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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American LNG given 20-year export licence American LNG Marketing LLC received final authorization Friday from the Energy Department to export LNG to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. American LNG is authorized to export liquefied natural gas up to the equivalent of 0.008 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural
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EPA crew accidentally released toxic water from Gold King Mine into Animas River The EPA says the mine waste spill from the Gold King Mine into Colorado waters is much larger than originally estimated. But an Environmental Protection Agency official said Sunday that she doesn’t believe wildlife will suffer significant health impacts from the wastewater from an
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Pipelines responsible for shipping more oil from Midwest to Gulf Coast refineries Shipments of crude oil out of the Midwest region to other U.S. regions have steadily increased as a result of pipeline reversals and rail transport, according to the US Energy Information Administration. Rail movements out of the Midwest contributed to the region becoming a
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Snake-like robotic crawlers to Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to damage from 2011 tsunami What started as a fun project for two Canadian techies more than 25 years ago has now become an industry leader in robotic crawlers. Inuktun Services Ltd.’s remotely operated vehicles, or ROVs, have combed through the radioactive wreckage of a tsunami-hit
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Stage set for sad end to Keystone XL pipeline project The Canadian company involved in the controversy-plagued Keystone XL pipeline project has begun planning its response to an anticipated rejection of the project by U.S. President Barack Obama. In its public statements, TransCanada Corp. is expressing hope he might still approve the pipeline, which over
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Rig count goes up despite another big decline in oil prices Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. says the rig count of drillers exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by 10 this week to 884. Houston-based Baker Hughes said Friday 670 rigs were seeking oil and 213 explored for natural gas. One
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Orange sludge flowing south toward New Mexico, Utah – EPA An eerie yellow sludge that poured out of a shuttered gold mine and into a southwestern Colorado river was inching its way downstream toward New Mexico and Utah, according to the EPA. Federal officials said Friday the spill contains heavy metals including lead and arsenic,
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Hislop says Trump is the first “celebrity presidential campaign” and is rewriting the political playbook…Smith’s head explodes. American Bloviators is a couple of Canadians blathering mindlessly about American politics. Most of what Markham Hislop (publisher of American Energy News) and Kathleen Smith (Alberta-based social media queen) say is meant to be funny, but every once in awhile
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