STUFF

Chevron awarded over $850M of contracts to seed development of offshore Scotland.

China's coal-to-liquid demo uses too much water.

Study: boreal (I had to look it up, you look it up) (northern) forests burning more now than at any time in last 10K years.

Mexican state canceled forest offset project. Cal was mulling linkage.

Study: climate change 10K times faster than critters' adaptation rate.

Poison ivy growing bigger, faster from climate change. (Stock up on that pink stuff. O yea, Calamine. Me Alzheimer's not too bad today.)

Fossil fuel divestment effort still growing.

Local officials, landowners in PA accusing Chesapeake Energy of cheating on royalty payments with large "post-production" costs. How skunky is that?

Water supplier sounded alarm about rust on Exxon pipeline months before Arkansas spill. (This will cost Exxon what? $2B?)

Hansen: burning all fossil fuels will doom humans on earth. (Or at least most. Course, so will the Tribulation. Maybe one and same. Or contemporaneous.)

Work started on Georgia's first wind energy project. 20Mw. Permits, then tracking equipment. Wind initiative announced in May. Country's largest clean power source from 40 hydro plants, minimum 1.8Gw cap. 50% of total country cap. Wind potential est. at 2Gw.

First Wind Energy sub Sky West proposing biggest wind farm in New England. 186Mw spanning 2 counties in central Maine. $400M.

US oil demand peaked in '07. Vehicle travel in '08.

US exports of petrol products started increasing in '06. 1Mb/d to 3M now. Same time, US petrol product imports fell from 4M back to 2M. Now headed back up. (So, my math says that's 4Mb/d flowing out of US. Why are pump prices up? Right here.)

Colo State U got $2M NSF grant to research cyanobacteria.

Mayor of London wants buses to run on city's waste cooking oil. At least 20%, 250M liters/yr.

Iran provides 44% of Turkey's oil imports. Turkey also Iran's biggest NG customer. Turkey paying in gold. Actually, they pay in Liras that Iran uses to buy gold in Turkey. The gold goes to Dubai and sold for foreign currency or shipped to Iran. $381M in March. July 1 new US sanctions targeting gold transactions came into effect. Pakistan trading wheat for Iran el power. And the beat goes on.

Will peak phosphate get us before global warming? Phosphorus as essential as carbon and oxygen. Manure the traditional source. And rock. Deposits running out. West Sahara world's biggest reserves. Peak may be in '35.

EDF to buy 200Mw 1st phase of up to 500Mw TX wind project. Option for 2nd phase.

RES Americas to sell 150Mw wind power to Ark El Coop.

Shepherds Flat developers took full advantage of fed, state, local subsidies to fund $2B 338 wind turbine farm in OR. US turbines, China towers. 45 permanent jobs.

Thailand to build 3Gw solar by '21. 50% more than previously announced. New subsidized rates for rooftop, village projects.

A Japanese homebuilder to build $92M solar farm in Kasoshima. Online Sept '14.

Enbridge to buy 50% of 80Mw wind farm in Quebec from EDF.

Lack of infrastructure greatest barrier to cost-competitive African clean energy development.

DOE intends to issue energy efficiency grants.

DC appeals court upheld EPA ozone standard. But sent secondary standard back for review.

Appeals court upheld EPA rejection of OK haze plan.

NJ offering $100M to elevate houses along coast. (Nice to be rich, A?)

Low waters threatening Klamath salmon run. (The poor bears.)

Court threw out NM uranium permit. (Maybe why URRE is up?)

Report: heat likely caused fatal IL coal train derail. (The rails get soft.)

PA plant stores 432x more ammonium nitrate than TX plant that blew up. (Uh, don't tell any terrorists. Sorry, out there in the intersphere now.) Well, have to report what should be reported. Hopefully for good.