Sunday, September 26th, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Most people would be delighted to discover that they were sitting on top of natural gas reserves that could potentially supply their needs for the next century or so. No more worrying about complicated Middle East politics or whether oil supplies are past their peak. Yet in the Canadian province of Quebec, news
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – All suburban buses in Krasnoyarsk region will be equipped with GLONASS, according to local authorities. Currently, all school buses in the region are already GLONASS’ed. Suburban, municipal transport vehicles are to come next. To remind, Informational Satellite Systems of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk region, is responsible for the GLONASS’ orbital segment and design of the spacecraft.
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
ARAB NEWS – Greece and Qatar have signed a framework deal that paves the way for the Gulf emirate to invest $5 billion in tourism, infrastructure and other areas of the debt-ridden economy, Greek officials said on Friday. Wooing foreign investment is key for debt-laden Greece, which is battling its worst recession in decades as it
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
THE HIMALAYAN TIMES – The government has taken strong exception to the UCPN-Maoist’s recent announcement to halt work on 14 hydropower projects that have foreign investment. Minister for Energy Prakash Sharan Mahat, speaking at a press meet at his office, said the Maoist obstruction was ‘politically-motivated’. Maintaining that all contracts and agreements of the 14 power projects were
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – The world’s biggest wind farm has opened just off England’s south eastern coast. Swedish energy company Vattenfall said the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm’s 100 turbines will generate enough electricity to power the equivalent to the annual consumption of more than 200,000 British households. A total of 341 turbines will be installed over the next four
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Ngozi-Nyangungu highway development represents Phase 1 of the larger Gitega-Nyangugu-Ngozi road development project. This road forms part of Burundi’s primary network and connects the country’s second and third largest cities. It also constitutes a key link for the development of trade between the north and south, as well as an opportunity to
Saturday, September 25th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The Russian Minister of Natural Resources believes the now delineated areas in the Barents Sea include up to ten “very big” and “unique” structures. Talking to journalists this week, Minister Trutnev called the Russian-Norwegian delimitation of the Barents Sea as “a truly historical event for the development of Russian geology”. –We get the
Friday, September 24th, 2010
PRAGUE POST – The government of the Czech Republic has banned Google’s Street View mapping system. The move to blocked image collection was reportedly made after the government expressed concerns over the height of the Street View images. Officials argue that the cameras were placed at an angle that was too high and threatened user privacy by
Friday, September 24th, 2010
EU – The European Commission’s own research body, the Joint Research Centre, publishes today, for the first time, an indicator-based map of potential threats to soil biodiversity, in order to guide decision-makers in protecting this crucial resource. The biodiversity within our soils plays a vital role in agriculture and in the water and carbon cycle. The atlas
Friday, September 24th, 2010
TEKES FINLAND – The main product of Eniram is the Dynamic Trimming Assistant (DTA) system, which collects real-time data on the status of the vessel and displays it in a user-friendly graphical format. The system helps the ship’s officers achieve optimum trim. When the water resistance of the hull is a small as possible, the energy
