News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 110
Fracking, Seismic Activity Grow Hand in Hand in Mexico
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 03 (IPS) - Scientists warn that large-scale fracking for shale gas planned by Mexico's oil company Pemex will cause a surge in seismic activity in northern Mexico, an area already prone to quakes.
For Guyana, Energy Plus Efficiency Equals Common Sense Development
- Inter Press Service
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Apr 01 (IPS) - Guyana is shaping up to set a gold standard for the Caribbean in implementing a national energy efficiency strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.
What Nepal Doesn’t Know About Water
- Inter Press Service
KATHMANDU, Apr 01 (IPS) - Water is a critical resource in Nepal's economic development as agriculture, industry, household use and even power generation depends on it. The good news is the Himalayan nation has plenty of water. The bad news - water abundance is seasonal, related to the monsoon months from June to September.
IPCC Climate Report Warns of “Growing Adaptation Deficit”
- Inter Press Service
U.S. Rejected Israeli Demand for Iran Nuclear Confession
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 31 (IPS) - The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons programme as a condition for completing the comprehensive nuclear agreement.
Commonwealth Works to Raise Climate Resiliance on Global Agenda
- Inter Press Service
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Mar 31 (IPS) - As they fine-tune preparations for the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference in Samoa and the United Nations post-2015 development framework meeting in September, Commonwealth states are focusing on getting the international community to pay more attention to the challenges they face.
ExxonMobil to Disclose Carbon Emissions Risk
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 25 (IPS) - As the international community and the U.S. government place a heightened emphasis on reducing carbon emissions as a way to combat global climate change, shareholders have convinced the oil-and gas giant ExxonMobil to publicly disclose the risk that strengthened regulation could pose to its profits.
Egypt Gets Muscular Over Nile Dam
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Mar 21 (IPS) - When Egypt's then-president Mohamed Morsi said in June 2013 that "all options" including military intervention, were on the table if Ethiopia continued to develop dams on the Nile River, many dismissed it as posturing. But experts claim Cairo is deadly serious about defending its historic water allotment, and if Ethiopia proceeds with construction of what is set to become Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, a military strike is not out of the question.
World Bank Clears Congo’s Controversial Dam Project
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - The World Bank Thursday approved a 73.1-million-dollar grant in support of a controversial giant dam project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
U.S. Scientists Launch Wake-Up Campaign on Climate Change
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 19 (IPS) - In an unusual intervention in policy debates, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) warned Tuesday that that world was "at risk of pushing our climate system toward abrupt, unpredictable, and potentially irreversible changes with highly damaging impacts."
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