STUFF ... Snowfall in Cairo 1st time in 100 yrs ... China 3rd country to soft land on moon. Iran sent 2nd monkey into space ... BP $16B tight gas deal in Oman ... India $11.7B solar plan needs lenders: World Bank ... IEA: global coal use expected to increase 2.3%/yr through '18 ... Tiny plastic beads used in hundreds of toiletries slipping through water treatment plants, going into Great Lakes. Fish, aquatic life eat them along with pollutants they carry, like PCBs. Major cosmetic comps have pedged to phase out beads, but could take 2 yrs or more. Concentrations up to 1.1M bits of microplastics per sq. mi. found in all 5 lakes ... US Ex-Im Bank excluding mines from new policy to limit assistance for coal projects around world ... Calif's Santa Ana R. watershed facing severe climate, demand challenges. 3rd year of drought ... Climate change threatening Costa Rica banana industry ... Scottish Power Renewables dropped proposals for 1.2Gw wind farm offshore UK. Hard rock bottom, challenging wave regime cited. But some of best wind conditions offshore UK ... UK Crown Estate says Bristol Channel not fit for offshore wind ... Iran cancelled planned $500M loan to help finance Pakistan leg of NG pipeline. Pak hasn't started its part of pipe slated for completion by '15 ... Al Qaeda likely murderers of up to 25 workers building Iran's NG pipe to Iraq ... Kurd oil started flowing to Turkey through new pipe. Baghdad wants revs deposited in Iraq account in NYC. But that's unlikely ... Libya's announcement eastern oil export terminals would soon reopen appears to have been wrong. Oil production stuck ~200Kb/d, half for domestic use. Tripoli gasoline shortage in week 3 ... China Nov. industrial output up 10% over Nov. '12 ... Global energy demand on course to be ~35% higher in '40 than '10: Exxon. China, India to account for 1/2 of growth ... Nigeria central bank asking President Jonathon what happened to $50B in missing oil revs ... ~56% view Keystone as more a benefit to US energy security than enviro risk ... Over 2.6K quakes in OK this year. 87 last week. Fracking suspected ... US ethanol production at 2-yr high of 944Kb/d ... BG Group (UK) est. 15TCF NG offshore Tanzania ... Indian law makes nuke power equipment makers liable in case of power plant accident. Global comps holding back on sales ... Japan est. $10B cost just for land for "immediate storage facilities (for radioactive debris)", plus construction, ops ... UN study: in Italy, oil prices, not ethanol, main driver of grain prices ... DBS Markets: Panama Canal widening to be major driver for increased US shipments of NG liquids to Asia. DBS expects freight rates for very large gas carriers to explode to $300K/d from $37K now ... Mexico's new oil policy could attract up to $20B/yr in foreign investment ... Govt panel told Japan to restart nuke reactors ... Mitsubishi, GE settled wind patent infringement case ... First Wind to sell ~3/4 of power from 51Mw wind farm in Maine to Mass Muni Wholesale El for 17 local utilities ... Kyocera to build 8.3Mw solar plant in Japan with Century Tokyo Leasing. Online late '15 ... ID TechEx: total market for el unmanned drones to reach over $1B by '23 ... XSunX (XSNX) announced 50Kw of sales, expects more contracts by yearend ... QGER (Brazil) to invest $2.58B in Brazil wind farms by '20 ... Siemens got order from Mid American Energy for 1.05Gw of wind turbines. Largest single order ever for onshore wind ... Yingli-led consortium to build 233Mw of solar for Algerian utility ... Renova Energia (Brazil) won bid to supply power from 17 wind farms in Bahia. 355Mw.