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Obama Administration Moves to Open Arctic Drilling - International Business Times
Changes coming to Japan's energy policy decision process - The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
Japan's leader ousts three top nuclear energy regulators - Boston Globe
Putting green energy front and centre - Toronto Star
Points to Ponder: Realities for the National Energy Policy debate in 2012 - PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)
Army Aims to Get a Handle on Battlefield Fuel Usage - New York Times
Yedlin: Energy meeting lacking, say key players - Calgary Herald
Coal miner queries draft energy strategy - Southland Times
Coal And Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy - TheStreet.com
The brave new world of EMR - Utility Week
Ukraine to spend almost half a billion for development of energy strategy - NRCU - Ukrainian Radio
WM calls Energy Summit to tackle supply concerns - Works Management
Establishing coherent policy - Intelligent Utility
Renewable Energy Predicted to Grow Despite Economy - Domestic Fuel
Energy Costs and Energy Policy: Advantage USA - NASDAQ
Energy Policy in the US: Does Solar Power Stand a Chance? - ecopolitology
Japanese government set out policy to reduce dependence on nuclear power - The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
Japan's New Energy Strategy Calls For Reduced Dependence On Nuke Power - RTT News
Jack Mintz: Forget 'strategy' - Financial Post
Energy minister targets red tape on energy strategy - Vancouver Sun

Obama Administration Moves to Open Arctic Drilling - International Business Times

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 12:46 AM PDT

Obama Administration Moves to Open Arctic Drilling
International Business Times
While President Barack Obama has in the past declared his willingness to make domestic oil production a component of his energy policy, he halted offshore drilling after last summer's disastrous blowout of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of ...

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Changes coming to Japan's energy policy decision process - The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 03:15 PM PDT

Changes coming to Japan's energy policy decision process
The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
TOKYO --The decision process for Japan's energy policy is going through a change. The Basic Act on Energy Policy, which was enacted in 2002, stipulates that a basic energy plan should be formulated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) ...

Japan's leader ousts three top nuclear energy regulators - Boston Globe

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:27 PM PDT

USA Today

Japan's leader ousts three top nuclear energy regulators
Boston Globe
TOKYO - Prime Minister Naoto Kan removed three top officials in charge of Japanese nuclear energy policy yesterday, taking aim at the cozy ties between regulators and the power industry that were exposed after the Fukushima Daiichi ...
Analysis: Energy policy chaos threatens Japan's economy Reuters
Nuclear policy trio face ax The Japan Times
Japan to Fire Top Energy Officials After Fukushima Nuclear Plant Disaster Bloomberg

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Putting green energy front and centre - Toronto Star

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 10:11 AM PDT

Putting green energy front and centre
Toronto Star
After watching its landmark green energy policy become a punching bag for opposition parties and other critics, Ontario's Liberal government has moved to fix its most controversial element. With just two months before voters go to the polls, ...

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Points to Ponder: Realities for the National Energy Policy debate in 2012 - PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:47 AM PDT

Points to Ponder: Realities for the National Energy Policy debate in 2012
PennEnergy- Energy News (press release)
This past weekend I was asked to contribute my thoughts on elevating the need for National Energy Policy (NEP) in the 2012 election debate. This request came from Aaron Harber who does the Energy Roundtable on Channel 12 public TV in Denver. ...

Army Aims to Get a Handle on Battlefield Fuel Usage - New York Times

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT

Army Aims to Get a Handle on Battlefield Fuel Usage
New York Times
"You can't manage what you can't measure," Sharon Burke, the assistant secretary of Defense in charge of operational energy, said in June when her office released its first battlefield energy strategy (Greenwire, June 15). "We want a better sense of ...

