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Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium. The strategy, spelt out in a government paper published last week, will see New Delhi reach out to Mongolia, Namibia and Kazakhstan besides traditional allies like Russia in its search for the ... read more 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 4, 2009Toyota Motor said Friday that global sales of its hybrid vehicles had topped the two-million mark since their launch in 1997, led by the Prius -- Japan's top-selling car for the past four months. Toyota passed the new milestone just two years and three months after its hybrid sales reached the one-million mark, helped by brisk demand for its remodelled Prius which was launched in mid-May. ... more
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Geneva (AFP) Sept 7, 2009A UN think tank on trade warned Monday that the current financial market rebound is not a "real recovery" and that any world economic growth recorded in 2010 was unlikely to exceed 1.6 percent. "The depth of the recession has been so important that of course there will be a rebound ... but we still do not see that this is a real recovery," said Supachai Panitchpakdi, secretary general of ... more  
Decatur IL (SPX) Sep 08, 2009General Wesley Clark, Co-Chairman of Growth Energy, has called on the United States Congress and the White House to take action to dramatically enhance the market transparency of the nation's fuel supply by requiring a national standard of country of origin labeling (COOL) for fuel. The Label My Fuel initiative would create a COOL standard similar to requirements already in place for ... more 
Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2009Some 50,000 anti-nuclear protestors on Saturday demonstrated here against Germany possibly reversing a decision to abandon nuclear power, and instead extend the life of its nuclear power plants. The marchers, backed by 400 tractors, demanded that Germany stick to its commitment to close all nuclear plants by 2020 and also called for the closure of a radioactive dump at Gorleben in eastern ... more |
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Denton TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2009Peterbilt Motors has announced that the company is taking immediate orders for the production of its vocational and aerodynamic vehicles powered by compressed and liquefied natural gas (NG). The Model 365 and Model 384 will be offered with the Cummins Westport ISL G and built at Peterbilt's truck manufacturing facility in Denton, Texas. "Our Models 365 and 384 are examples of Peterbilt's ... more 
Mexico City (UPI) Sep 4, 2009 Mexican President Felipe Calderon called for reform in the country's oil industry Wednesday amid falling oil production. Output at state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos -- Pemex -- has dropped to its lowest level since 1942. "Deep changes," Calderon said, are needed to finance Mexico's budget. Calderon's comments in his state of the nation speech came on the heels of this week's ... more  
Pleasanton CA (SPX) Sep 08, 2009Fulcrum BioEnergy has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the ability to economically produce renewable ethanol. This milestone - achieved at the company's TurningPoint Ethanol Demonstration Plant - confirms the second of the two new technologies that Fulcrum will use for the large-scale production of transportation fuel from garbage that would otherwise be landfilled. "The ope ... more |
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