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Canada has found a predictable ally among oil industry executives in its battle to defend oil (tar) sands from a draft EU law.

As the global oil industry realizes record profits amid rising gas prices, European oil producer Total S.A. (NYSE: TOT) has offered as much as $1.4 billion for a 60% interest in SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWRA), the biggest solar-cell maker in the U.S.

Here are two very different advanced biofuel strategies: Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE) is producing algae from byproducts at one of its commercial ethanol plants to make biodiesel, and Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDXS) is developing biocatalysts to produce advanced biofuel and pharmaceuticals and to remove carbon from smokestacks.

Shell Oil (LON: RDSA.L) just released a comprehensive and alarming assessment of the global energy outlook out to 2050.

Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) and Brazilian giant, Cosan SA (NYSE: CZZ), the world’s largest producer of ethanol, said Monday their joint venture $12 billion biofuel company called Raizen will have 23 ethanol plants producing more than 2.2 billion litres of ethanol a year.

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) is moving out of the algal biofuel industry, at least for the short-term.

As U.S. delegates are hinting at leaving the United Nation climate change talks in Cancun the calls for a clear, transparent and regulated United States federal energy policy are increasing.

Hydraulic fracturing, the new, headline-grabbing natural gas drilling technique is making its way across the ocean from the United States to Europe.

Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A) is continuing its push into the alternative fuels market by establishing an algae biodiesel research and development project in Hawaii.