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Yushchenko: Despite Chernobyl, Ukraine plans nuclear power plants
Vienna - Despite the experience of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe, the Ukraine plans to build new nuclear power plants, its president Viktor Yushchenko said in Vienna Tuesday. Ukraine was planning to complete additional reactors by 2013 in order t...

[Posted on : 2008-07-08 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Mozambique to save on oil by switching buses to natural gas
Maputo - The government of Mozambique on Monday announced its intention to switch public buses to run on compressed natural gas instead of gasoline as soaring oil prices push up the country's fuel bill. Environment Minister Alcinda Abreu said the cou...

[Posted on : 2008-07-07 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Leave Russia alone, energy expert says
Paris - Europe is playing an ineffectual double game with Russia and must cease if it wants to better diversify its energy sources, the former head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Claude Mandil, told European energy ministers on Saturday in...

[Posted on : 2008-07-05 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Singapore's first zero-energy building to be completed next year
Singapore - Renovations to a research institute will turn the facility into Singapore's first zero-energy building, news reports said on Saturday. Officials plan to cover the government-run BCA Academy with half a football field's worth of solar pane...

[Posted on : 2008-07-05 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Sarkozy announces construction of new reactor
Paris - France is to buy a second European pressurized reactor (EPR) as part of its plans to increase production of nuclear energy, President Nicholas Sarkozy said Thursday. Sarkozy made the announcement at the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Creusot, wh...

[Posted on : 2008-07-03 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Thailand's Saha Group goes solar
Bangkok - Thailand's Saha Group - the country's leading consumer products giant with more than 300 factories and offices nationwide - has announced plans to reduce its oil consumption by 1 per cent this year by using solar energy, reports said Saturd...

[Posted on : 2008-06-28 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

World's biggest solar plant goes on stream in Germany
Leipzig, Germany - A solar power plant described by its operators as the biggest in the world began generating electricity at the site of a former East German air base on Sunday. Built on a surface area equivalent to 200 soccer pitches, the solar par...

[Posted on : 2008-06-22 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Saudi king launches energy initiative to help world poor - Summary
Jeddah - Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz opened a global oil summit Sunday, launching an initiative to help poor countries cope with high fuel prices, including 500 million dollars in soft credit, and vowing to pump more oil to meet any additional...

[Posted on : 2008-06-22 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

EXTRA: Britain urges oil states to invest billions in nuclear power
Jeddah - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called Sunday on oil producers at a global summit held in the Saudi port of Jeddah to invest some 197 billion dollars in developing alternative energy supplies and pressed for an increase in oil production...

[Posted on : 2008-06-22 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Saudi king launches energy initiative to help world poor - 3rd Update
Jeddah - Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel-Aziz opened a global oil summit Sunday, launching an initiative to help poor countries deal with soaring oil prices, including 500 million dollars in soft credit, and vowing to pump more oil to meet any addition...

[Posted on : 2008-06-22 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

 



 

 


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