Thursday, May 5th, 2011
One of the northernmost oil-drillings ever in the Arctic started this week, 250 kilometers of the coast of Finnmark. The only oil-company based in the Barents Region is partner. Optimism is again characterizing the petroleum industry drilling the northern areas after Norwegian oil major Statoil last month announced a large-scale oil discovery at the Skrugard field in the
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Which do you value: production or consumption? The preference has long defined economic questions ranging from tax policies to development. Now it matters in national carbon accounting too. If you look at production, you count the carbon that comes from a territory’s smokestacks, exhaust pipes and forest fires. With consumption you tot up the carbon
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Having established the largest non-industrial catalysis research and development effort in the U.S., a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is making changes to better focus on key scientific problems that they believe will help the nation secure a strong, clean energy future. This renewed focus will be aimed
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A proposed 300-megawatts offshore wind power project that would be located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina received an initial blessing from state regulators to move forward yesterday. The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s approval of the Desert Wind Energy Project, which plans to install an estimated 150 wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, will allow the project to begin the likely arduous
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Sutton Council is appealing to residents to help meet targets for their environmental project. Through One Planet Sutton, bold steps are being taken to make the borough more sustainable and to preserve it for future generations. The council is now urging residents to help renew their pledge and create a truly sustainable borough. Three planets
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
While utilities do have a learning curve to climb about data management and analytics, end users (residential, commercial, and industrial customers) also need to learn the ramifications of the creation and use of entirely new data about them. This new data will be valuable to consumers, energy service providers, and a myriad of third parties.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
This presentation covers high level design tips for building Mashup Websites, presented to surveyors, business people and other members from the Australian Surveying and Spatial Science Institute. It profiles readers and how they interact with web pages, the technical strengths and weaknesses of mashup technologies, which leads into defining best practice for building mashup websites.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A public exhibition is being held from 3 May to 19 June 2011 at the Sjömanshemmet in central Stockholm to mark the final stage of the public consultation process for the redevelopment of Slussen. The exhibition showcases the masterplan to transform this central Stockholm area into one of the city’s most dynamic civic destinations. Foster +
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
This evaluation is part of the first phase of a real-time evaluation of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). As such, it is a major undertaking and the first of its kind for the Evaluation Department. The evaluation is conducted by a team of independent evaluators from the British company LTS International in collaboration
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
There are five critical navigation spots in the Bulgarian section of the Danube River resulting from its drastically low level, according to the state authorities. The level of the Danube at the city of Ruse is only 189 cm, and is expected to decline by 20 more cm in the next two days, announced Georgi Georgiev, head of the Executive Agency for Exploration and Maintenance
