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Financial market mayhem spread into alternative energy last week. Uncertainty added to fundamental bearish trends to produce a rout as markets were hit by a wide range of negative factors, from growing anti-biofuel sentiment to
Full story...Who would have expected that after nine failed attempts to pass the US renewables tax credit legislation through Congress that the bill would suddenly re-surface as a part of the US bailout rescue package? The legislation, known
Full story...The biggest weekly decline in fifty years hit commodity markets as funds and investors fled to safer havens on dollar strength, record borrowing rates, risk reduction and fear of a collapse in the global economy. Ahead of
Full story...The biggest weekly decline in fifty years hit commodity markets as funds and investors fled to safer havens on dollar strength, record borrowing rates, risk reduction and fear of a collapse in the global economy. Ahead of
Full story...Commodity traders took their cues this week from the reports coming out of Washington about the negotiations for the emergency US financial bail-out. Trading was tumultuous as a number of major firms with large speculative grain
Full story...The concerted government attacks on the “shorts” in markets across the world, coordinated as part of the Fed-led attack on financial speculators, brought heavy trading in a number of agricultural commodities this week. Massive
Full story...Aggressiveness is the catch word for emerging global investors. Investment aggressiveness probably led to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich’s fortune. Yet such aggressiveness has often brought with it controversy and scathing
Full story...What is the Fischer Tropsch process? Well you may ask, since Canadian-listed mining and technology company G4G Resources has just secured the worldwide rights to the latest incarnation of Fischer Tropsch, and plans to be talking
Full story...The European Union (EU) has been forced by a combination of pressure from environmentalists and increasing public concern about rising food prices to cut its targets for the adoption of biofuels. The EU’s influential industry
Full story...At the beginning of this year, Canadian-listed Sparton Resources signed three agreements which, taken together, should provide the initial structure to allow it to develop into a uranium producer in China. The agreements also set
Full story...According to the US National Grain and Feed Association, futures trading is so distorted by funds and speculators that futures prices are actually of no use to farmers. On the back of rising demand for alternative energy and food
Full story...Hit by chronic daily power outages and erratic fuel supplies, Zimbabwe has embarked on an ambitious biofuel production programme, and aims to blend a lot more petrol with ethanol. It’s also renewed a crude oil importation
Full story...Tropical Storm Gustav disrupted what would other wise have been a quiet holiday week for grain traders, primarily because the storm is threatening the Port of South Louisiana, the epicentre of US grain shipping. Last year the
Full story...The exodus of funds from the soft commodity sector, as the dollar strengthened and the oil price dropped by 5.4 per cent, caused considerable commodity price falls. And looking into the outlook on a more fundamental basis, the
Full story...Sunny Tropicana: not a holiday destination but the site of a potentially significant new gold project that could become the scene of groundbreaking developments in mine solar power generation in Australia. Certainly, 70 per cent
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Beberibe Wind Farm in Ceará, Brazil, Enters Commercial Operations
Capstone Turbine Signs Agreement to Supply Its Proprietary Air Bearing Technology to Barber-Nichols
Wildhorse Energy Has Some Interesting Choices To Make On Its Uranium Assets In Wyoming And Hungary
Capstone Turbine Announces Shipment of Its First C200 Production Unit Ahead of Schedule
