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VANCOUVER, March 18 (Reuters) - Canada's Environment Minister on Friday approved a liquefied natural gas export project proposed by Woodfibre LNG in British Columbia, after an environmental review found the project was "not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects."

PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - Total said on Friday executive committee member and new energies head Philippe Boisseau, who led the oil major into solar power, would quit next month and confirmed a newspaper report it aims to produce solar energy within two decades.

March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas speculators cut their net short positions for the first week in five as the market started to focus on the upcoming summer when analysts expect prices to rise, shrugging off the last weeks of what has been a warmer-than-normal winter.

ReNew Power Ventures Pvt., the Indian clean-energy company backed by Goldman Sachs Group Inc, bested the competition at an auction on Thursday that awarded rights to build 1.2 GW of solar projects in the eastern state of Jharkand.

PARIS, March 18 (Reuters) - Total said on Friday executive committee member Philippe Boisseau, head of marketing, services and new energies, would leave the French oil company on April 15.

March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas speculators cut their net short positions for the first week in five as the market started to focus on the upcoming summer when analysts expect prices to rise, shrugging off the last weeks of what has been a warmer-than-normal winter.

The U.K. government will provide 810 million pounds ($1.1 billion) for new clean-energy technologies, an effort that sharpens the Treasury’s focus on ways to reduce pollution and ensure electricity supply.

This past fall, Washington, D.C., made headlines when it utilized property-assessed clean energy (PACE) funding to add solar, high efficiency energy and water systems, and LED lighting to the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA affordable housing complex as part of a $17 millio

With scene-setting worthy of the great Bard himself, our very own soothsayers, Peter Brennan, Sebastian Lewis and Chris Davis deliver their predictions for steel markets across the globe.

(Recasts lead, adds overall natural gas and oil rig count) March 18 (Reuters) - U.S. energy firms this week added one oil rig after 12 weeks of cuts, data showed on Friday, after oil futures have soared over 50 percent since falling to a 12-year low in mid February. The total oil rig count rose to 387 in the week to March 18, compared with 825 oil rigs operating in the same week a year ago, oil services company Baker Hughes Inc said in its closely followed report.

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