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Britain said its Low Carbon Industrial Strategy would create new jobs, save business costs and lead to a smooth transition to a low-carbon economy. The strategy, launched Thursday by Business Secretary Peter Mandelson, named a range of low-carbon industries where the first of the $675 million investment budgeted for 2009 would go. Nuclear power is joined in the sectoral list by ... read more 
Beijing (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 The widening Chinese investigation into the alleged spying charges against the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto Ltd. is becoming a major issue with global trade and other ramifications. Until last month outside of business circles, little was known about the controversy other than that China, the world's largest steel producer, was negotiating iron ore prices with Rio Tinto ... more
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Abidjan, Ivory Coast (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 The pace of work on a gold mine in the Ivory Coast has increased, allowing Randgold Resources to predict the dig will reach production stages late next year. Randgold Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow, speaking Friday at a news conference in Abidjan, said progress on a major civil program to build a process plant is moving ahead. Additionally, mechanical work on a ... more  
Tehran (AFP) July 17, 2009President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Friday announced two key appointments, including the country's new atomic chief, signalling important changes in the structure of his expected new government. Ahmadinejad named Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's former envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, as new head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, the official IRNA news agency reported. ... more 
Yangon (AFP) July 17, 2009Foreign investment in Myanmar increased more than fivefold to reach almost one billion dollars last year, as neighboring China pumped money into its mining sector, official statistics showed Friday. Total foreign investment in the military-ruled nation increased from 172.72 million dollars in the 2007-2008 fiscal year to 985 million dollars in 2008-2009, the Ministry of National Planning and ... more  
Rhinebeck, N.Y. (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 Owners of an upstate New York human-potential retreat center's new building say it may become the world's first "living building." The $3.5 million Omega Center for Sustainable Living at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, N.Y., goes way beyond "green," Omega said. The one-story, 6,250-square-foot building, inaugurated Thursday, takes "a whole systems approach" ... more |
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Jiashan, China (SPX) Jul 20, 2009Jiashan, China (SPX) Jul 20, 2009 ReneSola has announced that it has entered into a letter of intent with the Yancheng city government, Jiangsu province, to develop a 500 megawatt ("MW") on-grid solar power generation project. In addition, the Company has been granted the exclusive right in a letter of intent with the Panzhihua east district government, Sichuan province, to develop a 5 MW ... more 
Havana (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 In a move to prepare for possible oil drilling in Cuba, Brazil's state-controlled energy giant Petrobras opened an office in Cuba, the company announced Thursday. As part of its exploratory stage, Petrobras is currently analyzing results of seismic surveys carried out within the block it acquired last October in the communist-ruled country's waters of the Gulf of Mexico. ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) July 19, 2009Banquets, karaoke and drinks have long played a part in Chinese deals but the high-profile arrests of Rio Tinto executives may force companies to rethink how they do business, experts said. Since authorities arrested Stern Hu, the Australian head of the miner's Shanghai office, two weeks ago, accusing him of bribery and other illegal means to gather state secrets, a chill has run through the ... more 
Victoria, Canada (SPX) Jul 20, 2009NASA's Stennis Space Center Mississippi is lighting a new onsite parking facility with solar-LED technology. As part of the Stennis Space Center's new Cryogenics Control Center facility, the car park will be equipped with bright and efficient EverGEN 1520 solar-LED parking lot lights from Carmanah Technologies. Recently showcased at the LIGHTFAIR International tradeshow and conference in ... more |
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