Thursday, August 8, 2013

STUFF .... Research suggests human-caused GHG emissions may have centuries-long impacts ... Report: Lake Tahoe's clarity improved in '12 ... Manatee, dolphin deaths in FL estuary ... Mexico govt dialing back energy reform plan ... Canada stepping up fracking monitoring ... Railroad involved in Canada oil-train crash filed for bankruptcy ... Report: infrastructure stands in way of record US oil production ... US crude refiners expected to process 15.8Mb/d this month, most since Aug '04. Export demand way up ... Sauds offered Moscow large econ pack for cutting support to Assad: Reuters ... US Navy expects affordable biofuels by '16 ... ADM says record US corn crop leading to 43% drop in corn prices in Chicago should lead to higher ethanol margins in '14, '15. Will lead to more blending ... Last month Kyrgyzstan agreed to sell its NG network to Gazprom for $1. Gazprom agreed to invest over $600M to improve Kyrgyz NG infra, assume $38M debt ... Chesapeake giving up on NY fracking ... Tullow came up dry in Mozambique, French Guiana ... Al-qaeda plot against Yemen energy infra foiled ... 1st of near 1M separate components showed up at ITER fusion project in France. Assembly on site ... NOAA: '12 1 of 10 warmest years on record, sea levels reached record high, Arctic Sea ice hit record low ... United Illuminating (Hartford) crying to regulators over tens of millions dollars cut from proposed rate increase. Their parent comp reported 49% increase in profits ... DOE: US installed more wind gen in '12 than any other country ... Glennmont raised 200M Euros for 2nd fund - 10-yr clean/renewable energy fund. Aims to raise up to 450M Euros. Focus on French, UK marts ... JX Energy, Japan's biggest refiner, to build 3 solar power stations. 1, 4 and 12Mw. Online in '15 ... UK clean/ren power gen hit record high in 1Q13 ... EIB lending 45M Euros to Buysen for clean exhaust research ... Solar manufacturers raising 2Q shipment guidance ... Abundance crowd funding platform financed 2 solar projects in 35 days.

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