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China to Shut Old Steel, Power Plants in 2007 - Wen (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: China's leaders will announce on Monday goals for closing small steel and thermal power plants this year, as part of an escalating drive to crack down on pollution and energy-intensive industry. In 2007, 30 million tonnes of outdated pig iron capacity will be closed, and 35 million tonnes of crude steel capacity, premier Wen Jiabao is due to say as part of a speech to the National People's Congress, China's parliament. China's steel industry has expanded rapidly, despite attempts ... |
Canadian Oil Sands Nuclear Plant Seen for 2016 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: The first in a series of nuclear power plants planned for the oil-rich tar sands of Western Canada should be operating by 2016, the head of the project said Thursday. The Energy Alberta Corporation says it wants to place a C$5.5 billion (US$4.3 billion) Canadian-built Candu twin reactor plant in northern Alberta to provide the massive amounts of power needed to extract oil from the sticky sands. "One reactor (would be) in 2016 and the second one would be in 2017 ... ... |
China Plans Pilot Pollution Emission Trading Scheme (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: China hopes to launch this year a pilot trading scheme for polluting emissions, covering the power industry and a prosperous east coast region, the Finance Ministry will say on Monday in a report to parliament. The ministry gave no details on when the scheme might be rolled out or which pollutants it would cover, although Beijing is clamping down hard on acid rain-causing sulphur dioxide. "(We) have chosen the power industry and the Lake Tai water basin to develop a scheme of ... |
China Steps Up Energy Saving Drive, Targets Industry (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: China's leaders will unveil on Monday a raft of detailed environmental and energy-saving policies, specifically targeting heavy industry, but they have shied away from concrete goals this year after a disappointing 2006. In annual reports to the National People's Congress, China's parliament, Premier Wen Jiabao and top finance and energy officials will say regulation and punishments have not been strong enough to meet government plans to boost efficiency. Driven by worries ... |
China to Consider Draft Energy Law This Year (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: A draft of China's first energy law is likely to be submitted to senior officials later this year, following international consultation on its contents, an official Chinese newspaper reported on Saturday. The proposed legislation will be sent to China's State Council, or government cabinet, and an international meeting will discuss the draft in April, the China Daily reported, citing energy officials. The law "will be the overarching one for the country's energy industry ... |
Norway Says to Form State CO2 Storage Company (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: Norway said on Friday that it would establish a state-owned company to manage the government's interests in carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage projects, like one planned for the Mongstad refinery on the west coast. The plan for the state CO2 company is part of the government's proposal to parliament on cooperation in the carbon capture and storage (CCS) project planned for state-controlled oil and gas group Statoil's Mongstad refinery. "This company will be ... |
China's Wen Puts Emphasis on Green Growth (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: China will do more to save energy and cut pollution in 2007 while striving to keep its economy humming following four straight years of double-digit growth, Premier Wen Jiabao will say on Monday. In his annual report to the National People's Congress, China's parliament, Wen reaffirms that Beijing will actively explore ways of investing the country's US$1.07 trillion in foreign currency reserves but offers no hints as to how it will do so. The speech, excerpts of which were ... |
Germany's VW, Porsche Defend Environmental Efforts (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 09:00:39
| Reuters: Germany's Volkswagen and Porsche have said they are committed to making environmentally-friendly cars, despite a report showing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions of newly-registered cars in the country fell only 0.5 percent in 2006. Chief executives of both firms defended their green credentials in separate interviews released on Saturday, a few days before the Geneva car show which is expected to focus on environmental issues. VW CEO Martin Winterkorn told Germany's Spiegel ... |
EU Commission president warns that CO2 cuts will add costs to economy (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 12:00:29
| Associated Press: EU targets to cut carbon dioxide emissions will add costs to the European economy in the short-term but these will be outweighed by the greater cost of doing nothing, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Monday. EU leaders will on Thursday and Friday vote for new targets to cut CO2 emissions by 20 percent by 2020, promising to go further if other world regions join them. But Europe's major business lobby BusinessEurope said it was very worried about a ... |
Europeans back level attack on climate change (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 12:00:29
| Reuters: European Union citizens want the EU to take more action to fight climate change, including establishing minimum levels of energy consumption to come from renewable fuels, a survey released on Monday showed. The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, said a Eurobarometer poll showed half of EU citizens were very concerned about global warming, with people in Spain, Cyprus, Malta and Greece especially worried. More than eight out of 10 Europeans say they are aware that the ... |
