Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The high-speed express train Allegro that has been operating between Helsinki and St. Petersburg since December is attracting a lot of passengers. In February-March, the number of people travelling on the route was 40 per cent higher than that in the corresponding period last year, and in April, passenger numbers on the line have continued to be high.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
A government thinktank has predicted that the British marine energysector could be worth £76bn to the economy and support 68,000 jobs by 2050. The analysis, released this week by the Carbon Trust, comes only weeks after coalition ministers ended the industry’s subsidy programme. Britain could capture almost a quarter of the global wave and tidal power market if
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
The payments, worth up to 20 times the value of the power they would have produced, raises serious concerns about such subsidies, which are paid for by the customer. The six Scottish wind farms were asked to stop producing electricity on a particularly windy night last month as the National Grid was overloaded. Their transition cables do
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Fraud risks destabilizing the world’s effort to tackle climate change according to a huge 360-page report published by Transparency International in Bangladesh on Saturday. The “Global Corruption Report: Climate Change,” with contributions from some 50 authors from around the world, says corruption poses a special risk to the billions of dollars needed to respond to
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
Hyderabad’s Mayor Banda Karthika Reddy and her husband Banda Chandra Reddy showed their ignorance of the law when they brushed off environment activists who approached them to form the GHMC Biodiversity Committee. Chandra Reddy told the activists that he had formed many committees from ward level to GHMC level and they have not been of
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
German and Saudi experts at the German-Saudi symposium on energy efficiency in buildings, held here Saturday, have agreed on the need to develop a feasible energy concept that aims to use energy more efficiently in the Kingdom especially in buildings. “This will have multiple benefits for the Kingdom. It will save energy costs, enhance its own
Sunday, May 1st, 2011
The Environment Agency (EA) has teamed up with Windsor and Maidenhead council in Berkshire to look for schemes at Marlow, Boveney and Boulters weirs. Work is already under way to generate electricity at Osney and Goring weirs in Oxfordshire. Interested parties have until 21 July to come forward. Preferred developers will be selected by the end of
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
More than 21 000 municipalities, against just over 5,000 in the past, are affected by the revised classification as well as new rules reflecting the new seismic seismic building code European (Eurocode 8), said on Friday, Ministry of ecology in a statement. “A new seismic zoning map of the French was developed. Outcome of advanced scientific
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Autodesk Inc. the biggest maker of engineering-design software, said European Union antitrust regulators are investigating producers of computer-aided design software. “We are aware that the commission is reviewing the CAD industry and we’ll certainly provide anything the commission requests,” Greg Eden, a spokesman for the San Rafael, California-based company, said today in a telephone interview. Amelia Torres,
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
The EU’s 2020 biodiversity strategy, to be presented next week, will pave the way for the value of nature to be taken into account across all policies, including factoring the environment and ecosystems into national economic plans. “There is a need for economic valuation of the benefits and costs of protecting biodiversity in order to make
