Daily Archives: June 7, 2012

NZ blocks offer underway

June 7, 2012
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New Zealand has officially opened its 2012 blocks offer with nearly two dozen onshore and offshore exploration permits up for competitive bids.

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Investing in the Vast Solar Energy Potential of the Middle East and North Africa

June 7, 2012
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Arguably, the Middle East and North Africa are ripe for renewable energy investment, particularly in the solar energy sector and specifically in terms of concentrated solar power (CSP). Because it relies on its own oil, it can afford the massive subsidies necessary to weather the transformation that could eventually make renewable energy affordable and accessible.…

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Nord Stream: Russia’s Natural Gas Link to the West

June 7, 2012
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Since the 1991 implosion of the USSR, the Russian Federation has been bedevilled by a transit problem – how to shift its natural gas exports to lucrative European markets without the pesky problem of transiting former Soviet republics Belarus and Ukraine. In contrast, Russian consumers pay heavily subsidized prices for Gazprom products, leaving European customers…

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Factors Affecting the Price of Oil

June 7, 2012
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It seems that no matter what financial series you look at, there's a similar pattern of ups and downs over the last few years. I was curious to get a quick quantitative impression of how much of a contribution aggregate factors have been making to recent movements in the price of oil.S&P500 U.S. stock price…

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Leaked Documents Reveal UK Government Opposes EU Green Energy Targets

June 7, 2012
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New documents that have been leaked reveal that the British government has been trying its best to dilute the potency of new European renewable energy and carbon emission targets, despite professing to be “the greenest government ever.”In a move backed by the UK’s six biggest energy firms, British officials have been constantly trying to prevent…

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The DOD is Vital for Fostering Emerging Energy Technologies

June 7, 2012
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The military’s FY2013 budget is playing out to be a hot-bed of debate over the role of government in supporting clean energy innovation. Both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee passed Department of Defense (DOD) budgets that bans the department from developing or purchasing advanced alternative energy fuels that cost…

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