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MATTER MAGAZINE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Total, a French oil company, recently agreed to give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) $4 million for a 5-year research project to develop stationary batteries that can more efficiently store solar energy. More efficient energy storage has been a difficult issue for scientists to crack. It is a major issue preventing more widespread use of renewable energy, and solar energy in particular....
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
$4 Million Goes to MIT from French Oil Company for Solar Energy Battery Project Total, a French oil company, recently agreed to give the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) $4 million for a 5-year research project to develop stationary batteries that can more efficiently store solar energy. More effecient energy storage has been a difficult issue for [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Opportunity Green Sustainable Business Conference, which brings together leading companies and visionaries in business, technology, and design to showcase the hottest opportunities for driving profitability through sustainability, today announced that three companies participating in the 2009 conference have either introduced new products or announced the formation...
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Global Power Company AES Raises $1.58B Through Stock Sale to China Investment Corp; Approx. 15% Stake Global power company AES Corporation entered a binding stock purchase agreement with a wholly owned investment subsidiary of China Investment Corporation (CIC) to raise $1.58 billion of new equity to fund growth opportunities and extend its global leadership in the power [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
AVELLA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - A Pennsylvania landowner is suing an energy company for polluting his soil and water in an attempt to link a natural gas drilling technique with environmental contamination.
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. & DUBAI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), a leader in the design and development of energy recovery devices for desalination, today introduced its QuadribaricTM technology, advancing the company’s mission to make seawater desalination an affordable solution to addressing the world’s clean water shortages. Embedded into...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hugh Pickens writes "CBS reports on 60 minutes that a massive two-day power outage in Brazil's Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007, and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. Former Chief of US National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell says that the 'United...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 49 minutes ago
Profits at Russian energy giant Gazprom drop 50% to 305.8bn roubles ($10.6bn) because of the higher cost of buying gas.
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Cockpit Conversation (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the participants in an online discussion group gave me permission to steal his novel economic proposal for the entertainment of you blog readers. Force every oil company to buy at least one airline, i.e. make the operation of an oil company conditional on owning an airline with the size and scope of one of the US majors. Then Congress does not have to worry about bailing out airlines, and they...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Maria Rosa separates some of the blizzard of white paper waste sent by the state to Sacramento's Recycling Industries, which sorts and bundles it for shipment to China. Some question the wisdom of the state's recycling practices under a 1989 state law. Near Mark Oldfield's desk at the California Department of Conservation sits a ream of copy paper that is more than a routine office commodity. Made...
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Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hugh Pickens writes "CBS reports on 60 minutes that a massive two-day power outage in Brazil's Espirito Santo State affecting more than three million people in 2007, and another, smaller event in three cities north of Rio de Janeiro in January 2005, were perpetrated by hackers manipulating control systems. Former Chief of US National Intelligence Retired Adm. Mike McConnell says that the 'United...
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Google News - Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Telegraph.co.uk Oil cos shut output in Gulf due to hurricane Reuters HOUSTON (Reuters) - US oil companies were shutting production on Sunday as they evacuated workers from the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ida, which is forecast to roar across the offshore oil patch Monday before ... Oil Rises as Storms Cut Mexican Output, Hurricane Enters Gulf Bloomberg Hurricane Ida Kills 91 in El Salvador New...
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Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
An electricity company is seeking billions in government cash to help build a gas-fired power plant each in NSW and Victoria.
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The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
An electricity company is seeking billions in government cash to help build a gas-fired power plant each in NSW and Victoria.
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The Compact (Free subscription) | yesterday
Save the date: There will be climate justice actions on Monday, November 30th across the US to apply some pre-Copenhagen pressure. In San Francisco we'll meet at 11:30 at Justin Herman Plaza. The actions will move to other locations in the financial district, targeting financial and energy corporations lobbying at Copenhagen (COP15). We've researched the players and a local list is forthcoming, emphasizing...
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aarkstore | 11/06/2009
Summary Pengrowth Energy Trust (Pengrowth) is an oil and gas trust in Canada. The company is principally engaged in exploration, production and development of crude oil and natural gas and holds interests in petroleum and natural gas properties. Further, it directly and indirectly acquires, owns and manages working interests and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties through its subsidiary...
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aarkstore | 11/06/2009
Summary Enerplus Resources Fund (Enerplus) is a conventional oil and gas trust in North America. It operates through a few subsidiaries that own crude oil and gas assets in Canada and the US. The company’s portfolio comprises of resource plays such as shallow gas, Bakken oil, oil sands and coal bed methane, as well as crude oil waterfloods and other conventional oil and gas assets located in British...
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aarkstore | 11/06/2009
Summary Callon Petroleum Company (Callon) is an independent oil and natural gas company. The company is engaged in the exploration, development, acquisition and production of oil and gas properties. The company’s oil and gas properties are located onshore in Louisiana and Alabama, and offshore Gulf of Mexico. It is headquartered at Natchez in Mississippi, United States. As of December 31, 2008, the...