Monday, May 23rd, 2011
China has finally conceded that there are massive problems with the colossal Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydroelectric project. The ruling state council has issued a statement acknowledging serious flaws in the dam across the Yangtze River, as the rate of water release was increased to ease a severe drought devastating downstream rice-growing areas. Environmentalists
Monday, May 23rd, 2011
The world’s first floating natural gas platform is to be built by Royal Dutch Shell, opening up vast new areas of the deep seabed for gas exploration. The massive platform, nearly half a kilometre long, will be the biggest floating offshore drilling structure in the world, weighing in at about 600,000 tonnes – equivalent to six aircraft
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The abundant natural resources including minerals of the North Western Province have been known about for a longtime since George Gray founded Kansanshi Mine in 1891. The discovery of copper at Lumwana by Rio Tinto and RST in 1961 failed to materialise into viable mining projects because of the absence of regional infrastructure. It has always been
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
This paper illustrates and discusses the key issues of the geographical information system (GIS) developed by the Unit of Veterinary Epidemiology of the Veneto region (CREV), defined according to user needs, spatial data (availability, accessibility and applicability), development, technical aspects, inter-institutional relationships, constraints and policies. GeoCREV, the support system for decision-making, was designed to integrate geographic
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Forty-two departments, nine more than Wednesday, are now affected by measures limiting certain uses of water, according to the updated review Saturday, May 21 by the Department of Ecology. The strongest measures, which were focused on twenty departments earlier this week, are for more than 15 departments, including those of the Poitou-Charentes, Dordogne, Lot and
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up. In a presentation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the researchers presented data indicating that starting on March 3, the
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
“The RTPI has long campaigned for a national planning framework for England but the NPPF must be spatial to be effective. National planning must show the geography of planned activities, development and infrastructure and how the Government’s policies and land use designations apply to different parts of the country.”
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
South Korea is keen to actively participate in the many projects in the pipeline aimed at developing Qatar’s railway industry. “Both South Korea and Qatar have made great efforts on the important issue of transportation. Korea has implemented policies in building transport facilities in cities to meet transport demands. I hope Korea and Qatar will have
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Two groundbreaking ceremonies were also held Thursday there to launch the Çetin hydroelectric power station, a project by European renewable energy firm Statkraft, and Kirazlık hydroelectric power station, owned by Baren Enerji. Limak has a 20 percent share in Kirazlık, executives said. Alkumru is Turkey’s second biggest electricity generating dam run by the private sector, according
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Wales, as one of very few nations to have included sustainability in its constitution, has a legal duty to promote sustainable development in all its activities; this agenda is driven by a number of policy documents, the most recent being One Wales: One Planet (2009), and builds upon the 2005 UK framework, One Future: Different
