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WTO 'blame game' sours trade deal in the making Geneva (AFP) July 28, 2008 
The United States exchanged hard words with China and India as key WTO talks dragged into a second week on Monday, trading blame for stuttering steps towards a world trade pact, delegates said. Meanwhile in Paris, the French government rejected the current proposals for a deal, saying they showed no advance on essential points concerning industry. "The blame game has started. The US ... read more
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Huge losses for Japan's TEPCO as energy costs soar
Tokyo (AFP) July 28, 2008Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan's biggest electric utility company, said Monday it lost more than 700 million dollars in the three months to June due to soaring fuel costs at its power plants. The operator of the world's largest nuclear plant, which was shut down by an earthquake last year, warned it expects to end the year deep in the red. The company, known as TEPCO, reported a net ... more FTL Solar Awarded Second NYSERDA Development Grant 
New York NY (SPX) Jul 29, 2008FTL Solar, the creator and leading developer of photovoltaic power technologies integrated within lightweight, flexible materials enabling portable, scaleable sources of energy and shelter, has announced that the Company has received a second $250,000 development grant from The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The funding will be used to accelerate ... more Cow Power Could Generate Electricity For Millions 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2008Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), according to US research published in the Institute of Physics' Environmental Research Letters. The journal paper, 'Cow Power: The Energy and ... more Large PV Systems Installed At Colorado State University-Pueblo 
Pueblo CO (SPX) Jul 29, 2008Colorado State University-Pueblo soon will be the home of a solar electric system in excess of one megawatt, one of the largest such systems for an education facility in the United States. Under this innovative arrangement with Black Hills Energy (formerly Aquila) and BP Solar, the system is estimated to contribute more than 10 percent of the University's electricity needs. Installation of ... more US cotton subsidies tangle up trade talks 
Geneva (AFP) July 28, 2008The quest for a new global trade pact got further tangled on Monday as China demanded the United States scrap its cotton subsidies, fuelling a potentially damaging dispute between the two powers. China demanded that Washington end subsidies to its cotton producers after bluntly rebuffing US allegations that the Chinese were jeopardising precious steps towards a global free trade pact. ... more |
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The Hague (AFP) July 28, 2008The Shell oil group said Monday it had decided to reduce some of its production running through a pipeline in southern Nigeria damaged in an attack claimed by MEND fighters. Spokesman Rainer Winzenried told AFP that one of the pipelines had been affected by an attack and the company had decided to reduce part of the production to avoid further damage to the environment. He declined to ... more Postal Service Explores Options For Green Delivery Fleet 
Irvine CA (SPX) Jul 29, 2008The U.S. Postal Service plans to identify new, more environmentally friendly vehicle technologies that are less dependent on petroleum-based fuel sources to replace the 195,000 neighborhood delivery vehicles of its total 220,000 vehicles, the worlds largest civilian fleet. The announcement came during a ceremony in which General Motors presented a Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell electric vehicle ... more GE Turbine Technology Selected For Large Chinese Steel Complex 
Shanghai, China (SPX) Jul 29, 2008GE Energy's fuel-flexible turbine technology has been selected for the expansion of the world's largest COREX combined-cycle power plant at the Baoshan Iron and Steel Company (Baosteel) complex in Baoshan District, Shanghai, China. Fuel flexibility enables Baosteel to take advantage of a wider range of fuels helping to reduce overall energy costs. The Baosteel facility is the largest iron ... more A Promising Grandson Of The H-Bomb 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 29, 2008One hundred hydrogen-fueled buses have arrived in China for the Olympics. Some people may be scared by association with the hydrogen bomb. After all, a hydrogen car could be considered an offspring of the H-bomb. Hydrogen/fuel cell vehicles are rare, nevertheless, a hundred hydrogen-fueled buses are impressive. Daimler-Chrysler has found an excellent excuse to promote clean technologies. ... more |
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Amman (AFP) July 27, 2008Thirsty Jordan announced on Sunday that a Turkish firm will begin work next week on a near-billion-dollar project to supply the capital with water from an ancient southern aquifer. Water Minister Raed Abu Soud said GAMA Energy will next Sunday launch the 990-million-dollar plan to extract 100 million cubic metres (3.5 billion cubic feet) of water a year from the 300,000-year-old Disi aquifer ... more Chinese farmers' income rises: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 27, 2008Chinese farmers' income in the first half of 2008 rose 10.3 percent in real terms from a year ago, state media said Sunday, signalling some success for policies to improve life in the countryside. By contrast, people in the cities saw a more modest 6.3 percent rise in incomes after deducting inflation, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing the National Bureau of Statistics. ... more Air Pollution Is Causing Widespread And Serious Impacts To Ecosystems 
Millbrook NY (SPX) Jul 22, 2008If you are living in the eastern United States, the environment around you is being harmed by air pollution. From Adirondack forests and Shenandoah streams to Appalachian wetlands and the Chesapeake Bay, a new report by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and The Nature Conservancy has found that air pollution is degrading every major ecosystem type in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic ... more Greenhouse Gases May Be Released As Destruction Of Wetlands Worsens 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 22, 2008Leading world scientists convene in Brazil July 21-25 amid growing concern that evaporation and ongoing destruction of world wetlands, which hold a volume of carbon similar to that in the atmosphere today, could cause them to exhale billows of greenhouse gases. Meeting in the city of Cuiaba on the edge of South America's vast Pantanal, the largest wetland of its kind, some 700 experts from ... more
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