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Analysis: Uzbek and Tajik energy
Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2008In the Soviet Union, many commodities were subsidized for Soviet consumers, including energy, which was provided either free or at costs far below world prices. The practice still continues in most post-Soviet states, with Russian consumers receiving natural gas and electricity at rates far below world prices, while in Turkmenistan, citizens receive free natural gas and electricity and it cost ... more Analysis: Nigeria's Delta vows crackdown 
Miami (UPI) Jan 4, 2008Hoping to curtail the rising violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, one governor has threatened to arrest the family members of militants accused of attacking oil and gas operations. Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State said authorities would arrest the parents of suspected militants in an effort to force them to lay down their arms. The threat came a day after a band of militants storme ... more Analysis: China and Turkmen energy 
Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2008Before the 1991 Soviet collapse, Russia dominated the economies of the other 14 republics. In the decade and a half since, Western companies have been angling to acquire a piece of the former Soviet Union's energy assets. In the last few years, however, China has become an increasingly important regional player, and in a nasty Christmas present for both Washington and Moscow, on Dec. 28 China ... more CES unveils smart cars, robotic massages and more 
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 6, 2008The world's top consumer electronics show informally got under way in Las Vegas on Saturday with an early glimpse at smart cars, robotic massages and other innovations. "This is where the gadgets are, and the people that like gadgets," Nate Nelson of Zagg Inc. told AFP as he pitched military-grade plastic coating for handheld devices at a Consumer Electronics Show preview dubbed "Unveiled." ... more China's toy exports rocket despite recalls: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2008Exports of Chinese toys rocketed in the first 10 months of last year despite a wave of high-profile recalls of products made by the Asian nation, state media said Sunday. In the period from January to October, China shipped 7.1 billion dollars' worth of toys abroad, an increase of 20.1 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Xinhua news agency reported. It compares to a growth r ... more |
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Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 07, 2008Earth Biofuels announced that its subsidiary, Applied LNG Technologies, has begun receiving regular deliveries of the output of renewable liquefied natural gas ("LNG") produced from a landfill site in Orange County, California. Per the terms of a prior agreement, ALT has the first right to purchase one hundred percent of the nameplate capacity (5,000 gallons per day) production of the LNG facili ... more Akeena Solar Licenses New Solar Panel Technology To Suntech 
Los Gatos CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2008Akeena Solar announced that its state-of-the-art solar panel technology, Andalay, will be distributed in Europe, Japan and Australia under a license agreement with Suntech Power Holdings. The terms of the Licensing Agreement authorize Suntech to distribute Andalay in Europe, Japan and Australia commencing in January 2008. This Licensing Agreement is in addition to Suntech's previous agreement to ... more Tri-State Biodiesel To Provide Biodiesel Fuel To NYC Mobile-Grocer FreshDirect 
New York NY (SPX) Jan 07, 2008New York NY (SPX) Jan 07, 2008 New York City's first biodiesel company, Tri-State Biodiesel, is proud to announce that it will be filling FreshDirect's delivery trucks with clean-burning biodiesel blended fuel. The biodiesel fuel, which is made primarily from waste cooking oil collected from New York City restaurants, will be phased in to FreshDirect's fuel supply over the course of the next 2 ... more Two Milestones Reached For Integration Of High-Energy Laser With MDA's Airborne Laser Aircraft 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Northrop Grumman has achieved two milestones that helped prepare the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft for integration of the Northrop Grumman-developed high-energy laser. Both accomplishments contributed to MDA's success in meeting its fifth and final "Knowledge Point" or milestone for 2007 covering high-power systems integration readiness, continuing recent prog ... more |
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Manila (AFP) Jan 3, 2008The Asian Development Bank said Thursday it would help China protect Yancheng, one of Asia's largest coastal wetlands which is an important winter site for threatened red-crowned cranes. The Manila-based ADB said it approved a 650,000-dollar grant to help Beijing launch a protection project for the four million-hectare (9.9 million-acre) stretch of mud flats, creeks, salt marshes and reed be ... more Australia looks to GM crops after scorching 2007 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Australia's agriculture minister on Thursday hailed genetically modified crops as a means to help farmers combat climate change, as data showed 2007 was the country's sixth hottest year on record. Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Australia's farmers needed to face up to climate change, foreshadowing major changes to drought relief payments worth billions of dollars. Burke said Prime ... more First-Ever Study To Link Increased Mortality Specifically To CO2 Emissions 
A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes.100-dollar crude is good and bad news for environment 
Paris (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say. Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns. Oil briefly topped 100 dollars on Wednesday, driven by escalating energy demand in China, stagnant ... more
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