Seismic monitoring continues around a deep fracking wastewater well in Ohio after a magnitude-4.0 earthquake and 10 other earthquakes were tentatively linked to activity at the well.
France must spend billions of dollars improving the safety of its huge fleet of nuclear plants following stress tests prompted by the destruction last March of Japan’s Fukushima reactors.
During the China International Sustainable Economy Industrialization Expo, held on Nov. 19-20 in Chengdu, government officials adhered to the party line.
Tanzania has stepped up the pace for building a $1-billion natural-gas pipeline, accelerating the project’s target completion date to December 2012 from the initial March 2013 goal.
Mitsui Inc., one of Japan’s largest construction firms and also one of its major nuclear fuel traders, is investigating the feasibility of building biomass power generators to help dispose of debris from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami as well as help recycle waste from the reconstruction effort.
Massachusetts’ highest court on Dec. 28 upheld an agreement allowing Cape Wind to sell power to National Grid, removing a major obstacle for the planned 130-turbine offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound.The ruling affirms the 2010 decision by the Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities (DPU) to allow National Grid to buy 50% of Cape Wind’s output — 234 MW. The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the New England Power Generators Association and TransCanada had appealed the DPU’s decision late last year.In the 35-page ruling, Supreme Judicial Court Justice Margot Botsford called the DPU review consistent with
COURTESY STATOIL Statoil's 2.3-MW demonstration turbine off the Norwegian coast. Related Links: Maine Offshore Wind Study Statoil Hywind Demonstration Description Statoil, developer of the world’s first full-scale floating wind turbine, is reporting good performance on its 2.3-MW test project near the North Sea. The Norwegian company is targeting the Gulf of Maine as a site for a 12-MW floating-turbine test wind farm, despite the tough U.S. environment for wind-energy development. If constructed, this would be the first floating wind turbine farm in the U.S.“We chose the coast of Maine because of good wind conditions, deep waters and proximity to electricity
Courtesy of Kitimat LNG The Kitimat LNG facility is one of a handful seeking to export Canada's natural gas to Asian markets. Courtesy of Kitimat LNG The proposed $5.7-billion Kitimat LNG export terminal received a 50-year export license from Canada's National Energy Board. Related Links: Israel Taps Italian Firm To Build Floating Offshore LNG Terminal DOE OKs Terminal LNG Export Two Canadian energy companies are closer to developing export facilities for liquefied natural gas in the Pacific Northwest, driven by burgeoning demand for natural gas in Asia and vast North American natural-gas reserves. Other companies are also queuing up to
Related Links: National Academies' press release (with link to full report) "Oil-Spill Panel Seeks Industry, Federal Actions," enr.com Jan. 12, 2011 A new report on the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil-well blowout concludes that industry and regulators had a “misplaced trust” in the blowout preventer used by the Deepwater Horizon rig.Like many other reports about the Gulf Coast disaster, the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council study, released on Dec. 14, concludes that the accident, which killed 11 rig workers and spewed more than four million barrels of oil into the Gulf, was caused by a combination of factors.But
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