Estimated oil reserves in the Bakken and Three Forks formation are about twice as much as previously thought, which could bring the US one step closer to energy independence, the government said.

The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric cars.

The Canadian company said the latest ban doesn’t apply to its mine because it still has mining rights from when the mine was closed more than 20 years ago

The MOD has come out against two proposed 115 foot wind power towers in Cornwall, which they assert are so big they could look like planes on monitoring equipment.

The Canadian energy company Suncor Energy has been struggling since hitting a high of 74 five years ago.

In February, the conservative state government of Queensland lifted a ban on shale oil exploration and production along its coast, enabling companies to begin assessing the potential there, in the search for starting a shale boom equal to the one in the US.

A week ago the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) granted their approval for the construction of the Champlain Hudson power Express transmission cable.

Each hydraulically fractured shale well requires several million gallons of water.

This is a de facto sidelining of the regime in power.

Reserve could contain between 40 million and 150 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent.

There are no regulatory changes in the works and a windfall tax system announced in January will likely be pushed forward under Maduro.

Agreement announced to construct a 1,043 mile-long new dual $18 billion pipeline to transport Iraqi crude oil and natural gas to Jordan.