STUFF ... Tundra lakes drying up. Unprecedented in 200 yrs: study ... Lego pledges to use only clean/renewable energy by '16 ... Australia must cut emissions 40% to avoid "unimaginable" climate change: scientists ... Obama admin boosted goal for energy efficiency projects ... Colo coal mine idled production, 115 workers ... Toyota RAV4 EV uses Tesla batt. No fires yet ... Large Nigeria oil spill spreading through delta region ... Shanghai warning children, elderly to stay indoors amid air pollution ... No crude price collapse in '14: Barclays ... Oil biz dried up in N Miss Lime Shale ... "Fire ice" NG deposit found in Sea of Japan ... US crude production now over 8Mb/d. Est over 9M in '14, over 10M by '16 ... OPEC Nov production 2-yr low just over 30Mb/d. Slips in Nigeria, Saudi ... Shiite terrorists punching back in Iraq ... Egypt sentenced group of female pro-Morsi protestors to 11 yrs in prison ... Syria oil production down to 20Kb/d ... Beijing trying to shut down thousands of small, inefficient coal producers or force them to join giant state-owned comps. China consumes 4B tons/yr ... US extended Iran sanctions waivers to China, India, S Korea, others in exchange for their reducing purchases earlier this year ... Lack of el in Gaza sparking catastrophe ... Another 20 Brazil sugarcane mills expected to shut down next few yrs. Ethanol demand falling ... Argentina boosted biodiesel blend to 10% from 8% ... Chemtex to locate $200M 20M gal/yr cellulosic biofuel plant in NC ... Indonesia bank funding palm oil industry $4.4B through next Oct ... Rosneft, Eni agreed on mutual oil supplies to Euro refiners ... Indonesia rejected extension of Chevron oilfield contract. Chevron operated field for 50 yrs. Hand-over to state-owned comp. 29 contracts expire through '21 ... Jinko Solar agreement with local China govt for 200Mw project ... Ormat (ORA) acquisition of up to 35Mw geothermal project in Honduras. 18Mw in 3 yrs ... Tata may fund $400M clean/renewable energy, energy efficiency projects in India. "Combined cost of grid power, diesel generators that many comps use now higher than solar" ... Okinawa El Power to set up 2Mw batt storage system for solar projects. Solar cap on island to reach 57Mw soon ... Hitachi announced energy storage system. To begin testing in N Am 1Q14. Goal to market by '16 ... Netherlands comp doubled investment in Sun Ed distributed solar fund to $100M ... Pension Danmark investing 153M Pounds in Falck UK wind portfolio. 49% stake in 272Mw ... Ontario to launch new wind tenders. 600Mw next 2 yrs ... Hydro Tasmania to seek fed funds for A$2B 600Mw wind farm ... Bulgaria to vote on 20% clean energy revenue tax ... EIB could lend 1.7B Euro to National Grid for 4B Euro UK clean/renewable energy transmission scheme ... Iberdrola seeks to qualify 500Mw new wind energy for US PTC this month ... Eco Power applied to build $250M 100Mw Chile solar plant ... Quercus (Luxemburg) acquired 254Mw solar portfolio in UK.