Friday, October 19th, 2007
THE NORWAY POST – Running for 23.1 kilometres, the line increases Norway’s ability to export gas from its continental shelf and will have a technical capacity of 25 million standard cubic metres per day. Tampen Link ties Statfjord into Britain’s existing Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System (Flags), which runs to St Fergus in Scotland.
Friday, October 19th, 2007
ENVIROWISE – Did you know…at least 80 per cent of the amount and costs of materials and utilities required to manufacture many products are locked in at the design stage? Read More
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND – Minister Eamon Ryan today announced that he would be making the bulk of the digital data held in the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources available to people freely and easily online. More than 5Tb of spatial data will now be made available for free download. These services will be
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
PEOPLE’S DAILY – China’s wind power capacity could reach 10,000 megawatts by 2010, exceeding previous government targets, as the renewable energy industry continues to grow quickly. Read More
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
DEUTSCHE WELLE – German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan has announced the launch of a new strategy to improve climate protection technology and boost Germany’s industrial competitiveness. Read More
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
REUTERS – Canada will map its entire Arctic sea bed as part of a plan to boost sovereignty over the remote, resource-rich region, the government said on Tuesday. “As part of asserting sovereignty, our government will complete comprehensive mapping of Canada’s Arctic seabed. Never before has this part of Canada’s ocean floor been fully mapped,”
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
The Paris region is loosing its attractiveness and its competitiveness; firstly because of lacking political consensus and secondly because of missing intercommunal structures". This is the opinion of Michel Micheau, director of the ‘Cycle d’Urbanisme’ of political sciences and professor of the University of Paris. Read More
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
ALL AFRICA – The poor roads between the Mombasa port and Kampala is strangling trade and investment in the region, a top official has said. “Goods that would take a week on the way now spend over a month. “This is increasing the cost of doing business since a business person has to hire the
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
ABC News– Some of Australia’s top urban planning experts have put out a manifesto demanding coordinated policies to cope with the rapid growth of our major cities. Read More
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
ASIA TIMES — “We think urban is the future,” says James Lasswell, a retired colonel who now heads the Office of Science and Technology at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. “Everything worth fighting for is in the urban environment.” Read More
