AFP - Greenpeace activists had occupied an oil drilling ship anchored off the Shetland Isles to push for a ban on deepwater drilling in the North Sea, the environmental...
Article Context
Greenpeace activists board North Sea drilling ship
Articles from 9.21.2010
Renewable energy bill faces battle in 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Tuesday that would require utilities to generate minimum levels of renewable power which...
An oil rig is reborn as scuba haven
Oil rigs have a reputation for being dangerous, dirty places. They often are. But in the Celebes Sea, between Indonesia and the Philipines, one former drilling rig has...
US envoy plays down expectations for climate talks
AFP - The top US climate negotiator warned Tuesday against any expectations of a binding deal on cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the next UN conference on the issue in...
IBM CEO: The consumer is the key to the smart grid
The smart grid won't be a successful system until we engage the energy consumer, said IBM's CEO Sam Palmisano at the smart grid industry event the GridWise Forum...
More Coverage: cnet news
Brazil's Batista plans billion dollar electric car facility
Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista said on Wednesday he is planning an electric car factory with an investment of around $1 billion that will produce 100,000 vehicles per...
An act of Congress needed before charging stations can be installed at the Capitol
The Obama administration is investing billions of dollars to encourage the manufacturing of batteries and components for electric vehicles and to establish tens of...
Scottish driller finds oil off Greenland coast
A Scottish oil company said Tuesday it has found oil for the first time in its exploration off Greenland, but it has abandoned an earlier well which caused a flurry of...
China, Pakistan in talks on new nuclear plant
AFP - Pakistan on Tuesday implicitly confirmed it is holding talks with China to build a new nuclear power plant in the energy-starved South Asian nation.
Steven Chu: an international fuel bank can ensure peaceful use of nuclear energy
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu discusses his proposals to encourage the peaceful use of nuclear power at this year's International Atomic Energy Agency gathering in...
Univ. of Colorado partners with Toyota to conduct "smart grid" study using plug-in Priuses
The University of Colorado at Boulder's Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) will partner with Toyota to conduct extensive testing on plug-in hybrid...
Responsive Traffic Lights Can Clear Congestion
Traffic lights should respond to cars, and not the other way around, says a new study.
Articles Related by Topic
U.S. State Department offers key support to Keystone XL pipeline
A State Department report found sufficient environmental safeguards to proceed with a project to carry oil to Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast.
Greenpeace activists arrested after climbing Greenland oil rig
STOCKHOLM - Police on Saturday arrested 18 Greenpeace activists who climbed aboard an oil rig off Greenland's coast to protest deepwater drilling in the Arctic....
Putin accuses BP of misleading him over Rosneft deal
MOSCOW (AFP) – BP's historic alliance with Russia's state oil giant Rosneft hit a rough patch on Friday when Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the British...
Environmental groups: Canada-Gulf oil pipeline should be delayed
WASHINGTON — Environmental groups said Wednesday that a 1,700-mile oil pipeline planned between Canada and the Gulf of Mexico posed safety risks and should be delayed.Read...
Greenpeace criticises BP over Arctic deal with Rosneft
AFP - Environmental campaigners Greenpeace slammed BP on Saturday after the British energy firm signed a huge Arctic exploration deal with Russia, just nine months after...
Enviro report details Arctic drilling risks, calls for delay
A big new Pew Environment Group report finds that oil-and-gas drilling in Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast would present hazards that the industry and federal agencies are...
Hoaxers target new Chevron advertising campaign
Reuters - Chevron Corp launched a new advertising campaign on Monday to address negative perceptions of big oil companies, but a bogus release and website by activist...
More Coverage: The New York Times
EU moves to make offshore drilling safer
The European Commission is to propose tightening the rules for deep-water drilling in the oil industry. The move follows April's devastating BP oil spill in the Gulf...
Cuba raises safety concerns with plans to start drilling in the Gulf
HOUSTON — Five months after the BP oil spill, a federal moratorium still prohibits new deepwater drilling in the American waters of the Gulf of Mexico. And under...
More Coverage: McClatchy
Activists end protest on Chevron oil ship in the North Sea
AFP - Greenpeace campaigners who attached themselves to an oil drilling ship in the North Sea ended their protest Saturday after the ship's operator, Chevron, won a...
Greenpeace claims activists could occupy Shetland oil-drilling ship for up to a month
The protest group Greenpeace claims it could occupy a deepwater drilling ship off Shetland for up to a month after two activists attached a "survival pod" to the...
More Coverage: AFP
Protest Shuts Down Oil Rig Off Greenland
Exploratory drilling by a Scottish oil firm was halted after four Greenpeace protesters scaled the rig and suspended tents from its underside.
Stay connected.