$2,500 rebate for electric vehicle buyers in Tennessee
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The first 1,000 owners of Nissan LEAF all-electric cars in the state of Tennessee will be eligible for a $2,500 rebate.And, the rebate will come in addition to the $7,500 tax credit available from the federal government for electric vehicle buyers.The state’s Governor, Phil Bredesen, announced the new rebate program yesterday, at an event during which a 425-mile network of electric vehicle charging points was unveiled (see this BrighterEnergy.org story).The rebate is being funded through a $2.5 million provision in last year’s state budget, which uses funds collected from oil companies, and will be administered by Tennessee’s Department of Revenue....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
When should “fire” + “oil” = news?
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The following item moved on AP this morning: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A small fire on a petroleum platform owned by Mariner Energy Inc. has been put out with a water hose and a hand-held fire extinguisher. Thursday’s fire was the second reported in a week aboard a Mariner platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Patrick Cassidy, spokesman for Houston-based Mariner, said the fire occurred while a maintenance crew was using a sawing device. He said the crew extinguished the fire and returned to work. There were no injuries. Cassidy said the platform, 109 miles south of Lafayette, has been...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Environmental Colonialism
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I wish I had a shilling for every time someone told me spraying homes with DDT to prevent malaria is like using Africans in evil experiments. I would be a rich woman. That claim is a blatant falsehood. Even worse, it hides the many ways poor Africans really are being used in environmental experiments that cause increased poverty, disease and death. If any people were ever used in DDT experiments, it was Americans and Europeans. During World War II, this insecticide and mosquito repellant was sprayed on tents and around camps to keep American and British soldiers from getting malaria....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
New Cartel Threat: U.S. Energy Supply
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Energy: Mexico's state oil firm, our second-largest foreign supplier, is under attack from drug cartels. But that's not stopping the U.S. from investing more in its operations while American rigs lie idle in the Gulf. The volatile Middle East is often seen as the nexus of risk to U.S. energy supplies. But the biggest threat may be next door, in Mexico. It's bad enough that oil production there is declining due to underinvestment. But now the state oil monopoly, Pemex, is encountering a threat no one foresaw a few years ago: attacks from the country's notorious criminal cartels. The Los...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas
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WINCHESTER, VA. - The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in the United States is closing this month, marking a small, sad exit for a product and company that can trace their roots to Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. The remaining 200 workers at the plant here will lose their jobs. "Now what're we going to do?" said Toby Savolainen, 49, who like many others worked for decades at the factory, making bulbs now deemed wasteful. During the recession, political and business leaders have held out the promise that American advances, particularly in green technology,...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Rowan to move two Gulf of Mexico rigs to Middle East
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HOUSTON, Sept. 3 -- Rowan Cos. Inc. said two of its jack up drilling rigs are expected to leave the Gulf of Mexico late this year for work in the Middle East under contract with Saudi Aramco. The plans were outlined in a recent document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The Bob Palmer independent leg cantilever jack up worked in the gulf under contract with Houston independent Apache Corp. until Apache declared force majeure, Rowan said in an earlier SEC report (OGJ Online, July 29, 2010). Idle for 13 days during July, the Bob Palmer now works...
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of...
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(CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent federal agency, loaned more than $1 billion to the Mexican state oil company PEMEX in 2009 to support the company’s oil drilling in the southern Gulf of Mexico. The bank has another $1 billion in loans in the pipeline for 2010, unless Congress objects. On May 27, after the British Petroleum oil spill, President Obama imposed a moratorium on U.S. deepwater drilling in the Gulf, effecting 33 deepwater drilling rigs in the region.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Unilever to invest in maker of oil from algae: WSJ
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Unilever, the London consumer-products giant, is expected to announce on Wednesday that it invested in Solazyme Inc., the South San Francisco developer of oil from algae, The Wall Street Journal reported. Algal oil holds promise as a replacement for palm oil, .....
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Pemex Refinery Hit By Explosion In Northern Mexico
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An explosion Tuesday morning shook a refinery in Mexico, near the U.S. border, local media reported. The Cadereyta refinery, located in the state of Nuevo Leon, is owned by Mexican state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. A Pemex press officer would only say that the company was gathering information and would issue a statement once it had more facts.
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
Afghanistan claims 1.8 billion bbl oil field find
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 -- Afghanistan’s ministry of mining announced the discovery of an oil deposit in the northern region of the country, estimating reserves of 1.8 billion bbl. A ministry spokesman said it is a “totally new oil deposit, which extends in a triangle between Balkh, Hairatan, and Shuburghan.”
Published on Thursday 9th of September 2010 10:22:59 PM
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