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Brazil Cane Brings Sweet Smell of Ethanol Profits (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: Soiled workmen in orange construction helmets slapped fresh paint on narrow catwalks and noisy machinery as the Usina MB sugar and ethanol plant prepared to process the cane. Reuters toured the mill on Wednesday during final cleanup and mechanical testing before trailers piled with newly harvested nine-foot stalks start arriving on Monday. Much of this year's crop will be distilled into fuel for motor vehicles instead of made into a sweetener for biscuits, soft drinks and ... |
United Kingdom: Households lose incentives to install solar power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Independent: The solar power industry has warned that it is on the brink of crisis as a result of Government "incompetence" in the awarding of grants for householders buying renewable energy. A scheme paying thousands of pounds towards the cost of installing green energy in people's homes ended last week without a working replacement. In theory, a new scheme is being launched today but details of its operation have not been finalised and application forms for funds will not be ... |
Australian States' Carbon Trading Faces Battle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: Australia's states hope to do what their national government won't -- cut greenhouse gases by developing a carbon credits market -- but disagreements over emissions limits are already threatening to dampen the plan. An inter-state working group has said it favours a "cap and trade" system to encourage clean energy and clear up the regulatory outlook for power sector investors in one of the globe's most intensive producers of the greenhouse gas. It could model itself ... |
BP Deal Gives Big Boost to Australian Biofuels (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: BP said on Friday it had signed contracts to provide more than 200 million litres a year of biofuels to Australian customers by 2008, taking the national government halfway to its modest biofuels target. BP's commitment to use both tallow and ethanol in blended fuels will reassure environmentalists concerned by the lack of deals since major refiners last year pledged their full support to the government's annual objective of 350 million litres by 2010 -- a figure that represents ... |
United Kingdom: John Gummer: 'Climate change should be the top priority for governments of the industrialised world' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Independent: John Gummer, the Conservatives' Mr Climate Change, was out driving yesterday, in a seven-seater four-by-four, the type of vehicle whose owners were punished in Gordon Brown's budget for damaging the environment. The Gummer household has two cars, and on this occasion, he took out the larger and more expensive of the two. Mr Gummer was the most "green" minister in the last Tory Cabinet. He was an architect of the Kyoto agreement on climate change, and now heads the sprawling ... |
Merkel calls meeting on German energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| International Herald Tribune: Facing a test of her free-market economic beliefs, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany has invited the country's powerful industrial companies to a special energy meeting Monday to map out a long-term strategy for Europe's largest economy. The meeting - the first in more than a quarter of a century - will include the leaders of Merkel's coalition of conservatives and Social Democrats, industry and environment officials, consumers and trade unions. Germany has some of the highest ... |
Norway Shields Parts of Arctic From Oil Drilling (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: The Norwegian government proposed on Friday to keep wide tracts in Norway's Arctic region open to oil exploration, but set aside a 50-km (31 mile) zone along the coast in the interest of the environment and fisheries to 2010. The plan for management of the Arctic areas and natural resources, including oil, gas and fish in the Barents Sea, was a hard-fought political compromise between the ruling Labour party and its junior coalition partners. "Fish, the environment, oil ... |
Americans willing to fight global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Associated Press: An overwhelming majority of Americans think they can help reduce global warming and are willing to make the sacrifices that are needed, according to a new poll. After years of controversy, now 71 percent of Americans believe global warming is real, according to a telephone survey of 1,200 people for the advocacy group Environmental Defense. Conducted between Feb. 27 and March 2, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points and was conducted by the firm Ayres, ... |
Scientists Focus on Warming Disasters (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Associated Press: man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer. "Global warming?" he says. "Some say irreversible consequences are 30 years away. Thirty years. That won't affect me." He steps off the tracks _ just in time. But behind him is a little blonde-haired girl left in front of the roaring train. The screen goes black. A message appears: "There's still time." It's just an ad, part of a campaign from the advocacy group ... |
