Not exact matches
A global oil
company executive recently predicted that petroleum's dominance of world
energy would
last only another 20 years;
other ways of providing
energy, particularly for transport, were about to emerge.
Chinese
company CNOOC's $ 15 billion takeover Alberta oilsands firm Nexen
Energy created controversy
last year with this publication among
others criticizing the federal government for a lack of clear policy on SOE takeovers.
He had recently removed himself from his
last start - up, an ambitious alternative -
energy company known as Makani Power, and he had only just turned on the lights at his newest
company,
Other Lab.
Last week I was in Italy meeting with
other global business leaders, while U.S. Global's Director of Research John Derrick was visiting and assessing Greek and Turkish
companies such as Tsakos
Energy Navigation, JUMBO, Türk Telekom and Turkcell.
The
company behind the Dakota Access pipeline and many
other damaging fossil fuel projects —
Energy Transfer Partners — was the focus of nearly 20 actions spanning 10 U.S. states
last week.
Indeed, as the world's
other energy reserves diminish, mining
companies may find themselves compelled to invest in technologies for exploiting the world's
last great reserve of carbon - based fuel.
Several
other coal
companies, including Arch Coal and Walter
Energy, have also filed for bankruptcy over the
last year because of pressures on the industry.
As we learned
last week, Tesla has been losing money since its inception, and its IPO shows that the
company is heavily dependent on selling carbon credits to
other automakers, a $ 450 - million loan from the U.S. Department of
Energy, and the money it hopes to raise in its IPO.
Because of this interest,
last year we did an analysis that looked at whether buying the most discounted
energy companies at
other times in the past might have been good investment strategy.
Banks, building societies, utility
companies and
other organisations use credit reference agencies to share details of all your account behaviour on credit / store cards, loans, mortgages, bank accounts,
energy and mobile phone contracts from the
last six years.
That's why so many scientists and
others (me included) were irked
last month to learn that Google, a
company that in recent years gained a green reputation by investing aggressively in renewable
energy projects, was hosting a July 11 fund - raising luncheon for Inhofe.
Midway through the conference, which brought roughly 1,000 academics, politicians and curious onlookers to Nevada over the
last two days, I had a chance to buttonhole Mr. Reicher and two
other principals in the exploration of next - generation geothermal technology: Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate and director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Don O'Shei, whose
company, AltaRock
Energy, just received a $ 6.25 million investment from Google (see yesterday's post.)
We've invested more per capita than any
other energy company in Britain for the
last ten years.
Solar
companies went ballistic
last month when the federal Bureau of Land Management slapped a moratorium on new applications to build solar
energy plants on the 258 million acres that the bureau manages, mostly in California and 11
other Western states.
According the The Guardian, news that German engineering giant Bosch is buying solar panel manufacturers Ersol, a
company that has recently invested heavily in thin - film manufacture, for â «¬ 1.1 bn (US$ 1.7 bn) has sent stocks in
other renewable
energy companies soaring as investors expect further big buyouts: «Shares in leading German solar
companies rose substantially on expectations that
other big players, including oil groups, are on the prowl in a market that grew to â «¬ 6.6 bn
last year and is forecast to top â «¬ 18bn by 2020.
Reuters reported
last year that Lukoil and
other companies received instructions from the state
energy ministry on providing news stories favorable to Russian leadership.