'Plenty of problems' at EU environment meeting
Paris - Plenty of problems have emerged at an informal meeting of EU environment ministers in Paris, the spokeswoman for European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said Friday. Everybody has his demand, industry and NGOs, and this meeting is ...
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Australia crafts plan for carbon trading scheme
Sydney - Australia laid out plans Friday for a national scheme for carbon-emissions trading that it hopes will help slow climate change but not halt the national economy or hand a competitive advantage to other countries. The scheme, contained in a r...
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California emergency grows as wildfires spread south
San Francisco - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger extended California's state of emergency Thursday, declaring disaster status in Santa Barbara county where a wildfire threatened the coastal community of Goleta. The Gap Fire has burned some 9...
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EU warms to nuclear power but not to its waste, survey says
Brussels - European Union citizens are more in favour of nuclear power than they were three years ago, but they are still hostile to nuclear waste and ill-informed about it, a survey released in Brussels on Thursday showed. According to the Eurobarom...
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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...
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German inventor claims success with wind-assisted freighters
Hamburg - Six months after the first freighter put to sea drawn by a giant kite, a German company said Thursday that the invention could realistically reduce a ship's fuel use by 15 per cent. Enthusiastic proponents say that the computerized SkySai...
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France and EU begin work on environment package
Paris - The European Union and its current president France began work on Thursday on what has been hailed as the most important EU legal proposal in the last five years - a package aimed at fighting global warming. It will not be easy, French Envi...
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