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China energy law likely to see delay: report Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2008 
China's new energy law has been held back by bureaucratic infighting and is unlikely to be ready in time for the annual session of the national parliament in March, state media reported Friday.
The law, which provides the legislative basis for the establishment of a powerful new energy ministry, may not be passed until next year's gathering of the National People's Congress, the China Daily ... read more
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China to build 97 new airports by 2020
Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2008China announced plans Saturday to build nearly 100 new airports by 2020 to cater for soaring demand. The proposals will mean eight out of every ten residents will live within 100 kilometres (60 miles) of an airport within 12 years, the General Administration of Civil Aviation said. It put the cost of building the 97 new airports at 450 billion yuan (61.6 billion dollars). Air traffic ... more In Cairo the noise pollution can be a killer 
Cairo (AFP) Jan 25, 2008From blaring car horns to wedding parties, rising noise pollution in the 24-hour metropolis of Cairo has reached alarming levels, leading to hearing problems, irritability and even death. Living in the city centre, where noise levels reach an average of 90 decibels (dB) and never drop below 70 dB, is like spending all day inside a factory, a 2007 study by the Egyptian National Research Centr ... more Nearly all nuclear fuel now delivered by Russia to Iran: report 
Tehran (AFP) Jan 26, 2008Russia delivered the seventh out of eight consignments of fuel for Iran's first nuclear power plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The seventh load of nuclear fuel arrived at the Bushehr plant on Saturday morning," Iran's Organisation for Production and Development of Nuclear Energy said in a statement. The delivery brings the amount of ... more Bulgarian leader urges EU to allow reactors' reopening 
Sofia (AFP) Jan 27, 2008Bulgaria's President Georgy Parvanov urged the European Commission Sunday to order a new peer review to reexamine safety at two shut reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear plant and allow for their reopening. "There is not a single survey proving the reactors are unsafe to operate," Parvanov said at a press conference marking the first year into his second mandate. "But we signed a treaty (for ... more Can India and China save the world's economy 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 27, 2008With fears mounting of a global economic slowdown, some analysts predict developing giants China and India, with their booming growth, will help lessen the impact. Stock market turmoil this week triggered by fears of a US recession in the wake of a massive mortgage crisis has ignited debate over whether Asia's two rising economic stars are strong enough to power the world economy. This d ... more |
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Geneva, Switzerland (UPI) Jan 24, 2008Installation of the final component of the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator is under way along the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. When completed this summer, the LHC will be the world's largest and most complex scientific instrument. It is being constructed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research, one of the world's largest particle physics laboratorie ... more NATO chief urges Russia to stop 'unhelpful rhetoric' 
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 24, 2008NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Russia on Thursday to abandon "unhelpful rhetoric" and talk through its differences with the alliance. "From time to time, we hear rhetoric coming from Moscow which I do think is unhelpful," said Scheffer on a visit to the United Arab Emirates -- the first by a NATO chief. "We have our differences ... These differences are fundamental and I take the ... more Global slowdown could impact China: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Global economic weakness may be about to do what China's own policy-makers have been unable to: pull growth in the world's fourth-largest economy down from its current dizzying heights. Government data published Thursday showed the Chinese economy grew by 11.4 percent in 2007, the fastest pace in 13 years, but cooled slightly towards the New Year, as the alarm bells over the US economy got l ... more Climate change 'significantly worse' than feared: Al Gore 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Climate change is occurring far faster than even the worst predictions of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change foresaw, Al Gore warned Thursday. New evidence shows "the climate crisis is significantly worse and unfolding more rapidly than those on the pessimistic side of the IPCC projections had warned us," the former US vice president and climate campaigner told d ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Jan 24, 2008The European Union aims to enact sweeping new legislation on energy and climate change by the spring of 2009, the EU's Slovenian presidency said Thursday. "We are counting on a constructive approach and support of the member states and the parliament for a final adoption of the package by spring 2009," said Slovenian Environment Minister Janez Podobnik. The measures, presented by the Eur ... more Bio-diesel film not to everyone's tastes at Sundance 
Park City, Utah (AFP) Jan 23, 2008Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil. In his documentary film "Fields of Fuel," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, he outlines the historical origins of and the political constructs that support petroleum use. As well, he presents the benefi ... more Philips Patents TU Eindhoven's Energy Return System 
Den Haag, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 25, 2008An increasing number of private individuals supply their excess energy, from external energy sources (windmills and solar cells), to the electricity grid and only take energy from the grid when necessary. Dutch-sponsored researcher Haimin Tao examined how this externally generated energy can be better stored and transferred. Philips has acquired a patent for a part of the system. In a proj ... more Bush pushes US-Turkey nuclear cooperation 
Washington (AFP) Jan 23, 2008President George W. Bush has green-lighted a civilian nuclear cooperation deal with Turkey, saying that private-sector proliferation worries have been addressed, the White House said Wednesday. Bush on Tuesday sent the US Congress a July 2000 agreement, signed by then-US president Bill Clinton, that would clear the way for transfers of nuclear know-how to Turkey's planned civilian atomic sec ... more
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