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OTTAWA, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The labor productivity of Canadian businesses rose by 0.1 percent in the third quarter of 2015 after posting two consecutive declines, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

WARSAW, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Australian coal company Prairie Mining plans to apply in 2016 for a concession to extract coal in Poland, a step towards starting construction of a proposed mine, it said on Friday.

Tom McCalmont, President McCalmont Engineering has been working on large solar projects for more than 15 years. The former CEO of Regrid Power, which in 2008 was purchased by Real Good Solar, his six-year old company McCalmont Engineering is fully dedicated to large solar and energy storage projects in California.

BELGRADE, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Serbia will repay its 190 million euro ($207 million) debt to the country's sole oil firm NIS, majority owned by Russia's Gazprom Neft, by 2018, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.

In Kansas, Abengoa has decided to suspend production at its new cellulosic ethanol plant in Hugoton as well as its corn-based ethanol plant in Colwich as part of the recent financial troubles the company is suffering from what may eventually lead to bankruptcy.

OX2 will take over NSR's biogas plant outside Helsingborg on January 1, 2016. The plant has a capacity to produce around 80 GWh of biogas and 140-150,000 tons of bio fertilizer per year. 

Siemens said on Dec. 4 that it will supply five of its 6 MW offshore wind turbines for a floating wind farm that Statoil is developing in Scottish waters about 15 miles off the coast of Peterhead in Aberdeenshire.

Wood Group will acquire Texas-based The Infinity Group, for around $150m, which serves petrochemical, refining and gas processing sectors.

There is a general consensus that CO2 emissions place a strain on our climate, yet our inability to set a proper price on these emissions means that it is still far too cheap to pollute.

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Crude oil prices rose on Friday as OPEC ministers met in Vienna, while the dollar hovered near one-month lows a day after staging its largest one-day fall in nearly seven years.

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