Nov. 7–Big companies used to talk about their potential expansion plans with large metro areas in Oklahoma
Now smaller communities are the focus of their attention.
“Wind development is bringing new money and new energy into Western Oklahoma like I’ve never seen,” said LaVern Phillips, president of Woodward Industrial Foundation. “We’re riding a tide of new opportunities.”
“The [...]

NANNING, June 14 (Xinhua) — China’s first bioenergy research center was inaugurated Sunday in Nanning, the capital city of southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, amid government’s plans of new energy development to combat global energy crisis.
The research center is set up based on the national guidance on energy and grain security, [...]

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today energy expert T. Boone Pickens provided his sixth consecutive monthly update on the level of United States’ oil importation.
Pickens said that based on the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), the U.S. imported 65 percent of its oil, or 366 million barrels, in May 2009, sending approximately [...]

France and Pakistan have agreed to co-operate on civilian nuclear power, officials said, with Islamabad calling the move a “significant development”.
But there is confusion over the deal reached by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Pakistani counterpart.
Pakistani officials said Mr Sarkozy had undertaken to supply Pakistan with “civilian nuclear technology”.
But the Elysee Palace said France [...]

Today, President Obama announced a new national energy education initiative to inspire and train tens of thousands of young Americans “to tackle the single most important challenge of their generation — the need to develop cheap, abundant, clean energy and accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy.”
Last summer, we developed a proposal for a [...]

By H. JOSEF HEBERT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama wants to use his economic aid plan to cut energy use in federal buildings, a long-sought goal that has achieved mixed success.
“If we do that effectively, then over the long term we are going to save billions of dollars in energy costs for the federal government [...]

BOSTON – Citgo, the Venezuelan government’s Texas-based oil subsidiary, has suspended shipments of heating oil for poor families in the United States, citing falling oil prices and the world economic crisis, the nonprofit organization that distributes the fuel said Monday.
The controversial program gave fuel from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government to 200,000 households in 23 [...]

OKLAHOMA CITY — As he prepares to address a wind-power conference in Oklahoma, billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens said it shouldn’t seem strange that he is interested in wind and other alternative energy sources.
“It’s not totally unrelated to the oil business,” Pickens told The Associated Press. “It’s an energy business. It’s easy for [...]

October 16, 2008: The energy conference last week was a big step towards solving many sector issues in Kenya. The importance attached was demonstrated by the attendance of the President and the vice-president. The only notable disappointment was the absence of key personnel from the Treasury as facilitators.
The conference came up with a number [...]

OTTAWA, Sept. 30 (UPI) — Canada’s Conservative government has been lobbying Washington not to drill for oil in Alaska’s pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, documents indicate.
The quiet lobbying by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade considers “opposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge” one of Canada’s top environmental objectives with Washington, the [...]