Thursday, 10 April 2025

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FILE - Construction crews bore beneath U.S. 221 in Roanoke County, Va., June 22, 2018, to make a tunnel through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline will pass under the highway. The hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline was given the go-ahead Tuesday, June 11, 2024, to start operating, six years after construction began at more than double its original estimated cost. (Heather Rousseau/The Roanoke Times via AP, File)
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Hotly contested East Coast natural gas pipeline given go-ahead

Mountain Valley Pipeline approval granted six years after construction began, despite objections from environmental groups and landowners.

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‘Cleantech Revolution’: Commodities and technologies in the energy transition

RMI on the energy transition: The energy system is being transformed by the exponential forces of renewables, electrification, and efficiency.

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Woodland Cree, Obsidian energy resolve northern Alberta standoff

CALGARY — An energy company says a First Nations blockade and standoff that kept it from using an oil lease road has been...

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Alberta landfill waste carbon capture project inks deal with Canada Growth Fund

A company proposing to use carbon capture and storage technology to create clean electricity from landfill waste has become the second to secure...

A generic view of Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant, state utility owned by Electricity of Vietnam, in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam, June 4, 2024. REUTERS/Francesco Guarascio
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Analysis-Vietnam eyes greener power but banks on coal to avert blackouts

Vietnam's state-run electricity provider is trying to avoid a repetition of last year's blackuts

The Alberta Energy Regulator is telling a Calgary energy company to abandon hundreds of wells, pipeline sections and other facilities over concerns about care and maintenance of the sites. A de-commissioned pumpjack is shown at a well head on an oil and gas installation near Cremona, Alta., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Calgary energy company told to abandon hundreds of wells after ongoing care problems

The Alberta Energy Regulator is telling a Calgary energy company to abandon hundreds of wells, pipeline sections and other facilities over concerns about...

This aerial photo taken on Nov. 13, 2023, by Archaeology Southwest with a volunteer pilot and Lighthawk, a nonprofit organization, shows new access roads and tower pad sites west of the San Pedro River, near Redrock Canyon, in Arizona. A U.S. district judge has dismissed claims by Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction along part of a $10 billion energy transmission line. (Archaeology Southwest via AP)
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Challenge to $10B SunZia energy transmission project dismissed

A US judge has dismissed Native American tribes and environmentalists who sought to halt construction of a $10bn energy transmission line

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NY power grid faces shortfalls as new energy supply lags: operator

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York’s electric grid will face supply shortfalls if the rate of retiring old fossil fired...

There should be enough electricity this winter, National Grid’ ESO said (Gareth Fuller/PA)
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Less risk of Britain losing power next winter, says grid operator

National Grid’s Electricity System Operator said it expects power plants and wind farms to be able to provide enough power to meet demand.

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