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Electricity industry cries foul over resistance to coal power
Hanover, Germany - The electricity industry in Germany, where about 60 new coal-fired power stations are planned, attacked environmentalists Monday and said politicians lacked the courage to tackle the looming energy gap. We face a backlog of planni...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-21 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Siemens wins wind energy contract in Poland
Frankfurt - German engineering giant Siemens AG said Monday it is to build two wind parks in Poland worth about 100 million euros (159 million dollars). Siemens Energy, said it had won two orders from RWE Innogy to supply wind 33 turbines to the Suwa...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-21 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Asian Development Bank to help India develop cleaner power sources
Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Saturday it was extending a rupee-denominated loan worth 113 million dollars to a private Indian firm that will develop two wind power projects. The Manila-based ADB said the wind energy facilities will ...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-19 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Lithuanian Prime Minister calls Russia's energy plans PR campaign
Vilnius - Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said Friday he is convinced that Russia's plans to build a new nuclear power plant in the region was a public relations stunt. The public relations campaign illustrates Russia's dissatisfaction w...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-18 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Energy saving to be key issue at Hanover Fair - Feature
Hanover, Germany - When the Hanover Fair, the world's principal exhibition for industrial machinery, opens next week, one of the principal talking points will be ways to save scarce energy. Machinery that thumps metal, extrudes plastic or pumps air t...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-18 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Lula: Biofuel-food debate pivots on Third World needs
Brasilia - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Wednesday insisted that the biofuel-versus-food debate was a function of increasing demand and poverty alleviation in developing countries - and not the result of competition for farmland by bi...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-17 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Hungary's MOL hopes to produce unconventional gas from 2014 - Summary
Budapest - Hungarian energy firm MOL said Wednesday it hoped a joint venture with ExxonMobil and the UK's Falcon Oil and Gas could lead to unconventional gas being extracted from Hungary's Mako trough between 2012 and 2014 If the project is successfu...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-16 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Hungary's MOL hopes to produce gas from 2014
Budapest - Hungarian energy firm MOL on Wednesday said it hoped a joint venture with ExxonMobil and the UK's Falcon Oil and Gas could lead to gas being produced in Hungary by 2014 at the latest. MOL on Monday said it had signed an agreement with Exxo...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-16 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Pakistan bets on low-power light bulbs to dim energy crisis
Islamabad - The government of energy-starved Pakistan plans to distribute 10 million low-consumption light bulbs to reduce the load on national grids, a news report said on Tuesday. Pakistan is currently producing around two-thirds of its power deman...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-15 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

What could be world's third-largest oil field discovered off Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - A discovery off Brazil's Atlantic coast could prove to be the world's third-largest oil field, the director of Brazil's National Oil Agency said. The Carioca field in the Santos Basin off the coast of Sao Paulo state has estimated re...

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[Posted on : 2008-04-15 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]