Posted on December 9th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Environmental organizations throughout the world say the World Bank is not fit to be the custodian of the billions of dollars being set aside by industrialised countries to combat climate change.
More than 140 organisations issued a statement in Poznan today in which they make it clear they do not trust the bank, [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ Singapore authorities have given the go-ahead in principle for the construction of a US$1.4 billion coal-fired co-generation power plant.
Local energy producer Tuas Power said in a statement received by Green Assembly, construction will commence next year and the plant will start operating in 2011.
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Green Assembly
HONG KONG ~ China’s top legislature has passed a raft of environmental laws that will come into force throughout the country on New Year’s Day, 2009.
The objective of the new legislation is to boost sustainability through energy savings and the reduction of harmful emissions.
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
Worst performers are Rio Tinto, Alcoa and Intergen
SINGAPORE ~ Some major Australian power generators are doing next to nothing to prepare for a low-carbon future, according to a new report from WWF-Australia.
The 2008 WWF-Australia Power Generators Carbon Future Score Card assessed 19 of Australia’s power firms on the work they are doing to reduce their [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Green Assembly
RANGOON ~ The Shweli River hydroelectric power plant has begun feeding electricity into the national grid and should reach full capacity within six months, according to newspaper reports.
Located about 27 kilometres southwest of Mantet village in Namkham district, northern Shan State, the 600-megawatt (MW) plant is 90 percent finished, said the New Light of Myanmar. [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
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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Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
GREENPEACE UK has put it’s full support behind carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as part of the solution to combat climate change, the organisation said in a recent press statement.
Greenpeace had previously been firmly opposed to CCS technologies but they have now made a joint statement with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Friends of [...]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
MANILA ~ The Olongapo City government has passed a resolution objecting to a proposed 300 MW coal power plant in the Subic Bay area. Greenpeace Southeast Asia welcomed the decision and has called on other Philippine cities and provinces to join the movement to ‘quit coal’ and go renewable as a solution to stop dangerous [...]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
GREENPEACE Southeast Asia will march in Bangkok tomorrow (Tuesday 05 August) in a renewed bid to prevent the government from going ahead with its plan to develop a string of nuclear power plants in Thailand.
The group is using tomorrow’s meeting of the energy ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Bangkok, to [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Greenpeace activists have repeated their call for a halt to the construction of coal-fired power stations to generate electricity in Thailand, saying the burning of coal is not only a serious human health hazard but is also a major contributor to global warming.
In a peaceful protest at the Ministry of Energy (MoE) headquarters in [...]
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