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.
Wind giant Vestas has produced a documentary about the testing done on the company's 3MW V112 turbine prior to its release.
Renewables giant Acciona has started initial production from a new 16MW biomass plant in Briviesca, Spain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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