Wednesday, February 12, 2014

STUFF ... China launched $1.65B fund to reduce air pollution ... Britain's worst rainfall, flooding in 250 yrs ... Liquid-cooled supercomputers trimming power bills ... Stopping deforestation good biz sense: Unilever chief ... Audi blazing trail in biofuel production ... Study challenging claims wind power can change weather ... Warming oceans imposing new migratory risks on fish: study ... Entergy plans to keep wholesale nuke reactor fleet ... Colombia crude shipments to US falling ... Scottish Power may double size of 440Mw pumped hydro storage facility in Scotland ... For over a year, over 12K bls of bitumen mixed with water have seeped through several long cracks in Alberta forest floor near 4 Canada Natural Resources wells. $40M so far for cleanup. Suspected the comp over-pressurized the formation ... Traders expect palm oil prices to rise 14% this year to $808/metric ton: Reuters poll. Increasing demand for biodiesel. Also Indonesia, Malaysia mandates to boost domestic consumption of product. Those 2 countries could absorb up to 11% of domestic production ... ACORE, NASCAR, Lockheed partnering to promote renewable energy techs, careers ... NM inmates working in recycling program. Producing biodiesel for state agencies. Also fertilizer from food waste using worms, recycling old wood pallets for toys ... Ethanol dumped into wastewater system near Charlotte, NC ... Heating oil hitting over $4.50/gal in NYC area. Philly refinery down for maintenance no help. Shortage of NG, propane also compounding crunch ... CNPC discovered large NG field in Sichuan. Up to 440BCM, 308 technically recoverable. Could fuel China demand for 2 yrs ... Kuwait approved $12B to upgrade 2 oil refineries. Part of $106B econ development plan. Also plan to close old refineries, build new ones. Will increase refinery cap from 936Kb/d now to up to 1.4M ... EPA approved PSC Okla plan to retire last 2 OK coal plants by '26 ... Nissan Leaf global sales up 77% in '13 to near 48K cars. 45% of all zero-emission Vs sold in '13. 100K sold in 1st 3 yrs. Renault Nissan alliance now 63% share of zero-emission market ... DOE energy review won't include Yucca Mt ... OR issued series of permits for coal export terminal ... Chevron well fire still burning in PA ... Chick-Fil-A nixed use of antibiotics in chicken ... RWE sold 45% stake in its largest German offshore wind project ... EBRD lending $31M to Polish wind project ... NG prices climbed to over $100/TCF in some parts of New England recently.

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