Thursday, September 02, 2010
MOLINE, Ill. (AP) -- Deere & Co. will sell its wind energy business to a subsidiary of Exelon Corp. for $900 million, the company said Tuesday, potentially signaling an active merger and acquisition period ahead for the power industry. With energy prices persistently low due to a grindin ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 7:49 AM
SWEET, Idaho (AP) -- A farming operation north of Idaho's capital city is taking advantage of the region's geothermal heat and water to extend its growing season, just the latest example of how energy-conscious residents are putting the largely unseen reservoir beneath their feet to work. Th ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:09 PM
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's drive to invest in biofuels is contributing to a "land grab" in Africa by governments, companies and investment firms, a report by an environmental group said Monday. The bloc's target of ensuring that 10 percent of its transport fuel come f ...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010 10:29 AM
LYNDEN, Wash. -- What is now a hole in the ground will be a dairy digester churning out electrical power by late November, if not earlier, its builders say. Kevin Maas said the dairy digester near Lynden is expected to be as much as 75 percent efficient in producing energy from manure. In add ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:08 AM
LONDON (AP) -- How about a whisky to go? Scientists say they have developed biofuel for cars from waste produced in distilling Scotch whisky. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have produced a type of fuel called butanol using "pot ale" -- the liquid residue from coppe ...
Friday, August 20, 2010 7:49 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Elected officials from Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and Oregon are warning a pipeline company not to contribute to environmental causes to protect sagebrush habitat. The officials are demanding that El Paso Corp. drop an agreement it made with environmental groups tha ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
LODI, Calif. -- The thick rubber sheet covering the 2-acre lagoon of Larry Castelanelli's digester here billows upward during the summer, when the microbes underneath churn out methane. Castelanelli can walk across the puffy covering to check several release valves, which often allow gas to e ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:19 AM
HONOLULU (AP) -- The federal government has turned to a 130-year-old Hawaii sugar grower for help in powering the Navy and weaning the nation off a heavy reliance on fossil fuels. It will spend at least $10 million over the next five years to fund research and development at Maui cane fie ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:39 AM
ELKO, Nev. (AP) -- The chief of a 680-mile natural gas pipeline project from Wyoming to Oregon says he's surprised by the "firestorm" of complaints from ranchers about a company deal with environmental conservation groups. El Paso Western Pipeline Group President Jim Cleary told Elko County ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:58 AM
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The Bonneville Power Administration has altered the route for a proposed high-voltage line between Troutdale and Castle Rock, Wash., to avoid populated areas. The plan released Wednesday would run the line through mostly forested areas of Clark and Cowlitz coun ...
Saturday, August 07, 2010 9:18 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- A Billings-based electric co-op is asking the Montana Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling last month that Cascade County illegally rezoned farmland so a power plant could be built. Attorneys for the Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperat ...
Friday, August 06, 2010 10:38 AM
WASCO, Ore. (AP) -- Ormand Hilderbrand says he "now knows the real meaning of going for broke'" after spending five years working to launch Oregon's first small, independently developed wind farm. "You have to have a vision and you have to stick to it," said Hilderbran ...
Thursday, August 05, 2010 3:18 PM
While Senate Democrats have introduced a stripped-down energy bill because they didn't have support for a cap and trade system, supporters may try to get a more comprehensive measure through Congress this year. President Barack Obama, while criticized by environmentalists for not having pushe ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
Nursery producers are attacking a federal renewable energy subsidy that benefits forestland owners and others in the timber industry. The USDA's Biomass Crop Assistance Program, or BCAP, aims to increase the amount of energy generated from agricultural and forestry wastes. By artificially ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
Livestock groups are finding themselves pitted against Midwest corn growers -- and on the same side as environmentalists -- over whether government ethanol subsidies should continue. The two sides are lobbying Congress as a 30-year-old tax credit and protective tariff for ethanol is set to ex ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 10:29 AM
Governmental delays have forced an Odessa, Wash., biodiesel plant to drastically reduce its production schedule, the general manager said. Inland Empire Oilseeds LLC general manager Steve Starr told the Capital Press the plant resumed refining biodiesel and crushing oilseeds July 19. Product ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 9:28 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- The developer of a power line between Great Falls and Lethbridge, Alberta is seeking to condemn, via eminent domain, an easement across some land east of Cut Bank. Montana Alberta Tie Ltd. filed the complaint for condemnation Monday in District Court in Gla ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010 9:28 AM
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management is delaying the release of its environmental study of a proposed Wyoming-to-Idaho electric power transmission line. The draft environmental impact statement for the Gateway West Transmission Line Project was scheduled to be release ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010 9:08 AM
ALCOVA, Wyo. (AP) -- The pump installer toppled the old windmill in about an hour, first climbing up the wobbly 27-foot tower to stop the broken mill's whirling blade and then pulling the underground pipe to make way for a new solar-powered electric pump. Iconic mechanical windmills of metal ...
Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:54 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy bill that caps greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, abandoning a priority of President Barack Obama. Obama had hoped to add a climate bill to the two biggest legislative successes of his ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010 5:08 PM
LAKEVIEW, Ore. (AP) -- Some Lakeview residents are appealing city planning commission approval of a plant that would generate electricity from forest thinnings and sawmill scraps. The Herald and News reports that the City Council will hold a hearing Aug. 10 on the proposed biomass ...
Saturday, July 24, 2010 3:28 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Developers of a natural gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon are donating $22 million over the next 10 years to protect wildlife habitat along the route. The Oregon Natural Desert Association and Western Watersheds Project announced Thursday that El Paso Corp ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010 9:29 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The once-popular ethanol industry is scrambling to hold onto billions of dollars in government subsidies, fighting an increasing public skepticism of the corn-based fuel and wariness from lawmakers who may divert the money to other priorities. The industry itself can ...
Sunday, July 18, 2010 8:49 AM
By TED SICKINGER The Oregonian PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Backers of a proposed $800 million natural gas pipeline across the Oregon Cascades told federal energy regulators last week that their project is in limbo, and needs to secure "additional commercial underpinning" before it can move fo ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 12:18 AM
BUHL, Idaho -- Three digester projects on dairies in Idaho's Magic Valley have qualified for 15-year contracts to sell their electricity to Idaho Power under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act. The law requires electric utilities to offer to buy power produced by qualifying small ...
Saturday, August 14, 2010 9:19 AM
French agriculture giant Louis Dreyfus claims to be the victim of discrimination by USDA, which refuses to disburse renewable fuel payments to foreign-owned companies. The Paris-based company has filed a legal complaint claiming the agency violated the U.S. Constitution and federal laws b ...
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