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 Seoul (AFP) July 6, 2009 
South Korea Monday unveiled an 84 billion dollar five-year plan to develop environmentally friendly industries and use them as a growth engine for the wider economy. The plan, approved at a meeting chaired by President Lee Myung-Bak, aims to transform South Korea into one of the world's seven strongest nations in terms of energy efficiency and green technology investment by 2020. ... read more 
Dawson Creek, British Columbia (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 A series of bombings of natural gas pipelines in northeastern British Columbia in Canada are "domestic terrorism," authorities said. The first attack was reported in early October. This past weekend, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed a sixth bombing caused a leak in an EnCana Corp. line south of Dawson Creek, British Columbia. No one has been injured in the bombings ... more
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 07, 2009Greentech Media released the most recent quarterly data showing that venture capital investment in green technologies totaled $1.2 billion in 85 deals in the second quarter of 2009. This is up from $836 million in 59 deals in the first quarter of 2009. "The recent quarter's balanced distribution of sectors that attracted capital underscores cleantech's breadth and diversity of opportunity ... more 
Paris (UPI) Jul 6, 2009 This week's G8 summit looks like the last of its kind, as its role as a forum for world governance is overtaken by the newer G20 grouping, which claims greater legitimacy by including the main emerging economies like China, India and Brazil. Indeed, the second day of this year's G8 meeting in Italy, amid the symbolic but only half-repaired ruins of the earthquake that hit the small town ... more  
Taipei (AFP) July 6, 2009Taiwan on Monday rejected China's call for the opening of restricted air space over the Taiwan Strait to help meet rising passenger demand between the island and the mainland. Flights currently have to make a detour around the restricted air space -- "the median line" -- between China and Taiwan. Wang Yi, chief of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Chinese State Council, last week said an ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) July 6, 2009Toyota Motor's Prius became the first fuel-sipping hybrid car to outsell all other vehicles in Japan last month, boosting the automaker's recovery efforts, industry figures showed Monday. Helped by the launch of a remodelled version, Toyota sold 22,292 Prius vehicles in June, up from 6,231 in the same month last year, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association reported. Honda's Fit was in ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jul 07, 2009McDermott International has announced that a subsidiary of The Babcock and Wilcox Company ("B and W") has been awarded a contract to downblend over 12 metric tons of highly enriched uranium ("HEU") into low enriched uranium ("LEU") at its Erwin, Tennessee facility. Working under prime contractor WesDyne International, LLC and in support of the National Nuclear Security Administration's ... more 
Berlin (AFP) July 6, 2009Chinese automaker BAIC has written to German officials regarding Opel, but an economy ministry spokesman refused Monday to reveal the contents. "A letter effectively exists," the spokesman told a regular news conference, without providing details. On Sunday, a press report said BAIC had offered to take 51 percent of Opel, a troubled unit of US automaker General Motors, with a public ... more 
Rome (AFP) July 6, 2009Italian auto maker Fiat was Monday to sign an agreement on the construction of a factory in China with the Chinese firm Guangzhu Automobile Industry Group (GAC), an industrial source said. The signing was to take place alongside a meeting here between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao. The new plant was expected to begin turning out vehicle ... more  
Paris (AFP) July 3, 2009France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe. In a joint statement, the French ecology and agriculture ministries said the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had failed to take into account requests to change the way it evaluated the risk. "The conclusions of the ... more |
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