Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – An issue paper listing the proposed priorities for a national environment policy has been published, launching the consultation phase before the drawing up of the policy, which should be available by mid-next year. The paper, work on which started in May, deals with a number of issues, including air, climate, soil,
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
NORWAY POST – In the first half of 2010, 25 exploration wells had been completed on the Norwegian Shelf, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. During the same period last year, 33 exploration wells were drilled. 19 of the 25 are wildcat wells (new prospects) and six are appraisal wells (for delineation of earlier discoveries). Read
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – While speeds in urban areas continue to increase, the average speed in the countryside has actually fallen over the last year. Read More
Monday, July 26th, 2010
THE NATIONAL – Canadian and U.S. government experts met quietly in Ottawa last week to begin trying to resolve a long-standing boundary dispute in the Beaufort Sea, a Canadian diplomat revealed Monday. News of the surprise talks was disclosed during a briefing by Canadian and U.S. officials on a bi-national seabed mapping mission to be
Monday, July 26th, 2010
BERNAMA – The government is working on a definite policy and legal framework to improve geospatial data management in the country, says Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Datuk Seri Douglas Unggah Embas.He said the policy and legal framework are important to determine the basic principals and responsibilities of federal, state and local authorities.”It is
Monday, July 26th, 2010
INDABA – Africa needs to look for home-grown solutions to the challenges of energy poverty, rather than relying on conventional models that respond to conditions in developed countries. So says Brian Statham, the Chairman of the South African National Energy Association (SANEA) and Chairman of the Energy Access Partnership (EAP). Read More
Monday, July 26th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – The construction of 11 wind energy plants to produce 460 megawatts in the western district of Çeşme district is awaiting the consent of the General Staff, which has demanded a technical study to determine whether the magnetic field created by the wind tribunes will pose a risk for military radar in the
Monday, July 26th, 2010
BLOOMBERG – U.K. offshore wind power developers need 30 billion pounds ($46 billion) of financing to build the turbines required to help the nation reach its renewable energy objectives by 2020, PricewaterhouseCoopers said. Sea-based wind farms play a “make-or-break” role in the U.K.’s goal to derive 15 percent of energy from renewables by 2020, the
Monday, July 26th, 2010
DAILY GALAXY – Researchers studying Google Earth images have discovered a 45-meter-wide impact crater in southwestern Egypt that appears to have being created by iron meteorite no more than a few thousand years ago. Although the crater was first noticed in autumn 2008, researchers have identified that impact on satellite images taken as far back
Monday, July 26th, 2010
REI – As home to world’s last major tropical rainforest, one of the largest renewable reserves of fresh water, the planet’s most diverse stock of biodiversity, the best energy matrix of any of the top economies and the most successful industrial-scale production of bio-fuels, Brazil stands out in the environmental arena. And now with a
