EOG Says U.S. Fracking Rule to Cost $1.5 Billion a Year
Bloomberg Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:44 AM PDT
The Obama administration’s plan to tighten regulation of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas on public land may cost more than 20 times U.S. estimates, energy companies and local governments said. |
Wind turbines at islands approved
ic Lanarkshire Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:43 AM PDT
Dozens of wind turbines will be built off the north-west coast of Scotland after being given the green light by the Energy Minister. Planning consent was granted for a 36-turbine wind farm 1.5km west of Stornoway, Lewis, which will generate 129.6 megawatts electricity (enough to power 60,000 homes). |
B.C. regulator says fracking causes minor earthquakes
Victoria Times Colonist Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT
A spate of small earthquakes in B.C.'s remote northeastern corner were caused by a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale rock, a report by the province's energy regulator says. |
Water Recycling Kicks off at New Mexico Laboratory
Scientific American Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:41 AM PDT
Each year, the Department of Energy s Los Alamos National Laboratory s wastewater treatment plant produces more than a hundred million gallons of treated wastewater effluent. This summer, in an effort to reduce its environmental impact, the laboratory christened a system that will allow it to treat and recycle its wastewater for use in its own cooling towers. This recycling system will allow the ... |
Fair’s Iowa Wind Energy Day has big purpose in mind
Tri-State Neighbor Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:39 AM PDT
A new transmission project is expected to increase the demand for wind turbines within a 100-mile radius of O’Brien County in northwest Iowa, and the Iowa Wind Energy Association will be looking for landowners in the area interested in joining the effort at an Iowa Wind Energy Day at the Clay County Fair in Spencer, Iowa, on Sunday, Sept. 9. |
Carlyle to buy Cogentrix from Goldman
The Malaysian Insider Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:37 AM PDT
NEW YORK, Sept 7 â€" Carlyle Group will buy power plant developer Cogentrix Energy LLC from Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the latest in a string of deals by the private equity firm since the break-up of its energy investment venture with Riverstone Holdings LLC. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter, were not ... |
Lord Of The Warbirds
Forbes Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:36 AM PDT
Energy billionaire Rod Lewis gets down to earth in the south Texas oilfields, but when piloting his megacollection of vintage aircraft, he leaves it all behind. |
Fracking causes minor earthquakes, B.C. regulator says
CBC.ca Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:35 AM PDT
A spate of small earthquakes in B.C.'s remote northeastern corner were caused by a controversial technique used to extract natural gas from shale rock, says a report by the province's energy regulator. |
S.Africa lifts moratorium on shale gas exploration
Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:33 AM PDT
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa has lifted a moratorium on shale gas exploration in the Karoo region, where the extraction technique of "fracking" might help tap some of the world's biggest reserves of the energy source and deliver a big boost to the local economy. Collins Chabane, a minister in the President's office , said the cabinet had decided to lift the moratorium, imposed in April ... |
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