◆151206 Unfair to target India for coal-based
power: CSE
The Hindu-15 時間前 http://bit.ly/1TsXKet
Even as India is being targeted for expanding
coal usage for energyproduction, a Delhi?based
green NGO today said that focusing ... plans
of the Indian government on renewable energy,
the campaign to bring the narrative that
India is going to burn the world with coal
is ... “But US has both gas and coal, 68
per cent depends on fossil fuel, 87 per cent
of electricity in Australia comes from coal,”
he said.
◆151206 Fuelling its growth with coal, India
champions the poor in Paris
Yahoo News-3 時間前 http://yhoo.it/1XRQnOU
PARIS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's hardline
position in global climate talks has made
it a potential villain for ... States, and
likely to be number two by 2040 - as the
main champion of the rights of the global
poor to burn more energy to grow. ... a just
cause for India - far poorer than China and
with 300 million of its 1.25 billion people
lacking access toelectricity - and ... In
Paris, almost 200 governments are seeking
an agreement that will bind both rich and
poor to limit greenhouse gas
水力
◆151206 Over 70 percent of Mekong Delta
firms hit by climate change
VietNamNet Bridge-21 時間前 http://bit.ly/21FZ3N2
Over 70 percent of businesses in the Mekong
Delta are suffering from the potentially
devastating effects of climate change, said
... The warning was issued in a study on
impacts of mainstreamhydropower on the Mekong
River released at a ...
◆151206 Beware of Chinese motives
Daily Excelsior-7 時間前 http://bit.ly/1QnAfnS
Some years back it was known that the Chinese
are building a hydel dam onBrahmaputra. Recently
they have confirmed this saying that they
have completed a major hydropower dam (named
Zangmu) on the Brahmaputra called Yarlung
..
◆151205 Unfair to target India for coal-based
power: CSE
Economic Times-5 時間前 http://bit.ly/1Ny3nDH
The Centre for Science and Environment said
that despite the ambitious plans of the Indian
government on renewable energy, the campaign
to bring the narrative that India is going
to burn the world with coal is the "only
negative counter ...
◆151205 Why this country's return could
impact OPEC's plans
CNBC-21 時間前 http://cnb.cx/1TDJ9gT
When the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries meet in Vienna on Friday, the chatter
will be on whether the oil cartel will finally
cut production to boost prices?but the re-entry
of Indonesiacould complicate that. Seven
years after ...
◆151205 Myanmar cardinal wants Irrawaddy
dam project halted
Vatican Radio-10 時間前 http://bit.ly/1PGFd0x
The $3.8 billion dam, slated to be the 15th
largest hydroelectricpower station in the
world when completed by 2017, is being built
on the Irrawaddy River, Myanmar's premier
waterway, to provide poweralmost exclusively
to neighboring China.
◆151205 How coal-fired plants will doom
Thailand
Bangkok Post-8 時間前 http://bit.ly/1TqS04V
Data from 2011 suggests 1,150 Thais die prematurely
every year due to atmospheric pollution from
coal-fired power plants. ... Waste-firedpower
stations, biomass reactors and ocean thermal
energy are all viable in Thailand. ... 2030,
when Thailand's new coal-fired stations are
due to kick in, but also storable and capable
of providing electricity 24 hours a day.
... or subsidise larger power plants of 500MW
or higher, given countries like India and
China will be completing projects with a
...
◆151205 Philippines takes up complaint of
human rights violations by oil firms
Reuters-9 時間前 http://reut.rs/1m2xgWN
PARIS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Responding
to a complaint filed by typhoon victims,
a Philippines human rights commission agreed
Friday to look into whether large international
fossil fuel companies are violating the human
rights of ...
◆151205 Abe visit unlikely to lead to nuclear
deal with India's Modi
The Japan Times-17 時間前 http://bit.ly/1LTT5wu
Modi will use Abe's visit next week to lobby
Japan to join the list of countries India
can rely on for nuclear technology or fuel
... Modi is seeking to expand the country's
use of both nuclear and renewable energy
sources to meet its climate goals, ...
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◆151205 Little need for India to worry over
Chinese plans on Brahmaputra
ABP Live (blog)-18 時間前 http://bit.ly/1Q6cGBf
This hypothesis of the ill-effects of the
Brahmaputra diversion and its egregious impacts
on North-East India (or ... would also be
completed, making a chain of hydro projects
on the river intended to exploit the waters
for hydropower generation.
◆151205 Construction works of 5 hydropower
projects obstructed due to fuel ...
Himalayan Times-19 時間前 http://bit.ly/1IKeUOU
LAMJUNG: Construction works of five hydropower
projects have been obstructed due to lack
of petroleum products following Tarai bandh
for the past three months and unannounced
border blockade imposed by India. The construction
works ...
◆151205 Democratic Republic of the Congo
to start work on $12bn ...
Power Technology-14 時間前 http://bit.ly/1jEPo7m
The project has an estimated value of around
$12bn and represents the first phase development
under the Grand Inga project. Grand Inga,
which has been planned as a hydropower complex
across the Congo river, will be the world's
largest ...
