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Paris digs deep to harness Earth's green energy Paris (AFP) Feb 13, 2009 
A major new project is under way in Paris to provide ecologically clean heating for an entire district by extracting piping hot water from nearly two kilometres under the earth. In a revival of the French capital's geothermal potential, drilling has just begun in the north of the city on a desolate building site sandwiched between the traffic-clogged inner ring road and the Saint-Denis canal ... read moreRussia, Turkey close to mega energy deals: official 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Russia and Turkey are close to agreeing energy deals worth billions of dollars under which Moscow will build a nuclear power station and supply electricity for Ankara, a Russian official said on Friday. During a visit by Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko said the two sides were nearing agreement on Russia winning the nuclear energy contract worth up to ... more
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Sirona Fuels Acquires Blue Sky Biofuels And Invests In Jatropha
San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2009Sirona Fuels has officially entered the biodiesel marketplace and announced its plans for expansion at the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo in San Francisco. Through its purchase of Blue Sky Biofuels, Sirona has acquired a refinery that produces high-quality biodiesel from both virgin and non-virgin feedstocks. The Oakland, CA-based refinery is permitted for 15 million gallons a year ... more Rio Tinto shares fall as China deal questioned 
Sydney (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Shares in mining giant Rio Tinto fell Friday as analysts and politicians questioned its plan to accept a 19.5 billion US dollar cash injection from China's state-owned aluminium firm Chinalco. Amid uncertainty over how Australian regulatory changes will affect China's largest ever investment in a foreign firm, Rio fell as much as 4.7 percent before closing one dollar (65 US cents) off, or ... more On The Future Of Solar 2009 
El Dorado Hills CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2009Premier Power Renewable Energy will be discussing the future of Solar in 2009 with Fox Business Network. Premier Power is one of the only profitable solar integrators as well as among the largest and fastest growing solar installers in the nation. Premier Power designs and integrates Photovoltaic or "Solar Energy Systems" for large and small commercial businesses as well as industrial ... more  |
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China eyes resources security with Rio deal
Beijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2009China's record investment in a foreign firm has underlined the nation's drive to get more control over the natural resources that have helped fuel its rapid rise, analysts say. State-owned aluminium firm Chinalco said last week it was putting 19.5 billion dollars into troubled Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto -- the most money China has ever invested in an overseas company. ... more UN urges world to tackle mercury health threat 
Nairobi (AFP) Feb 15, 2009The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Sunday urged environment ministers meeting this week in Nairobi to adopt a strategy to curb the use of the highly toxic metal mercury. "The world's environment ministers meeting in Nairobi, Kenya this week can take a landmark decision to lift a global health threat from the lives of hundreds of millions of people," UNEP Executive Director ... more Most Swedes want nuclear power 
Stockholm (AFP) Feb 13, 2009Most Swedish people favour nuclear power as an energy source, a poll published Friday showed a week after the government decided it would not shut the country's 10 nuclear reactor plants. About 62 percent of 1,016 people polled between February 5 and 11 by the Dagens Nyheter daily approved nuclear power, while 28 percent opposed it and 10 percent were undecided. On Febrary 5, Sweden's go ... more Indian radioactive metal found in Germany 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 14, 2009German authorities have discovered more than 150 tonnes of radioactive metal imported from India, the environment ministry said Saturday, adding the material posed no environmental or health threat. Information about the material came from various German states, a ministry spokeswoman said, partly confirming a report to be published in Monday's edition of Der Spiegel. "The situation is ... more |
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