Biofuels help limit global aircraft emissions NEW YORK – The number of global fliers is expected to more than double in the next two decades. In order to carry all those extra passengers, airlines are turning to a technology very few can make work on a large scale: converting trash into fuel. They have no other choice. […]
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Texas A&M to help band clear reserve of war training ordnance material VANCOUVER – Ten members from British Columbia’s Okanagan Indian Band have been selected for specialized training to learn how to rid their reserve of the buried bullets and bombs that have accumulated over a century. Military training dating back to the Boer War has littered
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Tidal energy deal will bring together public, private stakeholders HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA – Two Canadian sea-side provinces, Nova Scotia and British Columbia, are partnering to develop tidal energy on Canada’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts. A memorandum of understanding, signed by representatives from both provinces today at a conference bringing together provincial energy and mines ministers in Halifax, says the provinces
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Oil sands study assisted by USDA Forest Service researchers When forest ecologist Ellen Macdonald interpreted data collected from forests around Fort McMurray, she got two surprises. Not only are emissions from oilsands operations having a positive effect on forest vegetation, so too is the dust that the oil sands operations stir up. Because nitrogen and sulphur are
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Montana oil train derailment under investigation BILLINGS, Mont. – A train that derailed and spilled 35,000 gallons of oil in northeastern Montana was travelling within authorized speed limits, federal officials said Monday as they continued to probe the accident’s cause. The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train loaded with crude from North Dakota was travelling 44 miles per
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Western Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 246 will be held in New Orleans, La. on Aug. 19 The federal government will be selling leases on 22 million acres off-shore Texas in an effort to boost oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Ross Hopper announced Monday that
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Demand for oil field chemicals dictated by complexity of production – IHS The global market for oil field chemicals reached $25 billion in 2014, but growth will be much slower thanks to low oil prices, according to a new report. Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in
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American nuclear plants expected to operate at near full capacity over summer season China is going all in on nuclear power. Plants currently under construction or on the drawing board will vault China above Russia, Japan and South Korea, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The United States leads the world with just over
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Officials not sure if petroleum barge leaked naphtha into water GALVESTON, Texas – Emergency personnel have extinguished a fire aboard a barge carrying petroleum after the vessel collided with another barge near the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel. U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrew Kendrick says some nearby ship traffic was suspended but that traffic along
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LNG plant construction would largest capital investment in provincial history The British Columbia Liberal government’s LNG dream is expected to move towards reality this week when a bill is adopted for a 25-year agreement on what could be B.C.’s first LNG plant. A liquefied natural gas industry: the British Columbia government fought an election on it,
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