◆151204 India Says It Will Cut Back on Coal
if Paris Deal Pays for More ...
TIME-2015/12/02 http://ti.me/1TDKkNm
India will cut back on its coal intake if
the deal resulting from this week's climate
talks in Paris provides greater funding for
renewable energy, a senior negotiator ...
industrialization, but that might change
if there is help with paying for “more expensive”
sustainable energyforms, Ajay Mathur told
the BBC. ... “We are very clear that solar
and wind is our first commitment, hydro and
nuclear all of these noncarbon sources are
what we will develop to the largest extent
we can,” said Mathur.
◆151204 Pakistan, India mulled nuclear option
in Kargil
The Express Tribune-4 時間前 http://bit.ly/1O6Zp5F
India and Pakistan came close to a possible
nuclear exchange at the height of the 1999
Kargil war, a former Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) analyst and Indian broadcast
journalist Burkha Dutt claimed on Thursday.
The two South Asian .
◆151204 Indonesia Can Return to OPEC But
Can't Escape Aging Oil Fields
Bloomberg-5 時間前 http://bloom.bg/1IsNBxW
A worker collects of crude oil to be processed
into fuel in Wonocolo village. Southeast
Asia's largest economy is returning to OPEC
as its government warns the collapse in crude
prices has worsened an “increasingly unappealing”
energy ...
◆151204 India should focus more on renewable
energy: Expert
Daily News & Analysis-4 時間前 http://bit.ly/1Qjd8dV
Negotiating its way through the climate talks
in Paris, India needs to be careful of not
being reactionary, yet be able to give it
back in kind and ... According to him, and
Ghosh, India's trump could be its focus on
renewable energy, its ambitious plans to
set it up, and ... "If countries want
to talk coal, then India should talk coal,"
Ghosh explained further, as the US consumed
more coal today than India will in 2030.
... 18,000 villages will getelectricity in
next 1,000 days, assures PM Modi.
◆151204 Myanmar cardinal wants dam project
halted
ucanews-18 時間前 http://bit.ly/1NKPMiH
The US$3.8 billion dam is being built on
the Irrawaddy River,Myanmar's premier waterway
for hydro electricity that will be used ...
It will be the 15th largest hydroelectric
power station in the world if completed as
planned by 2017. ... life-blood river so
ending the project is not only the will of
ethnic Kachins but also the people of Myanmar,"
Cardinal Bo said. ... a copper mine in central
Myanmar ? and questioned the outgoing government's
relationship with China and neighboring India.
◆151204 Ahead of PM Abe's visit, India-Japan
racing to seal nuclear pact
Hindustan Times-10 時間前 http://bit.ly/1QjdjWS
India and Japan are working to seal a nuclear
pact during the visit of Prime Minister Shinzo
Abe from December 11-13 for the annual summit
between the two countries. Senior officials
said some “distance still needs to be covered”
before ..
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◆151204 China Approves Construction of 3
More Dams on Brahmaputra
NDTV-9 時間前 http://bit.ly/1m0AAlj
"The 'Outline of the 12th Five Year
Plan for National Economic and Social Development
of the People's Republic of China' indicates
that three more hydropower projects on the
main stream of theBrahmaputra river in Tibet
autonomous region ...
◆151204 Stalled Hydropower Mars Modi's Vision
of a Cleaner India
Bloomberg-3 時間前 http://bloom.bg/1XEqiIx
As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorts
global leaders to embrace cleaner energy,
he's facing his own challenges in doing so
at home. Hydropower projects that would boost
the country's capacity by almost half are
held up because of ..
◆151204 10 Reasons Why Large Hydropower
Is a False Solution to Climate ...
Huffington Post-10 時間前 http://huff.to/1RqbN65
Support from climate initiatives is one of
the reasons why more than 3,700 hydropower
dams are currently under construction ...
In addition, the silt that rivers like the
Amazon, Congo, Ganges andMekong carry to
the sea feeds plankton and ...
◆151204 Bridge over Brahmaputra
Business Standard-16 時間前 http://bit.ly/21AoOyp
The work of construction of bridge over river
Brahmputra to connect Dhola (Saikhowaghat)
and Sadiya in upper Assam is in progress.
82% of the work is complete. Out of total
nine milestones, seven have been achieved
till date. The total cost ...
◆151204 Mekong Villagers give their Testimony
in Xayaburi Dam Case
Chiang Rai Times-17 時間前 http://bit.ly/1ToyOVm
BANGKOK ? A Administrative Court in Bangkok
heard testimony from two of the plaintiffs
in the case which was filed by 37 Thai Villagers
against the signing of the Power Purchase
Agreement for the Xayaburi Dam. The judges
for the case ...
◆151204 Congo Sees Inga 3 Hydropower Construction
Beginning Late 2016
Bloomberg-12 時間前 http://bloom.bg/1YMDHeC
The Democratic Republic of Congo intends
to begin construction of the Inga 3 hydroelectric
dam as early as the end of next year, according
to Prime Minister Matata Ponyo. “The project
is in an advanced state,” Ponyo said in
a Dec. 2 interview ..
