Charles Kennedy

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• Foreign Oil & Gas Companies Look to Status Quo in Venezuela

  Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 15,060 times

  Now that Nicolas Maduro—the late Hugo Chavez’s choice for successor—has narrowly won Sunday’s presidential elections in Venezuela, oil and gas investors can expect a perpetuation…

• French Vineyard to Sell CO2 to Toothpaste Companies

  Published 15 April 2013 | viewed 4,511 times

  Vineyards around the world rely on a delicately balanced climate in their particular area to ensure the perfect grapes for producing quality wine. Unfortunately many…

• World’s First Ever Algae Powered Building Being Tested in Hamburg

  Published 13 April 2013 | viewed 6,536 times

  The world’s first ever algae-powered building is being built and tested in Hamburg, Germany.Designed by the engineering multinational firm Arup, more famous for designing the…

• Fisker Fiasco Won’t Dent EV Funding

  Published 13 April 2013 | viewed 8,132 times

  After being awarded $529 million in US loans, Fisker Automotive is laying off 75% of its workforce following the failure to secure a partnership deal…

• Another Major Gas Find in Algeria for Repsol

  Published 11 April 2013 | viewed 7,938 times

  Spain’s Repsol SA (REP) has made a second major gas discovery in its Sud-Est Illizi block in southeast Algeria, close to the Libyan border and…

• Portugal Generated 70% of Energy from Renewable Sources in First Quarter

  Published 11 April 2013 | viewed 17,060 times

  REN, the Portuguese grid operator, has just released new figures that show that nearly three quarters of the country’s energy needs were met by renewable…

• France In Tight Spot over Geothermal ‘Fracking’

  Published 10 April 2013 | viewed 19,341 times

  France finds itself in an interesting conundrum that the oil industry is hoping to take advantage of: The country has banned fracking but is now…

• ExxonMobil to Pay New Hampshire $286 Million over Contamination Charges

  Published 10 April 2013 | viewed 4,656 times

  ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) has been found guilty of contaminating groundwater supplies in the state of New Hampshire, and was ordered by the jury to pay…

• Buffett Rumor Boosts Beleaguered Suntech

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 8,324 times

  After filing for bankruptcy and seeing its stock fall 40% when it default on $541 million in bonds, Chinese equity Suntech Power Holdings Co. (STP)…

• Cornell Plan for a 100% Renewable New York by 2030 would Cost $382 Billion

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 4,991 times

  Last month Robert Howarth, an ecology professor from Cornell University, suggested that the state of New York could generate half of its energy needs from…

• Kurdish Crude Hits the International Market

  Published 08 April 2013 | viewed 9,325 times

  The Baghdad-Erbil oil standoff will escalate as the Iraqi Kurds sell their first crude oil on the international market and as Austria’s OMV launches production…

• World’s Largest Waste-to-Energy Power Plant to Run off London’s Fat

  Published 08 April 2013 | viewed 7,420 times

  A deal, worth more than £200 million over 20 years,  has been made to use cooking waste and fats from thousands of London restaurants and…

• Chevron Lands Million-Ton LNG Futures Buy in Australia

  Published 05 April 2013 | viewed 5,890 times

  Chevron has announced that Chubu Electric Power Co. of Japan has signed a binding agreement to purchase 1 million tons of LNG annually from the…

• Explosion Possible at the Most Contaminated Nuclear Site in the US

  Published 05 April 2013 | viewed 10,955 times

  The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington is the most contaminated nuclear site in the US. First developed in the 1940’s as part of the Manhattan…

• Renewable Energy, the Mafia’s Newest Playground

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 11,938 times

  When the Italian authorities seized $1.7 billion in mafia-linked assets this week, many were surprised to see learn that the renewable energy industry is apparently…

• Ex-Enron CEO Negotiates Early Release with US Justice Department

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 5,321 times

  CNBC has reported that the former CEO of Enron, Jeff Skilling, is currently in talks with the Department of Justice to formulate an agreement that…

• Investment Opportunities in the US Energy Sector

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 9,069 times

  The two popular energy sectors within the US are natural gas and renewables, and whereas natural gas has experienced huge growth in recent years becoming…

• Gas Starts Flowing from Israel’s Levant Basin, What Now?

  Published 03 April 2013 | viewed 24,716 times

  The first gas has started flowing from Israel’s supergiant Tamar gasfield in the Levant Basin. Where it will go will redraw the Mediterranean energy map…

• Niger Delta’s Largest Rebel Group to Start Attacks against Oil Industr

  Published 03 April 2013 | viewed 5,313 times

  Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa and truly has enough reserves to become a major exporter which could earn it the revenues necessary…

• Self-Driving Cars by 2025

  Published 02 April 2013 | viewed 11,643 times

  The not-so-distant future of driving will be first increasingly semi-autonomous and then fully automated, as technology to build self-driving cars gains traction, promising both safer…