News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 133
Russia to Get Venezuelan Oil for a Few Cents a Barrel
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Mar 18 (IPS) - Russian state oil firm Rosneft and Venezuela's PDVSA (Petróleos de Venezuela S.A.) have agreed to form a partnership to exploit an oilfield with estimated reserves of 40 billion barrels, strengthening the alliance between the two countries.
Obama Proposes Major New Renewables Research
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a broad new proposal to step up U.S. research into renewable energy technologies, particularly in transportation, which is responsible for around 70 percent of the United States' oil use.
Latin America Won’t Lose Cheap Oil from Venezuela
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 14 (IPS) - Venezuela will keep in place the regional energy integration policies promoted by the late president Hugo Chávez if he is succeeded by acting president Nicolás Maduro, experts on regional relations told IPS.
Pak-Iran Pipeline Carries Energy and Defiance
- Inter Press Service
, Mar 14 (IPS) - After almost two decades of non-stop negotiations, and two years of intense U.S. opposition, the much-delayed and controversial 7.5 billion dollar Iran-Pakistan pipeline is well on its track to full operation in the next 15 months.
Native Women Bring Solar Energy to Chile's Atacama Desert
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Mar 13 (IPS) - Three indigenous communities from the Chilean highlands have just received solar panels, which will be set up and maintained by unlikely solar engineers: five native women who travelled halfway around the world to India and overcame language and other barriers to bring photovoltaic energy to their villages.
Civil Society Wants Bigger Role in Green Climate Fund Planning
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 12 (IPS) - As the new board of the United Nations Green Climate Fund meets in Berlin this week, activist and watchdog groups here and around the world are expressing frustration over proposed rules they say are already significantly limiting civil society participation in the new initiative.
Public Pays for Fukushima While Nuclear Industry Profits
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 12 (IPS) - Two years after Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the country faces 100 to 250 billion dollars in cleanup and compensation costs, tens of thousands of displaced people and widespread impacts of radiation.
Brazilian-Made Plastic Solar Panels, a Clean Energy Breakthrough
- Inter Press Service
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Mar 12 (IPS) - As part of the country's growing emphasis on green tech research, Brazilian scientists have developed plastic solar panels that could revolutionise power generation from this clean, renewable energy source.
Canada Losing Its Seasons
- Inter Press Service
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 11 (IPS) - "Canada is not a country, it's winter," Canadians say with pride. But the nation's long, fearsome winters will live only in memory and song for Canadian children born this decade.
Fukushima Running Out of Workers
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Mar 11 (IPS) - Japan has promised to scrap the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors that faced the world's worst nuclear accident. But Hiroyuki Watanabe, councillor in Iwaki City located 30 kilometres from the accident site, greets such intentions on the second anniversary of the disaster on Monday with misgiving.
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