Thursday, July 1st, 2010
LE FIGARO – La Compagnie du Vent, a subsidiary of GDF Suez, is to initiate a major project offshore wind farm off the coast of alabaster and Picardy to 14 km offshore Tréport.This ambitious project, which has no equal in Europe, would emerge in the scenario preferred by the client says “Large Project”, a fleet
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Holistic City Software is pleased to announce the release of CityCAD 2.0 – a major new upgrade to their conceptual urban masterplanning CAD application.CityCAD was created for city masterplanners who are frustrated by constantly recalculating large quantities of data every time a masterplan design is changed during the design process.It is an easy-to-use CAD application
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has awarded its most prestigious Prize and honoured several distinguished scientists at the annual meeting of its Executive Council. These scientists have made outstanding contributions in the field of meteorology, climatology, hydrology and related sciences. Read More
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
CBC -Ontario and Quebec residents shaken by the magnitude 5.0 earthquake last week are being asked to share their experiences with a federal research project. The epicentre of the June 23 earthquake was about 50 kilometres north of Ottawa, and it was felt across southern and eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as in
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia is creating a new Forest Research Program in the province. Northern Pulp’s initiative and $1 million investment over five years will drive research to study the impacts of current forest management practices and help shape and improve forest management strategies in the future. Read More
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
BC GOV – The Province is inviting input until July 9 to develop an implementation plan for the Zero Net Deforestation Act passed earlier this year. The act’s main goal is to achieve zero net deforestation in British Columbia by 2015. Planting trees to convert non-forest lands into forested areas and finding ways to
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has received the report on the first phase of the N360 million World Geodetic Survey of the country’s four international airports for better airspace management and safe air navigation. The project was carried out for NAMA by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that currently
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
PEOPLES DAILY – Development Minister Miguel Jorge said Tuesday that Brazil will invest 735 billion U.S. dollars in the infrastructure, industry and construction sectors in the next three years.At a Brazil-Italy business seminar in Sao Paulo, Jorge said that it is now the best time to invest in the country, whose economy is expected to
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST – As many as 10% of Britain’s motorways and A-roads present an unacceptably high risk to drivers, a major report has revealed. Half of all crashes occur on just one tenth of Britain’s road network, the report from the Road Safety Foundation found. Most of the higher-risk roads are in north-west England,
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Each year, thousands of tons of trees and shrubs are burned in the ovens and cooking fires of the inhabitants of the Puna highland desert plateau in northwestern Argentina. The country’s EcoAndina environmental group has been trying for years to slow the rate of deforestation by pushing solar systems. Today, several hundred
