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Big oil now seeing green
Denver Post
Big oil companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research and develop alternative and renewable power sources — not only as part of the green movement, but with serious hopes of cashing in when the technologies are broadly commercialized.
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API: U.S. oil, gas drilling costs reach all-time high
Oil & Gas Journal
The cost of drilling and equipping oil and gas wells in the US reached an all-time high in 2006, the American Petroleum Institute reported.
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BLM's Colorado lease sale brings in $4 million
Denver Business Journal
The Bureau of Land Management's Colorado office said the May oil and gas lease sale netted $4 million.
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Williams wants to extend natural gas pipeline
Tulsa World
Williams Companies Inc. plans to extend a pipeline system designed to connect domestic natural gas supplies with growing markets on the East Coast.
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Enviro groups file second challenge to planning rule changes
Land Letter
Four environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Bush administration's rewrite of Forest Service rules they claim weaken protections for wildlife and natural resources.
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Kansas legislature signs off session with coal bill
Lawrence Journal-World & News
The Kansas Legislature sent another coal-fired power plants bill to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius before ending the wrap-up session.
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Energy Dept. unveils retooled plans for clean coal plants
International Herald Tribune
The Energy Department unveiled its blueprint for spending up to $1.3 billion on multiple clean-coal power plants that would capture carbon emissions and permanently store them underground.
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NCAR climate water-cooled supercomputer aims to save lives
Daily Tech
It's a well-known fact that developing realistic models to simulate climate change scenarios is a challenge, arduous, and cerebral task that currently is done rather poorly.
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Vestas to build world's largest wind turbine in Colorado
Greeley Tribune
Vestas Wind Systems announced its intent to build the world's largest wind turbine tower factory in Colorado.
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Hastings (Neb.) power plant targeted by Sierra Club
Nebraska.TV
The Sierra Club says it wants to ensure the Whelan 2 Energy Plant and others have a plan in place that will limit mercury emissions.
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The truth about oil
FrontPage Magazine
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, mankind’s oil supplies are not getting depleted, but they keep continually expanding.
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Bill puts Wyoming Range off-limits to energy production
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill putting 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas production.
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Clean coal research proposals sought
Wyoming Business Report
A University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources task force is soliciting clean coal research proposals to improve the use of Wyoming's coal resources.
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New breed of supercomputers proposed to improve climate change prediction accuracy
Science Daily
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors.
More...

Dueling fuel philosophies on collision course
Denver Post
Prices at the gas pump are fueling the latest battles in Congress.
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Shell Oil president wants more access to energy resources
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The United States' reliance on foreign oil is being increased because of limits placed on where companies can search for resources, the president of Shell Oil Co. says.
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Xcel to move regional headquarters into one Denver building
CNNMoney.com
Xcel Energy says it will consolidate its regional headquarters into a single energy-efficient Denver building by 2011.
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DOE takes next steps with restructured FutureGen approach
Dept. of Energy
The restructured FutureGen program is a cost-shared collaboration between the government and industry to accelerate commercial deployment of IGCC or other advanced clean coal-based power generation technology with CCS.
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OPINION: Playing tag with tuition - Ritter's plan unlikely to work
Rocky Mountain News
Repealing an energy industry tax credit to pay for college scholarships may sound good in theory, but in practice it's unlikely to have the desired result.
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EDITORIAL: The biofuels backlash
Wall Street Journal
St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, and for 30 years we invoked his name as we opposed ethanol subsidies. So imagine our great, pleasant surprise to see that the world is suddenly awakening to the folly of subsidized biofuels.
More...

OPINION: U.S. needs to utilize its energy resources
Hillsboro (Ohio) Times-Gazette
The good news is that we have the "shale oil fields" in Colorado and Utah. This area has more than a 100- year supply of oil for the U.S.
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EnergySolutions sues to stop Utah's bid to block Italian nuke waste
Salt Lake Tribune
EnergySolutions has gone to court to protect its plan to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy.
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DOE awards $126.6 million for two large-scale carbon sequestration projects
Dept. of Energy
The new projects will demonstrate the entire CO2 injection process — pre-injection characterization, injection process monitoring, and post-injection monitoring.
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Storing wind energy in a bottle
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A University of Minnesota chemical engineering professor is set to begin testing how to store wind energy in large-scale chemical batteries.
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Global investment in renewable energy reaches $100 billion, according to U.N. report
Fox Business
High oil prices and an array of government incentives are leading to soaring rates of investment in renewable energy, according to the United Nations' annual "Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment" report.
More...