Climate change threat played down (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 12:00:29
| ePolitix: Former chancellor Lord Lawson has downplayed the threat of climate change and attacked attempts to deal with it. Speaking at a House Magazine debate in Westminster on Monday, the Conservative peer said green taxes would have to be so high to change people's behaviour that the public would not accept them. Lord Lawson was debating with Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Julia Goldsworthy, whose party proposes radical hikes in environmental levies on airlines and cars. He ... |
Australia: Let's face up to the challenge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Advertiser: CLIMATE change has become a hot topic in the rural sector as farmers cope with the debilitating effects of the long-term drought. On the eve of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics Outlook 2007 conference in Canberra today and tomorrow, chief commodities analyst Terry Sheales said farmers understood the seriousness of the issue. "I think there is a fully growing acceptance of the fact that climate change is an issue we have to deal with as a nation," Dr ... |
Australia: Commuter rise drives up number of bus services (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Sydney Morning Herald: THE past three months have shown the biggest surge in bus use since the Olympics, with patronage jumping by almost 2 per cent in the afternoon peak, the State Transit Authority says. The chief executive of the STA, John Lee, said the authority was this week adding extra services on key routes such as Victoria Road and a new route to Manly. But the State Opposition accused the Government of failing commuters, saying it cut eight routes and more than 1500 weekly bus services last ... |
China about to pass US as world's top generator of greenhouse gases (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| San Francisco Chronicle: Far more than previously acknowledged, the battle against global warming will be won or lost in China, even more so than in the West, new data show. A report released last week by Beijing authorities indicated that as its economy continues to expand at a red-hot pace, China is highly likely to overtake the United States this year or in 2008 as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases. This information, along with data from the International Energy Agency, the ... |
China's leader vows to close dirtiest industries (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Associated Press: China will close its dirtiest steel mills as it steps up efforts to rein in surging energy use and clean up environmental damage caused by its economic boom, Premier Wen Jiabao said Monday. The government also will try to clean up polluted rivers and develop more energy-efficient technology, Wen said in a speech at the opening of the annual session of China's legislature. "We will take strong measures to save energy, lower energy consumption, protect the environment" ... |
Chinese inertia stalls green revolution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Guardian: Prime minister Wen Jiabao issued an environmental wake-up call in his annual report to the Chinese parliament today but it is unlikely to be heeded until the country's politics are reformed. Affirming his reputation as the greenest premier in the country's history, Mr Wen warned delegates at the National People's Congress that China's growth was unsustainable, unless the country improves energy efficiency and cuts down on pollution. The message is increasingly familiar, but it ... |
Dethroning King Coal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Boston Globe: WITH PRESIDENT BUSH finally acknowledging climate change but still opposing mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, environmentalists have to content themselves with limited victories in the effort to curb global warming. There were two such signs of progress recently. First, Al Gore's film on climate change won an Academy Award for best documentary. Second, the buyers of the biggest utility in Texas have agreed to reduce the number of new coal-fired generating plants to be built by ... |
Fuel-efficient cars highlight Geneva auto show (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Associated Press: Fuel efficiency through new technology and hybrid vehicles will be a top theme at this year's Geneva Motor Show, with DaimlerChrysler displaying a lower-emission diesel engine and Toyota unveiling its Hybrid X concept marrying an electric motor with a gas engine. The 77th edition of the show comes amid stronger concern about global warming and the environment, and a debate about auto emission limits in Europe. One sharp focus is on making engines more fuel-efficient and more ... |
Merkel Wants Radical Plan on CO2 Cuts at EU Summit (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| Spiegel: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government holds the rotating six-month presidency of the 27-nation European Union, wants to put the bloc at the forefront of global efforts to halt climate change and said she would seek a radical plan of action at a two-day summit of EU leaders in Brussels starting Thursday. Merkel said in a newspaper interview that Europe must take a leading role so that it can demand that the United States, China and India take steps toward reducing their ... |
China: Wen Jiabao admits to failing on pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| International Herald Tribune: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao conceded on Monday that China was failing on important energy and pollution goals and declared that the country must become more energy efficient and quickly improve environmental protection to safeguard the long-term health of its booming economy. Wen, making the annual address on the state of China, also pledged more government spending on education and health care, particularly for poorer residents in rural areas. His nationally televised speech, which ... |
