|
| News |
ClimatePatrol.com RSS News Archives
Climate Ark
Australia: States offered cash to cut power use (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE states will be offered cash incentives to roll out smart electricity meters to promote more efficient energy use and competition in the national electricity market. The offer is part of a series of electricity reforms expected to be put by the Federal Government to the Council of Australian Governments meeting in Canberra next week. The meters enable different pricing at different times of the day and allow consumers to keep track of energy costs by showing in real-time ... |
Governments Must Give Green Incentives, Says Economist (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: The leader of a major study into whether economic growth is compatible with green policies has called on governments to provide clear incentives to help the environment. Nick Stern, head of the British government's economic services, told a meeting of students and academics that such initiatives would form part of a wider set of policies. "We need clear, long and credible incentives from government," he said. "We have to devise a framework for the private and ... |
Environmentalists Protest Russian Plans for Oil Pipeline Running along Lake Baikal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: Several dozen ecologists protested outside a Russian environmental monitoring agency Wednesday, urging regulators not to back a proposed Siberian oil pipeline that would run close to Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater lake. About 40 people demonstrated outside the agency, chanting "No to Oil! Yes to Baikal" and carrying signs that read "Keep Baikal Alive" and bore photographs of the world's only freshwater seals, which live in the lake. Greenpeace ... |
Green Rules Could Shut up to 500 US Coal Plants - Study (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: New clean air rules could force up to 500 US coal plants to shut spurring billions of dollars in construction of cleaner plants to replace them, according to a study. Pollution laws including the Clean Air Interstate Rule that caps emissions of smog components sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides (NOX and SOX) could shut the plants in 25 states, according to the study by Colorado-based E3 Consultants, which advises energy companies. The study, which was funded by E3, said that ... |
Investors Press Top 2,000 Firms on Climate Change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Investors with some $30 trillion of assets have written to 1,933 of the world's biggest companies demanding disclosure on their climate change stance, the UK-based Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) said on Wednesday. The world's biggest shareholders want to know how prepared companies are for the effects of climate change and for hardening climate change policy as fears grow for impacts on investments. The CDP's fourth such annual request is on behalf of a swelling investor ... |
Normally a Big Chill, Canada Basks in Mild Winter (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: Warm and winter are two unlikely companion words that Canadians are using to describe record-breaking temperatures this year. Winnipeg, a Canadian city dubbed "Winterpeg" for its notoriously frigid winters, had its warmest January on record, Environment Canada said Wednesday. Normally Canada's coldest large city each winter, Winnipeg enjoyed an average -7.4 Celsius (18.7 F) in January, the balmiest since the month's temperatures were first recorded in 1873. This ... |
Solarworld Buys Solar Power Unit From Shell (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: German alternative-power company Solarworld AG will buy businesses from Shell to take over as the top maker of solar power equipment in the United States, the company said Thursday. The news prompted a leap in Solarworld shares, already buoyed by President Bush's pledge to promote new technology to make the United States less dependent on imported oil. The agreement covered Shell factories in Germany and the U.S. and sales operations in Germany, Singapore and South Africa, ... |
US firms must go green, says Gore (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| BBC: Corporate America must face up to green and ethical challenges if they are to avoid disaster, former US Vice President Al Gore has told the BBC. Firms are so focused on delivering quarterly financial figures, he said, they lose sight of long-term trends. "The quarterly reports might look good for a little while and then they fall off a cliff," he told BBC Radio 4 In Business presenter Peter Day. The US car industry's problems is an example of consumer power, ... |
Bush oil pledge depends on new energy sources (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Washington Post: President Bush set an ambitious goal in his State of the Union address: break the country's addiction to oil and move beyond a petroleum-based economy. Bush's remarks on Tuesday night follow in the path of previous U.S. presidents, including Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter, who pledged to limit reliance on foreign oil. But those goals have remained elusive. In 1973, the United States consumed 17.3 million barrels per day of oil. Today, that number is up to 20.6 million ... |
