Browner: US needs to be world energy leader again BusinessWeek By STEVE LeBLANC A top adviser to President Barack Obama said Monday that Congress needs to pass a sweeping energy bill to spur the development of renewable energy while curbing the emissions that contribute to global warming. ... 'Green revolution' a boon for state, congressman says Who???s going to get the carbon pollution credits? Browner, Markey, Waxman push for energy bill approval at forum |
Orion Energy Systems sees FY '09 results below Street Reuters April 14 (Reuters) - Lighting company Orion Energy Systems Inc (OESX.O) forecast full-year 2009 results below analysts expectations, citing the impact of the global downturn on its business. "The global recession has presented significant headwinds in ... Orion Energy Lowers FY09 Outlook - Update Orion predicts fiscal 2009 revenue of $73 million OESX: Conference call regarding Orion Energy Systems, Inc ... |
 Boston Globe | Mascoma moving headquarters to NH Boston Globe, United States Mascoma researchers in Lebanon, NH, are working to convert plant material into biofuel. (Caleb Kenna for the Boston Globe/ File 2008) By Erin Ailworth Biofuel company Mascoma Corp. plans to move its corporate headquarters from Boston to a new research ... Mascoma moves to New Hampshire Mascoma Moves Corporate Office to New Hampshire |
Iowa Spends Green to Grow Green Algae for Biofuel Domestic Fuel, MO The State of Iowa is making a major investment to grow algae for biofuel at a southwest Iowa ethanol plant. The 18-member Iowa Power Fund Board approved the $2085000 grant this week to assist in the commercialization of algae production technology. ... |
Beaver Pond Ecology Walk NewHampshire.com, NH Co-sponsored by The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and The Fells. Join Forest Society Naturalist Dave Anderson for a guided tour through the Hay Forest Reservation to the site of a recently renovated beaver pond and lodge. ... |
 USA Today | Texas leads in wind energy but faces challenges Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX The American Wind Energy Association reported Monday that Texas??? 7118 megawatts of wind power generation capacity as of the end of 2008 far outstrip that of any other state. Iowa, with 2791 megawatts ??? slightly less than 40 percent of Texas??? capacity ... Xcel Energy named leading wind power provider Wind energy imports may slow as US manufacturing increases Iowa bests California in wind energy output, at least temporarily |
Water worries cloud future for US biofuel Reuters And that puts the 65-year-old Rexford at the center of a bitter divide over biofuels, particularly corn ethanol. Critics argue that precious water resources are being bled dry by ethanol when water shortages are growing ever more dire. ... |