November 17 NEC Energy News
¶ “Algae Biofuel Is Booming Without Help From ExxonMobil” • ExxonMobil sent shivers through the algae biofuel world, when it gave up a longstanding research partnership with the US firm Viridos last year, after it decided there were better opportunities to make money elsewhere. Maybe they dropped the ball just a little too soon. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Pilgrim Worker Claims He Was Poisoned by Radiation” • A 41-year-old worker assigned to the decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for several months in 2021 claims he was poisoned by radiation and that Holtec Pilgrim, the plant’s owner, misled workers about safety. He sued for injuries by release of toxic substances. [The Provincetown Independent]
¶ “Latest Typhoon Batters The Philippines, Displacing About 400,000 People” • A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. [ABC News]
¶ “What To Know About Trump’s Energy Secretary Nominee Chris Wright” • President-elect Donald Trump announced that he has nominated Chris Wright, an executive of a fracking company who has fiercely criticized the existence of a climate crisis and the transition to renewable energy sources, to run the Department of Energy. [ABC News]
¶ “States Can And Should Save Climate Research And Weather Service” • It’s no secret that the incoming Trump administration has it out for NOAA. But it may surprise some readers that they also have a strange axe to grind with NOAA’s National Weather Service, because they’d rather a private company charge people for weather alerts. [CleanTechnica]
¶ “Russia’s Gazprom Stoped Flow Of Natural Gas To Austria, Utility Says” • Russia’s state-owned natural gas supplier Gazprom stopped supplies to Austria, the Vienna-based utility OMV said. Earlier, OMV said it would stop paying for Gazprom gas to its Austrian arm to offset a €230 million award it won in arbitration after gas was cut off to a German subsidiary. [ABC News]
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