FracFocus Drillers’ Registry to Create Chemicals Database
FracFocus, the website drillers use to disclose chemicals in hydraulic fracturing, is revamping its system next week to let regulators for the first time search and aggregate the information. The... Read more »
German Beer Purity Threatened by Fracking Say Brewers
Johannes Simon/Getty Images A worker samples a first beer after filtration at a brewery in Maisach near Munich, Germany. German brewers called on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government to block the... Read more »
Australian Venture OneWind Plans $2 Billion in Power Projects
OneWind Australia, a venture backed by private equity fund Denham Capital Management LP, expects the first of as much as $2 billion in wind farms it plans in the country... Read more »
Samsung-LG Misstep on TV Screens Creates Opening for Sony
Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg A visitor uses a Samsung Electronics Co. device to take a photograph of SiliconSign Inc.’s 1.9mm super fine pitch light-emitting diode (LED) panel display at the company’s booth... Read more »
Richemont Departure Signals Fashion Is an Accessory
Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Shoppers look at clothing and accessories at a Chloe shop in Shanghai. Particularly disappointing has been Chloe, whose founder Gaby Aghion pioneered the concept of luxury pret-a-porter, or... Read more »
Arctic Race Displaces Swedish City as Hurdles Bulldozed
Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images The iron mine of LKAB stands in Kiruna. As digging deeper shifts the ground, the town must move now. Swedes living in the Arctic town of Kiruna... Read more »
Spain’s Bad Bank Begins 15-Year Suicide With Bull Sale
Spain’s Sareb, set up last year to acquire 90 billion euros ($116 billion) of soured real estate assets at a discount from rescued lenders, is preparing its first sale, known... Read more »
Nobel Laureate Phelps Warns Against EU as Iceland Abandons Talks
Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps warned against the dangers of European Union membership as Iceland became the latest nation to question the sense of affiliation with a bloc mired in economic... Read more »
Canary Wharf Gets Nod for Eight Buildings Near London Eye
Canary Wharf Group Plc and Qatar’s sovereign-wealth fund won local-government approval to construct offices and 877 homes in eight buildings at the site of Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)’s U.K.... Read more »