MONTREAL, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Canada's oil-sands industry, hampered by the global economic crisis, could bounce back if it can overcome key economic and environmental challenges, according to the International Energy Agency.
LONDON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- London has laid out the British energy future by identifying 10 sites for new nuclear power plants.
AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A Jordanian academic has predicted that Israel will go to war with neighboring Lebanon and Egypt to get their water.
VIENNA, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Representatives from the Vienna-based consortium for the Nabucco gas pipeline expressed confidence Iraqi gas could be contracted for the project.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all world leaders to attend the climate-change conference scheduled for December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
MOSCOW, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Gazprom officials met with officials at French supermajor Total and Germany's BASF to discuss interactive data processing for international energy companies.
ABUJA, Nigeria, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Government reconciliation and rehabilitation programs to reform former Nigerian oil rebels are not ready, former fighters complain.
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Oil production from Azerbaijan for 2010 is expected to increase more than any other former Soviet country, OPEC predicts.
BEIJING, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- All new energy generation in China should be clean energy by 2050, the secretary-general of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization said in Beijing.
MINSK, Belarus, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Belarus has the legal right to negotiate the price of natural gas for Russian and Belarusian customers, the Belarusian prime minister said.
BRASILIA, Brazil, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- BG Group announced it encountered medium crude oil at the Tupi Northeast well in Block BM-S-11 in a development off the coast of Brazil.
BRUSSELS, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- The European Union and the United States must work together in order to make a December climate-change conference a success, said Andris Piebalgs.
KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Ukrainian utility Naftogaz has enough gas to meet domestic and regional transit needs but is still short of its commitments to Gazprom, officials said.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Chile has set in motion plans to triple its gold production in five years as gold prices continue their ascent on world markets on the back of a weak dollar, low interest rates and skepticism about equity investments.
ROME, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Fifty heads of state will meet in Rome Sunday to examine the way that rich Middle Eastern and Asian states are buying up vast tracts of farmland in Africa, often secretly, in what is seen as a massive land grab that will worsen conditions in the world's hungriest continent.
