A uranium producer plans to build a mill outside this town to service several uranium mines in western Colorado and eastern Utah.
Energy Fuels Resources Corp., based in nearby Nucla, owns mines near Gateway and in Utah between Moab and Blanding.
“One of the things this area lacks is a uranium mill,” said company President George Glasier [...]

When Erica Grubb installed solar panels on the roof of her Berkeley house, the decision was both personal and political.
Personal because Grubb used a small inheritance from her mother to purchase the solar panels, which cost $18,000 — $13,000 after rebates.
Political because seeing “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore’s movie on global warming, inspired Grubb, a [...]

Ethanol may not be the energy panacea many in Hawai’i had hoped for.
Producing the biofuel from sugar cane would help move Hawai’i away from dependence on imported oil while invigorating the farm industry.
Sounds great, but making it happen is far from simple.
The barriers to producing ethanol locally include:
# Building production plants.
# Getting water rights switched [...]

BACK in 1999, when she was the head of refining at Chevron, Patricia A. Woertz told a group of energy officials that it was time to stop mixing agricultural policy with fuels policy.
In that same speech, at a fuels conference in Washington, Ms. Woertz also publicly expressed worry about the unintended consequences of a federal [...]

About 10 a.m. Friday, drilling started at the site of a proposed ethanol plant east of Rogersville. It lasted only a few minutes, but pipe and other equipment were unloaded.
The Citizens for Groundwater Protection — a group of residents living near the site at U.S. 60 and Porter’s Crossing Road — had filed a petition [...]

Magnus International Resources, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a letter of intent to acquire African Mineral Fields, a company which holds an exclusive option to acquire 100% interests in four gold projects in Uganda. The acquisition comes as part of Magnus’ decision to expand its mineral portfolio into Africa, which holds 55% [...]

UEX Corporation (”UEX”) is pleased to announce the results of the 2006 winter drilling program and the commencement of a 2006 summer drilling program on its 100% owned Hidden Bay Uranium Project (”Hidden Bay”). Hidden Bay is located in the eastern Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan and totals 57,721 hectares (142,571 acres) in size.
2006 Hidden [...]