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Mekong countries should delay dam projects for decade: studyPhnom Penh (AFP) Oct 15, 2010 Countries in the lower Mekong River region should delay any decisions about building hydropower dams for 10 years, an influential new study said Friday, warning of the many risks involved. The recommendation was made in a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) report commissioned by the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an inter-governmental advisory body that deals with all Mekong River-related activities. The MRC - which represents Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam - is studying the possib ... read more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2010Citing California's national leadership in clean energy investments and the need to solve the state's job crisis, union leaders, solar energy industry officials, and leading venture capitalists have come together to urge Californians to vote no on Proposition 23, an effort to repeal California's clean air and clean energy standards. "California's clean air and clean energy law is the reaso ... more 
San Jose CA (SPX) Oct 18, 2010SunPower has announced that it has formed a special interest group (SIG) with distributed power control systems (DPCS) manufacturers SolarBridge Technologies and Tigo Energy, to set protocols within the solar industry to help lower total system costs. Members of this new SIG will create and drive standards between the rapidly evolving DPCS field, which includes DC/AC microinverters and DC/ ... more  
Murmansk, Russia (AFP) Oct 17, 2010An electronic sign along a busy street posts the outside temperature, the wind strength - and the radioactivity level. Welcome to Russia's Kola Peninsula, a region that still bears the scars of its dubious past as the Soviet Union's "nuclear dump". When the USSR imploded, the northwestern Russian peninsula was left with ageing nuclear submarines and spent nuclear fuel abandoned in not a ... more |
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Chinese bosses shoot protesting Zambian miners: policeLusaka (AFP) Oct 16, 2010 Managers at a Chinese-run Collum Coal Mine in Zambia shot and wounded 12 miners who were protesting against poor working conditions, police said on Saturday. "The workers were protesting against the poor working conditions when managers using shotguns started to shoot aimlessly, not in the air, thereby wounding 12 workers," police spokesman Ndandula Siamana told AFP. Before the Friday incident in the southern town of Sinazongwe, workers had constantly been complaining about poor working conditio ... read more |
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