China launches nationwide energy saving campaign
Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2007
China Saturday launched a nationwide energy saving campaign, calling on its people to face the urgent task of reducing its rocketing fuel consumption and worsening pollution. Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said China had paid a heavy price for its rapid economic development in the past three decades. "Our country has taken nearly 30 years to catch up with developed countries in industrialisati ... read more
Analysis: Kazakhs mull nationalization?
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007
The year 2007 has been a difficult one for Western energy companies operating abroad, as many states, including Bolivia, Russia and Venezuela, have unilaterally either rewritten or abrogated longstanding energy agreements with European and U.S. partners. Is Kazakhstan about to join the revisionist club?
On Aug. 27 the Kazakh government temporarily suspended Italian Eni SpA's license to ... more
Analysis: New force to protect Saudi oil
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007
A new oil facilities protection force in Saudi Arabia faces a convinced enemy with a record of attacks on the country, but analysts say it is just another layer of protection on a security apparatus that has so far succeeded in protecting the country's most important resource.
Saudi Arabia plans to create a special oil facility protection force by year's end that will number 20,000 and ... more
Analysis: Iran seeks oil swaps
Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2007
Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the race to bring Caspian oil to the global market has been marked by a three-way race involving Russia, the United States and Iran. Five nations now share the Caspian's coastline - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Russia initially won the race to exploit Kazakh and Turkmen energy assets, while Azerbaijan, first with th ... more
Iran may hire others to finish Russian nuclear plant: report
Moscow (AFP) Aug 31, 2007
Iran is considering alternative builders to finish its first nuclear power plant amid disputes with Russia, which now heads the project, a Russian daily quoted an Iranian official as saying Friday. "Iran is interested in the atomic power station at Bushehr being finished on time and specifically by Russia," daily Gazeta quoted Iranian presidential spokesman Ali Akbar Javanfekr as saying.
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Analysis: EU shields grids from Russia
Berlin (UPI) Aug 31, 2007
The European Union is reverting to unusual measures to guarantee its energy security. According to a report, Brussels is looking to shield its oil and gas sector from unwanted acquisitions by foreign players. The protectionist measures are to be part of the planned EU energy market reform, which the European Commission with its proposals wants to jump-start Sept. 19 ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
India must not 'miss the bus' on nuclear energy: PM
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Short circuit at Bulgarian nuclear plant forces reactor shut-down
SPACEMART
Eighth Continent Project To Integrate Space Business into Global Economy
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Norway: Noah's Ark of seed samples tucked into Arctic mountainside
Longyearbyen, Norway (AFP) Aug 30, 2007
Carved into the permafrost of a remote Arctic mountain, a "doomsday vault" housing samples of the world's most important seeds is taking shape to provide mankind with a Noah's Ark of food in the event of a global catastrophe. At the end of a narrow gravel road in Norway's Arctic archipelago of Svalbard where, ironically, no crops grow, construction workers are toiling away on the ... more
Global warming will bring stronger storms and tornadoes
Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2007
Violent storms and tornadoes may become more common as the earth's climate warms, a study by NASA scientists showed Thursday. Researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies developed what they say is the first climate model able to estimate how the strength of storms changes as the atmosphere warms. The researchers applied global computer models -- which evaluate when ... more
Biosensors To Probe The Metals Menace
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2007
If the pond life goes star-shaped, you'd be wise not to drink the water. Researchers from CRC CARE are pioneering a world-first technology to warn people if their local water or air is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals and metal-like substances. Andrew McKay, a PhD student at CRC CARE and The University of Queensland, is studying the changes that take place in a ... more
Central Targets May Hinder Wider Waste Management Objectives
London UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007
Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council shows. Reducing levels of waste and disposing of it in environmentally acceptable ways are significant issues facing policymakers. And, as in other ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Nigeria losing $14 billion a year in oil
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Indian committee to review objections to US nuke deal
ENERGY TECH
Grain Will Not Become Oil
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OSU Sweet Biofuels Research Goes Down On The Farm
Stillwater OK (SPX) Aug 30, 2007
Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's own field. Sweet sorghum can be grown throughout temperate climate zones of the United States, including Oklahoma. It provides high biomass yield with low irrigation and fertilizer requirements. Corn ethanol ... more
Brazil's TAM Airlines Orders 1,000th Boeing 777
Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 30, 2007
Boeing has announced that an order from Brazil's TAM Airlines for four additional 777-300ERs brings to 1,003 the number of 777s ordered since the first order of the popular widebody in 1990. Today's announcement also means that, to date in 2007, Boeing has received orders for 100 of the popular 777s. TAM is Brazil's largest airline, flying both domestic and international routes. TAM ... more
US Senator Lugar Speaks For Extending START-I Treaty
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 30, 2007
Russia and the U.S. should extend the START-I Treaty, which expires in 2009, or else negative consequences will result, U.S. senator Richard Lugar said Tuesday. "The United States and Russia must extend the START Treaty's verification and transparency elements, which will expire in 2009," Lugar told an arms control round table in Moscow. Lugar said the two countries should also introduce ... more
NKorea searches for fugitives after floods: aid group
Seoul (AFP) Aug 29, 2007
North Korea has stepped up searches in border towns for people trying to flee the country after devastating floods, a South Korean aid group said Wednesday.
Security officials in the communist state have been rounding up illegal travellers in a door-to-door search twice a day in border towns, Good Friends said in a report. Authorities are worried about an exodus across the China border ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Devastated New Orleans mourns Katrina dead two years on
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Flooding risk from global warming badly under-estimated: study
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Innovative Civil Engineering Application Promises Cleaner Waters
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