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Le Fracking for Geothermal Heat Drawing Ire of French Oil

2013-04-05 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Its an existential question in France: When is fracking not fracking? The country is pushing ahead with plans to harness geothermal energy from smoldering rock deep in the earths crust using drilling methods the oil industry says are like hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which France outlawed in 2011. Environment Minister Delphine Batho awarded two geothermal exploration licenses in February and said 18 more are in review. Some will permeate rock using a process called stimulation that blasts...

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Marubeni Targets National Park in Japan for Geothermal

2013-04-01 00:56:19| Grocery - Topix.net

Marubeni Corp. , the biggest investor in electricity generation among Japan's trading houses, is working on how to revive the geothermal industry and tap heat that powers volcanos as an alternative to nuclear reactors.

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Ormat Technologies to sell geothermal power from Mammoth Complex

2013-03-22 01:00:00| Power Technology

US-based Ormat Technologies has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to sell geothermal power from the G3 plant in the Mammoth Complex in California.

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Nevada leads nation in geothermal activity, but problems loom

2013-03-08 04:20:46| Semiconductors - Topix.net

A new study may have found that Nevada leads the nation in development of geothermal projects, but the study also shows that the industry faces problems in the state for a while.

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