EU condemns Azerbaijan crackdown after peace activist charged with ‘treason’ – POLITICO

EU condemns Azerbaijan crackdown after peace activist charged with ‘treason’ – POLITICO

Samadov was detained earlier this week and appeared Friday before a court in Baku to be charged with “treason.” If convicted, he could face life in prison, and has reportedly stated he intends to begin a hunger strike after being handed four months of pre-trial detention. Bahruz Samadov’s case: 4 months in preventive measure, his … Read more

Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

Data centres are hungry for power, and Alberta is pitching itself as the place to build

Alberta is putting itself in the race for a slice of the soaring growth of data centres in North America. A pair of Alberta cabinet ministers set off for Silicon Valley last week with the sole focus of promoting the province as a “prime location” to build the physical structures that store and process our digital information. Major … Read more

hundreds of pipes are leaking explosive methane in Boston, group says

hundreds of pipes are leaking explosive methane in Boston, group says

There are hundreds of leaking National Grid gas lines — 15 of which “pose an imminent explosion and fire hazard” — throughout some of Greater Boston’s most vulnerable neighborhoods and the company is not meeting its legal obligation to solve the problem, according to the Conservation Law Foundation. In a letter outlining their intent to … Read more

Germany zeroes in on Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosions – POLITICO

Germany zeroes in on Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosions – POLITICO

Germany zeroes in on Ukrainian suspect in Nord Stream pipeline explosions – POLITICO Skip to main content Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials … Read more

Enbridge makes progress on utility purchases; raises earnings forecast

Enbridge makes progress on utility purchases; raises earnings forecast

Enbridge Inc. has raised its earnings forecast for the year in light of the successful completion of two previously announced purchases of U.S. gas utilities. The Calgary-based energy infrastructure company said Friday it now expects adjusted earnings for 2024 of between $17.7 billion and $18.3 billion, up from a previous forecast of $16.6 billion to … Read more

Macron triggers tensions with Algeria in supporting Morocco’s Western Sahara plan – POLITICO

Macron triggers tensions with Algeria in supporting Morocco’s Western Sahara plan – POLITICO

“The French government has ended up giving its forthright and unequivocal support to the colonial rule imposed on Western Sahara,” the Algerian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a statement, referring to Morocco as colonizer. “The current government has taken this step, which no other French government before it had thought necessary to take, with great … Read more

TC Energy signs deal to sell minority stake in pipeline to Indigenous groups

TC Energy signs deal to sell minority stake in pipeline to Indigenous groups

TC Energy Corp. is selling a minority stake in its Western Canadian natural gas transmission network to a consortium of Indigenous communities for $1 billion. The Calgary-based pipeline company said the deal, announced Tuesday, will enable 72 Indigenous communities to take a 5.34 per cent stake in its Nova Gas transmission system and Foothills pipeline … Read more

July 21 was the hottest day on record, European climate agency says

July 21 was the hottest day on record, European climate agency says

On Sunday, the Earth sizzled to the hottest day ever measured by humans, yet another heat record shattered in the past couple of years, according to the European climate service Copernicus on Tuesday. Preliminary data from Copernicus shows that the global average temperature Sunday was 17.09 C, beating the record set just last year on … Read more

Joint group formed for reforms in E&P sector: Puri

Joint group formed for reforms in E&P sector: Puri

Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri addressing the first edition of UrjaVarta 2024 in Delhi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said a joint working group (JWG) has been constituted to improve ease of doing business in the oil exploration and production (E&P) sector. The … Read more

After the carbon capture industry gold rush, how many facilities will actually be built?

After the carbon capture industry gold rush, how many facilities will actually be built?

The Alberta government kicked off a flurry of activity three years ago when it began awarding the rights to underground caverns for storing carbon emissions. The gold rush was underway as companies announced dozens of projects and competed to stake their claim for those rights. The wave of new projects raised expectations that the oilpatch … Read more