US OIL DRILLERS SCALING BACK DRILLING PLANS for new wells next year because of lower oil prices .... Iraq Kurds have 12B bls oil, 25TCF natgas. Hungary signed deal to buy some of that oil. Major oil comps sending folks back there. Kurds want to boom production to 1Mb/d in '16 from 100K now .... US sending 1.5K more troops to train, advise, "assist" Kurds. (Right back in the scrum.) .... ISIS sees Turkey as ally .... BP lost court appeal on liability in Gulf of Mex spill .... UK approved up to 750Mw for Dong's Irish Sea wind power project. Dong planning 660Mw. 6-8Mw turbines .... India will need $250B foreign investment to meet clean/renewable power goals, upgrade grid .... Sempra, Con Ed buying 75Mw wind farm in Nebraska .... 18K new US clean power jobs in 3Q .... EPA released new state "carbon budgets" under power plant emissions proposal .... USDA approving sales of GMO potatoes. (Watch those fries.) .... Global warming climate change boosting levels of ozone-depleting chem: study .... More troops exposed to Iraq chem weapons than previously thought: Pentagon .... Regional Japan officials OK'd restart of 2 nuke power plants .... Happy weekend, pards.