Poet’s Emmetsburg plant could be at full output in 2016
A top official with ethanol producer Poet said the company’s goal is to have its cellulosic facility in Emmetsburg at full production by the end of this year.
Trying to put a price on Big Oil’s ‘climate obstruction’ efforts
ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, and three oil-industry groups together spend $115 million a year on advocacy designed to “obstruct” climate change policy, according to new estimates released by Influence Map, a British nonprofit research organization.
Why oil prices will rise and many pundits will be caught by surprise
Inevitably, we will have another price shock – or at minimum an upside surprise. It’s unavoidable at this point.
Oil leak from Keystone pipeline 89 times worse than originally thought
Nearly a week after pipeline operator TransCanada shut down a section of its Keystone line over an oil leak, the company reported Thursday thousands of gallons of oil were spilled, not less than 200 as it first said.
Venezuela decrees Fridays a holiday to ease energy crisis
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has decreed that all Fridays for the next two months will be holidays, in a bid to save energy in the blackout-hit OPEC country.
Tesla, rivals, software may kill petrol car as soon as 2025
We thought it would be useful to explain more about how it is that Elon Musk has killed the petrol car. And for that we went back to Stanford University’s Tony Seba, the academic who predicts that fossil fuels, coal and oil in particular, will be redundant by 2030.
Hundreds of coal plants are still being planned worldwide — enough to cook the planet
The equivalent of 1,500 new coal plants are in the works worldwide. That’s a staggering number. If even a fraction of these plants get built and operate for their full lifetime, we’ll likely bust through the 2°C global warming threshold that world leaders have promised to stay below.
Columnist: Tesla brought down by ‘hubris’? Who could have expected that?
Tesla Motors Inc. pulled a pretty slick fake-out on investors and fans Monday by revealing, to their surprise, that it had delivered only 14,820 cars to customers in the first quarter of 2016, well short of its projected deliveries of 16,000 cars.
Saudis moving to reduce dependence on oil money
A top Saudi prince has announced new elements of a plan to reduce the kingdom’s heavy dependence on oil, amid a drop in world prices that has sent shock waves through the Saudi economy.
Keystone pipeline shut down after crude leak in South Dakota
TransCanada Corp. has shut down its Keystone crude oil pipeline indefinitely after a leak was detected Saturday afternoon in South Dakota.
