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U.S. nears Clean Energy Act Jun 26, 2009U.S. lawmakers vote Friday to decide the fate of the American Clean Energy & Security Act, the “climate-change” bill of President Barack Obama that’s ...
Carbon capture criticism grows May 28, 2009International experts asked to make carbon capture and storage, or CCS, a worldwide industrial tool for combating climate change have criticized the ... By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
Norway: oil, gas shed emissions May 19, 2009Norway is still off course in the great race to slow emissions by amounts made “binding” by the Kyoto “climate” treaty, although ...
Business, “Big Oil” call for new “Kyoto” Dec 8, 2008Business leaders from 140 companies around the world have urged climate negotiators meeting in Poznan, Poland this week to hammer out a legal framework ...
Stern: world emissions treaty in 2009 Jun 6, 2008Nicholas Stern — the economics professor whose climate-change report earned him an English knighthood — has said he ...
StatoilHydro CCS site mostly “shut-down” Mar 4, 2008StatoilHydro’s Kaarstoe gas-fired plant, site of a future carbon-capture and recovery project, has been mostly mothballed since it opened late in 2007 due to low electrictity prices and high gas prices.
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Norway, Saudis eye “carbon Opec”Feb 22, 2008Oil-rich Norway and Saudi Arabia could group into a mini “carbon Opec”, or a lobby group to get the mass scrubbing and storage of carbon dioxide approved by the United Nations as a clean development mechanism project.
Troll tops Norway carbon planningJan 30, 2008Norwegian carbon-storage planners have unveiled the results of months of studies on how to rid the hydrocarbon-heavy country of carbon-dioxide by ship, pipe and sub-sea storage, and the leading concept is injecting carbon beneath the maturing Troll gas field, one of Europe’s largest. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
Europe expands “climate” trade in gases, green powerJan 23, 2008The European Commission on Wednesday assigned all countries in the trading block a cap on emissions as part of a reform package aimed at giving each member state “legally enforceable” polluting and renewables targets. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
NYMEX to buy 12% of oil-focused IMAREXNov 12, 2007New York commodities futures and options giant NYMEX Holdings Inc. has penned a deal to buy 15.1% of Norwegian financial derivatives exchange IMAREX from Frontline Ltd. for $52 million.
Methane recovery joins clean-air “queue”Oct 30, 2007The recovery of methane from coal beds around the around the world, not least China, could cut greenhouse gases by 13 percent by 2020, when a return to the emissions levels of today will be sought by policy makers.
Tap Oil signs short-term gas contract worth $12mSep 21, 2007Tap Oil Limited has entered into a Gas Sale Agreement with a Western Australian customer for gas sales over a 9 month period ending 30 June 2008.
Norway carbon bill “covered”Sep 18, 2007Norway’s 16-year-old tax on the carbon-dioxide in motor fuel could be used to cover the Nordic country’s purchase of emissions quotas to help meet Kyoto goals, according to a prominent local educator.
Norway could miss early carbon countSep 6, 2007Carbon heavweight Norway will be skipped over when next year’s round of European Union trading in carbon-dioxide emissions quotas gets underway on Jan. 1, 2008, but could be along later next year. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
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Carbon comment: Norway talks "power-to-platforms"Sep 4, 2007The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate will hold an "open seminar" on the supply of offshore installations with power from shore, as the country grapples with facts which say 25 percent of Norway's greenhouse gas emissions orginate offshore. By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI
Indian Petroleum Ministry wants reduction in excise duty on dieselJul 26, 2007Indian Petroleum Minister, Mr. Murli Deora has sought a phased withdrawal of excise duty on diesel. To start with, Deora wants the excise to be reduced by Re 1 ($0.023) per litre in this year’s budget.
Rosneft selling 15 million tonnes of Kyoto carbonJul 26, 2007Rosneft will sell the right to emit 15 million tonnes of carbon-dioxide to the Danish, Dutch, Italian and Spanish carbon funds, as the Western European countries look for ways to meet their Kyoto pollution targets, it was understood Tuesday.
UK-wide emissions register finds developerJul 26, 2007The U.K. Department of Trade and Industry has awarded automation consultancy LogicaCMG a €500,000 contract to provide a country-wide, Internet-based emissions monitoring system for the oil and gas industry.
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