CANNON BALL, N.D., Nov 30 (Reuters) - More than 2,000 U.S.
military veterans plan to form a human shield to protect
protesters of a pipeline project near a Native American
reservation in North Dakota, organizers said.
VANCOUVER, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Canadian government is
close to meeting conditions British Columbia has laid out for
provincial support of Kinder Morgan Inc's proposal to
expand its Trans Mountain pipeline, the province's premier
Christy Clark said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - U.S. total oil demand rose in
September for the second consecutive month on a year-over-year
basis as strong gasoline consumption offset weak distillate
sales, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said on
Wednesday.
PARIS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - European utilities welcomed
long-awaited power market reform proposals on Wednesday, hoping
a framework to subsidise fossil fuel plants and plans to wind
down a key support for renewable energy could turn the page on
years of crisis.
MUMBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Indian Strategic Petroleum
Reserves Ltd (ISPRL), the government-owned company mandated to
store crude oil for emergency needs, has invited initial bids to
fill its storage facility in the southern state of Karnataka.
MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia is ready to cut oil
production "gradually" by up to 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) in
the first half of next year as part of an agreement with OPEC,
Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday.
PARIS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - European biofuel producers said a
proposal by Brussels to nearly halve the level of crop-based
biofuel used in the European Union by 2030 was a U-turn in
policy that would threaten jobs and boost animal feed and crude
oil imports.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A Kazakhstan energy
ministry spokesman said late on Wednesday his ministry had no
immediate comment on a deal that OPEC had reached on oil
production.
Nov 30 (Reuters) - British miner Anglo American Plc
said on Wednesday it would sell its stake in South African
diversified miner Exxaro Resources Ltd and use the
proceeds to reduce debt.
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