Investors flocked to renewable energy industries in 2006 like never before, with capital seen streaming into the likes of solar, bio-fuels and wind rising to $100 billion, up $20 billion over 2005. 
Scottish Power and Hammerfest Strøm have signed an agreement to develop Norwegian technology and tidal energy in the UK, with Statoil as lead shareholder in new venture.
Germany’s thriving wind-turbine industry could face “irreversible damage” along with the economy if innovators like drive and control company Bosch Rexroth fail to find the engineers needed to keep expanding. 
A Norwegian environmental crusader and four Statoil carbon-dioxide managers will help direct the European Union’s drive to 20 percent less of the greenhouse gas from 1990 levels by 2020. 
Conrad Industries, Inc. announced that Offshore Marine Contractors, Inc. took delivery of the first of six liftboats under construction at Conrad Shipyards. It was a beautiful spring day in South Louisiana as Avis Bourg III along with his wife Tiffany and their daughter Lacie, the namesake, christened the 175’ Class liftboat, “Lacie Bourg”. 
The Scottish executive has announced the names of nine energy projects, all winnters of $25 million in clean-energy grants for research and development. 
Future oil-company revenues in the United States took a blow late Thursday, as the new Democrat-lead House of Representatives passed the Clean Energy Act, which “rolls back subsidies and tax breaks for Big Oil”, the House speaker said. |
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