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Beleaguered French wind developer Theolia’s share price retreated as much as 12% after announcing mounting losses in the first half of 2010, and acknowledging it needs to find new investors to move its project pipeline forward.

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Wind giant Vestas has produced a documentary about the testing done on the company's 3MW V112 turbine prior to its release.

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Renewables giant Acciona has started initial production from a new 16MW biomass plant in Briviesca, Spain.

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A judge has ruled the Fish and Wildlife Service must revise a Bush administration recovery plan for the northern spotted owl.

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A contract to develop 240MW of geothermal power in Indonesia has been won by a consortium of India’s Tata Power, Australia’s Origin Energy and PT Supraco Indonesia.

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After Pacific Gas & Electric, the giant California utility, began installing smart meters in the state's Central Valley, the company was swamped with complaints from residents that their utility bills had spiked. But an independent review of the smart meters released Thursday found that the devices were functioning properly and attributed the high charges to a heat wave last year that coincided with their installation as well as poor customer service by P.G.&.E.

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The head of the review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change weighs in on the panel's leadership and flaws in its treatment of uncertainty.

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Tibet's high-altitude meadows disappear as global warming and overgrazing accelerate desertification. "Once the grasslands are destroyed, they rarely come back," a Chinese official says.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- There is a link between deforestation in Pakistan and the massive floods sweeping the country, said an official with the Worldwide Fund for Nature.

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An offshore oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, forcing 13 workers into the water and injuring at least one of them, the U.S. Coast Guard said.


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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A little-noticed amendment in the new U.S. financial reform law requires U.S.-listed companies to disclose whether their products contain "conflict minerals" from the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The official who led China's delegation in recent climate negotiations says the right to a better life in poor countries trumps the responsibility to cut emissions.

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A mountain lion wandered into the uniquely tolerant town of Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, and was ultimately shot by police. Heated debate has ensued.

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Brazil further boosted its iron ore reserves with the announcement of a major new discovery of iron and phosphate deposits in the southwest state of Mato Grosso.

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Conergy has cemented the framework agreement for 20 PV arrays totalling 32MW in Greece, marking the largest PV deal ever concluded in the rapidly expanding Greek solar market.

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ZUG, Switzerland, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Appeals challenging a permit to build the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline in Finnish waters were rejected, the pipeline consortium said Thursday.

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LANSING, Mich., Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Divers are scheduled to enter the Straits of Mackinac to reinforce two crude oil pipelines, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge said.

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LONDON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A failed blow-out preventer and inadequate sealing were among the likely causes of the explosion that sank a Gulf of Mexico oil rig, a BP study finds.

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NUUK, Greenland, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Activists who scaled a drilling platform off the coast of Greenland were arrested after severe weather forced them off the rig, police said.

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VADUZ, Liechtenstein, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The global community needs to act collectively to tackle the challenges of climate change, the U.N. secretary-general said in Liechtenstein.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A motion filed by the U.S. federal government to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a moratorium on deep-water drilling was overturned, a judge ruled.

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HOUSTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Texas pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners violated the law in a June gas explosion that killed one worker and injured eight others, a regulator said.

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- More than $25 billion was spent on developing the natural resources in Azerbaijan since work started in 1994, British energy company BP said.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Millions of Pakistanis face a food emergency in the fallout from massive flooding unless the country gets much-needed wheat seeds soon, a U.N. agency warned.

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BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- A deal to increase the volume of Azeri natural gas to Russia is on the agenda for talks in Baku between the two heads of state, the Kremlin said Thursday.

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The government of Abu Dhabi, with the help of a German consultant, is working on a plan to extend its emergency freshwater reserves from 48 hours to 90 days.

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Styria, a province in southeastern Austria, is enjoying an economic boom generated in part by a project by 79 municipalities to promote local, green, self-sustaining businesses.

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Selco, a solar energy company, has provided 100,000 mostly rural homes in southern India with solar lighting systems. Now it is deepening its market to include the urban poor.

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Bill Gates adds detail to his call for a research push to expand energy choices without overheating the planet.

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The adage “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” does not quite capture the following pair of situations. It’s more like “damned if you could (but you can’t), damned if you couldn’t (but you kind of did).”

First, the “damned if you could (but you can’t)”. On April 4 at 3:40 p.m.,  a magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Baja, Mexico, and was felt well north. The event elicited the following post on Twitter 16 minutes later from New Age lifemeister Dee­pak Chopra: “Had a powerful meditation just now--caused an earthquake in Southern California.” (Lawrence Krauss, too, lays into Deepak on page 36 for his lack of understanding of quantum physics. There’s plenty to bust Chopra about.)

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