"Chinese Endure Power Shortages as Coal Runs Short"
"Communities in central and northern China are facing power cuts and rationing as winter coal supplies fall short of surging demand."
Source: AP, 12/21/2010
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"Canadian Gas Megaproject Gets Nod But Future Cloudy"
"Canada's energy regulator said on Thursday it approved plans for a C$16.2 billion ($16.1 billion) Arctic gas pipeline, a project that faces growing economic pressure as natural gas prices languish."
Source: Reuters, 12/17/2010
"Tax-Cut Bill Includes Big Boost for Liquid Coal"
"The tax-cut bill that the House of Representatives [passed] late Thursday ... provides some energy tax breaks, including a subsidy for producing liquid coal."
Source: McClatchy, 12/17/2010
"Kansas Allows Utility To Build Coal-Fired Electric Plant"
"After a four-year effort, a western Kansas utility won state permission Thursday to construct an 895-megawatt, coal-fired power plant."
Source: Kansas City Star, 12/17/2010
BLM Picks 22 Million Acres of Public Land for Solar Energy Projects
"The Department of Interior has identified some two dozen potential sites for large-scale solar power installations on public lands in six Western states as part of an effort to encourage development of renewable energy on public lands and waters."
Source: NYTimes, 12/17/2010
"Senate Votes To Extend Ethanol Subsidy For 2011"
"The Senate on Wednesday voted in favor of a one-year extension of the ethanol tax credit and the ethanol import tariff at existing rates, despite complaints the subsidies were wasteful."
Source: Reuters, 12/16/2010
"U.S. Called Vulnerable to Rare Earth Shortages"
"The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines."
Source: NYTimes, 12/16/2010
Safety Board Finds Oil Industry Failing to Learn From Past Disasters
"Independent federal experts investigating the blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore rig are finding major parallels between this year's disaster and a 2005 blast that killed 15 workers at a BP PLC refinery in Texas -- indicating the industry has failed to overhaul safety rules, they said [Wednesday]."
Source: Greenwire, 12/16/2010
Power Plant Cooling May Hurt NE Stocks More Than Overfishing
"In an unprecedented move, the environmental agencies of New Jersey and New York have begun forcing scores of their largest water users to either retrofit their plants with modern cooling systems which won't kill billions of fish annually or cease operating."
Source: New Jersey Newsroom, 12/15/2010
"Oil Sands Report Criticizes All Stakeholders"
"Cutting through rhetoric that so often dominates debate over Canada's oil sands, a new report by a prominent academic group is a comprehensive snapshot of the failings and successes of all the industry's stakeholders and raises hope for a new era of oversight."
Source: Toronto Globe & Mail, 12/15/2010
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