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Just How Green is Google

2012-05-22T22:03:09Z

Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to develop and deploy clean energy and...

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Top 5 Figures Influencing Renewable Energy

2012-05-03T20:44:48Z

As Oilprice.com embarks on its Top 5 series, we thought it expedient to begin with our take on the key figures shaping and influencing U.S. renewable energy efforts, not least because the issue of...

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Canadian Prime Minister Shills Alberta Oil Sands in China

2012-02-14T20:27:45Z

Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in the midst of an official visit to China. His mission? To convince Beijing's mandarins to buy Canada's Alberta oil sands hydrocarbon...

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Is Deepwater Horizon the New Ecuador?

2012-01-31T19:06:42Z

Nearly two years after the worst accidental offshore oil spill in the history of the energy industry, some of the biggest companies in the world are busy pointing their legal fingers at one another...

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China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development

2012-01-19T20:09:45Z

Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary...

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Malaysia-based Hans Advisory & Trust Now Helps to Invest in Offshore Funds

2012-01-15T03:30:19Z

Malaysia-based offshore services company Hans Advisory & Trust guides individual investors and companies to make judicious investments in offshore funds and offshore trusts. Labuan, Malaysia...

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Ahmedinejad Visits Latin America, Washington Implores and Seethes

2012-01-13T23:27:41Z

At the best of times, the U.S. government is regarded as somewhat out of touch with what's happening in the American "heartland," much less the world at large, so much so that the phrase "inside the...

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Pakistan to Produce Gas - by Burning Underground Coal

2012-01-12T02:33:55Z

As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual demand, Pakistan's...

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Investment in African Renewable Energy Reaches $3.6 Billion in 2011

2012-01-05T01:43:24Z

First, the bad news. Although Africa has vast fossil and renewable energy sources, only twenty percent of its population has direct access to electricity and in some rural areas, four out of five...

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Another Asian Fukushima Imminent?

2011-12-30T02:55:21Z

Taiwan imports 99 percent of its energy, which is vital to its rapidly industrializing economy. The island nation's electricity demand was recently growing at almost 5 percent per year, but this is...

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Earthquakes, Water Pollution and Increased Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Fracking - Strike Number Three?

2011-12-20T22:00:05Z

The last decade has seen a sustained campaign by the hydraulic fracturing ('fracking") industry against its critics, as the fracking industry in the U.S. alone was worth an estimated $76 billion in...

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Could War Flare Again Between Iraq and Kuwait?

2011-12-09T22:22:14Z

According to Iraqi Council of Representatives Oil and Energy Committee member Furat al-Sharei, the 10 oil fields that spread across the Iraqi-Kuwaiti frontier are still waiting to have a line drawn...

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Russia Ups Ante with Caspian Neighbors by Moving Offshore

2011-11-21T23:34:34Z

On 16 November in Astrakhan Lukoil president, Vagit Alekperov told journalists that his company will spend over $16 billion over the next decade to develop the country's Caspian offshore Korchagin...

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Afghanistan - Newly Discovered Mineralogical Treasure House (Again)

2011-10-14T21:29:30Z

As the U.S.-led Afghan campaign lurches into its second decade, the country's vast untapped mineralogical resources are again emerging in the Western media, seemingly underpinning the benefits of...

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Canadian Oil Sands - A Good Investment? Not in Europe, Apparently

2011-10-12T22:04:57Z

Any American watching cable TV over the past few months can hardly fail to have noticed the seemingly ubiquitous advertisements extolling the virtues of extracting oil from Canadian oil sands, which...

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