RECORD HOTTEST SEPTEMBER GLOBALLY: NASA. Jan-Sept 3rd hottest .... Massachusetts Ebola case false alarm. Liberia Ebola workers strike averted .... ISIS reportedly surrounding Baghdad. Explosions in Basra .... Turkey now denies allowing US/coalition to use bases .... Ruble hit new record low .... Rising seas may be noticable in 15 years: study .... Volcanic eruption still going in Iceland after 6 weeks .... Kissinger: Iran a 'natural ally' of US .... Utilities telling solar users to pay their fair share (for infrastructure) .... Sumatra pollution nearing danger level. Flights disrupted. Serious smog in Beijing last week .... Norway OK'd 1st direct power line to Germany, granted license for line to UK. Germany already granted permit. Both lines 1.4Gw, online '18-'20. Norway already linked to Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden .... County abandoning 600Kw pilot tidal power project in Puget Sound. Loss of DOE backing .... OPEC oil production up 400Kb/d in Sept. Russia production up to 10.6Mb/d. (My guess to cover lower prices.) .... Deutsche Bank: 9% of US shale oil production uneconomical under $90/bl, 40% under $80 .... Explosion at Iran's main weapons development base last week. Nuke talks resume this week. Deadline may be extended 2nd time .... CEOs of major state-owned comps in China to take up to 60% pay cuts next year. Sinopec CEO made $141K last year. (And China a larger econ than US?!) .... Drillers giving up on shale wells in Poland. Not enough there .... Shell to sell productive oil block, pipeline in Nigeria for over $2.5B .... Angola plans to increase oil output to 2Mb/d by '17 .... US imports of Canada oil up 494Kb/d week ended Oct 3 to 3.25M .... Alt fuel vehicles approaching 1% of new vehicle production. 12 EVs, 10 hybrids, 1 CNG .... DOE $13.4M for 5 advanced biofuels, bioproducts projects. Also launched $25M funding initiative for algae techs .... Eni signed 2 new production sharing contracts for oil/gas exploration offshore Vietnam .... EPA OK'd $200M expansion to TX combined-cycle natgas power plant .... China Longyuan started up 24Mw wind farm, 20Mw solar farm in China .... French parliament voted to reduce nuke power share to 50% from 75% now, adopted program to drastically reduce energy use by '50 .... Sunpower (SPWR) to supply modules for 4 GDF Suez projects in France. 3 12Mw, 1 5Mw plants, all online by end of '15 .... Canadian Solar (CSIQ) supplying EDF 24Mw project in Cal. Panel deliveries 1Q15. Dominion Resources to buy farm from EDF .... Alstom to develop floating wind turbine tech with DCNS. Initial 6Mw turbine by '17. France supporting with 6M Euros .... John Laing (UK) raised $80M for clean power plan .... Brazil suspended development of 3 small hydropower projects. Potential damage to archeological sites, indigenous lands .... United Wind expects to close $50M for wind leasing by yearend .... Financial risk for UK offshore wind causing projects to grind to halt: Renewable UK .... FLS Energy investing $100M in 67Mw solar project.