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VANCOUVER, Nov 28 (Reuters) - If Canada approves Kinder
Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the
company's four-year campaign for the project will be far from
over. Next up is a battle against hardening opposition amongst
some communities along its planned route.

LAUNCESTON, Australia, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Almost unnoticed,
Rio Tinto Chief Executive Jean Sebastien Jacques has ushered the
China iron ore elephant out of the room.

The Indonesian government should be congratulated for keeping its biodiesel blending mandate afloat despite a prolonged period of low oil prices.

(Mon, 28 Nov 2016) EIA recently started collecting data on wind turbine manufacturers, turbine models, and other wind plant attributes in the Annual Electric Generator Report. As of the end of 2015, just three manufacturers—General Electric (GE), Vestas, and Siemens—accounted for 55 gigawatts (GW), or 76%, of installed wind generating capacity in the United States.

* But rising U.S. output could undermine OPEC-cut

(Adds U.S. rig count, comment, updates prices)

CARACAS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Puerto La Cruz
refinery was hit by a blackout on Sunday night, a union leader
and workers said, adding to refining troubles in the oil-rich
country although the complex was barely operational before the
outage.

SINGAPORE, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell over 1 percent
on Monday, extending declines from last Friday as doubts
re-emerged over the ability of major producers to cut output at
a planned meeting on Wednesday aimed at reining in global
oversupply.

Nov 27 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said on Sunday they had
no plans to forcibly remove activists protesting plans to run an
oil pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux
reservation in North Dakota, despite telling them to leave by
early December.

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's
energy minister Khalid al-Falih said on Sunday that he believed
the oil market would balance itself in 2017 even if producers
did not intervene, and that keeping output at current levels
could therefore be justified.

BRASILIA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - President Michel Temer said on
Sunday that he and leaders of Brazil's Congress will not allow
an amnesty for election slush funds sought by some lawmakers to
avoid prosecution for receiving graft money.

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