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Power & Energy Commodity Reports > China clean energy plan hinges on coal price
Beijing, 30 August 2010
China's $736-billion push to harness nuclear, wind, solar and biomass energy hinges on making the cleaner fuels competitive with cheap and CO2-intensive coal without derailing surging industrial growth.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Making Waves with Tidal Energy
Houston, 27 August 2010
The first-ever federal license to proceed with a utility-scale tidal energy project in this country has been issued in Oregon. After an extensive permitting process, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has given the thumbs up to Ocean Power Technologies.
Metals & Mining Commodity Reports > Gold: Investment demand to continue to support prices
London, 25 August 2010
Demand for gold will remain robust during 2010 as a result of accelerating demand from India and China, as well as increasing global investment demand driven by continuing uncertainty over public debt and economic recovery, the World Gold Council (WGC) said.
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Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Big bets on US oil bonanza after shale gas boom
New York, August 2010
As the U.S. shale gas revolution enters its third year, companies are making big bets to try to recreate that success with the billions of barrels of oil locked in the sedimentary rock even though geologists doubt the actual production potential.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > EIA: Annual Energy Review, 2009
Washington, August 2010
Summary data on energy production, consumption, imports, and exports: The Annual Energy Review 2009 (AER), released on August 19, 2010, provides EIA’s most comprehensive look at integrated energy statistics. Summary statistics from the report indicate the following:
Agriculture & Softs Commodity Reports > Agri View: Why this is not 2007/08 (yet)
London, 18 August 2010
There is much concern and media speculation about whether the recent events in Russia might lead to a sustained rise in agricultural and food prices. The last time that the world suffered “agflation” was as recently as 2007/08, when, similar to now, droughts in key wheat exporting areas led to a serious crop shortfall.
Commodity Reports > Oil, HIV, TB, Malaria etc..
London, 18 August 2010
A new study reveals that many players within the oil and gas industry supply chain – which includes oil companies, contractors and sub-contractors – underestimate the full extent of the risks that HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria pose to its workforce, productivity and profitability.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > They Died Before the Oil Ran Out
London, 17 August 2010
There is an open secret in the oil industry that dare not speak its name: peak oil. Well, two did speak its name and gained no acclaim for it. One, M. King Hubbert, died years ago. The other and the most controversial, Matthew Simmons, died at his Maine summer home Aug. 8. The peak oil idea is simple: Oil is a finite commodity, and one day we are going to use up all of it.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > China's Opportunity
Houston, 13 August 2010
If energy consumption is a major standard by which to judge economic prowess, then China has joined the big leagues. The International Energy Agency now reports that China has surpassed the US country to become the world's biggest energy consumer.
Power & Energy Commodity Reports > Indonesian Palm Oil vs The Environment
London, August 2010
A bitter dispute between the palm oil industry and environmentalists has broad implications for Indonesia, whose plans to halt forest clearing will slow the aggressive expansion of plantation firms in the world's top palm oil producer – Special Thomson Reuters report.
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