Analysis: The U.N.'s war on global warming (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| United Press International: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reached back to his past to tell the students he was addressing how as a child he first became aware of the world organization he now heads and how his experience shapes the way he equates the fight against global warming with war. He spoke last Thursday at the U.N. International School in New York debating climate change. Having taken over as secretary-general only 59 days earlier, from Kofi Annan, Ban said the speech was the first at the ... |
Aussies embrace nuclear power: poll (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:23
| AAP: CONCERNS about climate change have swung Australian opinion in favour of nuclear power for the first time, a poll shows. A Newspoll published in today's The Australian newspaper reveals support for nuclear power has surged 10 percentage points to 45 per cent in four months, outstripping opposition, which has plummeted 10 points to 40 per cent. But a vast majority - 66 per cent - are against having a nuclear power station in their local area. The key to the shift appears ... |
United States: Creating the desalination capital of the world (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Argus: THE WARNING has been issued: Our relatively dry winter, threats to fish populations and other conditions affecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta may spawn reductions in the amount of water available to Southern California cities as well as farms in our state's fertile Central Valley. Though winter takes our minds off that prospect temporarily, it's a long-term problem that isn't going to go away. We're near a tipping point in the use of Delta water. In the long run, both water and ... |
EU seeks to narrow differences on climate plan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Reuters: European Union foreign ministers sought on Monday to narrow differences on how to combat climate change but resistance remained to a German bid to fix mandatory targets for the use of "green fuels". It will be up to EU leaders meeting this week to hammer out whether the bloc commits to binding objectives for the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power as part of its ambition to lead the world in fighting climate change. "There was no final ... |
Global warming already claiming Micronesia islets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Associated Press: An environmentalist in Micronesia says rising seas due to global warming are already starting to take away islands in their homeland. Ben Namakin is an official with the Conservation Society of Pohnpei. In the last five years, he says rising ocean levels have engulfed a sandy islet a couple of miles south of Pohnpei and split another nearby islet. Namakin says he's worried about the future of Micronesia. His home atoll of Kiribati has a mean elevation of less ... |
Here's the drill: new oil to come from old ground (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Age: THE Kern River oilfield in California, discovered in 1899, was revived when Chevron engineers started injecting high-pressured steam to pump out more oil. Production had slumped to 10,000 barrels a day in the 1960s, but it now has a daily output of 85,000 barrels. In Indonesia, Chevron has applied the same technology to the giant Duri oilfield, discovered in 1941, boosting production there to more than 200,000 barrels a day, up from 65,000 barrels in the mid-1980s. And in ... |
United Kingdom: Miliband outlines 'post-oil' future (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Politics.co.uk: The environment secretary David Miliband will today outline the case for a post-oil economy, arguing that the UK needs to move away from "oil dependence". Addressing a public audience at the University of Cambridge this evening, Mr Miliband will argue the need for a low carbon economy involving radical cuts in emissions. This would involve new technologies, ranging from biofuels to carbon capture at coal power stations. "Al Gore says climate change is a ... |
Australia: Permanent solutions needed for water crisis (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Canberra Times: THE CURRENT drought is having a significant impact on the region and climate change is predicted to make rain even more infrequent and unpredictable. However, our existing restriction and pricing regime assumes water shortages are the exception rather than the rule. Moving through different stages of severity in water restrictions means people are unable to plan their gardening from spring to autumn. Spring plantings under a low level of restrictions lead to brown lawns and dead and ... |
U.S. emissions growing at worrying pace (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| R744.com: In 2020, the United States will emit 9.2 billion tons of greenhouse gases (GHG) – nearly a one fifth increase from 7.7 billion tons in 2000. As the U.S. is already responsible for about 25% of the world's emissions of heat-trapping gases, this will further contribute to the disruption of ecosystems and will put at risk national water supplies. This projection comes from a long-delayed internal report that was submitted by a government official to the Associated Press last Saturday. ... |
UK 'to miss greenhouse gas targets' (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 03-05-2007 at 03:00:24
| Press Association: The Government is set to fall short of its overall target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, according to a report out today. The study, an expert reviewed audit by the UCL Environment Institute and commissioned by Channel 4's Dispatches, is the first comprehensive investigation into the impact of the Government's carbon-cutting policies across all Government departments mandated with reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Each of the four most important sectors - energy ... |
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