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Mercosur nations mull joint oil projectsMontevideo, Uruguay (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 Latin American member countries of the Mercosur trade pact assembled in the Uruguay capital Monday to forge closer links for greater trade and new collaborative projects to develop natural resources, including oil and gas. Mercosur brings together Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay and includes Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as associate members. Venezuela signed a ... read more |
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2009When it opens later this year, Ironhorse will offer 99 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments that will be affordable to families with annual incomes ranging from $18,000 to $50,000. Designed by architect David Baker + Partners, Ironhorse includes many sustainable building and landscaping measures, including: + Vegetated "green roofs" that last longer than standard roofs and provide ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2009China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the country's top oil producer, said Tuesday its listed arm aims to increase its capacity on joint venture projects to 15 million tonnes a year by 2015. The target for PetroChina Co is more than double the 6.57 million tonnes of oil equivalent its 23 joint oil and gas projects with foreign companies produced last year, CNPC said in a statement. Such ... more 
Cairo (AFP) Dec 8, 2009In an attempt to help curb the city's stifling pollution and meet their energy needs too, a few Cairo families have begun to recycle waste -- now that the nation's pigs are gone -- by generating biogas from rubbish. It is an ambitious project that is still in its infancy but may just catch on in this teeming city of 18 million people, often obscured in a dirty grey veil of haze produced ... more |
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 Vietnam vows peaceful resolution of maritime disputes   China urges 'reasonable' credit growth in 2010: state media   Stronger Chinese auto sales lift luxury German brands |
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Canberra, Australia (UPI) Dec 8, 2009 The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute announced Monday a $50 million annual fund to support large-scale carbon capture and storage projects worldwide. The fund will support concept and pre-feasibility studies, or contribute to specific aspects of feasibility and front-end engineering and design studies of carbon capture and storage projects. A recent study by the ... more  
Prague, Czech Republic (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 Last month I made pit stops in Morocco, Spain, Germany and Hungary. Those stops brought with them intense emotions with memories of the Velvet Revolution, the fall of communism and current political affairs. Several of my mentors and leaders of those times have recently passed on. It is all interconnected. I sit in the wonderful French brasserie Milleme, where I often write my Prague ... more 
Brussels (UPI) Dec 7, 2009 The real task of Haiku Herman, as the currently fashionable nickname goes for the new resident of the European Union Herman Van Rompuy, is to squash talk of the world's new leadership team of the United States and China as the G2. Instead, the Belgian politician, whose hobby is writing Japanese-style haiku poems, should find ways to remind the world that the real top team is the traditional ... more |
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  'Climategate' casts shadow over UN talks  Climate summit under way in Copenhagen   Study Finds Logging Effects Vary Based On A Forest's History, Climate |
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