The European Commission wants EU member states to accept common environment and health rules if they use controversial 'fracking' to develop shale gas resources. A document prepared for the Commission's 2030 Energy and Climate Package due ...
The EU will announce climate change targets for 2030 next week but sharp differences over priorities and an unwillingness to take the lead while global rivals hang back may result in a modest compromise deal. The 2020 programme is widely ...
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As open as the Canadian market is to LNG vehicles, it still pales behind the reception China is giving the alternative fuel. According to Tom Campbell, head of analysis at Zeus Intelligence, a research company specializing in LNG and ...
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The American Coatings Conference (ACC) will commence with a keynote presentation given by Charles F. Kahle, II, chief technology officer and vice president, Coatings R&D at PPG Industries. Starting with a wide lens on the future, Dr. ...
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg News The Department of Transportation's freight transportation services index rose to record high in November, DOT said Jan. 9. The freight TSI increased 1.2% from October to an all-time high of 116.5, DOT's ...
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FieldPoint Petroleum Corporation (NYSE/MKT:FPP) today reported the drilling of the Ranger Unit 8A #1H with Riley Exploration Group of Blanchard, OK. Completion and fracking of the well is to begin this week. FieldPoint President, Phillip ...
Environmentalists hoping that oil production will peak in 2014 will be disappointed. New supplies will comfortably outstrip fresh demand, preventing prices from rising. Countries leading the way will include Brazil, Iraq, America and ...
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US for-hire truck tonnage jumped 2.7% in November, achieving a new record high. The American Trucking Associations’ for-hire truck tonnage index was up 8.1% year-over-year in November. Year-to-date, tonnage is up 5.8%, the ATA ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency was justified in intervening to examine possible risks of gas drilling to Texas drinking water, the agency's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. But environmentalists say the report raises fresh ...
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More action is needed to reduce illness and death among the millions of Americans exposed to silica dust at work, according to a new report. It has long been known that silica -- a natural substance found in most rocks, sand and clay -- ...
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Groundwater and surface water samples taken near fracking operations in Colorado contained chemicals that can disrupt male and female hormones, researchers say. These chemicals, which are used in the fracking process, also were present in ...
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Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
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Greater political acceptance of shale gas exploration and the growing need among European countries to be self-sufficient in terms of energy is expected to result in the growth for the pumps market. Pump manufacturers, though, may not be ...
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Harold Hamm, sharecropper to oil and fracking tycoon Towing icebergs to ease water scarcity is yesterday; transporting water in supertankers is today.What if ready-to-drink filtered water, 500,000 tons at a time, could be consistently ...
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China has unveiled a five-year plan for its emerging shale gas industry as the government seeks to replicate the US success in extraction of the cleaner-burning unconventional fuel. The 2011-2015 plan, made public yesterday by the ...
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