STUFF ... Abbot won Australia. End carbon tax his #1 priority. (Isn't that smart, A? Must be a Republican.) ... Ocean warming changes chem cycles in plankton: study ... US, NZ announced scaled back plan to protect Antarctic waters .. Climate change threaten's Carib's water supply ... Airline ozone emiss most significant over Pacific: study ... Plans to restrict fracking in VA forest over water concerns ... 2 new studies link fracking to earthquakes in TX, OH. Main culprit disposal of injected frack wastewater ... Japan maglev train speed record. 310mph ... Exxon predicts NG demand to grow 65% next 30 yrs. Will gen 25% of world power ... Tullow (UK) oil discovery Barents Sea off Norway. Up to 164M bls, 40BCF ... Rosatom (Russ) deal with Rolls Royce, Fortum (Fin) to build nuke power plants in Great Brit .... Japan to build "ice wall" at Fukushima to stop radioactive water from reaching ocean. To freeze the ground. Planning 2nd water treatment plant ... Black Rock buying 12MW England wind farm from REG for $40M ... Tweak to car engine software can improve mileage up to 20% using ethanol, methanol. Optimal high octane setting .... RGGI carbon emission program permits sold out at 3rd auction. $102M raised. $2.67/1 ton CO2. $3.21 in June ... XPRIZE $2M for advances in measuring ocean acidification ... NRC sued over flood threat at SC nuke reactors ... OH sued solar comp over $10M of loans ... Batt storage makes sense for solar, not wind: study ... Westinghouse, Toshiba, Exelon partnering on Saud nuke proposal ... Smithfield takeover by China US approval .... Lake Erie algae blooms again from ag waste ... Polluted Lake Okeechobee overflow harming esturaries .... Trapper hired to rid Dallas of wild hogs ... China investigating 5 more oil execs ... 716K Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 168K in Iraq, 110K in Egypt. Carbombs more prevalent in Lebanon ... Libya could be bankrupt in months. Let alone Egypt ... Iraq Aug oil exports ~2.6Mb/d. Indicators Sept may be 1.8 ... Next round of Iran nuke talks transferred to Foreign Ministry from NSC by Rouhani .. Don't ever think the air pollution doesn't affect the leaders. They have lungs too. But they can order clean water ... Protests in Libya oilfields, terminals combining with lowest loadings in N Sea Forties and weakest supplies from Azerbaijansince '08. Nigeria's crude sold for $3.58 higher than Brent last week. OPEC's oil production fell to lowest level since June '11 in Aug. 30.2Mb/d ...OMV (Australia) new oil discovery in shallow Barents Sea. 60-160M bls, up to 10BCF ... US importing same amount of oil as 20 yrs ago. Down 7% from '93 ... EIA: US gasoline use 1H13 50Kb/d lower than last year ... Saud oil use up to 2.9Mb/d in '12 - 25% of production - in '12 from 1.6Mb/d in '00 ... Sharp econ downturn in Turkey ( I guess from Syria refugees) ... Boeing, Airbus lloking to China for sales ... First Wind reserving 1.5Gw capacity on NM transmission line ... Irish wind incentive proposal to cost est. $300M Euro ... Netherlands to 4x offshore wind capacity to 4.4Gw by '23. To also increase onshore wind to 6.6Gw ... FLSR JV with Belectric ... E-CL 300Mw Chile solar farm. $620M ...