Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, Minister responsible for Parks Canada and Minister responsible for Southern Alberta, along with Mr. Fred Green, Canadian Pacific President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), today announced a multi-faceted, research-based, five-year joint action plan to further mitigate rail-related grizzly bear mortality in Banff National Park. Railway-related wildlife mortality is
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The government’s use of technology must be weighed in the Fourth Amendment balance not because the Constitution constrains the government to employ antiquated surveillance techniques but because the march of science over the course of this century has time and again laid bare secrets that society had (erroneously) assumed to lie safely beyond the perception
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The information in this report is based on over 225 actual valuations of A/E/P and environmental consulting firms! Each year, ZweigWhite conducts a nationwide survey to identify design and environmental firms that use an internal formula for valuation, that have been merged or acquired, or that have been appraised by an independent valuation consultant. These
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
IBM and the Australian and Victorian Governments today announced an agreement to establish a new research and development laboratory in Australia.vThe new IBM Global R&D Lab will be IBM’s first lab that combines research and development in a single organization focused on accelerating progress towards a smarter planet. The new global research and development lab
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
ARAB NETWORK – An EGP 2.7 billion contract will be signed by the end of 2010 for buying needed turbines for the 200 megawatts wind farm in Gabal el-Zeit, Egyptian Electricity Minister Hassan Younis said. Germany’s KfW Bank and the European Investment Bank will contribute to the project. The government seeks to depend on renewable energy in producing
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
PRAVDA – Extreme weather conditions are predicted on a global scale as experts come to terms with the latest details emerging from the La Niña event, climate-changing ocean temperature alterations which follow El Niño and affect vast swathes of our planet on an intercontinental scale. The World Meteorological Organization, the UN’s weather agency, warned yesterday that the
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
PRAGUE POST – Biomass takes organic material, primarily plant matter, and converts it through incineration at plants to energy for heating and electricity, and is considered a renewable energy source. It most often includes forest waste (dead trees or branches), woodchips and plants grown for that purpose like corn, sorghum and sugarcane. Read More
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
Measuring the World in 3D – this goal is now the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and closer to the space company Astrium, a crucial step: The radar satellite tandem-X on 14.10.2010 with its “twin” TerraSAR-X the close formation flight passed. The two Earth observation satellites tracked at last at a distance of 20 kilometers. This
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – It is a victory for the United Kingdom. The European Commission suggested the idea of a moratorium on oil drilling in deep waters in the EU, but that was not supported. The Vice-President of the Commission, the British Catherine Ashton (also chief diplomat of the EU), which the country operates numerous oil rigs
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
TMC – DNV, a provider of renewable energy services for the wind energy, carbon capture, storage, wave and tidal energy sectors, recently acquired Behnke, Erdman & Whitaker Engineering, Inc., (BEW Engineering) in its efforts for continuous growth in Clean and Renewable energies. Read More
