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Gas-guzzling Pentagon going green Washington (AFP) March 29, 2009 
The Pentagon may seem an unlikely promoter of alternative energy, but the biggest consumer of oil in the United States is looking at ways to become just that by partnering with private firms. "When you don't use as much fuel, not only does it not cost you as much, but it also saves lives and injuries of those people who would have to deliver fuel through hostile territory," Assistant Army Se ... read moreMore complaints about energy-saving bulbs 
New York (UPI) Mar 28, 2009 Some U.S. energy experts say the push to lower the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs has led manufacturers to use cheap components. "Somebody decides to save a little money somewhere and suddenly we have hundreds of thousands of (bulb) failures," said Victor Roberts, an independent expert in Burnt Hills, N.Y., who conducts failure analysis testing on light bulbs. Compact ... more
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Belgian firm appeals nuclear tax: report
Brussels (AFP) March 28, 2009Belgian energy firm Electrabel launched a court challenge against a bid to levy hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in windfall tax on nuclear power companies, a report said on Saturday. "The appeal was launched this week" in a Belgian constitutional court by Electrabel, a subsidiary of the French energy giant GDF Suez, the Belgian firm's spokesman Fernand Grifnee was quoted as saying by ... more China insists on financial system overhaul 
Medellin, Colombia (AFP) March 28, 2009Chinese Central Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan on Saturday again urged for international financial reform in the face of the global economic crisis. Speaking at an Inter-American Development Bank meeting in the northwestern Colombian city of Medellin, Zhou said that current fiscal and monetary measures were useless if the international financial system is not overhauled. He said financial ... more Obama launches major economies climate forum 
Washington (AFP) March 28, 2009US President Barack Obama Saturday stepped into the battle to combat global warming unveiling an international forum of 17 major economies to speed up work towards a key UN accord. Dubbed the Major Economics Forum on Energy and Climate, Obama invited 16 other nations to join the United States at talks to be hosted in Washington at the end of April. The April 27-28 preparatory talks will ... more  |
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British growth sinks as calls mount for global regulation
London (AFP) March 27, 2009Britain reported its worst quarterly economic performance in nearly 30 years and eurozone factory orders slumped further on Friday as the crisis led to further calls for tighter financial controls. Global stock markets also fell as nervous investors cashed in quickly on profits from a major rally earlier in the week founded on greater optimism that the crisis may be beginning to ease and the ... more IAEA fails to agree on new chief 
Vienna (AFP) March 27, 2009The UN atomic watchdog reopened the race for its new director general on Friday after neither of the two previous candidates won sufficient votes for victory. Member states of the International Atomic Energy Agency now have four weeks to nominate new candidates, with a new election expected some time in May. "The slate of candidates is considered to have been wiped clean," the chairwoman ... more Radioactive material found in China: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 28, 2009Chinese authorities said late Friday they had found potentially deadly radioactive material that went missing from a factory earlier this week, state press reported. A lead ball containing Caesium-137 was lost Monday while workers were dismantling a cement factory in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency said. It was a major component of a nuclear scale, used to make pre ... more 'Thousands' of Chinese workers heading to Vietnam 
Hanoi (AFP) March 28, 2009Chinese products and workers, rather than those from Vietnam, are being used for key industrial projects in the fast-developing country, a report quoted top officials as saying Saturday. The strong Chinese influence is contentious because there remains widespread distrust in Vietnam of its big neighbour and especially its territorial ambitions in the region. "Chinese contractors have won ... more |
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