Learn 'How to Green Your Company' at the Atlantic City Hospitality Trade Show Sept. 18th

Businesses interested in learning how to effectively 'go green' and lower energy costs will benefit from 'Bet on Green,' How to Green Your Company, a free presentation by Harrah's Entertainment at the Atlantic City Hospitality Trade Show on Thursday, September 18, 2008, in the Mark Etess Arena of the Trump Taj Mahal.

In this special session, Ulrico C. Izaguirre, National Political Director and Eastern Division Regional Communications Director for Harrah's Entertainment, will offer guidelines on how to effectively green your property. Harrah's recently received the prestigious United States EPA Environmental Quality Award, and is the first casino company ever to do so. read more

SOURCE Atlantic City Hotel & Lodging Association

Yingli Green Energy Subsidiary Signs Five-Year US$50 Million Credit Facility Agreement with DEG and FMO

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited , one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) product manufacturers, today announced that Baoding Tianwei Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd (“Tianwei Yingli”), the Company’s principal operating subsidiary, has entered into a five-year credit facility agreement with DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (“DEG”) and the Netherlands Development Finance Company (“FMO”).

Under the agreement, DEG and FMO have agreed to lend Tianwei Yingli up to an aggregate of US$50 million to support Tianwei Yingli’s capacity expansion, subject to certain conditions. read more

Source: Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited

XXL Energy Corp. Announces Acquisitions in the Green River Basin

XXL Energy Corp. , announced today that it has completed two acquisitions of acreage (the "Acquisitions") in the Green River Basin of Wyoming. The Acquisitions were acquired in privately negotiated transactions from an arm's length publicly traded oil and gas company. Both of the Acquisitions included acreage that is contiguous to current acreage of the Company in the Greater Jade Area. Some of the acreage, in one of the acquisitions, falls within an Area of Mutual Interest with some of the Company's partners in the Green River Basin and will be offered to them as part of a previous agreement with those companies. After offering the acreage to its partners (and assuming the partners exercise their rights), XXL will have acquired over 7,000 net acres in the Green River Basin. XXL's acreage position in the Greater Jade Area will increase from 10,000 net acres to 17,000 net acres and XXL's overall Green River acreage position will increase from 28,000 net acres to 35,000 net acres. read more

Source: XXL Energy Corp.

"German White Biotechnology Platform" conference on 8 October within the scientific congress European BioPerspectives

Although white or industrial biotechnology has been around for a considerable time, it has only recently begun to revolutionize industrial production. Nature’s toolset is being increasingly deployed in processes that help cut production costs such as energy and raw materials, as well as in the effective disposal of products and production waste. These are among the keynote themes to be addressed by experts on 8 October at BIOTECHNICA, Europe’s leading biotech event. The “German White Biotechnology Platform”, which features in the scientific congress European BioPerspectives, will be opened by Dr. Alfred Oberholz, board member of Evonik Industries AG and chairman of DECHEMA (German Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology). read more

Source: BIOTECHNICA