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Green Job Bank Passes 10,000 Job Postings
Jun. 8 | The green energy sector is one of the real growth areas in the developed world right now, showing that there is definitely some synergy between an environmental policy and economic recovery. To demonstrate just how much traction the green energy sector...
Leading University Of Texas Professors To Contribute To Petroleum Training Guide
Jun. 3 | The Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX) has announced the signing of three top professors from the University of Texas as contributors to their best selling training publication “Fundamentals of Petroleum”. A guide that has sold more than 75,000 copies...
Germany To Close Down All Nuclear Power Plants
May. 30 | Germany, the home of one of the strongest green movements in Europe and the site for sustained anti-nuclear power protests in the wake of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant, is to shut down all of its nuclear power plants by the year 2022....
Saudi Prince Wants Oil Price Reduction
May. 30 | Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal called for oil price reduction on Sunday for Europe and the United States not to stop from getting oil supply from his country. This statement was made by the prince, the grandson of modern Saudi Arabia’s founding king,...
A Greener And Cheaper Commute For Concerned Citizens
May. 21 | It’s such a good idea you wonder why someone didn’t have it before – car pooling via the Internet, on a dedicated site. The Seattle-based website Zebigo.com is matching up drivers and people who need a ride. If you have somewhere to go and...
Oil Poses Economic Threat
May. 20 | The International Energy Agency said Thursday that high oil prices will negatively affect the global economy. IEA is a Paris-based energy organization which is encouraging oil sources to strive harder to increase their supply to help meet the usually...
Death Of Bin Laden Not Expected To Hit Pump Prices
May. 15 | The death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was major worldwide news for many reasons, not least for the fact that al Qaeda’s actions in New York on September 11, 2001 had such a profound impact on the world. But more prosaically, the death has...
Motorists Encouraged To Use Flex Fuel
May. 6 | A campaign is springing up to encourage Americans to get around the rising fuel pump prices by switching to flex fuel. The ethanol-based E85 fuel is available from pumps all over America and is cheaper than regular fuel as well as being kinder to the...
Pilot Scheme For Green Energy Patents Having Strong Effect
May. 3 | A scheme commenced in 2009 in order to accelerate through some of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s 700,000-case backlog of patent applications is having some positive effects, and is expected to achieve more in the next 12 months. The Green...