GOP pleads in vain for caution on new Colorado energy regs
Colorado Senate News
An eleventh-hour effort by Senate Republicans to gauge the potentially crippling impact of sweeping new regulations on Colorado's booming energy economy died at the hands of ruling Democrats.
More...

An in-depth approach to drilling
Houston Chronicle
Nonexistent just three decades ago, oil production in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico now accounts for nearly three-fourths of the offshore region's crude output and has become a vital piece of the nation's energy supply, according to a government report.
More...

OPINION: ANWR drilling benefits Americans
Minnesota Daily
One of the United States' most pressing political issues over the past 40 years has been the question of whether or not to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
More...

Republicans senators to push for oil shale development
Denver Post
Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress in pushing for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
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OPINION: California's energy colonialism
Wall Street Journal
"When you look at the globe, California is a little spot on that globe," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said recently at Yale University's Climate Change Conference. "But when it comes to our power of influence, it is the equivalent of a whole continent."
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Rolling with the wind
Denver Post
Colorado's $3 billion railroad freight sector is rolling strong and destined to get stronger, with the wind at its back. The state's effort to build a new industry centered on wind power is likely to bring a surge of new business to rail carriers.
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Colorado ballot proposal would tax electricity to create clean energy fund
SustainableBusiness.com
An activist group in Colorado, called Clean Energy Progress, is proposing a ballot measure for November 2008 that would raise the monthly bill for every state energy consumer.
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Alaska legislature wants polar bear study
Anchorage Daily News
The state Legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon - researchers just have to fill in the science part.
More...

Big oil now seeing green
Denver Post
Big oil companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research and develop alternative and renewable power sources — not only as part of the green movement, but with serious hopes of cashing in when the technologies are broadly commercialized.
More...

API: U.S. oil, gas drilling costs reach all-time high
Oil & Gas Journal
The cost of drilling and equipping oil and gas wells in the US reached an all-time high in 2006, the American Petroleum Institute reported.
More...

BLM's Colorado lease sale brings in $4 million
Denver Business Journal
The Bureau of Land Management's Colorado office said the May oil and gas lease sale netted $4 million.
More...

Williams wants to extend natural gas pipeline
Tulsa World
Williams Companies Inc. plans to extend a pipeline system designed to connect domestic natural gas supplies with growing markets on the East Coast.
More...

Enviro groups file second challenge to planning rule changes
Land Letter
Four environmental groups filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Bush administration's rewrite of Forest Service rules they claim weaken protections for wildlife and natural resources.
More...

Kansas legislature signs off session with coal bill
Lawrence Journal-World & News
The Kansas Legislature sent another coal-fired power plants bill to Gov. Kathleen Sebelius before ending the wrap-up session.
More...

Energy Dept. unveils retooled plans for clean coal plants
International Herald Tribune
The Energy Department unveiled its blueprint for spending up to $1.3 billion on multiple clean-coal power plants that would capture carbon emissions and permanently store them underground.
More...

NCAR climate water-cooled supercomputer aims to save lives
Daily Tech
It's a well-known fact that developing realistic models to simulate climate change scenarios is a challenge, arduous, and cerebral task that currently is done rather poorly.
More...

Vestas to build world's largest wind turbine in Colorado
Greeley Tribune
Vestas Wind Systems announced its intent to build the world's largest wind turbine tower factory in Colorado.
More...

Hastings (Neb.) power plant targeted by Sierra Club
Nebraska.TV
The Sierra Club says it wants to ensure the Whelan 2 Energy Plant and others have a plan in place that will limit mercury emissions.
More...

The truth about oil
FrontPage Magazine
Contrary to the conventional wisdom, mankind’s oil supplies are not getting depleted, but they keep continually expanding.
More...

Bill puts Wyoming Range off-limits to energy production
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune
Despite protests by some senators worried about world energy production, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved a bill putting 1.2 million acres of the Wyoming Range off-limits to future oil and gas production.
More...

