Energy Update
Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of British Columbia
unveiled a new climate action plan on Friday, in which the
government said it would not be increasing the province's carbon
tax.
HOUSTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp is running television advertisements at the Rio Olympics to showcase its work on clean energy, a high-profile blitz as the company faces pressure over global warming in an intense year of climate politics.
CALGARY, Alberta, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Pipeline company
TransCanada Corp is offering tolls as low as 82
Canadian cents per gigajoule on its natural gas mainline from
western Canada if enough producers sign up to long-term
contracts, a company executive said on Friday.
LUANDA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Angola's long-ruling president
Jose Eduardo dos Santos was overwhelmingly re-elected leader of
the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party
on Friday, results showed.
BEIRUT, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Civilians fled a city in
northeastern Syria where government warplanes bombed
Kurdish-held areas for a second day on Friday, as the Syrian
army accused Kurdish forces of igniting the conflict by trying
to take over the area.
HOUSTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil has defended
its handling of an outage at its Los Angeles refinery following
a blast in February 2015 after a prominent trading company told
a state commission that the process had lacked transparency.
The Austrian company supplying Tesla Motors Inc. with the technology it needs to turn sunshine into electricity is expanding in the U.S. to capitalize on growth in the solar industry.
Deepwater Wind yesterday announced on Twitter that construction on the first US offshore wind farm now is complete.
Poorly worded legal language is to blame for the failure of a solar ballot measure to address the grievances of Nevada solar homeowners with the new lower net metering rates announced last December.
St. Petersburg, Fla., got its first net zero energy, fully self-sustaining commercial office building almost four years ago, in December 2012. Like so many other energy independent buildings, the path was fundamentally simple; reduce energy consumption as low as possible, make up the rest with solar PV power.
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