Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
When you look at solar power plants or wind parks being set up today, it’s easy to forget how long it actually took for large energy companies to invest in expanding such technologies. The proponents of tidal power are faced with a similar problem today. There’s little doubt that waves and tides contain so much energy
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Liverpool was today held up as a flagship model of sustainable development by the United Nations. The city is the first in the UK to be listed in the UN-Habitat index of 100 cities shown to be bridging urban divides and promoting a cleaner, greener and safer agenda. Read More
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
The Ministry of Petroleum and Energy has approved the plans for development and operation (PDO) of the Stjerne and Vigdis North-East fields in the North Sea. This means that all four of Statoil’s first fast-track projects have secured the go-ahead. Read More
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Leading UK polar scientists say the Times Atlas of the World was wrong to assert that it has had to re-draw its map of Greenland due to climate change. Publicity for the latest edition of the atlas, launched last week, said warming had turned 15% of Greenland’s former ice-covered land “green and ice-free”. Read More
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Director General. Ts Gankhuu from Land Affairs, Construction, Geodesy and Cartography of Mongolia shared a national report on NSDI status of Mongolia with PCGIAP members. Read More
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
The Council of Ministers on Monday gave the go-ahead to implement the $25 billion Gulf Cooperation Council railway project, which aims to link the six GCC countries through a 2,117-km railway network. “The Cabinet approved a request from the Transport Ministry to prepare engineering blueprint for the railway and follow up implementation of the project,” Culture
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
