Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE Singapore Energy Conference at the Raffles City Convention Centre, is being positioned as the flagship event of the island state’s International Energy Week, November 3-7.
Scheduled speakers include: minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew; Mr Malcolm Wicks, UK minister of state for energy; Prof S. Jayakumar, deputy prime minister Singapore; Mr S. Iswaran, senior minister of [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
A COAL-FIRED power station that does not release any CO2 into the atmosphere is due to start operating in Germany next week.
According to a report by BBC World, it will be the first coal-fired plant in the world that captures and stores its own CO2 emissions.
The station is a 5Megawat pilot project for carbon capture [...]
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Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
A KOREAN-owned biofuel factory is being blamed by local officials and villagers for dead fish and polluted water in a lake near the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, according to newspaper reports.
Provincial officials and local villagers in Kandal province claim liquid waste from the plant, which produces ethanol for automobile biofuel, has polluted a public lake [...]
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