The Somerset County Planning and Zoning Commission heard mostly favorable testimony Thursday night from area residents who said they would like to see an ethanol plant built on Route 13 north of Pocomoke City.
The application by Chesapeake Renewable Energy to rezone 78 acres from agricultural-residential to general industrial drew about 15 people to a public [...]

Agroup of Maryland grain farmers who have been trying to push ahead with plans to build the state’s first ethanol production plant can be forgiven for feeling as though they are pursuing an elusive objective.
“We thought we would be further along than we are at this time, but we are working at it,” Eastern Shore [...]

Six cities across Europe and Canada are taking part in a programme to test hydrogen buses for potential introduction into their transport systems.
London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg and British Columbia will all see the environmentally
friendly buses take to their streets in a trial that could lead to more widespread adoption of the technology-advanced carriers.
Some London bus [...]

GE Global Research has been awarded Popular Mechanics magazine’s 2006 Breakthrough Award for its development of an advanced hydrogen electrolyzer. The awards program, initiated last year, recognizes valuable work in science and technology that can play a critical role in improving lives, expanding knowledge and building a better future.
GE’s electrolyzer, which was developed by a [...]

Alternative fuels are all the rage in Alabama these days, but not all such fuels are created equal.
Biodiesel production is still in its technological infancy, but area experts believe it holds considerable potential as a supplement to petroleum diesel and as a revenue generator for area farms.
Southeast BioEnergy LLC announced last week its plan to [...]

Association of Alternative Energy and Biodiesel Producers (ALBIYOBIR) announced that only two enterprises among the applied 200, were given biodiesel licence because of the slow process.
Speaking to the AA correspondent, Tamer Afacan, the chairman of the association, indicated that the transactions to get a Biodiesel licence was very long because of bureaucratic procedures. He underlined [...]

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly denied the possible suspension of the uranium enrichment research, the Itar-Tass News Agency reported.
“The [uranium enrichment] moratorium is totally unacceptable, from our point of view,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Sunday, according to the Tass report.
“A moratorium, even the one for three months, does not meet [...]

The president of Shell Oil, in Miami for a speech, says it’s time to embrace new energy sources.
In the wake of last year’s hurricanes, the United States narrowly averted a major disruption to its fuel supply on a scale “inconceivable in recent memory,” says Shell Oil Co. president John Hofmeister.
A year later, Hofmeister says he [...]

In a major setback to Reliance Industries, the government has decided to allow companies have monopoly in city gas distribution (CGD) projects to sell natural gas to households and automobiles.
“CGD projects will have marketing exclusivity. A company or consortia granted CGD license for a particular city will have marketing exclusivity for a certain number of [...]

Japanese firm Inpex will only take a 10 percent stake in a project to develop Iran’s largest onshore oil field and the main contract will go to an Iranian company, the oil minister has said.
The comments by Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hameneh came after a swathe of conflicting reports over Inpex’s final stake in Azadegan oil [...]