Yedlin: Energy meeting lacking, say key players - Calgary Herald

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:25 AM PDT

Yedlin: Energy meeting lacking, say key players
Calgary Herald
It's been two weeks since the meeting between provincial energy ministers took place in Kananaskis and while it might a tad unrealistic to ask why the first draft of a national energy strategy isn't on ...
What in tar-nation? rabble.ca (blog)

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Coal miner queries draft energy strategy - Southland Times

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 04:17 AM PDT

Coal miner queries draft energy strategy
Southland Times
Solid Energy is concerned that Venture Southland is downplaying the importance of lignite in its latest energy strategy in favour of alternative technologies. In its submission on the Draft Southland Energy Strategy 2011, Solid Energy says it is ...

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Coal And Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy - TheStreet.com

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 02:00 AM PDT

Coal And Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy
TheStreet.com
By OilPrice.com 08/04/11 - 08:49 AM EDT The domestic alternative energy policy in the US seems to rotate on semantics and adding words to other words to make it look like something is going on. However, the truth of the matter is, energy policy is as ...
Coal and Ethanol Are Not Alternative Energy Policy OilPrice.com

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The brave new world of EMR - Utility Week

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 01:38 AM PDT

Utility Week

The brave new world of EMR
Utility Week
Four main policy instruments dominated the Department of Energy and Climate Change's Electricity Market Reform White Paper, published earlier this month, but it also contained broader energy strategy goals. Janet Wood read the fine print Alongside the ...

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Ukraine to spend almost half a billion for development of energy strategy - NRCU - Ukrainian Radio

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:19 PM PDT

Ukraine to spend almost half a billion for development of energy strategy
NRCU - Ukrainian Radio
As the Cabinet's statement reads, this amount was allocated within the framework of a procedure approved by the government for the use of funds, provided in the state budget for support of implementation of the Energy Strategy of Ukraine for a period ...

WM calls Energy Summit to tackle supply concerns - Works Management

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 07:51 PM PDT

Works Management

WM calls Energy Summit to tackle supply concerns
Works Management
Whitehall has come under fire for lacking a long term energy strategy and using low carbon measures as a stealth tax on industry. Energy experts have warned of widespread power shortages from 2015 as a third of UK coal-fired power stations close. ...

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Establishing coherent policy - Intelligent Utility

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 08:35 AM PDT

Intelligent Utility

Establishing coherent policy
Intelligent Utility
When the commission announced Order 679 in 2006, it was responding to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which authorized the commission to provide incentives for transmission. Frankly, the commission couldn't reach a consensus in Order 679 about what the ...

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Renewable Energy Predicted to Grow Despite Economy - Domestic Fuel

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 06:36 AM PDT

Renewable Energy Predicted to Grow Despite Economy
Domestic Fuel
A new report commissioned by Paris-based Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) shows that the renewable energy sector continues to perform well despite the continuing economic recession, incentive cuts and low natural gas prices. ...
Report: Hydropower, other renewables continue growth HydroWorld

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Energy Costs and Energy Policy: Advantage USA - NASDAQ

Posted: 03 Aug 2011 01:41 AM PDT

Energy Costs and Energy Policy: Advantage USA
NASDAQ
The US economy is relatively sheltered from rising energy prices and has a comparatively benign domestic energy policy, at least for now. Americans spend a lot of time complaining about gasoline prices approaching $4 per gallon, which means that ...

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Energy Policy in the US: Does Solar Power Stand a Chance? - ecopolitology

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 11:00 PM PDT

Energy Policy in the US: Does Solar Power Stand a Chance?
ecopolitology
Solar power: it's clean, renewable and becoming more cost-effective every day. But in a political landscape so mired by fossil fuels that our government has gifted Big Oil over $150 billion in tax breaks and subsidies since 1950, solar power's progress ...

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Japanese government set out policy to reduce dependence on nuclear power - The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 06:04 PM PDT

The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)

Japanese government set out policy to reduce dependence on nuclear power
The Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
TOKYO --The Energy and Environment Council of the Japanese government convened July 29 to marshal, on an interim basis, policies for developing Japan's post-earthquake energy strategy. This interim guideline will be the base of the Innovative Energy ...

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