GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

Exxon is moving systematically ahead with their PNG LNG project to be located near Port Moresby.  The FEED (Front End Engineering) has been completed and Exxon has shortlisted Bechtel and Chiyoda for bid on the EPC contract.  Construction is to start in 2010, and plant start-up is expected...

The average "Joe" only hears good things about alternate energy, lke solar, and wind, but hears the bad hings about conventional energy like coal and  nuclear. That is because we have a lot of exoperience with coal and nuclear and have had a lot of time to make mistakes and to report them. Most...

    The year-to-date and outlook for many of the items transported by the U.S. railroads are down, coal transportation has been positive.  The discussions that follows list some of the positives for the railroads.

    Coal companies have issued force majeure declarations to customers due to various production-related issues.  These are discussed in the section below.

EU realizes in the face of the global banking crisis and their success in intervention that present carbon-reduction targets may now not be affordable. 

The writer of the article is seemingly unware of the trends that are taking place in outsourcing to low cost producing countries, including China and India and has not been following the apparent trends that are shifting the landscape not only for large manufacturing companies but even the mid sized...

    As the referenced article states, there are many benefits in the Emergency Stabilization Act for the coal industry.  One not discussed is the refund of the coal excise tax.  The commentary section discusses this.

    The Emergency Stabilization Act signed into law on October 3, 2008 includes an extension of tax credits for renewable energy and refined coal.  The discussion that follows includes items to consider regarding the refined coal tax credit.

Of all the potential cellulosic and agricultural feedstocks, algae is one of the most promising for two reasons;     1. It has the highest oil content yield, more than corn, switchgrass and even palm oil and the oil is realively easy to extract.     2. Algae does...

Exxon's offshore LNG terminal, the world's first of it's kind, has been just located in the Adriatic 10 miles off Porto Levante, Italy for supply of  about 10% of Italy's natural gas requirements by 2009.  The design capacity of the terminal is 775 MMcfd of natural and will be delivered to...