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China bans mine bosses from sending assistants down shaftsBeijing (AFP) Sept 23, 2010 Coal mine managers in China, who have to go underground with workers under new rules aimed at improving safety, have been banned from tasking assistants to take their place, state media said Thursday. "Coal mining companies are not allowed to send promoted assistants in place of the managers," Huang Yi, spokesman for the State Administration of Work Safety, was quoted as saying by the official China Daily newspaper. His comments come after a coal mining firm in the southern region of Guangxi rec ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2010Proposed legislation introduced yesterday in the U.S. Senate would establish a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) that sets targets for the year 2013 and beyond that are actually lower than the amount of non-hydro renewable electricity already being produced in the United States today. The Senate bill, sponsored by Senators Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), Sam Brownback (R-KS), Byron Dorgan (D-ND), ... more  
Brsitol, UK (SPX) Sep 24, 2010The Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) is located in the heart of one of the most proven wind resources in the United States - the Tehachapi-Mojave Wind Resource Area, in Kern County, California. To provide technical due diligence in support for the $1.2 billion financing of four wind energy projects, Terra-Gen Power, LLC turns to local experts from GL Garrad Hassan. GL Garrad Hassan will also ... more  
Kuwait City (AFP) Sept 23, 2010A Kuwaiti lawmaker on Thursday questioned plans by the oil-rich Gulf emirate to build a number of nuclear reactors for power generation and demanded information about the expected costs. In a series of questions to Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the head of parliament's financial and economic affairs panel, Yussef al-Zalzalah, asked if sufficient studies have been m ... more |
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The Amazon Rainforest - A Cloud FactoryMainz, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2010 The air above the Amazon rainforest is cleaner than almost anywhere else on earth. This allows climate scientists to investigate cloud condensation under natural conditions. The results of this study may serve as a point of reference for future analyses of anthropogenic influence on cloud evolution and precipitation. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry have now made a valuable contribution to this. Together with international partners, they have, for the first time, used s ... read more |
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