STUFF ... Canada review panel approved plans for 525Kb/d oil pipe from Alberta oil sands to Pacific ... PA Supreme Court struck down some of muni powers to decide where NG industry can op. But local govts can control drilling with zoning ... NREL study: coal power plants could provide backup power for clean energy, NG plants without extensive damage, forced outages ... Some Indian slums have huts with no toilet, running water, but solar panels on asbestos rooftops ... Shortfalls in precip data skewing climate scientists' drought predictions ... Caterpillars evolving into faster eaters in race against climate change ... Plants could hasten climate change despite growth from rise of carbon in atmos ... Pikas adapting to climate change in OR: study ... Hydropower allotments in NY to create 650 jobs, $206M in capital investment ... FERC: clean energy and biomass provided 100% of new power gen capacity added in Nov in US. 394Mw ... Argentina filed official complaint against EU at WTO over biodiesel ... UK biofuel consumption up 46% on year in 3Q. 445M liters. Ethanol blends hit 4.9% ... Thai cassava-based ethanol production set to double in '14 to 3M metric tons. $307M possible boost from govt to cassava growers ... Venezuela plans to increase petrol prices. 5 cents/gal since late '90's ... Goldpoly New Energy (Hong Kong) to buy stakes in 4 solar projects in Inner Mongolia for $50M. 195Mw combined capacity. Online by yearend ... Japan may lower solar tariff 11% after decline in costs ... IFC may provide ~$16M loan for 40Mw wind farm in India. Total project cost $45M. Inox Wind turbines ... Welspun Energy (India) completed 8Mw solar plant in India. Welspun plans to increase clean energy cap over 6x next 3 yrs to over 1.7Gw ... TX towns sinking as aquifer collapses ... NYC Council banned foam food containers ... ERG (Italy) sold 7.14% stake in its clean energy unit for 50M Euros. Over 1.27Gw operating cap ... Acciona Energia (Spain) to build 102Mw wind farm in Nova Scotia ... DONG Energy bought 50% stakes not already owned in 3 Dutch offshore wind development projects from SSE ... Good Energy (UK) granted planning approval for 50Mw solar farm in Norfolk ... NY added $108M to NY-Sun Solar Initiative for next 2 yrs ... Shunfeng PV (China) paid $494M for Wuxi Suntech ... Vestas won 220Mw order from EDF for US projects. 200Mw in TX ... UK approved 1st stage of 180M Pound wood pellet handling facilities at Port of Tyne ... EU high court ruled against French wind subsidies ... EU adopted clean air policy package ... Distributed solar may grow to 2Gw in N East US by '21: ACORE.