DrumBeat: August 25, 2006
Posted by threadbot on August 25, 2006 - 9:11am
Topic: Miscellaneous
As CNN noted this morning, the models on this one are unusually congruent. Not the typical mess of spaghetti:
TheStormTrack thinks this one could be nasty - worse than the NHC is currently predicting.
USDA-DOE Announce Additional Key Note Speakers for Review: Matt Simmons is on the list.
Additional keynote speakers have been confirmed for Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance. This conference is co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is designed to create partnerships and strategies that will accelerate commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative. Advancing Renewable Energy, is scheduled to take place October 10-12, 2006, at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Biofuels may strain U.N. goals of ending hunger
Venezuela's Chavez plans to more than triple oil exports to China
Arab region's gas demand growth overtakes oil
South American Gas Pipeline Project on Hold, Petrobras Says
Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, said plans to build a $20 billion natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina are on hold because of an impasse between Brazil and Bolivia over energy prices.
Mexico's PEMEX Restarts Development of Mature Fields
Russia spins global energy spider's web
Geostrategic oil interests and the Gulf
Oil firms 'hushing up' crisis of corroding pipelines
World can absorb oil rises, bank chief says
Six Steps to Beating Global Warming
Coal Gasification Archive Goes Online




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