Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
Five times more carbon per capita than China
CANBERRA ~ Prominent climate scientists criticized the Australian government’s top climate adviser today, saying his recommended targets for carbon emissions were too weak and would not help avoid catastrophic climate change, according to Reuters.
Climate adviser Ross Garnaut has urged the government to cut Australian Greenhouse gas emissions by [...]
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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 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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Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Burning coal to generate electricity damages crops, fouls the air, increases global warming, hurts the economy, severely impacts on people’s health and is definitely not the way forward for Thailand or any other country in Asia, a Greenpeace leader said today.
The Greenpeace campaign director for southeast Asia, Mr Shailandra Yashwant, said that Thailand [...]
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