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BOEM announces proposed Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale; nearly 38 million acres available

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The sale will include all available unleased areas in the Central Planning Area offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Lease Sale 216/222 is the last remaining sale scheduled in the 2007 – 2012 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Natural Gas Leasing Program.

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EPRI calculates technically recoverable US riverine hydrokinetic potential at 3% of annual electricity demand

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The results show that the Lower Mississippi region contributes almost half (47.9%) of the technically recoverable resource estimate; Alaska 17.1%, the Pacific Northwest region 9.2%, and, the Ohio region 5.7%. —Paul Jacobson, project manager for EPRI’s waterpower research.

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Study Concludes That Use of Cellulosic Feedstocks to Meet US Biofuel Requirements Will Still Likely Result in Expansion of the Gulf Dead Zone

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The findings suggest that an aggressive nutrient management strategy will be needed to reach the goal of a 5,000 km 2 areal extent of hypoxia set forth by the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force even in the absence of biofuels, given current production to meet food, feed, and other industrial needs. Earlier post.).

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Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation Awarding C$37.5 Million in Funding for Renewable Energy Projects from Biofuels to Home Generation

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Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are legally required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12%. Project proponents must contribute at least half the funds, or one-third if government money is available for the project. million (US$36.6 million (US$1.76

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Rice University Study and Policy Paper Find US Biofuels Policies Flawed, Recommend Fundamental Overhaul

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Based on the latest available US Government Accountability Office data (2008) the US government spent $4 billion in subsidies to replace about 2% of the US gasoline supply. Chevron Technology Ventures and the Institute for Energy Economics of Japan provided support for the study. “We per gallon (gal) on top of the gasoline retail price.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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2007) may not be robust. ” In the case of predicting biofuels-related indirect land use changes, even the best available methodologies and models have proven to be significantly imprecise. In 2007/08, 0.9% In the introductory paper to the collection, Howarth et al. while noting that the analysis “.has Turner et al.,

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Oil and gas lease sale in Central Gulf of Mexico draws more than $1.7B in high bids for more than 2.4M acres; Shell, Statoil, BP top high bidders

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Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that the Central Gulf of Mexico oil and gas lease sale attracted $1,704,500,995 in high bids for tracts on the US outer continental shelf offshore Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The highest bid on a single tract was $157,111,000, submitted by Statoil for Mississippi Canyon, Block 718.

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