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Energy & Renewables Newsletter June 27, 2013 |
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Canada confident Keystone XL will be approved
Canada`s natural resources minister said Tuesday he`s confident the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline project from Canada to Texas will be approved because it meets President Barack Obama`s requirement that it not lead to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Joe Oliver responded to Obama`s comments earlier Tuesday that the pipeline should be approved only if it does "not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." Oliver pointed to "Obama`s very own State Department" which he ... | ||
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Renewables to surpass gas by 2016 in the global power mix
Power generation from hydro, wind, solar and other renewable sources worldwide will exceed that from gas and be twice that from nuclear by 2016, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today in its second annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report (MTRMR). According to the MTRMR, despite a difficult economic context, renewable power is expected to increase by 40% in the next five years. Renewables are now the fastest-growing power generation sector and will make up almost a quarter of the global power mix by 2018, up from an estimated 20% in 2011. The share of non-hydro sources such ... | ||
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