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Solar, Geothermal Projects Among Winners in New York State Innovative Energy Competition

Solar, geothermal, and microhydro will be the focus of three projects that won the New York State “Energy to Lead Competition” this week.

Nigerian court blocks general strike over petrol price rise

ABUJA, May 17 (Reuters) - Nigerian labour unions
representing millions of workers have been blocked from staging
a general strike in protest at government plans to increase
petrol prices by up to 67 percent.

BP exploration boss leaves in reorganisation

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - BP's head of exploration
Richard Herbert is leaving the British oil major after slightly
more than two years in the job, a period in which the company
slashed spending on the search for new deposits.

Guatemala Will Seek 40 MW of Geothermal in 2Q16, US Geothermal Exec Says

U.S. Geothermal is expecting the Guatemalan government to release a 40 MW request for proposals (RFP) exclusively for geothermal in 2Q16, U.S. Geothermal president and chief operating office Doug Glaspey said on May 11.

SPECIAL REPORT-As oil boom goes bust, Oklahoma protects drillers and squeezes schools

NEWCASTLE, Okla., May 17 (Reuters) - After intense lobbying,
Oklahoma's oilmen scored a victory two years ago. State
lawmakers voted to keep in place some of lowest taxes on oil and
gas production in the United States - a break worth $470 million
in fiscal year 2015 alone.

COLUMN-Mexico's gasoline demand is growing strongly: Kemp

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Mexico's oil consumption has
started growing again in 2016 after declining for three years
between 2013 and 2015.

TerraForm Global delays first-quarter report

May 17 (Reuters) - TerraForm Global Inc, a unit of
bankrupt U.S. solar energy company SunEdison Inc,
said it could not file its report for the quarter ended March
31.

UPDATE 1-Canada oil sands producers disrupted anew as wildfire shifts north

CALGARY, Alberta, May 17 (Reuters) - Canadian energy
producers were hit with fresh disruptions on Tuesday after a
massive wildfire burning around the oil sands hub of Fort
McMurray, Alberta, shifted north, forcing the evacuation of
about 4,000 people from work camps.

France says major powers want Syria peace talks to start again in June

VIENNA, May 17 (Reuters) - France's foreign minister said on
Tuesday that major world powers had agreed if possible to push
for a resumption of Syrian peace talks in Geneva by the start of
June.

Strike curbs output at Total's French refineries - CGT union

PARIS, May 17 (Reuters) - A nationwide strike against a
French government labour law reform has cut output at Total's
refineries in France, a CGT Union official said on
Tuesday.

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