News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 114
Switching Off Market ‘Reforms’ in the Philippines
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Jan 27 (IPS) - After two decades of aggressively privatising its public services, the Philippines is beginning to realise the cost of mindless market reforms.
U.S. Agency Accused of Safeguards Failure in Liberia Investment
- Inter Press Service
, Jan 23 (IPS) - Hundreds of Liberians have filed a complaint accusing a U.S. government agency of failure to carry out due diligence or ensure that safeguards were followed for investments made to a failed biomass project in Liberia.
The Future According to Mr. Clean (Energy)
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jan 23 (IPS) - Jigar Shah likes math. It inspires him. After all, crunching numbers allowed him to convince wary investors of the money-making potential of solar energy, allowing him to ignite an industry that was crippled by roadblocks.
Dammed Rivers Create Hardship for Brazil’s Native Peoples
- Inter Press Service
FOZ DO IGUAÇU/PAULO AFONSO, Brazil, Jan 22 (IPS) - The Itaparica hydroelectric power plant occupied land belonging to the Pankararu indigenous people, but while others were compensated, they were not. They have lost land and access to the São Francisco river, charge native leaders in Paulo Afonso, a city in northeastern Brazil.
Voluntary Fracking Certification Kicks Off in U.S.
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (IPS) - A controversial new certification process that could cover a significant portion of the U.S. oil-and-gas "fracking" industry began accepting applications on Tuesday, indicating the formal start of an initiative that has the backing of some key industry players and some environmentalists – but by no means all of either.
Alto Maipo Project Endangers Santiago's Water Supply
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Jan 21 (IPS) - A hydroelectric project under construction near the Chilean capital poses a threat to the supply of drinking water to more than six million people living in the Santiago Metropolitan Region.
Clean Energy Investment Sags Amid Mounting Climate Risks
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 16 (IPS) - Despite Wall Street’s nascent rediscovery of green energy, global investment in alternative energy declined by 12 percent last year.
Big Coal Undercuts Landmark U.S. Overseas Investment Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (IPS) - Environmentalists and some lawmakers are decrying a surprise move by conservative members of Congress to roll back landmark “clean energy†policies guiding U.S. investments in overseas power projects.
Development Follows Devastation from Brazilian Dam
- Inter Press Service
PETROLANDIA, Brazil, Jan 13 (IPS) - Valdenor de Melo has been waiting for 27 years for the land and cash compensation he is due because his old farm was left underwater when the Itaparica hydroelectric dam was built on the São Francisco river in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast.
Blackouts in Argentina Highlight Failings of Privatisation
- Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Jan 10 (IPS) - Record temperatures at the start of the southern hemisphere summer in Argentina have been accompanied by highs on the thermometer of social discontent, as consumption peaks left thousands without electricity and threw into sharp focus the failings of the privatisation of the power industry in the 1990s.
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