King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, advised Enterprise Products Partners L.P., TEPPCO Partners, L.P., and Oiltanking Holding Americas, Inc., on their joint venture to build a new off-shore crude oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico. The new partnership, known as the Texas Offshore Port System (”TOPS”), will provide refiners with greater flexibility [...]

Nucor Corporationannounced that its wholly owned subsidiary, The David J. Joseph Company (”DJJ”), has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of the American Compressed Steel operations of Secondary Resources, Inc. American Compressed is based in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, DJJ has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Victoria, Texas-based [...]

Duke Energy Corp. said Wednesday it plans to buy all the power generated at a massive solar power plant to be built north of Charlotte.
The Charlotte-based utility is expected to purchase more than 16 megawatts of power from SunEdison LLC, a Maryland company that is one of the nation’s leading providers of solar-produced energy. The [...]

Uranium City Resources (TSX-V: UCR) (”UCR”), a junior uranium exploration company with significant property holdings in the past producing Beaverlodge / Uranium City Mining District in north-west Saskatchewan, is pleased to announce that effective May 19, 2007 and subject to regulatory approval, it has retained the services of The Windward Agency, of Charlotte, North Carolina. [...]

Duke Energy Corp. plans to move ahead with a controversial coal-fired power project in the Blue Ridge foothills, Chief Executive Jim Rogers said Thursday after the annual shareholders meeting.
After nearly two years of debate, the N.C. Utilities Commission in February approved only one of the proposed two units for Duke’s Cliffside facility, about an hour’s [...]

Environmentalists who sued Duke Energy Corp. over upgrades at its coal-fired plants say a proposed EPA rule undermines their U.S. Supreme Court victory and would give utilities a free hand to pollute.
At issue is how the government measures air pollution from the smokestacks of coal-fired power plants and other sources.
Environmentalists say the pollution should be [...]

Duke Energy estimated it would cost $1.53 billion to build a single coal-fired power unit at its Cliffside power plant in western North Carolina, the state Public Utilities Commission disclosed Wednesday.
Duke Energy Corp. provided the estimate when seeking permission from the commission to build a pair of generators, estimated at $3 billion, at its Cliffside [...]

Duke Energy Corp. may build only one 800-megawatt coal-fired generator at its aging facility in western North Carolina, not the two the utility has sought for nearly two years, the state Utilities Commission ruled Wednesday.
The Charlotte-based company said it needed the generators to meet increasing consumer demand.
Environmentalists argued Duke had failed to consider cleaner power-generating [...]

Westar Energy knew its coal-fired plant was in trouble.
The Kansas company wanted to build a $1 billion, 800-megawatt power plant, but construction costs kept rising as global demand for steel and other materials skyrocketed. Soon $1 billion became at least $1.4 billion — costs ultimately passed to consumers.
Faced with sobering numbers, the utility in January [...]

BONNY BLUE This once-booming coal camp is testament to what can happen when bustle goes bust.
Some Richmonders may have been surprised last week when a University of Virginia study disclosed the capital city’s population has shrunk 2.9 percent since 2000. For the few stragglers in Bonny Blue, that’s a statistical hiccup.
To see what population decline [...]