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Yemen says foreign firms to build nuclear reactor Sanaa (AFP) Aug 19, 2007 
Yemen's energy minister said on Sunday that international companies would build a nuclear reactor in the impoverished Arabian peninsula state, the official Saba news agency reported. "International companies will undertake building... the nuclear reactor that Yemen aspires to own for peaceful purposes of producing electricity," Mustafa Yahia Bahran said. He did not give details about the ... read more
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Great powers cast bids for strategic Central Asia
Bishkek (AFP) Aug 19, 2007In the titanic contest for power over Central Asia between China, Russia and the United States, Akmamat Kasimov's market stall must be the smallest battlefield. At the heart of the teeming Kayal market in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, he hawks military uniforms from all three protagonists of a 19th century-style Great Game for control of the strategic region. Just 400 som, or 10.5 dollars, ... more Indian uranium deal as good as NPT: Australia 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 17, 2007Prime Minister John Howard on Friday defended Australia's landmark deal to sell uranium to nuclear power India, saying its safeguards were as strong as the international anti-proliferation treaty. The in-principle deal reached Thursday has been widely criticised, as India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has nuclear weapons. India is involved in a long-running nuclea ... more Analysis: Caspian pipeline wars 
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 Fifteen years after the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a covert Cold War has sprung up over the issue of developing the energy assets of the Caspian, with Russia and the United States once again at odds. Both sides have had successes and failures, and the shadow conflict is not destined to end anytime soon. The case of Azerbaijan epitomizes both the promise and peril of dev ... more US says cannot rework nuclear deal with India 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 18, 2007A top US official has said a controversial nuclear pact with New Delhi cannot be renegotiated amid demands from Indian critics for a radical reworking of the deal. "We cannot renegotiate it because the agreement is done. Neither government wishes it to be renegotiated because it is now complete," US under secretary of State Nicholas Burns told Outlook magazine in an interview published on th ... more Australia close to deal to supply uranium to Russia: FM 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 17, 2007Australia is close to signing a deal to supply uranium to Russia for civilian purposes which could be completed next month, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said Friday. Australia could be supplying the nuclear element to Russian reactors as early as next year, and a pact could be signed when Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Australia in September for a summit of the Asia-Pacific ... more |
ENERGY TECH
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007Russia will supply up to 1,000 megawatts of electricity to Lithuania while the Ignalina nuclear power plant is being repaired, electricity monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) said Friday. European Union member Lithuania is to shut down the second reactor of its Ignalina NPP by late 2009, in line with EU nuclear safety requirements, and to build a new plant of about the same capacity of 3,600 MW ... more Thermochemical Process Converts Poultry Litter Into Bio-Oil 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2007Foster Agblevor, associate professor of biological systems engineering, is leading the team of researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech developing transportable pyrolysis units that will convert poultry litter into bio-oil, providing an economical disposal system while reducing environmental effects and biosecurity issues. Agblevor will present the ... more Analysis: Oil flows in Basra power vacuum 
Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 Political parties and their militias are fighting for power over the Basra government, the oil sector it controls, and the oil and fuels smuggling that bring in extra funds. The southern area, where much of Iraq's oil wealth is located and nearly all its oil exports are sent to market, has been under the purview of British troops, who have allowed various factions to become the power ... more Analysis: Mideast struggles to power area 
Washington (UPI) Aug 17, 2007 An economically burgeoning Middle East is facing stark choices as it decides how to fuel its growth, despite sitting on two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. Countries in the region are facing rising demands on electricity, natural gas and fuel oil as their economies experience rapid development. While the Middle East's overall 5.7 percent growth rate in 2006 is only ha ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The death toll from the worst floods in decades across South Asia rose above 2,600 Thursday, as officials were still trying to find dozens missing and feared drowned in India. Heavy monsoon rains and snow melt since late July have caused the flooding in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, with losses estimated at nearly one billion dollars and major outbreaks of water-borne disease. ... more Irrigation May Not Cool The Globe In The Future 
Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Expansion of irrigation has masked greenhouse warming in California's Central Valley, but irrigation may not make much of a difference in the future, according to a new study in the Aug. 13 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Irrigation's influence on climate is often overlooked when studying the human effect on regional climate change. Yet, irrigation has expanded r ... more Egyptian villages fight water war 
Cairo (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The land of the Nile is seeing a rising tide of protests at a shortage of drinking water amid accusations the government would rather irrigate golf courses than slake the thirst of villages. A wave of demonstrations and ensuing clashes with police in recent weeks has left dozens injured in a country where the Nile River provides 95 percent of fresh water and irrigation uses up 80 percent of ... more Japan's Showa Shell to build solar battery plant 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2007Oil firm Showa Shell Sekiyu said Wednesday it will build one of the world's biggest factories for next generation solar batteries in Japan. The Japanese firm, part of Royal Dutch Shell group, will spend 15 billion yen (128 million dollars) to build the factory to make thin-film based "CIS solar batteries," the company said. The factory, which will start operation in 2009, will have an an ... more
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