They want to see carbon capture and storage schemes built in Peterhead and Grangemouth.
The authority's policy and resources committee has approved three major projects in Falkirk and Grangemouth.
It is also significantly higher than the Kelpies public artwork being built between Falkirk and Grangemouth.
The CCS proposal at Grangemouth is led by Summit Power and involves Petrofac, National Grid and Siemens.
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Michael, who was from Polmont, was last seen in Grangemouth town centre at about 21:50 on Friday night.
Others areas with significant numbers included Dundee (21), Grangemouth (19), Peterhead (16) and Ardrossan in North Ayrshire (15).
Other work being carried out includes public artwork and a waterway linking Grangemouth to the Scottish canal network.
The board will also take over the Hippodrome in Bo'ness and Grangemouth Stadium.
That plant relies on steam and power from Grangemouth, which the union may no longer be prepared to supply.
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Grangemouth and the Teesside Low Carbon Project had submitted the two unsuccessful bids.
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Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.
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The picket at Grangemouth comes just months after a 48-hour strike over pensions resulted in the refinery being shut down.
The body of Michael Easton was discovered at 05:40 on Saturday morning close to the motorway's Cadgers Brae interchange, near Grangemouth.
One of his prized possessions was his scooter and he and his friends spent several hours each week riding around Grangemouth.
The Helix project, which was approved in 2009, is aiming to transform 300 hectares of unused land between Falkirk and Grangemouth.
Falkirk Council said the paths would create "strong community links" with the Beancross area and improve connections between Grangemouth and local villages.
Work to transform a 300-hectare site of unused land between Falkirk and Grangemouth into an international visitor attraction is set to begin.
Oil refineries cannot be switched on and off instantly, and Ineos says that getting Grangemouth back to full production may take a month.
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Police think a 13-year-old boy who was found dead on the M9 near Grangemouth crossed the eastbound carriageway before he was hit by a vehicle.
Fuel from Grangemouth is distributed right across Scotland, although other distribution points like Shell's oil terminal in Aberdeen and the Inverness depot have also been picketed.
Among those were Corporal Lesley Firth, 33, a nurse with the Ministry of Defence hospital unit, who sent a Christmas message to all her family in Grangemouth.
It's currently producing 28 million cases of spirits, most of that heading for export from Grangemouth or to Diageo's UK distribution centre via a narrow road bottleneck.
BP's Forties pipeline from the North Sea, which comes ashore at Grangemouth, carries about 700, 000 barrels of crude oil a day between a quarter and a fifth of Britain's offshore production.
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There are also proposals for rail and road infrastructure work to improve freight links from the major terminals at Grangemouth, Mossend and Coatbridge to key points in Scotland and England.
But the researcher found that in brightly-lit areas, such as near the Grangemouth site, the birds fed much longer by sight, rather than touch, compared with those under darker night skies.
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Meanwhile, 10 volunteers from the International Rescue Corps, based in Grangemouth, Stirlingshire, are preparing to fly out to Sumatra after being asked for help by the Indonesian government after the 7.6-magnitude quake.
The new houses in Grangemouth will include a mix of 44 two and three bedrooms flats and 12 three and four bedroom terraced houses and are expected to be completed by October 2014.
Mr Brown also said that he hoped that the dispute between management and workers at the Grangemouth refinery - which has led to fears of panic-buying and fuel shortages - could be settled by arbitration.
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