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Breakthroughs Make Desalination Equipment Investor's Pick

Breakthroughs Make Desalination Equipment Investor's Pick

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:33 | Charles Kennedy

Analysts are predicting that orders for desalination equipment, which makes drinking water from the sea, will triple over the next five years and metamorphose into a $17 billion business thanks…

Israel Reaches Out to US for Oil and Gas Development

Israel Reaches Out to US for Oil and Gas Development

Aug 24, 2012 at 14:03 | Charles Kennedy

Israel Natural Gas Lines' is energetically courting US majors to develop its oil and gas industry, inviting firms specializing in exploration, production, pipeline construction, logistical services, workforce training and other…

Australia's Mining Boom Over?

Australia's Mining Boom Over?

Aug 24, 2012 at 14:01 | Charles Kennedy

Australian officials are sparring over the status of the country’s mining industry, with Resources Minister Martin Ferguson telling the media that the nation’s mining boom is officially over with the…

Securities and Exchange Commission Passes Key Tax Disclosure Ruling

Securities and Exchange Commission Passes Key Tax Disclosure Ruling

Aug 24, 2012 at 13:59 | Charles Kennedy

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday passed in a 2 to 1 vote a requirement for American oil and mining companies to disclose taxes and fees paid to…

Sudan-South Sudan Tensions Flare over Oil-Rich Abyei

Sudan-South Sudan Tensions Flare over Oil-Rich Abyei

Aug 24, 2012 at 13:58 | Charles Kennedy

As new talks are set to get underway between Sudan and South Sudan, another skirmish is threatening the shaky peace as the two sides spar over control of oil-rich Abyei.…

Poland's Natural Gas Monopoly Purges and Merges

Poland's Natural Gas Monopoly Purges and Merges

Aug 24, 2012 at 13:51 | Charles Kennedy

Poland's natural gas monopoly, PGNiG, on Thursday announced plans to streamline its management and merge its subsidiaries after suffering major second-quarter losses. The natural gas monopoly reported a net loss…

China Ups Ante in Trade War with US

China Ups Ante in Trade War with US

Aug 24, 2012 at 13:49 | Joao Peixe

China’s Commerce Ministry has reaffirmed an earlier decision stating that six US renewable energy projects are in violation of World Trade Organization rules, setting the stage for legal action against…

North Korea Progresses on New Nuclear Reactor

North Korea Progresses on New Nuclear Reactor

Aug 23, 2012 at 14:23 | Joao Peixe

Satellite images reportedly show significant progress on the construction of a new reactor that is believed to be a front for fuel production for nuclear weapons, news agencies cited

Energy Independence by 2020 with Romney?

Energy Independence by 2020 with Romney?

Aug 23, 2012 at 14:20 | Charles Kennedy

Presidential candidate Mit Romney on Thursday promised voters a US entirely energy independent by 2020, the allegedly detailed plan for which he plans to unveil on his campaign tour stop…

Wal-Mart Storms Energy World

Wal-Mart Storms Energy World

Aug 23, 2012 at 14:18 | Charles Kennedy

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer now boasting two million associates and 150 million shoppers, is storming the scene with its own energy policy that has some analysts considering whether the…

IAE, Iran to Meet in Vienna

IAE, Iran to Meet in Vienna

Aug 23, 2012 at 14:06 | Charles Kennedy

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that Iranian representatives have agreed to meet with the agency in Vienna on Friday in another round of nuclear talks. Shortly…

Crisis Brews in India over Coal Block Allocation

Crisis Brews in India over Coal Block Allocation

Aug 23, 2012 at 14:05 | Joao Peixe

India’s Parliament is stalled over the allocation of coal blocks, with opposition party officials accusing the prime minister of foul play and ruling party officials accusing the opposition of deliberately…

International Oil Companies Illegally Exploiting Somali Hydrocarbons?

International Oil Companies Illegally Exploiting Somali Hydrocarbons?

Aug 23, 2012 at 09:29 | Editorial Dept

The East African Energy Forum has issued warnings to the Kenyan Government and four international oil companies today that are illegally exploiting offshore hydrocarbon concessions off the southern coast of…

Romney Raises $6mn at Big Oil Luncheon

Romney Raises $6mn at Big Oil Luncheon

Aug 22, 2012 at 13:01 | Charles Kennedy

US Presidential candidate Mit Romney attended a lucrative luncheon on Tuesday, earning an easy $6 million in campaign donations from energy executives at the $50,000-a-plate engagement. The luncheon…

Coal Wins Minor Battle with EPA, but Still Loses to Natural Gas

Coal Wins Minor Battle with EPA, but Still Loses to Natural Gas

Aug 22, 2012 at 12:18 | Joao Peixe

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has lost a major legal battle with major power companies over the timeframe and extent of coal-pollution regulations, but it will do little to stay…

Platinum Gains on Miner Unrest in South Africa

Platinum Gains on Miner Unrest in South Africa

Aug 22, 2012 at 12:16 | Charles Kennedy

Platinum made its biggest gains today since May amid investor concerns over tensions with minors in South Africa and clashes between strikers and security forces that left 44 dead last…

Why Greece Has to Leave the Euro

Why Greece Has to Leave the Euro

Aug 22, 2012 at 12:14 | Editorial Dept

The torture of Greece continues unabated. The country has absolutely no chance of getting out of the economic hellhole it is in as long as it remains on the euro.…

Compressed Air Vehicle - Has the Electric Car Met its Match?

Compressed Air Vehicle - Has the Electric Car Met its Match?

Aug 21, 2012 at 16:00 | James Burgess

EV’s are so last season. Those of you into the latest and greatest clean energy technologies need to get yourself a car that runs on compressed air. The idea of…

Petroleum Theft Growing in Mexico

Petroleum Theft Growing in Mexico

Aug 21, 2012 at 15:58 | Joao Peixe

Despite the millions of dollars spent trying to battle theft of oil, petrol, and diesel by Mexican criminal gangs, Pemex, the Mexican government’s hydrocarbon monopoly, has reported that the pilfering…

World's First Wind-Powered EV Charging Station Installed in Barcelona

World's First Wind-Powered EV Charging Station Installed in Barcelona

Aug 21, 2012 at 15:57 | Joao Peixe

Critics of electric vehicles attack the claims that they are a truly green source of transport, due to the fact much of the electricity that they use to charge their…

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