Wednesday, February 1, 2017

UPDATE 2-Pipeline company Oneok to buy rest of Oneok Partners for $9.3 bln

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Pipeline company Oneok Partners LP's

biggest shareholder Oneok Inc said it would buy

the rest of the company for $9.3 billion, the latest master

limited partnership (MLP) deal aimed at simplifying structures

and increasing returns.

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Tepco scraps uranium supply contract with Canada's Cameco

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Canadian uranium producer Cameco Corp

said on Wednesday that Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco)

, the operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear

plant, had scrapped its uranium supply contract with the

company.

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Pipeline company Oneok to buy rest of Oneok Partners for $9.3 bln

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Natural gas pipeline company Oneok Inc

, which owns more than 19 percent of Oneok Partners LP

, said it would buy the remainder of the company for $9.3

billion.

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Kremlin says EU "nit-picking" hampers Russia-Hungary nuclear deal

MOSCOW, Feb 1 (Reuters) - "Nit-picking" by the European

Union is hampering completion of a deal between Russia and

Hungary to expand the Paks nuclear power plant on the Danube

river, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday.

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Fire contained at building in France's Cattenom nuclear plant -EDF

PARIS, Feb 1 (Reuters) - French state-controlled utility EDF

said on Tuesday that a fire in a building at its

Cattenom nuclear plant in the northeast of the country has had

no impact on the industrial section of the installation and has

been contained.

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Japan's Kansai Electric cancels plans to switch oil-fired power station to coal

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Japan's Kansai Electric Power has

cancelled plans to switch a 1,200 megawatt oil-fired power

station to coal as demand for electricity fell amid a push to

cut the country's emissions after it signed up to a global

climate change accord.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

UPDATE 2-Military deployed to ice storm clean-up in Canada's New Brunswick

Jan 31 (Reuters) - Around 14,000 people are still without

power in the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick a week

after a devastating ice storm, the provincial government said on

Tuesday, as more troops arrived to assist with clean-up

operations.

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