Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide Inc. says its German solar partner, Asola Advanced and Automotive Solar Systems GmbH, won a $17 million contract from Sunworx GmbH for the supply of high-efficiency silicon photovoltaic solar modules. Sunworx will take delivery of the modules this year.
Quantum and Asola recently announced plans to triple solar module production capacity [...]
H.J. Heinz Co. plans to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent within about 7 years.
Chief Executive Bill Johnson says Heinz is finding new ways to reduce its environmental impact, which includes converting potato peels into biofuel and reducing packaging by 15 percent.
Heinz says it will cut energy consumption and reduce waste through increased [...]
Private forecasting group AccuWeather.com is watching conditions in the western Caribbean and the area around Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula that could lead to tropical storm development.
“Several runs of the models have been showing a low pressure area developing,” said Expert Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski. “It’s forecasted to drift slowly northward and it will be on the [...]
Petrobras says one of its subsidiaries found oil and gas in the central Gulf of Mexico. The ultradeep find is nearly a mile-and-a-half underwater and over five-and-a-half miles below the seabed.
Future work will determine the size of the discovery and its commercial viability. Petrobras owns a 25 percent stake in an area of the Walker [...]
Uranium Oil and Gas announced that it has applied for four exploration permits in the McArthur Basin region in the Northern Territory, a Proterozoic area which has shown significant potential for oil shale and conventional hydrocarbon resources. RPS Energy, an acknowledged Oil & Gas industry consultancy firm, has identified 32 separate areas within these three [...]
The first consignment of uranium fuel from Russia for unit-1 of 1000 MW Kudankulam Nuclear power project-KKNPP in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has reached here on Monday.
Nuclear Power Corporation of India limited-NPCIL spokesperson A I Siddiqui said KKNPP, comprising of two units of 1000 MW (e) each, are at an advanced stage [...]
Iran is continuing to defy UN demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, the UN atomic watchdog said on Monday.
“Contrary to the decisions of the (UN) Security Council, Iran has not suspended its enrichment related activities,” the International Atomic Energy Agency wrote in its latest report on Tehran’s disputed nuclear drive.
In all, Iran was operating about [...]
Indonesian coal miner Churchill Mining has lifted its overall initial coal reserve target by 50% to 150m tonnes at its East Kutai Coal Project (EKCP).
A review of the total initial coal resource target is also being conducted and Churchill will advise the market of the result in due course, it said.
“Churchill is still ahead of [...]
Comdek announced that it has signed an option to acquire 100% of the issued capital of Tiger Coal, a company that has applied for two coal projects, the Jericho East and Jericho West Coal Projects in Tasmania. Inferred historical tonnes of coal is 60 to 80Mt of black thermal coal. The company reproted that there [...]
A Makati Regional Trial Court (RTC) has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against foreign-owned mining firm BHP Billiton, barring the company from operating in the Pujada Nickel mining site in the City of Mati, Davao Oriental.
In an Omnibus Order dated May 20, 2008, Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Makati RTC Branch 59 ordered BHP [...]
