Statement urges halt to offshore drilling Aboriginal groups from every Arctic country have signed a statement that calls for an end to offshore drilling and a pause in northern energy projects unless local aboriginals consent.

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Oil groups caught price fixing will face the “full force of the law” and “heavy fines”, Ed Davey said on Wednesday as the UK energy secretary responded to concerns that hard-pressed motorists may have been overpaying for petrol for the past decade.

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“Energiewende” may not be a household word in the United States today, but U.S. citizens and policymakers are likely to hear more about it. It’s the name of Germany's ambitious energy transformation, which aims to move the country to at least 80 percent of electricity from renewable energy sources by 2050.

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose on Tuesday, as energy and industrial stocks rose in tandem with gains in U.S. stocks, more than offsetting pullbacks in key stocks such as BlackBerry (BB.TO: Quote) and Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO: Quote). Energy stocks, which suffered steep losses in April, rose 0.67 percent despite a retreat in the price of oil, helped by the continued momentum in U.S. stock indexes.

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Michael Levi tried his best to keep his latest book focused on the future of U.S. energy and not delve deeply into Canadian projects. It was not to be, and he ended up writing an entire chapter on the U.S. environmental movement's claims on TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline and the oil sands. Energy decisions taken north of its border cast a huge shadow on the United States and highlight the confusion in the debate surrounding U.S. energy policy, says the director of the program on energy security and climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations, a U.S. think-tank with offices in Washington, D.C, and New York.

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Temporal Power is hoping its giant flywheels will help make renewable power work in Ontario There’s nothing like a 4,000-kilogram spinning steel cylinder to smooth out the ups and downs of the power system. At least, that’s what Temporal Power is betting on.

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The Green party of B.C. joined forces Thursday with the province’s renewable energy sector to offer an alternative to an economy driven by fossil fuels, such as the massive export of liquefied natural gas. Party leader Jane Sterk told a Vancouver news conference that she wants to remove the “impoverished thinking” that places renewable energy behind resource extraction in B.C.

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The Green Energy Act stripped Ontarians of their right to appeal decisions on locating energy facilities. Former premier Dalton McGuinty told a legislative committee this week that “there was a faulty selection process for gas plant sites and they were wrongly located and had to be shut down.”

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CALGARY, ALBERTA and HOUSTON, TEXAS--(Marketwired - May 8, 2013) - Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB)(NYSE:ENB) ("Enbridge") and Enbridge Energy Partners, LP (NYSE:EEP) ("EEP" or the "Partnership") today announced that they have entered into an agreement whereby Enbridge will invest $1.2 billion in preferred units issued by EEP, and which is expected to close later today. Additionally, EEP expects to exercise its options to pare down its economic interests in the Lakehead system expansions of both the Eastern Access and Mainline Expansion projects from 40 percent to 25 percent, by the June 30, 2013 deadline. The Partnership retains the option to increase its participation in either project back up to 40 percent for a period lasting until one year after the in-service date of each. Collectively, the preferred unit issuance and option exercise would reduce the amount of near term third party financing required by EEP to fund its current organic growth program by over $1.9 billion.

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MINNEAPOLIS, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Xcel Energy announced today an expanded agreement with the National Center for Atmospheric Research for sophisticated renewable energy forecasting. The agreement with the Boulder, Colo.-based center extends an existing relationship that has saved Xcel Energy's 3.4 million electricity customers in eight states millions of dollars. In the next two years, NCAR scientists and engineers will develop custom forecasting systems to enable Xcel Energy control centers in Minneapolis, Denver, Golden, Colo., and Amarillo, Tex., to anticipate sudden changes in wind, shut down turbines ahead of potentially damaging icing events and even predict the amount of energy generated by private solar panels.

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