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Ur-Energy Options Athabasca Uranium Property, Drilling to Commence Immediately

June 27th, 2007

Ur-Energy Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of a letter of intent with Titan Uranium Incorporated whereby Ur-Energy can earn up to an undivided 51% working interest in Titan’s R-Seven and Rook I properties by funding Cdn $9 million in exploration programs managed by Titan over a 4-year earn in period. Diamond drilling of [...]

With Coal Plans Cut Back, Texas Faces Energy Gap

March 8th, 2007

Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind power producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now Texas faces [...]

Canceling plans for coal plants leaves Texas in a jam

March 3rd, 2007

HOUSTON – Texas, as everyone knows, does everything big. Its giant oil and gas fields dominate America’s energy patch. It is now the nation’s largest wind producer, with more than 2,000 turbines gathering some of the country’s strongest currents. It gets the booby prize for being the biggest producer of greenhouse gases.
And now [...]

Austin Energy’s Coal Considerations Smoked Out?

January 25th, 2007

Austin Energy is considering using so-called clean coal to meet the city’s future power needs. The utility’s plans to secure long-term land and water rights on property in Matagorda County, in partnership with San Antonio’s public utility, were publicized prematurely by an Austin American-Statesman article on Jan. 20. Now, Austin Energy says it must accelerate [...]

Renewable energy development urged

October 19th, 2006

Environmentalist Winona LaDuke on Wednesday urged Montana’s Indian tribes to develop renewable energy such as wind power rather than mining coal or drilling for coalbed methane.
LaDuke, an Ojibwe from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, is the executive director of Honor the Earth, a national American Indian foundation working on renewable energy issues and the [...]

Oil exec pushes greener energy

October 8th, 2006

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 [...]