Energy

Carbon capture and utilisation could make economic sense

By Fiona Harvey guardian.co.uk 25 July 2011 Many countries are investing in techniques of utilising CO2 for manufacturing processes – but UK is getting left behind Passing carbon dioxide through slag left over from steel-making turns the waste product into a strong material that can be used for construction. Pumped into greenhouses, it provides a […]

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Path appears clear for Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada

By Neela Banerjee Tribune Washington Bureau July 14, 2011 WASHINGTON — At a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania in early April, President Obama was asked about a bitter fight between industry and environmentalists over a proposed $7 billion, 2,000-mile pipeline to ship crude from Alberta’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries. Because the pipeline crosses

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China halts drilling at leaking oil platforms

By Jonathan Watts guardian.co.uk 13 July 2011 Government intervenes as ConocoPhillips rigs pose ‘huge threat to oceanic ecological environment’ China has ordered US oil company ConocoPhillips to halt drilling at two leaking oil platforms in the Bohai Sea, with a warning that further spills posed “a huge threat to the oceanic ecological environment”. The injunction

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Young Enterprise 2011: final hots up as environment game group seals deal

By Richard Tyler The Telegraph (UK) 10 Jul 2011 A climate change board game designed by schoolgirls taking part in this year’s Young Enterprise competition launched this week at the Christmas in July gifts showcase in London. The girls from Oxford High School are hoping to collect £30,000 in royalties from sales of Emission Impossible

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Student-Built Car Gets 2,487.5 MPG in Shell Eco-Marathon

By Staff gas2.org March 29, 2010 For the second year in a row, a student team from Laval University in Canada has won the prototype category of the Shell Eco-Marathon competition in Houston, Texas. Last year the team achieved a mind-blowing 2,757.1 mpg, and this year — even with the addition of an actual street

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Has the green movement lost its way?

By Susanna Rustin The Guardian (UK) Saturday 2 July 2011 Anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist, anti-flying: the green movement may have alienated more people than it has won over, and there are now calls for a new kind of environmentalism In 2008 prizewinning environmentalist author Mark Lynas experienced a “eureka moment”. Reading the hostile comments underneath an article

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New ‘green’ rules: Creating jobs or making mess of environment?

By CLAY BARBOUR madison.com June 26, 2011 9:15 am In the past six months, three wind farm developers with a combined investment of more than $600 million have stopped operations in Wisconsin — victims of regulatory uncertainty and what some now perceive as a hostile business environment for “green” energy. The wind farms — planned

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Environmental groups want Alberta to form independent oilsands panel

By Keith Gerein The Vancouver Sun June 18, 2011 EDMONTON — A collection of environmental groups from the United States and Europe is calling on the Alberta government to form an independent panel of experts to assess concerns with a new provincial land-use plan for the oilsands region. The 16 groups, including the National Wildlife

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