The environment

The study findings will help to provide the tools for selecting the most suitable CO2 storage sites as part of the large scale development of carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Jenifer Baxter, Head of Energy and Environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, comments on findings that, the UK is almost certain to miss its EU 2020 targets for renewable energy.

Global Bioenergies awarded €400 000 grant from the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) to produce renewable gasoline additives, which Audi will use for engine testing.

HoSt has received an order for the construction of a new biogas plant in Suffolk, UK.

Canfor Pulp Products Inc. and Licella Fibre Fuels Pty. Ltd. have entered into a biofuels-biochemicals joint venture agreement.

BIOX and World Energy have closed the acquisition of the, previously announced, 90 million USG biodiesel facility in Houston, Texas.

IGS CNG Services has opened a CNG fuelling station in partnership with Montgomery County in Moraine, Ohio.

Sir David King FRS HonFEI has professed the importance of clean energy innovation in tackling the challenge of climate change.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers welcome a new carbon target from UK Government, but say it must be seen as a starting block.

Oil prices have rallied from US$27/bbl at the start of this year to above US$50/bbl this month, according to ING research.

SCCS has welcomed the launch of the Carbon Capture and Storage Association’s new report, resulting from the UK’s cancelled Carbon Capture and Storage Competition.

Greenbelt Resources has secured a US$170 000 investment for clean energy technology.

Extending policies for tax credits and efficiency standards would help reduce energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, by reducing motor fuel use, and energy use in buildings, by increasing efficiency.

Enterprise is investigating a fire at its recently acquired natural gas processing plant in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

An Australian green fuel biorefinery, capable of producing renewable diesel and jet fuel, supported by Australian Renewable Energy Agency.