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Iraq's oil: Now comes the hard partBaghdad (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 The Iraqi government, a bundle of contracts with major foreign oil companies in its pocket from a weekend auction, plans to start boosting the country's oil production to challenge world leader Saudi Arabia. But it still faces a host of problems that could wreck those plans. First, there is the glaring absence of a long-stymied hydrocarbons law, which the Americans see as a bench ... read more |
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Ottawa (AFP) May 28, 2009The Canadian government on Thursday moved to get out of the nuclear energy business, inviting bids for its commercial reactor division amid heady global demand for atomic energy. "Nuclear energy is an emission-free source of power that is experiencing a renaissance around the world," said Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt in a statement. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL)'s ... more 
Copenhagen (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed the United States on Thursday as an oil-addicted warmonger and insisted every nation have access to "clean and renewable energy sources", including nuclear. "For about a century, oil has constituted the basic and strategic components of US security foreign policy, the same role it played for the previous empires," Ahmadinejad said at the UN ... more  
Toronto (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 Some 700 people in the Canadian province of Ontario have been approved to install rooftop solar panels to feed electricity back into the power grid. The feed-in tariff program overseen by the Ontario Power Authority began accepting applications Oct. 1 for homeowners to participate and has since received 1,200 applications, an authority release from Toronto said Wednesday. ... more |
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Beijing (UPI) Dec 17, 2009 While the Chinese government is embracing energy efficiency and investing in new green technology, China continues to burn coal at record rates. Between 2002 and 2007 China doubled its coal consumption, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. This year, China is on track to burn 3 billion tons of coal, nearly three times as much as the second-largest consumer, the United ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 17, 2009French nuclear energy giant Areva said Thursday it has won a contract to build the world's longest high voltage electricity line across Brazil for 400 million dollars (275 million euros). The transmission link will stretch 2,375 kilometres (1,500 miles) from the Madeira hydroelectric complex in the northwest of the country to the energy-hungry metropolis of Sao Paulo in the southeast, Areva ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Dec 16, 2009China's Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up a three-day Japan visit Wednesday with a trip to a former heavy industry centre that has cut down on pollution and developed a cleaner robotics sector. Xi, who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president in 2012, visited the southwestern city of Kitakyushu before he travels to South Korea on a regional tour that will also take him to Cambodia ... more |
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