STUFF ... Venezuela seized 2 US comp-owned oil rig service machines. State oil monopoly payments to foreign contractors falling behind across the board ... 3rd Tesla sedan fire ... Cyprus planning to develop a NG industry ... Arkansas man charged in power grid attacks ... UK closed up 19 comps guilty of carbon credit scams ... Emissions from Canada oil industry increasing ... 3 new Colo cities now limit fracking ... $2.6M fine for Exxon for Ark oil sands pipeline spill ... Steep drop in lease sales on Alaska North Slope ... Enbridge proposing biggest ever pipeline project out of Bakken ... Bid to renationalize Berlin el grid narrowly lost in referendum. Last month Hamburg voted to buy back its grid ... 4 senior oil traders lawsuit claims BP, Statoil, Shell, Morgan Stanley conspired to fix London oil prices. False data to Platts, renegging on bids ... Closure of Libya NG pipeline to Italy ... UK wants 5% biofuel blending cap from current 10% target for '20 ... Lack of Pakistan funding for $7.5B NG pipeline from Iran ... Over 30 low-cost EV models coming to China market by yearend. El motors 4x more efficient than internal combustion. 11 moving parts in el motors. No tune ups ever. 1K parts in standard ICE ... Comp created to turn Musk's hyperloop idea into reality. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies ... When building Fukushima nuke plant, TEPCO decided to reduce natural 35-meter high seawall to 10 meters. Tsunami was 15 meters ... China's 1st floating LNG import terminal online next month ... Japan plans to triple countries (8) now offsetting their emissions. Also to get 5-yr target of $112B to invest in R&D for enviro, energy techs ... Westar Energy to buy 200Mw of capacity from 300Mw Apex Clean Energy wind farm planned in OK. Online in '16 ... GEVO tumbled yesterday on production delays at MN cellolosic isobutanol plant, running low on cash ... Solazyme (SZYM) fell yesterday on Brazil algae-to-fuel factory delay ... Wall St banks promoting new Green Bonds framework ... AES (VA) selling Indian, Polish wind farm assets ... Solar City (SCTY) $34M 3Q loss ... MidAmerican Energy began build of over 1Gw of wind farms in Iowa. Completion by '16 ... RWE (Germany) to halve workforce at RWE Innogy to 750 ... ONEE (Morocco) seeking EIB finance for 3 wind farms total 450Mw ... Suntech filed for liquidation in Caymans, plans to halt solar panel production ... Sunpower (SPWR) completed installs of 20Mw on 12 community colleges in Cal.