Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Chile’s national oil and gas corporation, ENAP, announced its plans to drill 10 new exploratory wells in the Magallanes Region, northwest of Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile’s Patagonia. A total of US$30 million has been slated for the project. Read More
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
New archeological evidence from ancient first nations habitations along the coasts of B.C. and Alaska show thousands of years of uninterrupted herring abundance, a trend that ended with the devastating mismanagement of the fishery in the mid-20th century, researchers say. That evidence, combined with the collapse of dozens of local spawning grounds, suggests that genetically distinct
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
A new map of food security risk around the world is, in some ways, depressingly familiar. Sub-saharan Africa leaps out as the place where the most people fear for their next meal, while the rich world has more to fear from obesity. But there’s plenty of salutary reminders and fascinating detail, like India’s food problems
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
With the deal, announced this week, ExxonMobil replaces BP as Rosneft’s strategic partner in the Arctic. According to the deal, the two companies will jointly map and develop the three East Prinovozemelsky License Blocks in the Kara Sea, an area covering 126,000 square kilometers. The blocks are identical to the areas included in the deal
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Breaking up the national rail network into separate chunks and putting services out to tender will reduce delays, according to research by network operator ProRail quoted in Thursday’s Volkskrant. This is because services will not be so interdependent, reducing the domino effect of delays, ProRail is quoting as saying. Read More
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Norway’s Statkraft has decided to build Stamåsen 1 wind farm in Sweden. This means that from September, Statkraft will have two large wind farms under construction in Central Sweden. Stamåsen 1 wind farm will be established in cooperation with SCA and will consist of 26 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 2.3 MW. Read More
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
This means that the seismic vessel “Harrier Explorer”, which is chartered by the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, will be operating alone in the area rest of the season. The weather conditions in the Barents Sea have been very good in the last months, and the vessel has collected data from 7000 kilometers of this year’s collection program,
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The small farmers in the former West Germany can’t keep up with the extreme efficiency of the often enormous enterprises in the former East Germany. The big farms in the east also have a much better deal when it comes to subsidies from the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Read More
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
A new experiment will assess the viability of storing carbon pollution underground by artificially creating seams of limestone. The India Times reported that the project will begin next month at Hellisheidi in south west Iceland, near Reykjavik Energy’s geothermal power stations. If it is successful, the carbon dioxide pumped down into the basalt rock will turn into
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
The famine in the Horn of Africa has put some 12 million people at risk of starvation. Though it’s one of the worst droughts in the region for decades, the reasons for it aren’t new. Rising populations, worsening soil erosion and extreme weather have created huge pressures on agriculture. People are using agricultural land much more intensively
