GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

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...

Zero-landfilling is a goal that is now reality. GM is one of the leading major manufacturing companies demonstrating that corporate plants can lower disposal costs by 100% recycling and reuse of their wastes. By performing this task, GM lowers their carbon footprint.  

Since the 1970s, corporations are required to meet environmental regulations in air, water, solid and hazardous wastes etc. Over the years, many companies eventually developed strategic plans to implement pollution prevention, that is reduce wastes at the beginning of the manufacturing...

    The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on February 8, 2009 in favor of the plaintiffs that coal plants could not be removed from the list of mercury sources subject to a Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) standard and the subsequent movements to require EPA to set a...

    The commentary section discusses the current market and outlook for coal railcars

    The fuel-switching from coal to natural gas affects the demand and price for each commodity.  The commentary below discusses what issues are part of the analysis of a utility or merchant fuel buyer on whether to switch fuel sources to fuel power plants.

    Although 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 commentary section below discusses the positives of coal transportation for the railroads.

According to today's Oil & Gas Journal news, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received from the Russian Security Council approval for Russia's state policy in the Arctic and a plan for implementation.  Russia considers the Arctic region as strategic resource base to guarantee Russia's energy...

Russian officials had boasted in spring that Gazprom would become the largest publicly traded energy company, surpassing ExxonMobil. However, Gazprom's value is down 58% since May 2008 and debt insurance now rose 1% in a single day, costing  Gazprom additionally about $440 million.

Biomass is now very expensive, has a low energy density, and biomass for energy would compete for food.