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BP did not put cost over safety, says investigator

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:36:40 +0000

Today’s public hearing by the National Oil Spill Commission has been a good education for anyone who has read bits and pieces about the various investigations into the explosion of BP’s Macondo well, but still felt they did not have a complete understanding of how the whole drilling process works.

Gas CCS comes one step closer

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:19:52 +0000

Here’s some news that will cheer both environmentalists and hydrocarbon producers.
The UK government is going to open up its CCS trials to gas plants as well as coal ones. After the first demonstration, the next batch of three will be open to applications from gas-fired power plants.

npower Reports Solar Cells Gives National Trust Museum The Power To Generate Its Own Income

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:48:00 +0000

WORCESTER, England, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — npower has reported that one of the UK’s largest installations of photo-voltaic (PV) cells on a historic building* has been fitted to the roof of the National Trust’s carriage museum at Arlington Court near Barnstaple in Devon.
The 113 m2 installatio

Report: G20 ‘Neither Revealing Nor Removing’ Fossil Fuel Subsidies

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:39:00 +0000

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As G20 leaders prepare to meet later this week in South Korea, two NGOs have released the first independent evaluation of the success of the G20 Pledge to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. The report reveals large gaps in the reporting of sub

Anti-nuclear protests in Germany

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:39:19 +0000

Police clashed with anti-nuclear protesters trying to halt a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany as protests against the shipment turned increasingly violent

Nuclear waste shipment reaches German storage site

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:34:53 +0000

Police clear anti-nuclear protesters from rail tracks allowing ‘Chernobyl on wheels’ to complete controversial trip from FranceA train load of nuclear waste, nicknamed “Chernobyl on wheels,” arrived today at a railway depot in northern Germany after a three-day trip from France marred by repeated clashes between police and protesters trying to halt the delivery.The train carrying 123 tonnes of radioactive waste arrived in the town of Dannenberg where it will be loaded onto trucks for the final 1…

Energy headlines: Chinese oil’s M&A rush

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 07:44:10 +0000

- China’s oil majors come of age in M&A rush – FT
- Shell to sell $3.35bn stake in Woodside – Bloomberg
- Eon prepares for £3.5bn network sell-off – The Telegraph
- Dynegy shareholder Seneca urges “no” vote on Blackstone merger – WSJ
- China plans fifth nuclear reactor for Japan – FT
- China eats into Japan Steel nuclear reactor work – FT
- Siemens eyes €40bn of green revenue by 2014 – Reuters
- Green power’s high cost scuttles projects – NY Times
- Exxon plans to make Iraqi oil flow by c…

Ministers’ meetings with nuclear lobby raise concerns of favouritism

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:24:36 +0000

The renewable energy industry is concerned that the government has spent thousands meeting nuclear lobbyistsThousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money have been spent on special meetings between ministers and the nuclear industry in Britain, prompting allegations the government is giving the sector an unfair advantage over renewable energy.The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) has paid more than £8,000 this year for meetings outside government offices with the Nuclear Development Foru…

Orders for wind turbines to fall 93%, energy experts predict

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:15:15 +0000

• Wind power capacity to slump from 1,368Mw to 90Mw in 2013• Ministers to announce overhaul of energy market this month Orders for offshore wind turbines in Britain will slump next year, threatening to halt the industry’s recent growth and the expected creation of up to 10,000 “green economy” jobs.Analysts are forecasting a 93% drop in the installation of new offshore windfarms in 2013 compared with the previous year. As orders for cables, foundations and other equipment are typically made t…

Gas plants now eligible for £9bn carbon capture demonstration programme

admin — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:38:03 +0000

Programme to store emissions rather than release them into atmosphere previously only open to coal plantsGas plants will be eligible for the government’s £9bn carbon capture demonstration programme, Chris Huhne, the energy and climate change secretary, will announce tomorrow. The programme had only been open to coal plants, which in future will be required to fit the technology to capture and store emissions rather than release them into the atmosphere.The move follows a warning from an indepen…