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Low-energy houses help Austrians to stop sending money up in smoke
Vienna - Temperatures may be falling and energy prices are still high, but an increasing number of Austrians living in low-energy houses have little to worry about this winter. Martin Mueller, 40, his wife Barbara, 35, and his children have been livi...

[Posted on : 2008-12-04 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Negotiators insist on inspecting North Korean nuclear sites
Tokyo - North Korea should submit written confirmation to allow inspections of its nuclear facilities, the chief negotiators of Japan, the US and South Korea said Wednesday. Japanese representative Akitaka Saiki, US envoy Christopher Hill and South K...

[Posted on : 2008-12-03 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Italy and Albania sign 2 billion euros worth of energy deals
Tirana - Italy on Tuesday signed deals worth more than 2 billion euros (2.52 billion dollars) for two power plants in energy-starved Albania. Contracts for a thermal power plant near the southern city of Fieri for 1 billion euros and wind-powered gen...

[Posted on : 2008-12-02 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Greenpeace protests against coal transport
Copenhagen - Activists from environmental group Greenpeace Tuesday tried to board a ship loaded with coal between the main Danish islands of Zealand and Fyn. The protest, staged in two dinghies, was timed to coincide with the UN climate change confer...

[Posted on : 2008-12-02 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Trilateral summit in Turkmenistan to discuss energy cooperation
Moscow - The presidents of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey held a private summit Saturday in the city of Turkmenbashi to discuss possible cooperation in the construction of a gas pipeline across the Caspian Sea. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdy...

[Posted on : 2008-11-29 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Poland's Walesa lashes out at China for calling off EU summit
Warsaw - Poland's former trade union leader Lech Walesa said Friday it was the height of insolence for China to call off a meeting with the European Union over French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to meet the Dalai Lama in Poland. The Tibetan s...

[Posted on : 2008-11-28 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

South African candidate for IAEA chief keys in on nuclear energy
Vienna - Abdul Samad Minty, South Africa's candidate to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 2009, said Thursday in Vienna he wanted the organization to focus on peaceful uses of nuclear energy. The I...

[Posted on : 2008-11-27 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

IAEA members approve nuclear aid for Syria despite Western concerns
Vienna - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) members on Wednesday approved nuclear aid for Syria, despite misgivings of several western countries that are concerned about Syria's alleged secret nuclear programme, according to a diplomat at the ...

[Posted on : 2008-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Iran says it has more than 5,000 active centrifuges - Summary
Tehran - Chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation Gholam- Reza Aqazadeh announced on Wednesday that more than 5,000 centrifuges are now actively running at the country's uranium enrichment plant, the official IRNA news agency reported. Currently w...

[Posted on : 2008-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

Europe's biggest wind energy park inugurated in Portugal
Lisbon - Portuguese Economy Minister Manuel Pinho on Wednesday inaugurated what was described as Europe's biggest wind energy park in the northern region of Viana do Castelo. The Alto Minho I park began generating energy already a year ago, gradually...

[Posted on : 2008-11-26 ] Category : [ Energy (Environment) ]

 

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