Oil price tumbled to $43.08 on Tuesday The price of U.S. crude oil has tumbled to its lowest level in more than six years. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $1.88, or 4 per cent, to settle at $43.08 a barrel in New York on Tuesday, its lowest close since March of 2009. The latest slide came as […]
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Australia greenhouse gas emissions starting at very high polluting point CANBERRA, Australia – Australia has been criticized over its new greenhouse-gas reduction target which lags behind the ambitions of most wealthy countries. Lawmakers in Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s conservative government on Tuesday agreed on a target of curbing carbon gas emissions to at least 26 per cent
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Japan nuclear power unpopular with citizens TOKYO – With the pull of a lever, control rods were lifted Tuesday from the reactor core at a plant in southern Japan, ending a ban on nuclear power following meltdowns at Fukushima in the northeast that forced tens of thousands of people to leave their homes, most of them for
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San Francisco company installing large wind power project in Canada CALGARY – From megawatts to the size of rotors, everything about wind turbines has been getting bigger. But even proponents of wind power say they may be reaching a limit as logistics and a lack of social acceptance over their size start to hinder growth. San Francisco-based
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Wind energy in California has recovered, Oregon and Washington still below average A drop in average wind speeds in the western United States during early 2015 led to reduced wind energy generation from plants in California, Oregon, and Washington, according to the US Energy Information Administration. As a result, wind plant utilization rates, also known as
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Utah oilsands mine expected to begin production later this year CALGARY – Dozens of protesters have disrupted work on an oilsands mine a Calgary-based company is building in Utah. Melanie Martin, with a group called Peaceful Uprising, said four people were arrested Monday as they aimed to stop equipment from moving around the site. Around 40 protesters were
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Clean Power Plan aims to eliminate Texas coal power plants, which generate 24% of state electricity We get it. Texas is really mad about Obama, the EPA, and the Clean Power Plan. But behind the bellicose rhetoric from Austin lies an interesting story about the plan’s potential benefits and pitfalls. In this three part series,
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Shell initially denied access petroleum zones 8,000 feet below ocean floor ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With a key safety vessel repaired and in northern waters, Royal Dutch Shell PLC has applied to amend its federal exploratory drilling permit to allow drilling into oil-bearing rock in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast. Shell last month received permission to begin some
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Methane fuelled tractor more environmentally friendly VENARIA REALE, Italy – Luca Remmert’s dream of running a self-sustainable farm is within sight. He produces energy from corn and grain near the northern Italian city of Turin and hopes in the not too distant future to run all of his eight tractors on methane generated at the farm. Remmert’s 450-hectare
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Alliance Pipeline shut down natural gas pipeline last week CALGARY – It could take several days to dispose of hazardous gas that mistakenly got into a major Canada-U.S. natural gas pipeline. Alliance Pipeline, whose B.C.-to-Chicago system has been shut since Friday, starting burning off the gas at two locations in southeastern Saskatchewan on Sunday. In an online notice,
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