STUFF ... France Supreme Court upheld fracking ban v. US comp challenge ... TX judge called air/atmos a natural resource. State "EPA" appealing ... Canada poised to add 4.5Gw wind power next 3 yrs ... Exploding spruce beetle outbreak in Colo linked to long-term drought ... Green Climate Fund began shaping projected $100B effort ... Multinational utility chief says coal will have to reduce its role ... Startup fund seeking midstream deals in heart of shale plays ... New Brunswick LNG import facility gas flare drew in over 7K migrating birds to their death ... Energy modelers see little econ, climate benefit to US NG boom ... Pipeline leaked over 20K bls crude in ND ... Congo open to more investors joining 3 groups bidding to build 4.8Gw $12B hydropower project ... UK may approve new rules to block "inappropriate" solar parks ... Global rush to embrace biofuels growing threat to ecosystems, wildlife, human health: Post Carbon Institute ... 6.8M bl increase in US crude stocks on Wednesday. Over 4x than expected. Cushing stsocks down 31M bls last 14 weeks. Probably no longer much of factor in WTI price. Crude prices forecast to decline rest of year ... EIA expects NG to avg $4 in '14 ... Shell opened Iraq oil field. Initial target 175Kb/d. Baghdad wants 200K by yearend ... China demand for LNG should rise a lot next 10 yrs if efforts to clean air continue ... EIA out of reserve funds, employees sent home ... DOE lab found no issues with E15 ... Toyota slashed costs for HFC vehicle ... Pipeline spill off Mumbai ... Molten salt heat storage at 280Mw solar plant in AZ enables power gen at full capacity up to 6 hrs after sunset ... US signed nuke tech deal with Vietnam ... Solar City (SCTY) expects '14 installs to near double '13 ... ET Solar providing 4.8Mw of panels for 2 Chile projects ... Apex Clean Energy (VA) to sell 200Mw of 300Mw $430M wind farm project online in '15 to AEP's OK subsid ... Boeing, S Africa Airways partnering on biofuel supply chain for avfuels ... SSE to halt UK offshore wind investment until '15 ... Clean energy investment fell to 4-yr low in 3Q ... juwi (Germany) launched JV in Dubai ... Europe Investment Bank could lend 200M Euro for Indian clean/renwable energy projects ... Fed judge threw out Rolls (China) lawsuit v. Obama over 4 wind farms denied in OR over national security ... Google invested $103M in 266MW Silver Ridge Power solar plant.