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Better Weather Ahead

The Week In Alternative Power: Electric Cars Still Have A Long Road Ahead, But Solar And Nuclear Surge Forward

Equatorial Palm Oil Reaps The Benefit Of First Mover Status In Liberia With Early Cash Flow And A Big Land Bank

Aim-Traded Modern Water Is A Play On Water Scarcity

Indian Moves To Curb Food Prices And Imports

The Week In Alternative Power: Incentives In India Boost Alternatives, While Nuclear Continues To Win Favour Worldwide

Landkom Has Had To Re-Think Its Farming Plans In Ukraine

More Corporate Action Among The Big Boys In The Fertiliser Sector

The Week In Alternative Power: Carbon Markets Weaken As The UN Loses A Key Negotiator

G4G Will Soon Be In A Position To Offer Bespoke Geothermal Power Solutions To South American Miners

What Is The Future For The Carbon Markets In The Absence Of A Global Consensus On Reducing Emissions?

Climate Change May Mean Kevin Rudd Has Only One Term As Prime Minister Of Australia

Indian And Chinese Grocers Beat The World

The Week In Alternative Power: Strength In Chinese Windpower, And Local Emissions Trading Schemes Gather Momentum

The Losing Battle Against Tobacco

Winter Gas Shortages Highlight The Strength In The Business Model Of IGas Energy

US Major Funds Go For Commodities

The Week In Alternative Power: A Brazilian Shortfall And New Measures From President Obama Combine To Boost Ethanol Prices

Is The UK’s Drive Into Offshore Wind Viable?

Porkers Bring Home The Bacon At Cranswick

Altona Energy Moves To The Bankable Feasibility Stage On Its Huge Coal-To-Liquids Project In Australia

Potash Pulls In Bids, Bankers And Bulls

The Week In Alternative Power: Ted Turner And BlackRock Get Behind Solar, And Carbon Markets Weaken

Putting A Cork In It – The Russian Wine Ripoff, Or What A Kremlin Sobriety Will Cost

Central Petroleum’s First Coal Seam Gas Well Of 2010 Finds A Thicker-Than-Expected Coal Intersection

Soaring Prices Sweeten Sugar Markets

The Week In Alternative Power: Speculators Head For The Exits, As Markets Dip On A Stronger Dollar and Chinese Belt-Tightening

The Rise And Fall Of Jatropha: Gem Biofuels Is In Better Shape Than D1 Oils, But Still Has A Lot To Prove

Contangos Bedevil Commodity Futures Funds

The Week In Alternative Power: China Sets The Coal Markets Alight, And George Soros Wades Into The Climate Change Debate

New Russian Import Rule Takes The Stuffing Out Of US Poultry Exports

Not The Chinese But BPH Billiton Now Threatens Potash Prices

The Week In Alternative Power: More Post-Copenhagen Dramas As A Chinese Head Rolls, And Investment Rises

Whistling In The Woods?

Geothermal Engineering Ltd Has Hopes Of Generating 10MW Of Power In Cornwall By 2013

Will 2010 Repeat 2009’s Trend For Softs? The Ingredients Are There

China Opens 2010 By Raising Coal Forecasts

An End To The Party In Shipping?

Alkane Energy Announces An Intriguing Collaboration in A New Area Along With Its Trading Update

Two Heavy-Weight IPOs Signal Another Bullish Year For Softs

Trading Barbs Over Carbon – But The Price Rallies

Hilary Benn Fails To Defend Our Inshore Fishing Fleet Against The EU: Where Now For Food Security?

Portland Gas Changes Its Name To Infrastrata To Emphasise The Importance Of Developing Gas Storage Projects In Europe

A Load Of Hot Air In Copenhagen Brings No Cool Decisions

Sugar Prices Rise On Fears Of Production Shortfall: Coffee May Follow

China As A Nuclear Power Play

Minemakers Intends to Start Exporting High Grade Rock Phosphate Next Year To The INdo Pacific Region....

