Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Europe’s farm subsidies have long been controversial, but in these tough economic times a novel idea has been gaining traction – why not divert some of the money to look after nature? Emmanuel Feys leaves the tractor running as he comes in from his potato field for a quick chat. He singlehandedly runs his family’s 160-hectare farm
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Big moves are being make to protect the Okanagan’s greatest asset: our lake. Conservation officials are making an Aquatic Habitat Index so they can compare the health of various parts of Okanagan Lake. They’ve just mapped all 289km of the shoreline. Read More
Saturday, July 9th, 2011
The Agricultural Development and Value Chain Enhancement (ADVANCE) Program is to carry out a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping exercise of rice, soya and maize fields in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions of Ghana. The programme funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is scheduled to begin from July
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The mass transit bus system in Bogotá, Colombia known as Transmilenio may hold lessons for Santiago’s Transantiago system, according to El Mercurio. The Transmilenio network supports 1.7 million people each day, representing one-quarter of all transit in Colombia’s capital city. And unlike Chile’s Transantiago, almost all of the passengers pay. Read More
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Both Norway and Russian can from today start mapping the hydrocarbon potential of the delimited waters in the Barents Sea. A Norwegian seismic vessel is already on its way to the area. One month after the exchange of ratification documents, the Norwegian-Russian treaty comes into force. On the seventh of June, the Norwegian and Russian foreign
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Web users in Germany are less likely to visit social-networking sites than any of their European neighbours, according to a new study of internet habits published by the European Commission. Only 37% of German internet users make use of such services, compared with 80% in Hungary. Indeed, internet geeks in the EU’s eastern member states
Friday, July 8th, 2011
Bulgaria’s Parliament has approved at second reading the founding of a State Company “Strategic Infrastructure Projects”, a mega-structure to be in charge of the construction of three largely neglected highway projects. The new body created with adopted amendments to the Roads Act will seek to accelerate the construction of “strategic infrastructure projects”, namely the Struma Highway (running from
Friday, July 8th, 2011
The Treasury should ringfence money from fuel duty to cut rising public transport fares in a bid to rebuild trust in green taxes, MPs urged on Thursday. The public has lost trust in green taxation because the Treasury appears to use it as a revenue-raiser rather than an effort to reduce pollution, the environmental audit committee
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Providence Resources, the Irish exploration company that has begun the biggest ever exploration programme in Irish waters, said it has completed the first three-dimensional seismic survey of the Barryroe area off the south coast. Providence will examine information from that survey to reach a conclusion on whether there is oil in the area. The Barryroe prospect
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
TGS will commence acquisition of a new 3D multi-client survey which covers 1,100 km2 over the Magnus Basin, including the southwest to northeast striking “End of the World” fault. TGS will also reprocess approximately 6,500 km2 of 3D seismic data in the same area to build a combined project of 7,600 km2. The new seismic data will be
