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Let It BP
BP making big boost to clean-energy spending |
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30 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Let It BP BP making big boost to clean-energy spending Oil giant BP plans to invest up to $8 billion of its oil-and-gas profits into clean energy technologies and greenhouse-gas abatement projects over the next 10 years. An $8 billion investment would represent an eightfold increase over the company's clean-energy outlay in the past decade, says CEO John Browne. BP expects an eve ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Shake, Rattle, and Bankroll
Hillary calls for Big Oil to fund a cleaner energy future |
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26 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Shake, Rattle, and Bankroll Hillary calls for Big Oil to fund a cleaner energy future Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) says the oil industry should pony up for a multibillion-dollar "Strategic Energy Fund" that would invest in clean-energy technologies and help folks struggling with spiking heating costs. At the Cleantech Venture Forum in D.C. yesterday, Clinton called for Big Oil to ... |
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| Topics: energy, Hillary Clinton, news, oil, politics, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Watts On, Watts Off
Japanese manufacturing leads the world in energy efficiency |
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07 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Watts On, Watts Off Japanese manufacturing leads the world in energy efficiency When oil supplies contract, oil-dependent economies suffer -- and Japan prospers. Investors are bullish on Japan's manufacturing sector, which has been investing in energy efficiency since the oil crisis of the early 1970s. Faced then with few domestic energy sources and near total dependence on foreign oil, the nation's industrial ... |
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| Topics: energy, Japan, news, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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All's Well That Ends Wells
Investors bullish on clean energy technologies |
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14 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies The clean-energy sector is experiencing a post-Katrina bounce. Petroleum stocks are looking less attractive after the storm damaged Gulf Coast oil rigs and refineries, and many investors seem to think pre-Katrina high fossil-fuel prices are here to stay, making renewable-energy investments more attrac ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics) |
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Just a Viscous Rumor
Kenneth Deffeyes' Beyond Oil forecasts a fast-approaching petroleum peak |
Jennifer Weeks |
07 Jun 2005 |
Arts and Minds |
| Mark your calendar: annual world production of crude oil will reach its peak this coming Thanksgiving, Nov. 24. At least, that's the tongue-half-in-cheek prediction of Kenneth Deffeyes, who starts his latest book by suggesting that readers stop and give thanks for a century of plentiful supplies. Beyond Oil by Kenneth Deffeyes, Hill & Wang, 202 pgs., 2005. After the Pri ... |
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| Topics: energy, oil, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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Downright Unalaskan
Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge |
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10 Dec 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Downright Unalaskan Shipwreck oil spill in Alaskan waters threatens wildlife refuge A cargo ship that ran aground Wednesday on the shore of Unalaska Island, 800 miles southwest of Anchorage, has begun to leak fuel into sensitive wildlife habitat. After an unsuccessful search for lost crew members, officials have begun to survey the damage from the wreck; the freighter, which was loaded with soybeans and h ... |
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| Topics: Alaska, energy, oil, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics) |
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The Price Is Finally Right
High oil prices raise interest in renewables, and this time it may stick |
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27 Oct 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Price Is Finally Right High oil prices raise interest in renewables, and this time it may stick Whenever the price of oil spikes, interest in renewable energy spikes along with it -- but despite the perpetual hopes of advocates, interest recedes as prices go back down. This time, though, as oil tops $55 a barrel, it may be different. Really. For one thing, although most analysts agree that th ... |
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| Topics: business, energy, oil, renewable energy, United States (all these topics) |
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