Biodiesel fuels Asia plantation stocks amid 'renewables drive' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: Living in one of Asia's most polluted cities has piqued Putut Andanawarih's interest in a cleaner form of fuel known as biodiesel. The Jakarta-based fund manager finds such "green fuel" even more appealing because of the potential impact on his portfolio of palm oil plantation stocks. High crude oil prices and a European Union-led drive for cleaner and renewable energy have boosted the development of alternative fuels including ethanol, extracted from corn or sugarcane, ... |
Drought-hit Tanzania orders herders off catchments (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: Tanzania has ordered farmers and herders who have encroached on water catchment areas and game reserves to leave in a drive to protect the drought- weakened environment, Vice-President Ali Muhammed Shein said. The east African country is emerging from its worst drought in years, which has led to food shortages, and to power cuts due to a drop in hydroelectric power output. "This environmental destruction is the cause of drought and the drying up of water catchment areas in ... |
Grist keeps on growing and green (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Seattle Times: Granola and yogurt. Could they be so wrong? Sort of, when consumed in the company of Chip Giller. He once carried a week's worth of his own trash to classes at Brown University to illustrate college-student wastefulness. "Sorry," I muttered to Giller, as I cracked open one plastic container, then another, and picked up a plastic spoon. Felt like I had just set fire to a pile of tires. "It's all right," Giller said. As the president of Grist.org, an ... |
Pricing slows China's wind power expansion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Reuters: China will miss ambitious targets for wind power development unless the government reverses its unexpected decision to award projects through a bidding system, analysts and industry sources said on Friday. Investor excitement about the sector began mounting last year, when a draft renewable energy law was expected to establish a premium for clean wind energy above existing tariffs, helping boost capacity to a target 30 gigawatts by 2020, from 1.2 gigawatts now. But the final ... |
What you can do to cut back on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Associated Press: You can fight global warming, a bit, but how much depends on your effort and the amount of sacrifice you are willing to make. Carbon dioxide, the biggest contributor, is spewed when we use energy while traveling or at home. It stays in the air for a century or so. Some ways of cutting back are cheap and easy, but the biggest payoffs require some pain and lifestyle changes. Here are some things you can do: --- Cheap and easy - Replace traditional light ... |
Wood pellets a growing business, wood consumer (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Associated Press: Charlie Niebling sees the closing of the Fraser Papers Inc. pulp mill in Berlin as part of a painful, but necessary shift from paper manufacturing to renewable energy development in the Northeast. "Anything that grows ultimately can be turned into an energy-dense fuel that can be combusted cleanly," Niebling said. "I think there's a very bright future for the forests of northern New England as an energy source." Niebling, long a spokesman for responsible ... |
Australia, China to Sign Agreement for Uranium Trade (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Bloomberg: Australia, the world's second- biggest uranium exporter, will sign an agreement with China allowing Asia's biggest energy consumer to tap nuclear fuel worth A$100 billion ($71.4 billion) for power generation. Exports to China may start within four years, Australian Resource Minister Ian Macfarlane said today. An agreement to ensure uranium supplied to China is used only for civilian purposes is scheduled to be signed in Canberra today by China's Premier Wen Jiabao and Australian ... |
Former CIA chief pushes renewable energy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| Associated Press: Former C-I-A Chief James Woolsey is speaking in Newport today in support of renewable energy. The former spy chief says the United States could diminish terrorism if it reduced its demand for foreign oil. Instead, Woolsey says the U-S should focus on producing ethanol and biodiesel fuels and promoting the use of hybrid vehicles. Woolsey will be speaking at Save the Bay's 36th annual meeting. Governor Carcieri and members of the state's Congressional delegation are expected to ... |
You can limit global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2006 at 12:00:12
| New York Times: ON a traffic island bench in the middle of Broadway near West 112th Street, Gavin Schmidt sipped a cup of Oren's coffee – milk, no sugar. Across the street from him, people shoved in and out of Tom's Restaurant, a crowd loitered around a chess game, and a gray-haired man wearing a flannel shirt and a lopsided green cap sketched the scene in a notebook. This traffic island is Dr. Schmidt's favorite place to drink coffee in the late afternoon. He is a climate modeler, meaning he uses ... |
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