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Green Week in Review podcast – July 2, 2010

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The Green Week in Review is a podcast, hosted by SustainableBusiness.com News Editor Bart King. It’s posted every Friday morning and is about 15 minutes long. You can listen to it through your browser or download it to a portable MP3 player. Sign up for our General News RSS Feed and it will be automatically downloaded to your computer’s media player each week. In this week’s show… DOI, DOE To Expand Collaboration on Offshore Renewables NYPA Applying For Offshore Wind Farm Lease State Roundup: New Jersey Wind Legslation, Washington Electric Highway Mass Audubon Backs Cape Wind Project on Bird Issue Plus, a summary of the week’s top cleantech headlines. ++++ Email comments or questions to bart@sustainablebusiness.com

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Weekly Clean Energy Roundup: June 23, 2010

Canadian Oil Sands Could Lead U.S. Oil Imports This Year EV Project Expands To LA, DC Smart EV Coming to the US in Fall 2010 DOE Awards $76M for Energy-Efficient Building Technologies 5 More States Reach Weatherization Milestone FERC Proposes Transmission Planning, Cost Sharing Methods Canadian Oil Sands Could Lead U.S. Oil Imports This Year By the end of this year, Canadian oil sands will probably be the leading source of crude oil imports into the US, according to a new study by IHS CERA. Canada is already the primary source of crude oil imports into the US, and has been steadily increasing its production of crude oil from oil sands while its conventional oil production has declined. Production from oil sands more than doubled over the past nine years, growing from 600,000 barrels per day in 2000 to 1.35 million barrels per day in 2009. Assuming that production rate is sustained this year, oil sands will produce more petroleum than conventional sources in Canada this year, and U.S. imports of petroleum from Canadian oil sands will be greater than imports from any other country. According to IHS, Canadian oil sands could provide 20%-36% of U.S. oil imports by 2030. […]

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