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The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, also known as the Rio Summit, Earth Summit (or, in Portuguese, Eco ‘92) was a major conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.
178 governments participated, with 118 sending their heads of state or government.Some 2,400 representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) attended, […]

March 5th, 2008 Tags: Austin, Canada, Education, Energy, Environment, fuel, Gas, Gasoline, Inco, Japan, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Lima, local mining, local mining industry, mining, Nova, Ontario, Pollution Control, Reliance, Rio de Janeiro, Sudbury, Texas, transportation systems, United Nations, United States, Water

Ron Paul’s Opinion of The Environment, Pollution, and Global Warming. “His Record” * Voted NO on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC. (May 2007) * Voted NO on removing oil & gas exploration subsidies. (Jan 2007) * Voted NO on keeping moratorium on drilling for oil offshore. (Jun 2006) * Voted YES on scheduling permitting for new oil refinieries. (Jun 2006)

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March 5th, 2008 Tags: Bush, Bush administration, Energy, energy policy, Environment, fuel, Gas, gas exploration, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, mining, Oil, oil drilling, OPEC, Yucca Mountain

Corridor Resources Inc. reported that drilling operations have commenced at the P-76 well in the McCully natural gas field located near Sussex in southern New Brunswick. The well is the first to be drilled at McCully using the Nabors #86 (triple) drilling rig which was recently mobilized to the field from Alberta. The well […]

March 23rd, 2007 Tags: Alberta, ATM, bank, Brunswick, Canada, Company, Completion, Eastern, Environment, Frederick, Gas, gas exploration, gas field, gas production, gas reserve, gas reserves, gas resource, gas resources, Halifax, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Labor, Market, markets, mining, Mobil, Natural Gas, natural gas field, natural gas production, natural gas reserves, natural gas resource, natural gas resources, New Brunswick, Nova, Nova Scotia, Oil, Oil and Gas, oil and gas exploration, Pipeline, Price, Prices, Resources, Saskatchewan, services

U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., has praised a report that has focused on the need to develop technologies to reduce carbon emissions from coal.
“Make no mistake about it, we must recognize that the use of American coal in electricity generation is essential to our nation’s energy independence and security,” said Domenici, ranking member of the […]

March 23rd, 2007 Tags: America, China, Coal, electricity, electricity generation, Energy, energy independence, Independence, Institute of Technology, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Lima, Massachusetts, Natural Resources, Natural Resources Committee, Pete Domenici, Power, Resources, Senate, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, technologies, technology, United States

Scores of Greenpeace activists today formed a huge inscription Climate Change Starts Here at the Cernice coal mine near Most to protest against raising the official Czech limits for brown coal mining.
Jan Rovensky, head of the Czech Greenpeace climate campaign, said that if the limits are broken, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions will double. […]

February 16th, 2007 Tags: Britain, Coal, coal mine, coal mining, coal technologies, Company, Czech Republic, Energy, energy industry, Environment, Europe, European Union, Gas, gas emissions, Greece, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Lima, mine, Mines, mining, Power, Rita, Slovakia, technologies, Ukraine, United States, use gas

SXR Uranium One Inc. agreed to buy UrAsia Energy Ltd. for $3.1 billion, to form the world’s second- largest uranium producer as rising demand for nuclear fuel drives prices to records.
SXR, owner of South Africa’s largest undeveloped uranium deposit, offered C$7.05 ($6.01) a share in stock for Vancouver- based UrAsia, which owns uranium mines in […]

February 12th, 2007 Tags: Africa, Alternative Investment Market, Amec, America, AREVA, Asia, Australia, Bloomberg, BMO Capital Markets, CAMEC, Cameco, Cameco Corp., Canaccord Adams, Canada, Coal, Company, Energy, Energy Ltd, Environment, Europe, Exchange, Export, fuel, Green Mountain, Hiroshima, Its Mine, Johannesburg, Kazakhstan, KYOTO, Kyrgyzstan, London, London Stock Exchange, Market, markets, mine, Miner, Mineral, Mines, mining, Neal, Neal Froneman, North America, North Carolina, Northwest, nuclear energy, Oil, Oil and Coal, Paradigm Capital, Paradigm Capital Inc., Paris, pence, Power, Price, Prices, Rio Tinto, Rio Tinto Group, Russia, Russian, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Shares, South Africa, Steve, Sweetwater uranium mill, Sxr, Sxr Uranium One, SXR Uranium One Inc., Sydney, telephone, Toronto, Uranium, Uranium Mill, Uranium One, Uranium One Inc., uranium producer, Vancouver, Water, Wyoming

