GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

The WSJ article of May 15, 2008 raises a red flag for steel, desperately needed for all oil & gas exploration and downstream projects as well as for shipbuilding and power projects.  As a matter of fact steel producers can only guarantee firm steel prices for two weeks per Trinity Products...

Wind energy is a global industry with U.S., European, and Asian companies and their financial partners chasing markets around the world.

Nuclear generation's lack of greenhouse gas emissions has brought new supporters for building nuclear power plants. There are currently fewer than 450 nuclear plants operating in the world today, roughly 100 of them in the United States.

The Wall Street Journal believes that creating ethanol from food crops and nonfood crops does not make economic sense.

A Pay-as-You-Throw program, or PAYT, provides a direct economic incentive to residents to reduce their waste. Under PAYT, cities would charge households for their waste collection based on the amount of waste they throw away.

The reduction of packaging by using less resources is practical economics and helps to better our environment. By reducing the use of plastics in the bottle manufacturing industry, major corporations are minimizing real or perceived risks to the consumer and helping their bottomline costs. l

U.S. nuclear power generators (Exelon, Entergy, Dominion, Constellation, FPL, Duke, NRG Energy, First Energy, Southern Company, etc.) all stand to gain exceptionally if climate change policy is enacted on a national level.  Energy Information Administration (EIA) analysis shows that the Lieberman-Warner...

    All of the various regulations being discussed in the U.S. Congress to slow, stabilize, and then reduce CO2 emissions nationally include some type of cap and trade system.  Each of these programs have a portion of the CO2 emissions allowances being allocated for free to...

    The biggest driver for orders of coal railcars will be the new coal plants coming on line the next few years.  The commentary section below discusses the number of new coal plants presented by FreightCar America on its Q1 2008 conference call versus an updated analysis by...

The U.S. Congress's mandate to blend ethanol from corn into our gasoline supply has contributed to higher food costs. Producing ethanol from corn can be  energy-intensive and competes with our food supply.