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Russia warns of E. Europe oil supply cutMoscow (UPI) Dec 29, 2009 Russia has served notice it may cut its crude oil supplies to Eastern Europe because of Ukrainian demands for higher transit fees, officials said. The Russian notification about possible disruptions in Russian oil supplies, starting as early as Jan. 1, was followed by comments from Slovak officials, who said they had been informed of a possible disruption. Slovak authorities have begun making alternative arrangements for imports of crude oil overland and by rail from sources other than Russia. Similar backup operations are under way in the Czech Republic and Hungary. ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 29, 2009The French nuclear power sector is to re-focus its strategy, notably in Britain and the United States, after losing out to a South Korean consortium on a 20.4-billion-dollar project in the United Arab Emirates. "The French team spent too much time getting itself together," Claude Gerant, the French presidential secretary general, told the newspaper Les Echos. The French group Areva, the ... more  
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 The days of the conventional electricity power grid are numbered and business opportunity, pragmatism and the need to better monitor both use and users of electricity have combined to raise the prospect of a multi-billion dollar industry growing worldwide. A report by Pike Research, based in Boulder, Colo., said global investment in replacing antiquated systems with Smart Grid technolog ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 28, 2009China is likely to overtake Germany as the world's largest exporter in 2009, despite a sharp fall in shipments as the global downturn took its toll, a high-ranking trade official has said. The country's share of global trade is expected to exceed nine percent this year, up from 8.86 percent in 2008, Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan said at a forum here on Sunday. "China will probably su ... more |
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Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Dec 28, 2009 British forces mounted a warfare exercise involving navy and air force personnel in the Falkland Islands, scene of a 1982 conflict between Argentina and Britain and more recently of intense oil and gas exploration activities. The two-day operation, code-named Cape Bayonet, simulated an enemy invasion in which the British air force's Typhoon multi-role fighter and navy ships took part, M ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 28, 2009Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched Russia's long-awaited Siberian oil export route Monday, giving energy-hungry Asia a new supply source from the world's largest crude exporter seeking to diversify its client base away from Europe. Putin, clad in a heavy winter parka, pushed a button that initiated the first filling of an oil tanker bound for Hong Kong at a new oil terminal near the Russ ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Dec 28, 2009A shopping centre in China has opened a car park that offers women drivers bigger-than-normal parking spaces to accommodate what it sees as their special needs. Wang Zheng, an official at the Wanxiang Tiancheng shopping centre in Hebei province's Shijiazhuang city, told AFP Monday the women-only parking lot aimed to address women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance." ... more |
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