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Nebraska provides TransCanada with map identifying Sandhills Regions to be avoided in designing alternative route for Keystone XL pipeline

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The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) has released a map of the areas that it considers to be Nebraska Sandhills, based on an analysis of a variety of existing data. NDEQ is conveying this to TransCanada for reference as the company develops a proposed new route for the Nebraska portion of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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State Department issues Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL Pipeline: climate change impacts

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The US Department of State (DOS) has released its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in response to TransCanada’s May 2012 application for the Keystone XL pipeline that would run from Canada’s oils sands in Alberta to Nebraska. The pipeline would primarily transport crude oil from the WCSB and Bakken regions.

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Serendipitous discovery by IUPUI researchers may lead to environmentally friendly lubricants

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Seed oil components of an ornamental flower could provide a direct pathway for designing a new class of environmentally friendly lubricants. The Orychophragmus violaceus plant is a purple flower native to China; it’s commonly referred to as the February orchid. violaceus plant’s seed oil is made is extraordinary.

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Researchers modify camelina to produce highest levels yet in transgenic plant oil of novel lipid acetyl-TAG; biofuel and industrial use

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As reported in a paper in Plant Biotechnology Journal , this successful metabolic engineering and subsequent field production of the modified camelina crop marked the highest accumulation of the unusual oil achieved so far in transgenic plants. hydroxyl, epoxy, etc.). Previously, we identified an acetyltransferase, EaDAcT, from E.

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

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Incremental well-to-wheels GHG emissions from WCSB Oil Sands Crudes Compared to Well-to-Wheels GHG Emissions from Displacing Reference Crudes Click to enlarge. Domestic production of crude oil has increased significantly, from approximately 5.5 million bpd in 2010 to 6.5 million bpd in 2012 and 7.5 million bpd by mid-2013.

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NRC report concludes hydraulic fracturing poses low risk for causing earthquakes, but risks are higher for wastewater injection wells; CCS impact undetermined

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Δσ refers only to the radial stress in the exterior region. Because oil and gas development, carbon capture and storage, and geothermal energy production each involve net fluid injection or withdrawal, all have at least the potential to induce earthquakes that could be felt by people. ΔV * and Δσ ?

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Smart grid refers to a number of technologies aimed at gathering more data on the flow of electricity through the transmission grid. We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources. at the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

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