A home owner in Golden, Colo. will be the first in the state to install the newest in residential wind power technology. Jim Green of the U.S. D.O.E. Wind Technology Center and Southwest Windpower have created a new technology called the Skystream. This innovation in energy is designed to lighten future energy bills and fight [...]

Suedzucker AG, the world’s biggest sugar processor, said second-quarter profit advanced 1.9 percent, the first gain in more than a year, as the costs of expanding into ethanol production fell.
Net income rose to 63.4 million euros ($79.4 million) in the three months ended Aug. 31, from 62.2 million euros a year earlier, Mannheim, Germany-based Suedzucker [...]

The Australian dollar rose, ending a two-day slide, on speculation the nation’s export earnings will be bolstered by rising prices of metals such as gold and nickel.
The currency climbed to its highest this week after the price of gold, of which Australia is the world’s second-largest producer, gained on claims by North Korea it has [...]

U.S. Energy Corp. and Crested Corp. , natural resource exploration and development companies, today announced that Mr. Clyde Gillespie has been hired to be the Project Manager for the Lucky Jack Molybdenum Project in Colorado for the Companies’ U.S. Moly Corp. subsidiary.
Mr. Gillespie comes to the company from Kinross Gold Corporation (Kettle River Operations) [...]

U.S. Energy Corp. and Crested Corp. , d/b/a USECC, today announced the signing of a Letter Agreement with Kobex Resources Ltd. (TSX Venture Exchange: KBX.V - News) whereby Kobex can acquire a 50% interest in the Companies’ Lucky Jack (formerly known as Mt. Emmons) molybdenum deposit in west-central Colorado (the “Project”).
On October 6, 2006, U.S. [...]

European energy and mining stocks, the region’s worst performers in the past three months, rose as a cut in oil output and a nuclear detonation in North Korea lifted commodity prices. BP Plc and Rio Tinto Group paced the advance.
“With oil ticking up and metal prices higher, there might be a new window in the [...]

With the price of oil down sharply from its mid-summer highs, some investors who put money into energy-sector exchange traded funds have slipped up as well.
Despite a small bump late last week, the price of crude oil has fallen about 22 percent from its July peak of close to $80 a barrel and pulled stocks [...]

Billionaire Peter Branson, the British business mogul who owns Virgin Atlantic Airways, says he’s going to burn cellulosic ethanol in his 100-plane fleet within the next five or six years.
Made from organic waste generated by farming and forestry, cellulosic ethanol is made from cellulose, rather than sugars and starches as is normal ethanol. In a [...]

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% [...]

DEVELOPMENTAL
Cherokee County
# Marathon Oil will drill the Dixon “A” Well No. 5 in the White Oak Creek (Travis Peak) Field to 12,500 feet, 7.2 miles west of Alto in the Self, I Survey, A-793.
# The Barnes Gas Unit 1 Well No. 4 will be drilled by Southwestern Energy Production in the Overton (Cotton Valley [...]