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A new report by the State Department has raised no major environmental objections to a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the southern coast of the United States. The report, released Friday, stops short of recommending whether the Keystone pipeline should be built. With 11 volumes of analysis, the State Department

TransAlta Corporation announced that it, through a wholly owned subsidiary entity (TEC Pilbara), has formed an unincorporated joint venture with DBP Development Group (DDG), a wholly owned subsidiary of DUET Group. The joint venture is called the Fortescue River Gas Pipeline Joint Venture and its first project will be to build, own, and operate a $178 million natural gas pipeline from the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline to TransAlta’s 125 MW dual-fuel power station at Fortescue Metals Group’s Solomon ...

Williams Partners received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to expand Transco, the nation

The Greek Parliament has ratified the Host Government Agreement (HGA) it signed with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) last year. The HGA sets out the framework by which the project will be realized and operated on Greek territory. This includes processes related to land easement and acquisition, the implementation of technical, safety, environmental and social standards and permitting. During construction, TAP is anticipated to create some 2,000 direct, and up to 10,000 indirect, new jobs across several industries ...

« We have been given a mandate by the member states to negotiate in their name with the Russian partners, » Oettinger said at a meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels. The countries he is to negotiate on behalf of are Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and non-EU member Serbia, which applies EU laws in its energy sector, Oettinger said. The 2,380-kilometre gas pipeline is to stretch from southern Russia to southern Italy and will also supply gas ...