Bush Plan to Help Climate, but No Green Conversion (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: President George W. Bush's call to break a U.S. addiction to oil is a step to curb global warming but does not herald conversion to a U.N.-led plan to slow climate change, experts said on Wednesday. Bush said in his State of the Union address that he would seek to break dependence on Middle East oil via new technologies and jack up funding on energy sources including coal and nuclear power as well as wind and solar power, hydrogen and ethanol. "This is fairly positive ... |
EU Agrees to Cut Greenhouse Gases from Shoes, Cars (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: European Union lawmakers and governments have agreed on rules that would clamp down on environmentally harmful fluorinated gases that are found in a range of products including cars, appliances and shoes. Known as F-gases, they are used in refrigeration and air conditioning and are considered much more potent in warming the earth than the most common greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2). The rules, first proposed by the European Commission in 2003, would ban some products like ... |
GM to Build Hybrid SUV's With Enhanced Technology (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: General Motors Corp. will build two sport utility vehicles - the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon - using enhanced hybrid technology, the company said on Wednesday. The trucks will be manufactured in Arlington, Texas, beginning in late 2007 while the transmissions, using a hybrid system to boost fuel performance, especially at highway speeds, will be designed and assembled at a transmission plant in Baltimore, GM said. The company plans to invest up to $118 million to upgrade the ... |
Mexico Signs Agreement to Drastically Cut Fuel Emissions, Improve Air Quality (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: Mexico has launched an ambitious plan to drastically cut fuel emissions and improve air quality, the environment secretary said Tuesday. Jose Luis Luege Tamargo told a news conference his department has signed an agreement with the environment and finance departments to reduce sulfur emissions by 50 percent before 2020. The restrictions on sulfur emissions and small particles will go into effect in July and will be gradually expanded each year until 2009, Luege said. He said ... |
United Kingdom: Shell's £1.5m-an-hour (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Sun: ENERGY giant Royal Dutch Shell today announced it made a staggering £1.5m AN HOUR last year. The company's vast profits of £12.93billon, 30 per cent up on 2004, were an all-time high for a UK company. Despite the profits rise, shares fell 2 per cent, as the figure was BELOW some expectations. Analyst Jonathan Copus at stockbroker Investec Securities said the figures were only modestly below expectations but were likely to be viewed in the City as ... |
Australia's Reefs Face Bleaching Risk (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: A bout of coral bleaching hitting Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be as bad as an episode in 2001-2002 that affected 60 percent of the reef, scientists warned Tuesday. An international team studying the world's reefs said in a statement that water temperatures for the past four months off Australia's northeastern coast have been well above long-term averages. "We were all very concerned when we saw the temperature readings for December," said Prof. Ove ... |
Washington Weather May Be Killing Seabirds (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: The mass starvation deaths of murres on Tatoosh Island off the Olympic Peninsula may be due in part to unusual weather patterns along the West Coast, scientists say. Last year didn't have the winds and currents necessary to maintain the network of marine food crucial to the seabirds' diet. Breeding failures during the summer were preceded by tens of thousands of birds washing up dead on beaches in Washington, Oregon and California. In Washington, the state's largest colony of ... |
Bush says US must kick the oil habit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Reuters: US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday "America is addicted to oil" from the Middle East and must break its dependence, in a State of the Union speech that promised aggressive American engagement around the world in defiance of critics. The former oilman outlined a green agenda in a 52-minute speech that was interrupted at least 60 times by applause. He called for improving technologies in order to reduce US oil imports from the Middle East 75 percent by ... |
Bush: US Must Get Free of Mideast Oil (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-02-2006 at 12:00:09
| Associated Press: A politically weakened President Bush declared Tuesday night that America must break its long dependence on Mideast oil and rebuked critics of his stay-the-course strategy for the unpopular war in Iraq. ``America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world,'' Bush said as he sought to drive the election-year agenda in his annual State of the Union address. Rejecting calls for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, Bush said, ``There is no peace ... |
|
|
| Site Stats |
Registered Users: 151
Topics: 4086
Posts: 20713
News Stories: 149414
Satellite Images: 1170086
|
|
