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Environmental Degradation A Growing Public Danger To People In China Beijing (AFP) Jul 04, 2007 
China's environment is close to breaking point and the situation is endangering people's lives, one of the nation's top anti-pollution officials said in comments published Wednesday. Pan Yue, an outspoken vice minister at the State Environmental Protection Administration, said campaigns to clean-up the environment were going backwards because the country's primary focus continued to be on econom ... read more
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Activists Demand Full Details Of German Nuclear Plant Fire
Kiel, Germany (AFP) Jul 04, 2007Environmentalists on Wednesday blasted an energy company for failing to reveal the full extent of a fire last week at a German nuclear power plant. The German branch of Friends of the Earth, BUND, demanded from European energy group Vattenfall "full transparency in the investigation of the causes of the fire and possible dangers." A company spokesman dismissed the criticism, saying it had provid ... more Eyeing The Shanghai Group In 2007 
Sapporo, Japan (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The U.S. government has reacted warily to the SCO for several reasons. First, when Washington asked to send observers to the SCO summit meetings, its request was refused. Late ... more US And Russia Begin Nuclear Reduction Talks 
Washington (AFP) Jul 03, 2007The United States and Russia on Tuesday pushed for peaceful nuclear energy use and said they had begun talks to trim their nuclear arsenals "to the lowest possible level" ahead of the expiry of a landmark strategic weapons agreement. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which led to the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons under the largest arms control accord in histo ... more Cities To Boom In Africa And Asia 
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The urban populations in Africa and Asia will at least double over the next 30 years to 1.7 billion, adding more people than the Chinese and U.S. populations combined. According to a recent U.N. study, urban populations are growing at more than 1.2 million people a week. In 2008, for the first time in history, city residents outnumber rural population, the report's principal author George Martin ... more Islands Off China Vanishing Under Weight Of Exploitation 
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2007China boasts tens of thousands of islands but many are disappearing and others are being devastated by uncontrolled quarrying and other industrial practices, state media reported Friday. "Rampant stone quarrying and rubbish dumping have accelerated the deterioration of island eco-systems," said a circular issued by the State Oceanic Administration (SOA), according to the Xinhua news agency. ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's South Stream pipeline project is not politically motivated and does not threaten Nabucco, Europe's $6-billion gas pipeline project linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, the Gazprom head said Friday. The Russian energy giant and the Italian gas company Eni SpA signed June 23 a memorandum to construct the South Stream gas pipeline, which will stretch for 900 kilomet ... more Belarus To Announce Nuclear Power Planet Tender Soon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Belarus will soon announce a tender for the construction of its first nuclear power plant, the prime minister said Friday. "The amount of finance will be determined shortly, and a tender will be announced," Sergei Sidorsky said after a ministerial Russia-Belarus union session in Moscow, adding a potential construction site was already being selected. Belarusian officials have said that Rus ... more India-Iran-Pakistan Talks On Gas Pipeline Still To Continue 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2007India, Iran and Pakistan failed to reach a compromise on tariffs on natural gas deliveries and will continue talks on signing a tripartite gas pipeline agreement in July, the Indian press said citing government sources. Talks ended in New Delhi Friday on the $7.5 billion pipeline, which will have annual capacity of at least 21.1 billion cubic meters and is expected to come on stream in 2011. ... more Hong Kong Choked By Growing Pollution Problem 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 30, 2007Discarded cigarette packets, McDonald's wrappers and even old socks litter the shores of Lau Fau Shan in Hong Kong's far north, home to what remains of the territory's oyster farming industry. From across the border in China, factories belch smoke into the fetid air over Deep Bay, one of Hong Kong's most polluted stretches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chin ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Jun 28, 2007Fire broke out at a nuclear power plant in northern Germany Thursday but was isolated from the atomic reactor, police said. The blaze began at the Kruemmel power plant in Geesthacht, 30 kilometres (20 miles) southeast of Hamburg on the Elbe river, when coolant in a large electric power transformation substation ignited. It was extinguished about 90 minutes later. A police spokesman said i ... more Russia-Georgia Gas Pipeline In Mountains To Be Highest In World 
Vladikavkaz, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A natural gas pipeline being built in the Caucasus mountains linking Russia and Georgia will gain the honor of being the world's highest pipeline, the project chief said Thursday. The high-altitude pipeline will link Russia and South Ossetia, a secessionist republic in Georgia, and is expected to end the region's gas dependence on Tbilisi. "The pipeline will be laid at an altitude of 3,150 ... more Iraq Needs 75 Billion Dollars To Develop Oil Industry 
Beirut (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Iraq will need $75 billion to develop its oil sector, three times more than was originally thought, a government expert said Thursday. Iraq intends to boost oil production to 6 million barrels per day, but is currently producing only 2 million barrels per day due to ongoing terrorist attacks. Tamer Gazban, former oil minister and now energy adviser to the Iraqi government, said that if the ... more Europe Bans All Indonesian Airlines From EU Airspace 
Brussels (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007The European Commission has released a new "blacklist" that bars all Indonesian air carriers from flights within the European Union for safety reasons, a spokesman for the EC said Thursday. In addition to 51 Indonesian airlines, including the national flag-carrier Garuda, the so-called EU aviation safety "blacklist," established in 2005, also includes TAAG Angolan Airlines from Angola and Volare ... more
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