STUFF ... (can't get to my original Yahoo account because of their block and Google back to blocking regular blog ... working around it.) ... Trans Canada plans $12B, 1.1Mb/d pipeline from Alberta oil sands to Can east coast ... Research: current rate of climate change 10-100x faster than anything in 65M years ... Extreme heat wave in China. Europe heat wave likely to continue through August ... US midwest getting back to seasonal temps from cold snap ... Shell, Exxon, other energy majors reported sharp hits to earnings in Q2 ... PA to monitor air quality around Marcellus sites. (Water wells?) ... Soitec to shut 40Mw CPV plant in Germany. To consolidate manufacturing at 280Mw Cal plant now operating at 140Mw ... DOE granting $16.5M to 4 projects to accel development of algae biofuels. $6M more for project to reduce costs across biomass feedstock supply chain ... GEVO brought its 2nd 1M-liter biobutanol fermenter online at MN plant ... UK offering 25M Pound prize for best 2nd gen biofuel demo facility ... REGI completed buy of 30M gal/y biodiesel plant to reopen ... Hydroinfra Tech (Sweden) says their Hydro Nano Gas "instantly neutralizes carbon emissions". Signed JV to convert ships to use HNG. Coal, oil-powered power plants next. HNG inserted into exhaust system. (I really hope this is a real deal.) ... Pentagon says 515-mile, 500Kv power line proposed to carry NM wind power to AZ, CA a threat to national security. Proposed route crosses White Sands. Obstruction to low-level missile tests. (Line could be buried.) ... US began mining rare earth elements again after over 10 yrs ... Brit Gas plans to offer customers who install smart meters free el on Saturdays. Already being done in parts of US ... Largest customer of We Energies - 2 iron ore mines in Mich - signed on with new power provider after 4 rate hikes in last 5 yrs ... Spain plans to make consumers pay for clean energy they gen, use themselves. Draft bill. (Really? Think that will pass?) ... Northland Power (Canada) to buy 55% stake in $3.7B, 600Mw wind farm offshore Netherlands for C$432M. Online in '17. Up to 150Gw offshore wind expected to be built in EU by '30 to meet ~14% of EU el demand ... Goldpoly to buy 300Mw of Chinese solar farms ... Vestas signed 105Mw S Africa supply agreement with Innowind ... China polysilicon makers have started to raise prices ... BLM OK'd enviro impact probe of fracking on Cal public land ... Republican former EPA heads publicly support Obama's climate action plan ... W Va Dems blasting EPA policy affecting coal power, mining industry ... Court ordering Cal to set drinking water limit for hexavalent chromium. (Um, how many decades late?) ... Report: manufacturing defect caused Ark pipeline break. (Whatever Exxon wants ...) ... Fistfight broke out amid nuke power debate in Taiwan ... Happy trails, pards.