Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
INDONESIA ¬ Energy and the environment are among seven sectors covered by a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in Jakarta today by the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean) and the province of Guangdong, China.
The parties agreed to cooperate on agriculture, information and communications technology, trade and investment, tourism promotion, energy and environment, education, and [...]
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BANGKOK ¬ Thailand’s PTT Plc has become the first oil company in Asia to sell E85, but the 85 percent ethanol blended fuel will hardly be a money-maker for the first few months, says a report in Bangkok Post.
In fact, the only customers for E85 will be car companies testing their imported flex-fuel vehicles (FFVs) [...]
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TOKYO ¬ Japan’s Forestry Agency has decided to devise guidelines for a proposed greenhouse-gas labelling system that will show the amount of carbon dioxide reduction if wood-based fuels are used instead of fossil fuels.
The move is part of a broader government initiative to help consumers see the amount of CO2 dioxide emitted during the [...]
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TAIPEI ¬ Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has given conditional approval to a plan by the state-owned Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) to build a temporary dump site in Taipei County despite strong protest from residents.
A government environmental impact assessment panel gave the go-ahead on condition that Taipower promises not to make the repository a final [...]
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IN A further setback for the biofuel industry, members of the Environmental Committee of the European Parliament have voted to abandon their previous target of 10 percent biofuel by 2020.
At a recent meeting they decided that 4 percent biofuel would be quite enough. They also voted for stronger sustainability criteria aimed at making it more [...]
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NISSAN Motor Co. said yesterday it will launch a diesel-powered X-Trail sport utility vehicle, the 20GT, in Japan later this month in an effort to increase its lineup of fuel-efficient cars.
Congratulations to Nissan on its continuing efforts to make gas-guzzling SUVs attractive to motorists!
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BALI ~ A power station fuelled by garbage has started operating in Bali, Indonesia, and is supplying electricity to the local state-owned electricity company.
The Sarbagita station is located at a garbage dump about 10 kilometres from the capital, Denpasar and is expected to produce 2 megawatts (MW) of electricity this year, increasing to 9.6 MW [...]
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