Ecuador Pursues Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped (Washington Post)

QUITO, Ecuador — Beneath the tropical jungles of northeastern Ecuador lies a vast pool of oil, representing one-fifth of the small Andean country’s petroleum reserves and potentially billions of dollars in revenue. Directly above that pool, the Yasuni National Park…

Macedonia Opens First Natural Gas Co-Gen Plant to Be Supported by GE, International Climate … (ThomasNet)

GE’s Jenbacher Cogeneration Units to Power 30.4-MWel Project, Helping to Save up to About 185,000 Tons of CO2 per Year JENBACH, AUSTRIA-May 19, 2009-Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today formally opened the country’s first natural gas-cogeneration plant certified for international…

Sask. company seeks to make money grow from trees: Prairie brothers seek to cash in on carbon-credit crunch (Daily Herald)

Two brothers from Regina are planting 140,000 poplar trees on 160 hectares of marginal farmland near Edenwold and hoping to turn them into carbon credits and ultimately cold, hard cash.
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EIB post-2012 carbon fund buys 4 mln Kyoto offsets (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)

BARCELONA, May 28 (Reuters) – The European Investment Bank’s post-2012 carbon fund has agreed to purchase a further 4 million Kyoto carbon offsets from green projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the fund’s advisors said on Thursday.

Cap-and-trade is just a charade (St. Catharines Standard)

As long as politicians keep misleading us about what a cap-and-trade carbon market is — yesterday it was Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Environment Minister John Gerretsen — I’m going to keep calling them on it.[...]
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Clean Power Utilities Benefit from Stimulus Bill (Wall Street Transcript via Yahoo! Finance)

67 WALL STREET, New York – May 27, 2009 – The Wall Street Transcript has just published its Investing in Utilities Report report offering a timely review of the sector to serious investors and industry executives. This 43 page feature…

Recession May Create CO2-Credit Oversupply, Bank Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)

May 27 (Bloomberg) — The global recession may lead to an oversupply of greenhouse-gas credits through 2012, the World Bank said in a report that outlines potential threats to carbon investments made by RWE AG and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

Carbon credit workshop set for Thursday – News-Sun

SEBRING — Thursday, May 28, the Highlands County extension office is holding a special carbon credit workshop from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at the Bert J. Harris Agriculture Center. John C. Alleyne, director of the extension office, says…

Cap-and-trade is just a charade – Owen Sound Sun Times

As long as politicians keep misleading us about what a cap-and-trade carbon market is — yesterday it was Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and Environment Minister John Gerretsen — I’m going to keep calling them on it. And this isn’t just…

In Ecuador, an Unusual Carbon-Credit Plan to Leave Oil Untapped – Washington Post

QUITO, Ecuador — Beneath the tropical jungles of northeastern Ecuador lies a vast pool of oil, representing one-fifth of the small Andean country’s petroleum reserves and potentially billions of dollars in revenue. Directly above that pool, the …