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A new study reveals that…
Following the recent blackouts in India that have caused so much stir due to the vast number of people that they affected, it is clearer than ever that the country…
Following an oil spill last November, and then another leak in March, Chevron and its drilling contractor Transocean Ltd., were ordered to halt all operations in Brazil until civil and…
President Obama has released the official rules for offshore drilling safety which will now replace the interim rules introduced following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Disaster. The rules…
Shares in United Utilities, the UK’s largest publicly listed water company, have reached a four year high following the speculation that it will soon be subject of a takeover bid.
Ventures Middle East, a strategic business advisory company, has recently performed a study of the Middle East and concluded that in 2012 97 new power and water projects worth $32.7…
Cyber-attacks are becoming more and more common as of late. Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil exporter, has released a statement explaining that a virus attacked its computer systems yesterday.…
According to Bill Gates nearly 2.6 billion people, 40 percent of the world`s population, do not have access to clean sanitation. This results in the deaths of approximately 1.5 million…
Celebrations abound for the environmentalists and indigenous tribes opposing Brazil’s Belo Monte dam after a federal appeals court ordered construction of the giant hydroelectric project to be suspended until local…
In order to supply its new nuclear reactors, the UAE’s Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC), has awarded a group of six international companies to provide the nuclear fuel requirements to…
As part of plans to overhaul its electricity generation network, China will build 16 large coal fired power plants in its arid northern and western provinces, including Inner Mongolia, Shanxi,…
Gulf states are planning to use ray guns to protect their oil and gas infrastructure and also dissuade pirate attacks.Raytheon, the largest manufacturer of missiles in…
Meredith Whitney was an obscure Oppenheimer & Co. bank analyst back in 2008 when she broke from the pack and predicted Armageddon. She was right, the pack was wrong, and…
Investigators have checked over the site of the fire at Chevron’s refinery at Richmond and have compiled their preliminary report. They have found extensive damage to the cooling towers, pipe…
Dong Energy has taken another step to achieve its objective of becoming the leading energy utility in the German offshore wind sector, by purchasing three major offshore wind projects in…
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced at the annual National Clean Energy Summit that the US now has more than 50GW of installed wind capacity. That is enough to…
In a Daily Ticker Interview with Henry Blodget, economist Gary Shilling makes the case the US is already in recession."We've had three consecutive months of declines in retail…
The US Navy has reported that at 1.00am local time, one of their guided missile destroyers collided with an oil tanker near the Straits of Hormuz.The Navy stated…
With all the focus on electric vehicles it can be easy to forget the billions that the government pours into biofuels, and especially corn based ethanol production. Most people prefer…
Building efficiency is becoming more and more popular and important for reducing waste energy and therefore carbon emissions. One of the most important and effective ways of increasing building efficiency…
Germany’s government run, national infrastructure bank KfW Bankengruppe has just announced that it will increase its investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency projects to €100 billion over the next…