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First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 16 mins ago - 7 reports

Exclusive: South Africa’s NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage hikes from gold, coal producers

By Ed Stoddard | NEWS.GNOM.ES –By Ed StoddardJOHANNESBURG (NEWS.GNOM.ES) – South Africa ‘s National Union of Mineworkers said on Sunday it would seek pay hikes of up to 60 percent from the country’s gold and coal producers in upcoming wage talks which ... [Published Gnom.es - 16 mins ago]

Entities: Coal, South Africa, Mines, Workers, National Union of Mineworkers

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 6 reports

Charles Koch

The Koch Brothers Have Buried A Space The Size Of A City Block Under Thirty Feet Of Oil Sands Waste

Canada's oil sand mines will eventually produce up to two trillion barrels of oil and what that could mean for the environment has been debated for years. What's often overlooked though is a coke byproduct that results from refining the tar-like bitumen ... [Published Business Insider - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Charles Koch, Oil Sands, Petroleum, Detroit (Michigan, United States), Coal

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 reports

Exxon Mobil Corporation

South Hook Gas cements position as LNG leader with arrival of 300th cargo

South Hook Gas has cemented its position as the UK's largest LNG terminal shipper with the arrival and safe off-loading of its 300th cargo today. The Umm Slal sailed this afternoon from the South Hook LNG Terminal in Milford Haven.As a Q-Max vessel, the ... [Published Zawya.com - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Liquefied Natural Gas, Qatar Petroleum International, Exxon Mobil Corporation, United Kingdom, Q-Max

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 4 reports

Government and Greens battle over oil exploration

The Green Party is at loggerheads with the Government over deep-sea oil exploration off the coast, which it says is a threat to the country's beaches.The party launched its anti-drilling campaign 'Kiwi Bid' this afternoon at Piha. It aims to gather support ... [Published ONE News - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Oil Exploration, Metiria Turei, Green Party (NZ)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 10 reports

US ends freeze on new naturalgas exports, approves Texas terminal

WASHINGTON, - The Obama administration opened the door to a new era of U.S. energy exports on Friday, approving the first liquefied natural gas project since the start of a heated debate over how best to benefit from the shale energy boom. The Energy ... [Published Lucianne.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Liquefied Natural Gas, Obama Administration, Natural Gas

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 17 reports

Central Bureau of Investigation

CBI official investigating coal scam arrested for taking bribe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested the chief investigator in the coal blocks allotment case for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.7 lakh to settle a land dispute for a businessman. A second CBI officer and two others were arrested ... [Published Indian Express - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Bribery, Coal, Investigation, Central Bureau of Investigation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 30 reports

Drumbeat: May 18, 2013

The Energy Department gave a terminal near Freeport, Tex., permission Friday to ship liquefied natural gas to Japan, providing a new outlet for rising U.S. production of shale gas despite qualms of environmentalists and many domestic manufacturers.The ... [Published Fuel Fix - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Natural Gas, Shale Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Liquefied Natural Gas

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 11 reports

US should repeal its antique ban on the export of crude

Sooner or later, the US government must allow general export of crude oil. Sooner would be better than later.A couple of recent developments illuminate the need.First, crude oil exports are reported by the Energy Information Administration to have jumped ... [Published Peak Oil - May 18 2013]

Entities: Liquefied Natural Gas, International Energy Agency, United States Government, Crude Oil

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 7 reports

Oil rallies for third day

Oil rose for a third straight session on Friday, supported by a raft of strong economic data from top oil consumer the United States that also boosted US equities, even as the dollar hit a multi-year high.The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index, ... [Published SABC - May 18 2013]

Entities: Brent Crude Oil, S&P 500, Phil Flynn, Consumer Sentiment

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 6 reports

Vale Restarts Shipments from Mozambique After Protests by Local Residents

Officials at Vale have announced the recommencing of coal transport from their Moatize mine following protests by local residents at the site in Mozambique’s northwestern Tete province.The Sena rail line’s operations were disrupted in Q2 2013 by potters ... [Published Coal Age - May 18 2013]

