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Japan will begin test drilling for oil and gas off Niigata coast in 2013

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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will begin test drilling for oil and natural gas in the Sea of Japan off the coast of Niigata Prefecture in April 2013. METI is outsourcing the test drilling, which is scheduled for April through June, to JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp. Click to enlarge.

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From Scooters to High Speed Rail, China is Electrifying

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Just as today we can look at a nighttime satellite image and see the black void that is recalcitrant, unelectrified North Korea, once that was China. For a while, gas scooters held sway piled high with people and products. We really don’t need more cheap gas cars. It had few private cars. It had no subway system.

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