Archive for December 4th, 2009

Obama Signals Support for Weatherization, Infrastructure Plans

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama signaled he’ll push for initiatives on energy efficiency and infrastructure spending as ways to spur job growth.

Source: news.yahoo.com

Bellona hosts wide-ranging discussion on nuclear dangers in Russia’s Northwest

Friday, December 4th, 2009

As Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation beings to apply a stranglehold on information about the country’s nuclear energy programmes, the public is less and less likely to find out about how the Kola Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is operating at 104 percent capacity on reactors that have outlived their perspective life-spans.

Source: www.bellona.org

Slippery slope - peak oil and climate change

Friday, December 4th, 2009

When Winston Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty 98 years ago he made a pivotal reform that assured the British navy’s dominance of the waves during World War One.

Source: www.skynews.com.au

Solar power loan project kicks off | The National

Friday, December 4th, 2009

PAPUA New Guineans can now afford solar power to bring brighter, cheaper, safer and cleaner light and power into their homes.

Source: www.thenational.com.pg