European Union energy and environmental leaders may still pledge sprawling strategies to reach 2020 sustainability goals and beyond, but on the local level, the challenge of reigning in spending without putting a nail in the coffin of the domestic industry has left many in limbo.
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South Union gives Energy Transfer access to the Florida gas markets and a route up through the Midwest to the populated Chicago area.
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Deputy Energy Secretary Henson Moore is leading an Administration effort to help the Soviet Union exploit its energy resources.
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Robinson also urged Congress to reject the Bush Administration's willingness to seize on the Middle East energy crisis as its latest pretext for providing extremely ill-considered assistance to the Soviet Union's energy sector.
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Of particular concern to the Center is the prospect of large scale U.S. infusions of technology and capital into the Soviet Union's energy sector.
Last, but hardly least, the high-technology sought by the Soviet Union for its energy industry lends itself to sensitive military applications, such as underwater sensors for anti-submarine warfare and other purposes.
Paddy Gorman, spokesman for the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union, said none of the miners at Agnew Gold Mine in resource-rich Western Australia state is a member of the mining union.
Accordingly, it calls on the Bush Administration to demonstrate that it is both prepared to reduce the present exposure of reforming East European nations to Soviet energy coercion and to discourage Western initiatives aimed at assisting the Soviet Union in further exploiting its energy resources.
Another is the set of cost concerns around President Obama's big plans for health care, energy and union labor.
Nothing is said about the centerpieces of last year's State of the Union green energy jobs (Solyndra anyone?) and high-speed rail (fizzled).
Far and away the most ill-conceived and premature economic assistance measure now underway is the Administration's effort to jump-start the Soviet Union's crumbling energy sector.
This dispute sparked concern within European Union nations about their energy security and the future reliably of Russian gas, which now accounts for much of European requirements.
Chevron's bid to increase enormously the Soviet Union's marketable energy output (in terms of oil and, as an unavoidable part of the recovery process, of gas) clearly is at cross-purposes with this alliance policy.
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Just this weekend, the Soviet Union offered Romania additional energy resources (390, 000 tons of oil for January and 22 million cubic meters of natural gas daily) to help cushion the latter against the winter's expected hardships, hardships likely to be exacerbated by severe shortages and dislocations following the recent revolution.
Political motivations may be at work in other instances where the Soviet Union has also proven an unreliable energy supplier.
January's dispute between the two countries disrupted gas supplies to western Europe, prompting the European Union to review its approach to energy security.
In the months ahead, pressure will likely intensify to offer large-scale assistance to the Soviet Union to help it overcome its energy production bottlenecks.
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While Williams claimed it was providing an 18% premium over the original bidding price, Energy Transfer returned the punch, highlighting the advantages of its MLP (master limited partnership) structure. (Read Energy Transfer Buys Southern Union: The Beauty Of Nat Gas MLPs).
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Her finger-pointing and terse ultimatum followed criticism of U.S. policy by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who suggested unilateral measures "undermine and impede" other ongoing talks between Iran and both the International Atomic Energy Agency and European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
The European Union recently began enforcing stricter rules on energy measures for new buildings.
Previously I wrote about the British focus on wind-power to meet its renewable energy targets for the European Union, by 2020.
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Unaccountable bureaucrats from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the European Union keep cutting deals that offer the false hope of negotiated solutions.
Fox already has Bush's support for a proposal to allow Mexican long-haul trucks unlimited access to U.S. roads despite opposition from the Teamsters Union, which supported Bush's energy proposals.
Moscow has signalled to at least one Eastern European country that a steady energy supply from the Soviet Union could be jeopardized if cooperation on other fronts was less than satisfactory.
First, by an apprenticeship, or attending other union-employer supported programs like the Energy Workforce Development Program, formed by a consortium of electric utility companies and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
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It was precisely out of concern about such Soviet use of energy supplies for political purposes that the International Energy Agency agreed in May 1983 to limit allied energy dependence on the Soviet Union.
Given the strategic importance of the energy sector and the Soviet Union's capacity -- and willingness -- to apply leverage in this area on the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, it is clearly not in the interest of the West or the governments of Eastern Europe to enhance that capability.
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In fact, renewable energy production is dropping in European Union member states as a percentage of total consumption.
The cross-party committee warned that the increased use of biofuels, part of the European Union's demand for greater stability in energy, would drive up the cost of food.
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