NewsRack: subbutest/Energy-by-Source/Fossil

Obama making plans to tackle global warming - Boston Globe: Latest

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Obama making plans to tackle global warming

Obama to tap executive powers to curb emissions blamed for global warming - Star Tribune: Business

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

DealBook: Wesley Clark, Retired General, Joins Blackstone as an Adviser - NY Times: Business

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

DealBook: Wesley Clark, Retired General, Joins Blackstone as an Adviser

Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change - NYT > Environment

By JOHN M. BRODER — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Obama Preparing Big Effort to Curb Climate Change

Cyprus okays gas plant deal with Noble, Delek - Seattle Times: Business & Technology

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Cyprus' deputy government spokesman says the Cabinet has ratified a preliminary agreement with U.S. firm Noble Energy and its Israeli partners Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration on their participation in the development of a planned natural gas processing facility.

local company news - Star Tribune: Business

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Deepwater Horizon's effects, three years later: Things are not fine - MinnPost

Rev. Gordon C. Stewart — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The documentary 'Can't Stop the Water' explores the history and fate of Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana. We just passed the third anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Rev. Gordon C. Stewart The subsistence fishers who have inhabited Isle de Jean Charles since 1830 see things differently from BP and the mainline press. “ 'Come to Louisiana. Everything is fine,’ say the BP ads. Well, they’re not fine. There are no oysters. There are no shrimp,” said Albert Naquin, chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw , during a recent conversation in Chaska, Minn. Chief Naquin and Kristina Peterson were on route to Duluth for a consultation of American indigenous people focusing on the Mississippi River from its headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth in Louisiana, the site of the vanishing traditional home of the Isle de Jean Charles tribe. Kristina is a professional community disaster-recovery specialist who ...

Letter: Coal Exports and Prosperity - NY Times: Editorials

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Letter: Coal Exports and Prosperity

Moffat County Commissioner Chuck Grobe to testify about benefits of oil and gas exploration - Steamboat Pilot

Noelle Leavitt Riley — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Moffat County Commissioner Chuck Grobe is headed to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to testify on behalf of the county’s oil and gas industry and job creation.

Diana Simon: Free from fracking - Steamboat Pilot

Diana Simon — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A June 2013 article in the American Journal of Nursing discussed possible health consequences caused by fracking. These consequences begin at the onset of drilling or last long after the process stops.

Limited frac sand mining approved in Goodhue County - Minnesota Public Radio: Business

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

After almost two years of debate, the Goodhue County Board of Commissioners approved two ordinances that will regulate the silica sand mining industry in that county.

Special Report: Energy: Utilities Switch Off Investment in Fossil Fuel Plants - NYT > Environment

By MARK SCOTT — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Special Report: Energy: Utilities Switch Off Investment in Fossil Fuel Plants

Utah regulators asked to reconsider power plant pollution solution - Salt Lake Tribune

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 18, 2013 03:45PM MDT An environmental group has asked Utah utility regulators to reconsider the pollution-related upgrades already approved for PacifiCorp’s Bridger power plant in Wyoming. “Basically, we’re saying there is a less expensive, environmentally superior alternative that PacifiCorp has not considered,” said Steven Michel, a New Mexico-based attorney for Western Resource Advocates. The question is before Utah’s Public Service Commission, since much of the electricity from the 2,120-megawatt, four-unit powe... ...

U.S. won’t look at NW coal’s impact on climate - Seattle Times: Local

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday at a congressional hearing that it will not consider the climate effects of burning U.S. coal in Asia as part of its review of proposed coal export terminals in the Pacific Northwest

Ex-coal official seeks leniency in conspiracy case - Seattle Times: Nation & World

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

A former Massey Energy official who is cooperating in the investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when he's sentenced Aug. 1.

Dot Earth Blog: A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post-Fossil Path for New York - NY Times: Science

By ANDREW C. REVKIN — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Dot Earth Blog: A Reality Check on a Plan for a Swift Post-Fossil Path for New York

After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy - Guardian: Environment

Chico Harlan — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery plan Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels . Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion." The boom was sparked by a little-noted government policy, implemented nearly a year ago, that guaranteed generous payments to anybody selling renewable energy, including solar power. Because of that policy, known as a feed-in tariff, investors and analysts say Japan has become one of the world's fastest-growing users of solar energy. This year alone, Japan is forecasted to install solar panels with the capacity of five to seven modern nuclear reactors. Before the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had all but neglected renewable energy, instead emphasising atomic power. But the accident at ...

Green groups warn government of national parks hunting backlash - Guardian: Environment

Oliver Milman — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Labor appears to have backed away from laws granting greater federal powers to protect Australia's national parks Environmental groups have forecast a huge public backlash to proposed logging, shooting and prospecting within national parks, after the government backed away from adding federal oversight to conservation areas. The Greens put forward an amendment to a government bill – on protecting water tables from coal seam gas drilling – that would have given the commonwealth greater power to protect national parks. Under the current the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, the federal government can intervene only if an endangered species, heritage area or place of "national significance" is affected by development. It is understood that the Greens amendment was rejected at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday night. A spokesperson for Tony Burke, the federal environment minister, said that the government supports its bill "as it stands" and that separate 2011 ...

Failed Minnesota clean-coal project gets help with its debts - Star Tribune: Business

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Excelsior Energy won’t have to make further payments on $9.5 million in state loans for an Iron Range power plant that never got off the ground.

Obama considers sweeping climate plan - LA Times: Nation

By Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Obama considers sweeping climate plan

Mexico in Talks to Open Energy Sector to Investors - Wall St. Journal: US

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

President Enrique Peña Nieto will seek to end a taboo of nearly eight decades by opening the state-run oil and gas industry to private investment and competition.

Indoor fracking installation seeks to provoke debate - Guardian: Environment

Mark Brown — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Model of fracking platform at Liverpool's Fact gallery recreates sounds, tremors and flames of real hydraulic fracturing operation It is one of the biggest, most polarising issues there is, but artists who have created an indoor fracking installation insist they are not trying to sway opinion either way. "We want to create an emotionally engaging experience. People can then go away and come to their own conclusions," said Heiko Hansen, who with his partner, Helen Evans, has recreated the sounds, tremors and flames you would get from a fracking operation. The process of fracking – or hydraulic fracturing – involves drilling a hole deep into the dense shale rocks that contain natural gas, then pumping in vast quantities of water mixed with sand and chemicals at very high pressure. This opens up tiny fissures in the rock, through which the trapped gas can then escape. Many shale deposits are buried under aquifers, and if the cement casing around the wellhole is not adequate, then the ...

Australia to boost offshore oil exploration - New Kerala: World News

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

Canberra, June 17 : Australia has announced the grant of 13 new offshore petroleum exploration permits as part of round one of the 2012 Offshore Petroleum Exploration Acreage Release, Resources and Energy Minister Gary Gray said in a statement Monday.

Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots - Seattle Times: Top stories

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface.

Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots - AP National

By GARANCE BURKE — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:30:00 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface....