Editorial: Weighing the benefits of an oil boom
On one side of the argument is jobs and America’s manufacturing resurgence. On the other is fracking and its environmental impact.
Read More →Venoco chief gets more time to find $400M
[wikichart align=”right” ticker=”NYSE:VQ” showannotations=”true” livequote=”true” startdate=”25-01-2012″ enddate=”25-07-2012″ width=”300″ height=”245″] Venoco founder Tim Marquez has been given a second extension until Aug. 31 to tell shareholders how he plans to come up with as much as $400 million to take his company private. The Denver-based oil company has large operations on the South Coast and was Read More →
Read More →Bill Gates: New nuclear could be “energy miracle”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is placing his chips on nuclear technology these days.
Read More →Khosla: Wood chips could be part of U.S. energy future
Vinod Khosla has seen the United States’ energy future, and it is wood chips.
Read More →Ceres goes public at $13
Ceres, the Thousand Oaks-based energy crop firm, has gone public on the Nasdaq priced at $13 a share, raising up to $65 million in the sale of five million shares. The stock was up nearly 15 percent to $14.90 in mid-day trading on Feb. 22. Ceres struggled to push through its deal. Initially slated to Read More →
Read More →Buffett plugs into SLO solar farm
The 550-megawatt Topaz solar project in northern San Luis Obispo County got a new owner on Dec. 7 when Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced it was acquiring the project from Arizona-based First Solar. The price was not disclosed, but the project is expected to cost about $2 billion. After a lengthy permitting process, First Solar Read More →
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