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The company behind a liquefied natural gas project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a temporary use permit from the local government to allow the anchoring of a converted cruise ship to house workers in Howe Sound. A water taxi driver approaches a renovated cruise ship known as a "floatel" that Woodfibre LNG plans to use to house 600 construction workers at a liquefied natural gas export facility being built near Squamish, during a media tour in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, May 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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LNG company plans to use ‘floatel’ near Squamish, B.C., without local permit

Woodfibre LNG, the company behind a project near Squamish, B.C., has withdrawn its application for a local permit to house workers in a...

FILE PHOTO: India's Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw addresses the audience in Gandhinagar, India, July 28, 2023. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
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India approves $9-billion port to boost trade with Europe

India's new deep-water port will include terminals to accommodate "mega vessels" and terminals for petroleum, automobiles and other imports.

European nations including France continue to import Russian natural gas by ship (AFP)
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Senate probe urges France stop importing Russian LNG

A Senate investigating committee called Wednesday for France to stop importing Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) and push for the fuel to face...

FILE PHOTO: Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is seen in Burnaby, from Cates park in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada May 1, 2024. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier/File Photo
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Trans Mountain revises heavy crude standards on pipeline after quality concerns

Canadian government-owned oil pipeline operator Trans Mountain last week revised standards for accepting crude oil on its recently expanded system after buyers raised...

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves (Lucy North/PA)
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UK Labour to highlight pledge to cut down energy bills, tackle cost-of-living crisis

The UK Labour party has pledged to make Britain a clean energy superpower by 2030, which the party says will save families up...

FILE PHOTO: A bitumen sample from an experiment to get bitumen out of oil sands is shown at the Imperial Oil research lab in Calgary, Alberta, Canada March 12, 2020. Picture taken March 12, 2020. REUTERS/Todd Korol/File Photo
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Canada oil and gas emissions cap likely to curtail production, report says

In a report commissioned by Alberta, Deloitte modelling showed that implementing carbon capture and storage would render high-cost oil sands mines economically unviable.

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Justice for disadvantaged communities in New York’s cap-trade-and-invest

Disadvantaged communities are disproportionately affected by emissions from fossil fuel combustion in New York. Resources for the Future considers policy options for reducing...

FILE PHOTO: Construction workers Tekovin Miller and Darien Bailey install actuators for tilting panels at the Duette solar site which is being developed on previously agricultural land in Bowling Green, Florida, U.S., March 24, 2021. Picture taken March 24, 2021. REUTERS/Dane Rhys/File Photo
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US unveils rules for subsidies to boost clean energy wages

U.S. President Joe Biden wants to make jobs and wages in green industries such as solar competitive with those in oil and gas.

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A woman pours water on her head after filling her containers with drinking water from a municipal tanker on a hot summer day in New Delhi, India, May 21, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/File Photo
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India sees record peak demand for power in north as heatwave persists

People in India have been trying to stay cool during a weeks-long heatwave.

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Equatic to Build North America’s First Commercial-Scale Ocean-Based Carbon Removal Facility

In partnership with Deep Sky, Equatic to commence engineering for the first-of-a-kind plant in Quebec  LOS ANGELES, June 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --...

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