Clean coal research proposals sought
Wyoming Business Report
A University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources task force is soliciting clean coal research proposals to improve the use of Wyoming's coal resources.
More...

New breed of supercomputers proposed to improve climate change prediction accuracy
Science Daily
Three researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors.
More...

Dueling fuel philosophies on collision course
Denver Post
Prices at the gas pump are fueling the latest battles in Congress.
More...

Shell Oil president wants more access to energy resources
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The United States' reliance on foreign oil is being increased because of limits placed on where companies can search for resources, the president of Shell Oil Co. says.
More...

Xcel to move regional headquarters into one Denver building
CNNMoney.com
Xcel Energy says it will consolidate its regional headquarters into a single energy-efficient Denver building by 2011.
More...

DOE takes next steps with restructured FutureGen approach
Dept. of Energy
The restructured FutureGen program is a cost-shared collaboration between the government and industry to accelerate commercial deployment of IGCC or other advanced clean coal-based power generation technology with CCS.
More...

OPINION: Playing tag with tuition - Ritter's plan unlikely to work
Rocky Mountain News
Repealing an energy industry tax credit to pay for college scholarships may sound good in theory, but in practice it's unlikely to have the desired result.
More...

EDITORIAL: The biofuels backlash
Wall Street Journal
St. Jude is the patron saint of lost causes, and for 30 years we invoked his name as we opposed ethanol subsidies. So imagine our great, pleasant surprise to see that the world is suddenly awakening to the folly of subsidized biofuels.
More...

OPINION: U.S. needs to utilize its energy resources
Hillsboro (Ohio) Times-Gazette
The good news is that we have the "shale oil fields" in Colorado and Utah. This area has more than a 100- year supply of oil for the U.S.
More...

EnergySolutions sues to stop Utah's bid to block Italian nuke waste
Salt Lake Tribune
EnergySolutions has gone to court to protect its plan to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy.
More...

DOE awards $126.6 million for two large-scale carbon sequestration projects
Dept. of Energy
The new projects will demonstrate the entire CO2 injection process — pre-injection characterization, injection process monitoring, and post-injection monitoring.
More...

Storing wind energy in a bottle
Minneapolis Star-Tribune
A University of Minnesota chemical engineering professor is set to begin testing how to store wind energy in large-scale chemical batteries.
More...

Global investment in renewable energy reaches $100 billion, according to U.N. report
Fox Business
High oil prices and an array of government incentives are leading to soaring rates of investment in renewable energy, according to the United Nations' annual "Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment" report.
More...

GOP pleads in vain for caution on new Colorado energy regs
Colorado Senate News
An eleventh-hour effort by Senate Republicans to gauge the potentially crippling impact of sweeping new regulations on Colorado's booming energy economy died at the hands of ruling Democrats.
More...

An in-depth approach to drilling
Houston Chronicle
Nonexistent just three decades ago, oil production in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico now accounts for nearly three-fourths of the offshore region's crude output and has become a vital piece of the nation's energy supply, according to a government report.
More...

OPINION: ANWR drilling benefits Americans
Minnesota Daily
One of the United States' most pressing political issues over the past 40 years has been the question of whether or not to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
More...

Republicans senators to push for oil shale development
Denver Post
Colorado Sen. Wayne Allard has joined other Republican members of Congress in pushing for more domestic energy production by removing barriers to oil shale leasing in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.
More...

OPINION: California's energy colonialism
Wall Street Journal
"When you look at the globe, California is a little spot on that globe," Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said recently at Yale University's Climate Change Conference. "But when it comes to our power of influence, it is the equivalent of a whole continent."
More...

Rolling with the wind
Denver Post
Colorado's $3 billion railroad freight sector is rolling strong and destined to get stronger, with the wind at its back. The state's effort to build a new industry centered on wind power is likely to bring a surge of new business to rail carriers.
More...

Colorado ballot proposal would tax electricity to create clean energy fund
SustainableBusiness.com
An activist group in Colorado, called Clean Energy Progress, is proposing a ballot measure for November 2008 that would raise the monthly bill for every state energy consumer.
More...

Alaska legislature wants polar bear study
Anchorage Daily News
The state Legislature is looking to hire a few good polar bear scientists. The conclusions have already been agreed upon - researchers just have to fill in the science part.
More...
      

 
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