Entities: Mozambique, Moatize (Mozambique), protest, Coal

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 19 reports

Gas prices heading toward record

Z 2013-05-17T14:52:07Z By MATT OLBERDING / Lincoln Journal Star JournalStar.com24 minutes ago • By MATT OLBERDING / Lincoln Journal StarPlains states drivers, including those in Nebraska, could be paying another 10 to cents a gallon for gasoline in the ... [Published Lincoln Journal Star - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tom Kloza, Refinery, Gasoline

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 34 reports

Pacific Coal receives subscription deal for financing

Pacific Coal Resources Ltd. has received an executed subscription agreement in respect of its previously announced $4-million (U.S.) private placement (see press release dated May 8, 2013). Pacific Power Generation Corp., a company existing under the ... [Published Stockwatch - May 17 2013]

Entities: Private Placement, Coal, Pacific Coal Resources Ltd, Subscription Agreement

Quotes

...As environmental activist Bill McKibben recently wrote: "If those of us who are trying really hard (to tread lightly on the planet) are still fully enmeshed in the fossil fuelfuel system, it makes it even clearer that what needs to change are not individuals but precisely that system. We simply can't move fast enough, one by one, to make any real difference in how the atmosphere comes out."

Strictly Business: Asking the big questions [Published Columbian.com - 6 mins ago]

"It can't be stopped. Not even by a big EU country like Poland" he said

Nord Stream plans new gas pipelines [Published The Local Sweden - 23 mins ago]

"Because one would not want at all that everything would be sour, as young people say, when everything is more or less alright, incomes are growing and wages are high compared to what they used to be, of course, and grow much faster than in most countries but on the other hand, nothing significant is happening" the prime minister said

Time ripe to liberalize LNG exports - Medvedev [Published Voice of Russia - 47 mins ago]

"Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom is forming his opinion on the use of natural gas and will soon present it to the government for a decision" Barak Seri, a spokesman for Shalom, said today in text message in response to a Bloomberg query

Delek Drilling, Avner Decline on Export Concerns: Tel Aviv Mover [Published BusinessWeek - 1 hour ago]

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Blogs

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China Just Endorsed Construction Of Its Biggest... [Published Think Progress - 47 mins ago] Reuters reported on Wednesday that China’s environmental ministry has okayed the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Dadu River in the Sichuan province, which when completed will be the country’s largest. China’s energy mix was 9.4 ...
Predicting the weather, corn, ethanol and oil p... [Published The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 5 hours ago] News of the future was, in my youth, something that one found by crossing the palm of a lady in a dark tent with a piece or two of silver (or the modern equivalent) at one of the fairs that came to town. Such opportunities still exist, with all the caveats ...
6,000 Homes Crumbling in the Groningen Gas Fiel... [Published Fire Earth - 10 hours ago] Europe’s largest gas field: The Dutch earthquake zone Earthquakes are becoming more intense and more frequent in the northern Netherlands, as energy companies continue to extract natural gas, said a report. Southern Permian Basin-Europe. Source: USGS ...
Video: Oil Sands Reality Check [Published Climate and Capitalism - 12 hours ago] An important new resource for tar sands campaigners ...
The Quiet Triumph Of Oil And Gas In Obama’s Pol... [Published Zero Hedge - 16 hours ago] Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichterIt was announced Friday afternoon, when no one was supposed to pay attention: after years of controversy, heated rhetoric, intense lobbying, and stiff opposition from some unlikely ...

Audio/Video

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Energy Firms Showcase Natural Gas Cars [Published WSJ.com Video - News - May 17 2013]
ANGA CEO: More Beneficial to Export Nat Gas [Published FOX Business - Video - May 16 2013]
VIDEO: 'A lot of questions' over oil companies [Published BBC News Video - Business - May 14 2013]
VIDEO: Litter at highest level for 5 years [Published BBC News Video - UK - May 14 2013]
Barbed wire, chains litter Castro yard [Published CNN.com - Video - May 14 2013]

Press Releases

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ADNOC Distribution - Strategic SWOT Analysis Re... [Published PR inside - 9 hours ago]
Sempra Energy Statement on Freeport LNG U.S. De... [Published PR Newswire: Energy - May 17 2013]
Fitch Affirms Chesapeake Energy's LT IDR at 'BB... [Published Business Wire - May 17 2013]
Freeport LNG Receives DOE Approval To Export LN... [Published PR Newswire: Energy - May 17 2013]
Dow Supports U.S. Department of Energy LNG Expo... [Published Business Wire - May 17 2013]