Monday, June 11, 2012

EXTRA STUFF

IEA: tech is available to keep global temps from rising >2degreeseC. But "WE'RE NOT USING IT". Maybe that's biblical. Maybe we're not supposed to. Coal use rising around world. NG plants may have to add C capture equip.

House GOP remanding EPA contest for new powerplant standards.

FERC OK'd Duke-Progress merger with conditions.

Talk of OPEC production cut. Meet this coming Thursday. Reportedly 31.75mb/d in May.

Fed researchers testing whether fracking fluids can travel throgh geologic faults to aquifers.

EcowavePower (Israel) installed medium-scale wave E power plant in Black Sea.

JP's oil imports up 20%  over year earlier in May to ~3.36mb/d.

Shell signed prelim agreement to supply LNG for heavy trux @ 110 stations across US starting in '13. And Shell selected TransCan to build 435 mile NG pipe from E. BC to BC coast LNG facility.

US House voted to restore clean-coal tech research funding. No dollar figure.

SEC requires net worth >$1M or income >$200K for 2 yrs to be eligible to actively trade hedge funds. Well, that's a club.

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