Rising Fertiliser Prices Could Mean Higher 2010 Food Bills

The Week In Alternative Power: Acrimony In Copenhagen, Unsurprisingly

Renewable Energy Holdings To Deploy Wave Power Device In Deep Waters

Asian Plantations Debuts In A Bullish Palm Oil Market

Sector Roundup: Ructions In Governments And At The UN Over Climate Change And Alternative Power

Wine And Agricultural Commodities Tipped For 2010

A Boom In Posh Bangers

Ocean Power Technologies Wins A Multi-Million Dollar Grant From The Australian Government To Build A 19MW Wave Farm

A Dampener For Water Profits!

The Week In Alternative Power: Ethanol Turns Profitable At Last, And Copenhagen Is Nearly Upon Us

Altona Energy Closes A Deal With China’s Third Biggest Oil Company To Develop A Huge Australian Coal Resource

A Yield And New Technology Help Northern Foods

Street Protests In Europe’s Fruit Bowl

Introducing The Zinc-Air Battery

The Week In Alternative Power: Plenty Of Activity Across The Board, As The Copenhagen Summit Approaches

Modern Water Has Yet To Make Any Money

World Becoming “Complacent” About Food Prices According To Cargill

The Week In Alternative Power: Trillions Still Needed For Investment In Alternative Energy, According To the IEA

Russians face another outbreak of the Mediterranean Weevil Wars

European Approaches To Carbon Tax

Rice Hits The Headlines Again –Up 11 Per Cent

The Week In Alternative Power: Commodity Long Positions Soaring, Says Barclays

Bglobal Is Gearing Up To Meet Demand For Smart Meters In The UK

Braemar Shipping Services Steaming Ahead Despite Rough Seas

Mega Sovereign Funds Intend To Invest In Agriculture

The Week In Alternative Power: Bright Outlook For The Solar Sector

C&C Sales Cool As The Year Progresses

Syngas Has Ambitious Plans For Its Coal-To-Liquids Projects In South Australia

At Last ! Something To Celebrate In Shipping!

The Week In Alternative Power: Plenty Of Activity In Ethanol

That Was The Week That Was: Dole Food’s Upcoming IPO Signals Renewed Optimism In The Market

The Week In Alternative Power: Nuclear Moves Up The Agenda Again As Belgium Reconsiders Its Options

Helius Energy Is Working To Build Up Its Biomass-Fired Generating Capacity

Breakfast Prices To Rise!

US Fight To Toughen Commodity Trading Rules

Fertiliser Prices Set To Rise

Sunkar Resources Obtains Positive Results From First Tests On Pilot Plant

Soaring Farmland Prices Lead The Field

European-Based Global Voluntary Trading Market Runs Into Severe Problems

China Celebrates Its Advance Towards World Economic Leadership, As Should Investors In Resource Stocks

Post Harvest Slump In Sterling Gives Farmers Some Help

Zenergy Power Sees Growing Interest In Its Energy-Saving Technology

Asia’s Mega Wealth Funds Move Into International Food And Agricultural Sectors

The Week In Alternative Power: China Goes On The Acquisition Trail, And Kenya Puts Itself On The Wind Power Map

Encanto Potash Speeds Up Permitting And Progress In Saskatchewan Through Alliances With First Nations

Weather Watchers Roll The Grain Markets

Ramco Exits The Oil Industry To Focus On Offshore Wind Under The New Name Of SeaEnergy

A Good Grape Harvest Expected By English Wines But The Quality Of The Wine Is Still Uncertain

Better Days For Palm But Not Potash

The Week In Alternative Power: Climate Change Is Now The World’s Fastest Growing Industry, Says HSBC

Discussions On Food Security Are Pointless As Long As The Government Makes No Attempt To Understand Farming

Bid By Kraft For Cadbury Stimulates Investor Interest In Food Groups

The Week In Alternative Fuels: The USDA Sends Grain Prices Down, And Shares In Ethanol Companies Rise