Studies Find Methane In Pa. Drinking Water
Baldassare said that overall the Duke researchers "make a case for stray gas migration caused by gas well drilling activity ." The second water study was published online last week by the U.S....
View ArticleToo Many Questions Remain On Hawker And Chenault's Gasline
There is not much difference in cost of construction between a 36-inch and a 42-inch gas pipeline . Parnell, BP, Conoco and Exxon's alignment 42-inch gasline cost is estimated to $45 to $65 billion or...
View ArticleHeartland Institute Experts React To Obama's Climate Change Speech
President Barack Obama today delivered a speech laying out his energy and environment agenda for his second term - a plan that includes tighter regulations on power plants, mandates to increase vehicle...
View ArticleUtility Customers Shouldn't Have To Pay For San Onofre Shutdown
A consumer advocate division of the California Public Utilities Commission doesn't believe utility customers should have to deal with the massive costs related to the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear...
View ArticleMassive Tar Mat Found Along La. Coast
Three years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, workers have dug up a massive tar mat found along the Louisiana coast. The huge chunk of oil residue mixed with wet sand is about 165 feet long by 65 feet...
View ArticleAngry Residents Tell EPA Officials To Remove West Lake Nuclear Waste
Resident Byron Clemens said the federal government was responsible for creating the waste during World War II but hasn't done an adequate job managing the material after it was deposited at West Lake....
View ArticleFusion Energy Dreams Smash Into Hard Economic Realities
The old joke about nuclear fusion is that it's the "energy source of the future, and always will be" - but budgetary realities have raised new questions about just how much of a future fusion power...
View ArticleNew Coal Plan Could Be Huge Cost To Consumer
But this is going to cost every American consumer money in the form of their utility rates and we want to go directly to someone who can explain what is really on the table. And that would be from --...
View ArticleHorizon Lines Plan Diesel/LNG Engine Fuel Conversions
Horizon Lines plans to convert the power plants on two of its steam turbine cargo vessels to modern diesel engines capable of burning conventional liquid fuels or liquefied natural gas (LNG) .
View ArticlePGN Buys Kuwait Petroleum's Assets In East Java
Paper Edition | Page: 13. PT Saka Energi Indonesia, subsidiary of publicly listed gas distributor PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) , agreed to buy the participating interest of Kuwait Foreign Petroleum...
View ArticleUS Solar Industry Calls On India To Remove Trade Barriers
The US solar energy industry representatives today said Indias industrial policy discriminates against its exports and hoped that New Delhi will come to the table to discuss the trade barriers.
View ArticleBirdwatchers Flock To See Rare Bird, Then Watch It Killed By Wind Turbine
The White-throated Needletail after it died flying into a wind turbine in Scotland. The very rare bird has needle-like feathers and white markings on its tail and metallic-purple color on its wings.
View ArticleDSM To License Biofuel Technology Once Production Starts In Iowa
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard, gasoline and diesel producers are required to blend 36 billion gallons of biofuel a year into their products by 2022, including 16 billion gallons of cellulosic...
View ArticleCongressional Voting House Busy With Offshore Drilling
Voting 256 for and 171 against, the House passed a Republican bill (HR 1613) to implement a Gulf of Mexico deepwater drilling treaty in a way that would exempt U.S. oil companies from transparency...
View ArticleBritish Shale Gas Reserves Double. Will The UK Frack?
Considering that BP reports British consumption as 2.76 trillion cubic feet in 2012, this formation is enough to transform the UK energy market, even though only 10-15 percent of shale gas reserves is...
View ArticleWho Will Land Hess' Terminal Network?
There are a lot of names being thrown around as potential purchasers of these assets, including Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC ) , Sunoco Logistics (NYSE: SXL ) , and Buckeye Partners (NYSE: BPL ) ....
View ArticleWhy The Grass Should Not Always Be Greener
The water and chemicals used for fracking, injected into deep wells at high pressure, blast apart shale to produce domestic gas and oil . Fracking is credited with last year's remarkable 14% increase...
View ArticleMoody's Places Desenvix's Ratings Under Review For Possible Downgrade
Desenvix holds interests in 15 power plants with a total installed capacity of 349 MW, consisting of 10 small and medium sized hydro-power plants, one biomass plant and four wind power plants....
View ArticleBill Could Open Bristol Bay To Gas Leasing
"The Obama Administration has placed the majority of the Outer Continental Shelf off-limits and placed half of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska off-limits," Hastings said in a recent Committee on...
View ArticleHow To Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
Drive for Innovation Chapter 239: How to boost solar cell efficiency. Professor Yang Yang at UCLA describes his work with using organic polymers to boost solar cell efficiency. NO RATINGS. Login to...
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