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Bruce Power President To Nuclear Industry Advisory Panel
Saskatchewan has named the president of a company that is looking at building a nuclear power plant in the province to a panel that is to advise the government on how to develop its uranium and nuclear industry.
Duncan Hawthorne, president of Bruce Power Inc., is one of 12 people who were appointed to the Uranium [...]
Project Of Gold Copper Mine Exploration Near Edmonton Delay
Sherritt International is delaying its plan to build a $3.3 billion coal gasification project near Edmonton due to uncertainty over carbon dioxide regulations and the products the plant could make.
Sherritt’s original plan was to file its environmental impact assessment on the proposal this year and start construction next year, with production to begin in 2012.
A [...]
Miners to sink $1b into clean coal
Under political pressure over climate change, the coal industry has vowed to raise at least $1 billion to develop technology to curb greenhouse gases.
The announcement increases by $700 million the funds producers have committed to clean coal technology.
Both the federal government and Labor have put much store in the technology as a way of reducing [...]
Miners vow on clean coal
Under political pressure over climate change, the coal industry has vowed to raise at least $1 billion to develop technology to curb greenhouse gases.
The announcement increases by $700 million the funds producers have committed to clean coal technology.
Both the federal government and Labor have put much store in the technology as a way of reducing [...]
Shell oil joins coalition for greenhouse gas emissions caps
Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. arm said Monday it has joined a corporate/environmental coalition urging Congress to require limits on greenhouse gases tied to global warming, the third oil major to do so.
The Anglo-Dutch company said it has joined the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of big business and environmental groups that in January sent [...]
The Post-Abundance Era
Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, foreign policy analysts have struggled to find a term to characterize the epoch we now inhabit. Although the “Post-Cold War Era” has been the reigning expression, this label now sounds dated and no longer does justice to the particular characteristics of the current period. Others have spoken [...]
