GLG News by Alternative Energy Experts (North America)

    The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit striking down the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) will affect emissions control spending in the immediate term.

The media is saturated by energy companies promising a painless path to continued cheap supplies, and cleaner to boot.  Meanwhile, T Boone Pickens has burst upon this complacency with a campaign that act as a wake up call to drastically shake up how we guzzle our fuel.  What ever one thinks...

We are mesmerized by the present high price of oil, but that's only a part of the picture.  Natural gas and coal prices, water scarcity and a steadily declining large household base will essentially spell the beginning of the end of the housing, vehicle and development sprawl.

    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down the EPA’s Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) to reduce NOx and SO2 in 28 Eastern United States.  This follows a court decision striking down EPA’s Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR).      ...

    Railroads, unlike airlines and trucking firms, are able to pass along the high cost of fuel in  transportation agreements.  Below discusses this and the value to the railroads for coal transportation.

Changes in the ethanol production subsidy and import tariff would be an excellent way to moderate the increases in the short-term price of corn, easing the pain for the US livestock industry.  But any change in these policies will have long term impacts on the biofuels sector.   These changes...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC is seriously looking at FPSO (floating production and storage off shore ships) for their Prelude gas field in the Browse basin of Western Australia. The Browse reserves are estimated in the range of 1 - 2 tcf of NG.  Shell has invited bids from three preselected consortiums,...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has for some time prioritized oil development over natural gas (NG) and now finds its industrial development severely hampered without increased gas supply.  LNG imports have to fill the NG demand for power and industrial projects such as petrochemical plants...

In view of the high gas prices the public is now in favor of drilling off shore in Florida and elsewhere on the OCS.  Florida's Governor Charlie Christ has switched sides and now supports drilling on 8.3 million acres 125 miles off the Florida Panhandle.  In case of successful oil and gas...

Chesapeake Energy and Plains Exploration & Production have leased over 550,000 acres in the newly recognized  Haynsville natural gas (NG) field, located in the North West of Louisiana. An immediate real play is on for 44 trillion cubic feet of NG on the leases.