News headlines for “Energy Security”, page 93
In India’s Western Gujarat State, Sustainable Energy Starts With the Sun
- Inter Press Service
BARODA, India, Jan 19 (IPS) - It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada that irrigates some 1.8 million hectares of arable land in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
Aid Freeze Over Energy Controversy a Blow to Tanzanian Economy
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 18 (IPS) - As foreign donors drag their feet on injecting badly needed cash into the government's coffers, local analysts are increasingly worried that this will affect implementation of key development projects that require donor funding.
Island States Throw Off the Heavy Yoke of Fossil Fuels
- Inter Press Service
Haitians Worry World Bank-Assisted Mining Law Could Result in “Looting”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (IPS) - With Haiti's Parliament possibly set to dissolve by Tuesday, civil society groups are worried that the Haitian president may move to unilaterally put in place a contentious revision to the country's decades-old mining law.
St. Vincent Embarks on Renewable Energy Path
- Inter Press Service
KINGSTOWN, Jan 12 (IPS) - For decades, the fertile slopes of La Soufriere volcano, which occupies the northern third of this 344-kilometre-square island, has produced illegally grown marijuana that fuels the local underground economy, and the trade in that illicit drug across the eastern Caribbean.
Oil Price Plunge Could Take a Bite from Arms Budgets
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 02 (IPS) - In a satirical piece titled 'An Unserious Look at the Year Ahead' in the Wall Street Journal last week, Hugo Rifkind predicts the price of a barrel of oil will fall so low that people across the world would start buying oil for the barrel - and throw the oil out.
Falling Oil Prices Threaten Fragile African Economies
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 23 (IPS) - The sharp decline in world petroleum prices - hailed as a bonanza to millions of motorists in the United States - is threatening to undermine the fragile economies of several African countries dependent on oil for their sustained growth.
Searching for Evidence of a Nuclear Test
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, Dic 22 (IPS) - The most sophisticated on-site inspection exercise conducted to date by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) formally concluded this month.
What the U.S. Should Learn from Russia’s Collapse
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - After months of whispered warnings, Russia's economic troubles made global headlines when its currency collapsed halfway through December. Amid the tumbling price of oil, the ruble has fallen to record lows, bringing the country to its most serious economic crisis since the late 1990s.
REDD and the Green Economy Continue to Undermine Rights
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 18 (IPS) - Dercy Teles de Carvalho Cunha is a rubber-tapper and union organiser from the state of Acre in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, with a lifelong love of the forest from which she earns her livelihood – and she is deeply confounded by what her government and policymakers around the world call "the green economy."
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