The ship had around 15 to 20 tons of oil in its tanks when it went down for reasons as yet unclear. A spokeswoman from the Serbian Weather and Water Institute said inspectors were on the spot and experts had set up a floating screen to contain any oil spill.
"At the moment, instead of a 20 percent reduction we will achieve a 14 percent reduction," Blair told parliament after the government launched a review of its climate change policy. "However, we have years to go before we have to achieve that target ?nd as we say today, we don’t accept we won’t meet it. [...]
It concluded that alkylphenols, one of the chemicals that come up in water along with oil and gas from subsea wells, did not affect fish populations despite earlier research indicating that small concentrations could damage reproduction.
Jagger, who first became famous for her eight-year marriage to rock star Mick Jagger, shares the 2004 Right Livelihood Award with two others. Russian human rights and civil liberties lobby group Memorial was also awarded the prize along with Argentine environmentalist Raul Montenegro, for his work with indigenous people and conservation of natural resources. The [...]
Now, with US oil executives busy laying the foundations for a huge gas import terminal on the shoreline beneath her home, she fears those days are numbered. "It breaks my heart," she said of Sempra Energy’s project to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. ChevronTexaco plans an offshore terminal nearby. In a classic spat [...]
It said Blair had held lengthy discussions with US President George W. Bush over a fresh initiative that would bypass Washington’s opposition to the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to curb climate change. The United States has not signed up to the Kyoto pact, which will go into effect in February after Russia ratified it last [...]
Petroleum demand is set to grow at an average rate of 1.5 percent to 27.93 million barrels per day (bpd) in 2025 from 20.45 million bpd in 2004, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s long-term forecast. The EIA’s long-term forecast projected energy supply, demand and prices for 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2025. It did [...]
The structure of a typical PV cell. PV cells are electronic devices made from semiconductor material. The material most commonly used is ultra-pure silicon. The deliberate addition of very small amounts of impurity gives the silicon special electronic properties, creating material known as p-type or n-type material. P-type material is usually created by the addition [...]
The suit had been dismissed by the courts of two instances; the Court of Cassation reversed the verdict of t?e Court of Appeal on Civil Cases, sending the case for a new hearing by the Court of Appeal. The first hearing was scheduled for November 24, but was postponed because the Mayor’s representative was absence. [...]
European organizations▓ representatives shared their experience with the republic officials at a seminar held Wednesday in Marriott-Armenia hotel in Yerevan. After looking through the calculations Europeans came to conclusion that political, not economic approach prevail in calculating minimal basket of goods in Armenia. Armenian health ministry has worked out its own version of the minimal [...]
