This summer’s gas prices lowest in at least six years Drivers who have seen a steady rise in the price of gasoline can relax: They will almost certainly be paying far less for gas this summer than they have in at least six years. “It’s a cheap, cheap, cheap year,” says Tom Kloza, chief oil
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Seattle mayor says Shell Arctic oil rig needs new land-use permit A giant floating oil rig currently anchored off Port Angeles, Washington state, will be towed to Seattle this week despite the mayor’s assertion that the Port of Seattle can’t host the rig until it gets a new land-use permit, a Royal Dutch Shell spokesman
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Shipments to proposed Utah depleted uranium storage site to be made by rail In a barren landscape of scrub just off a major Utah highway, a 10-foot-deep pit the size of about 75 football fields could soon house a kind of nuclear waste that grows more radioactive for 2 million years. EnergySolutions’ plan to bring up
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Tennessee nuclear plant called “the brand-new eight-track tape player in the fleet” Tom Wallace started working at Watts Bar, a Tennessee nuclear plant as a young man in 1979, hoping he could eventually become a reactor operator. It remains a work-in-progress for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Wallace, 55, is still finishing that plant 36 years
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Shell Arctic drilling protestors say decision places ‘big oil before people’ Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic drilling program has cleared a major bureaucratic hurdle to begin drilling for oil and gas off Alaska’s northwestern coast this summer. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management on Monday approved the multi-year exploration plan in the Chukchi Sea for Shell after
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Railroad Commission gathering seismic data after strongest North Texas earthquake in years Thursday’s 4.0 magnitude North Texas earthquake 30 miles southwest of Dallas has prompted regulators to shut down five waste water disposal wells pending seismicity testing. Marilyn Gerloff, a resident of Johnson County, told the Arlington Star-Telegram the earthquake sounded like a “sonic boom.” The quake struck at
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Fewer than 50 Bryde’s whales in the Gulf U.S. regulators say a unique species of baleen whales in the Gulf of Mexico may be threatened with extinction and could get special protection. In April, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it was looking at granting endangered or threatened status to the small population of Bryde’s
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Noble Energy expands Texas footprint in a big way Noble Energy will pay about $2.1 billion for Rosetta Resources in an all-stock deal that gives the oil and gas company access to two massive Texas shale formations. Assets belonging to Rosetta Resources Inc. include about 50,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford Shale and another
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New study says that 58% of new American power generation over next 25 years will be natural gas, renewables 38% Seeing lots of “news” on your Facebook feed about the coming solar energy revolution? Don’t believe it. A new forecast from the US Energy Information Administration says that until 2040, most new American power generation will
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Bakken oil “fully in compliant with North Dakota’s crude conditioning order.” A shipment of Bakken oil involved in an explosive train derailment in North Dakota had been treated to reduce its volatility – a move that state officials suggested could have reduced the severity of the accident but won’t prevent others from occurring. Hess Corporation spokesman John
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