http://theenergydaily.com Energy Portal en-us 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:45:34 EDT The contractor building the massive radioactive waste processing plant at the Energy Department's Hanford site is once again under investigation by DOE for the same kind of quality assurance problems that have been cited in two previous enforcement actions by... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1291.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Defending its plan to speed the link-up of hundreds of backlogged generation projects to the transmission system, the Midwest grid operator this month rejected complaints from some generators that it is charging too much to reserve a spot in its... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1292.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Amid the high-decibel debate in the presidential race over offshore drilling, the Interior Department announced Wednesday that oil and natural gas drillers bid more than $607 million for federal leases on 319 offshore tracts in the western Gulf of Mexico... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1293.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Saying cost pressures are "stretching its resources," the Tennessee Valley Authority said Wednesday its board of directors has approved a $15 billion budget for 2009 that includes a whopping 20 percent increase in the price it will charge for wholesale power... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1294.html Thu, 21 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Despite recent criticism about delays in enforcing its fire protection rules--and stiff objections from one commissioner--the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Tuesday approved a six-month extension of a "discretionary" enforcement policy that could... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1286.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In the latest of a string of Bush administration courtroom defeats on Clean Air Act regulation, a federal appeals court Tuesday threw out a 2006 Environmental Protection Agency rule that prohibited states from revising air pollution permits to tighten... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1287.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In a clear sign that he will remain aggressively green on key energy and environmental issues, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell Tuesday nominated John Hanger--head of the state's most outspoken environmental group for the past 10 years--as secretary of the... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1288.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Westinghouse Electric Co. Friday named Ricardo Pérez as senior vice president for global growth and innovation, saying the new post was needed to help position... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1289.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT In what would be Canada's first offshore wind farm, a small start-up firm, working with Calgary-based ENMAX Corp., has proposed building a 320 megawatt wind farm in Hecate Strait off the coast of British Columbia. NaiKun Wind Energy Group Inc. said it... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1290.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Three oil pipeline and storage companies announced plans Monday to build what would be the United States' second deepwater oil port capable of off-loading extra-large supertankers, saying each would invest as much as $600 million in a sprawling new storage... http://theenergydaily.com/publications/ed/1276.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT