Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
The investment bank of the German state, KFW, said Monday, Sept. 19 at 250 billion euros in total investment needed in Germany by 2020 to get out of nuclear power and move to renewable energy. The bank itself “will make available 100 billion euros over the next five years for investments in energy in Germany ” , said in a statement. KfW believes “to 250 billion
Monday, September 19th, 2011
AAPG/Datapages has been participating in the EIP to create a new ISO standard for the structure of metadata in GIS files. Standardization of metadata structure is important for our future because it will enable web-based search indexes to locate and log mapping files available to the public. It will not matter whether the files are
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Agricultural lands can continue to be used for other purposes in Turkey, the Constitutional Court has ruled in the latest round of a 13-year controversy pitting environmentalists against a multinational corporation. The court struck down an attempt to change a law often referred to in the media as the “Cargill Law” for its unofficial associations with
Monday, September 19th, 2011
Scotland is in danger of losing its place at the forefront of research into wave and tidal energy because of high connection charges, it has been warned. Industry body Scottish Renewables said projects in the north of Scotland face charges of £56m annually to feed in to the electricity grid. Read More
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The Bruce County Map Factory is an online interactive map which supplies property information such as zoning and official plan designations for those who would prefer to find the information themselves. Labels for select layers can be turned on/off with a click on the ‘label toggle’ located beside the layer name. Information for Layer Data can be seen by
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Baku Today reported that the number of applications filed before the qualification Commission area from persons seeking to obtain the qualification certificate of cadastral engineer amounted to 380. Allowed to pass a qualifying examination-376 people, and successfully deposited exams-230 applicants. Meanwhile, since 1 January this year under the Federal law “on State real property cadastre” cadastral activities
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Foster + Partners will be opening its Battersea studio to the public as part of the 2011 London Open House weekend. Entry is to the mezzanine floor, where there will be a display of recent projects and visitors will have a view over the 60-metre studio. A number of buildings in London designed by Foster +
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
The estimated price tag of development of the giant Shtokman gas field in the Barents Sea will be presented to the investors in October. A final investment decision is expected in December. Despite the situation on the world market, development of the Shtokman field is justified, says Head of the Department for Structural Analysis in Shtokman
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Following weeks of heated debate in the agricultural press over granting farm tenants the “absolute right to buy” their farms, SNP MSP Rob Gibson raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament this week. Mr Gibson, the newly elected convener of the Scottish Parliament’s cross-party Rural Affairs Climate Change and Environment Committee, weighed into the land reform
Saturday, September 17th, 2011
Analysis of dynamic processes in the Arctic based on remote sensing data, the experience of satellite-based monitoring of ice situation and of information support to ships navigation in the waters of northern seas is presented on the pages of the magazine. In addition, the authors tell about the practices in using satellite images during detection
