Total Ponders How to Extinguish North Sea Flare CNBC Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:36 AM PDT France's Total is laying plans to extinguish a flare on its Elgin North Sea gas platform that is leaking explosive clouds of gas, including a helicopter water drop, fire-fighting vessels and pumping nitrogen to starve it of oxygen, Britain's energy ministry said. | British Gas refuses to take part in Big Switch Telegraph via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:36 AM PDT Energy giant has said it will not take part in the Big Switch, which helps consumers negotiate better utilities deals. | German retail sales slump amid worries about rising energy prices Europe Online Magazine Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:33 AM PDT Berlin (dpa) - German retail sales fell for the second month in February, as concerns about rising energy costs hit household spending in Europeâs biggest economy, data released Friday showed.The statistics office said monthly retail sales, adjusted for calender and seasonal factors, posted a surprise drop of 1.1 per cent last month, after falling by 1.2 per cent in January. Analysts had ... | Local biomass fuels boiler Farming Life Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:27 AM PDT Connor Maguire, CAFRE and David Thompson, Letterbreen view the latest delivery of willow-chip for the Campus biomass boiler. The installation will be on view at the renewable energy event on 22 February at the Enniskillen Campus. | PFS raises Rs 71 cr from stake sale in IEX The Hindu Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:26 AM PDT PTC India Financial Services Ltd (PFS) appears to have hit a jackpot raising Rs 70.76 crore from the sale of part of its stake in Indian Energy Exchange Ltd (IEX) at a price that was about 50 per cent higher than what it got last year for similar sale. | Kenya shilling slips on energy sector orders Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:24 AM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - The Kenyan shilling slipped on Friday, hit by demand for dollars from the energy sector as inflation dipped for a fourth straight month in March, fuelling speculation that the central bank could cut interest rates next week. The year-on-year rate of inflation fell to 15.6 percent in March from 16.7 percent in February, official data showed on Friday. At 0825 GMT, commercial ... | Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS EurekAlert! Fri, 30 Mar 2012 02:23 AM PDT ( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey, with scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in principal leadership roles. First spectroscopic results from BOSS give the most detailed look yet at the time when dark energy turned on some six billion light years ago, as ... | | |
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