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Friday, July 23rd, 2010

High-speed Train Would Create Equivalent of 50,000 One-year Construction Jobs

LAS VEGAS SUN – When the DesertXpress high-speed train is built, there would be up to 700 permanent jobs at an operations and maintenance facility — in Victorville, Calif. Tom Stone, president of DesertXpress Enterprises LLC, told representatives of the Associated General Contractors at a lunch Thursday that building the privately funded, $4 billion traditional

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Soyuz Rockets from Russian Guyana

L’MONDE FRANCE – To carry small satellites, Arianespace has decided to use the Soyuz, the same as mined by the Russian Space Agency. The new launch pad is nearing completion, these rockets will soon be launched from Kourou in Guyana. Read More

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Web of Connectivity is the New World Order

NATIONAL UAE – There is also a growing recognition in the business community of the importance of public-private partnerships for driving economic growth and prosperity. While the private sector will play a significant role in driving the upturn, governments and the private sector also need to work collaboratively, now more than ever. Read More

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

UK Mulls Sovereign Earth Observing Satellite Service

BBC –  Britain could soon have a privately financed, national Earth-observation (EO) service, if plans currently under consideration come to fruition. It could launch UK-built satellites to acquire imagery for the MoD and other government departments, while selling other data on the open market. Read More

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

European Spatial Development Perspective and Understanding in Local Economies

RTPI – The Local Economic Development Learning Network, run by the Local Government Information Unit and Warwick Business School and supported by IDeA, is exploring new tools and approaches to local economic assessment in the context of local authorities’ increasing responsibilities for economic development. At its meeting on 15 July 2010, Jenny Crawford from the ESPON UK Contact

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Scientists Sound Warning on Forest Carbon Payment Scheme

MONGABAY – Scientists convening in Bali expressed a range of concerns over a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change through forest conservation, but some remained hopeful the idea could deliver long-term protection to forests, ease the transition to a low-carbon economy, and generate benefits to forest-dependent people. Presenting at the annual Association for Tropical Biology and

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Kenya: Investor Plans Rescue of Abandoned Orbiting Satellites

ALL AFRICA –  At this moment, over 6,000 satellites are orbiting the earth. In a couple of years, an estimated 2,000 of that number will run out of fuel, becoming obsolete, thereafter being resigned to spending eternity whizzing around earth. Satellites have an operating life span of between five and 20 years. Read More

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

UK’s New Nuclear Deserves Equal Status with Renewables, report says

DEUTSCHE WELLE –  A new study argues that nuclear energy is key to the British government’s CO2 reduction goals. But without major reforms to encourage private investment, plans to construct new atomic power plants could grind to a halt. Read More

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Swashbuckling on the High Seas

IRISH TIMES – Tall ship tales as far as I was concerned, this was going to be an adventure unparalleled since Vasco da Gama set sail. It didn’t matter that the journey was a mere five days long, a crossing from Roscoff in Brittany to Dublin, through well-mapped seas with full creature comforts. Oh no.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

Small Projects, Big Progress – Support to Local Development in Burkina Faso

ALL AFRICA –  these little life miracles have been made possible, thanks to the AfDB’s presence in Burkina Faso’s South-West region, a relatively well-watered fertile agricultural region, considered as one of its breadbaskets. In the words of Dominique Dyemkouma, Coordinator of the Local Development Support Project in Comoé, Laraba and Kénédougou Provinces (PADL/CLK), “through training,

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