Vattenfall AB, Alcan Inc., Duke Energy Corporation and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) will work with other leading industries and financial institutions to accelerate the evolution of carbon trading as one of the key components to addressing climate change. This cooperation was announced today at a press conference at the World Economic Forum’s annual […]

January 27th, 2007 Tags: Alcan, Alcan Inc., Aluminum, America, Americas, bank, Bauxite Mining, California, Chairman, Charlotte, Coal, Company, Congress, Dow Jones, Duke Energy, electricity, Energy, Energy Corporation, energy efficiency, energy services, energy solutions, Environment, Europe, European Union, Exchange, Gas, greenhouse gas, Hydro, Jones, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Lima, Market, metal, mining, Natural Gas, New York, New York Stock Exchange, Nova, OECD, Power, Price, renewable energy, services, Silver, technologies, technology, Trade, use gas, World Economic Forum

The Australian government pledged $95 million in funding Wednesday for two projects as part of its new strategy to combat global warming, including the construction of the world’s largest solar power plant.
The projects are the first to be funded under a $379 million package announced earlier this week to prevent global warming. Australia has […]

October 26th, 2006 Tags: Asia, Australia, Coal, Energy, energy source, energy sources, Environment, environmental group, environmental groups, Export, Federal Government, fuel, Gas, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, law, Lima, Melbourne, mining, Power, Price, renewable energy, renewable energy sources, Solar, solar systems, SUN, Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald, technologies, United States, use gas, Victoria

SYDNEY – Australia Wednesday announced plans to build the world’s biggest space-age solar power station as part of a A$500 million (US$375 million) radical rethink on climate change.
The government said it would contribute A$75 million toward the cost of the photovoltaic solar power plant in the first of a series of projects aimed at reducing […]

October 25th, 2006 Tags: Australia, Bush, California, clean electricity, clean energy, clean energy projects, Coal, Company, Cusi, electricity, Energy, energy projects, Environment, environmental group, Export, finance, fuel, Gas, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Greenpeace, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Lima, Melbourne, mining, Power, Solar, solar systems, SUN, Sydney, technology, the Star, United States, use gas, Victoria, Water

Halifax Regional Municipality hopes to buy about a third of its power from wind farms by 2009 – the equivalent of lighting every street lamp in the city with renewable energy. Jim Donovan, the city’s manager of economic development, said city staff will recommend council approve a plan to buy green energy.

“It can happen just as […]

October 12th, 2006 Tags: ASN, Audi, clean energy, Department of Energy, electricity, Energy, Ford, Gas, gas emissions, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, Halifax, KYOTO, Michelin, mining, Nova, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, Power, Price, renewable energy, use gas

Germany’s politicians and bosses of the country’s utilities agreed on Monday to put off any decisions on the one energy issue that generates tension inside the governing coalition — the future of atomic power.
“We discussed the fact that internationally nuclear energy is taking on an increasing significance. But at the same time we have a […]

October 10th, 2006 Tags: Bush, Coal, E.ON, electricity, Energy, energy imports, energy producer, energy producers, energy sector, energy security, energy source, energy sources, Environment, Europe, Finland, Gas, gas emissions, George W. Bush, Germany, greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, law, Lima, Maine, nuclear energy, Power, Price, Prices, renewable energy, renewable energy sources, Russia, Russian, Solar, SPD, United States, use gas, Vladimir Putin

WATER DESALINATION USING SOLAR ENERGY AND WIND MILLS ARE AMONGST THE MAIN TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED BY THE WORLD SOLAR ENERGY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN BAHRAIN IN NOVEMBER. THE THREE-DAY ARAB REGIONAL CONFERENCE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN AND THE INTERNATIONAL SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY.

THE EVENT WILL ALSO TACKLE IMPORTANT ISSUES SUCH AS USE OF […]

October 8th, 2006 Tags: AL NASSER, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, France, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Jordan, KYOTO, KYOTO protocol, Malaysia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM, WAHEEB AL