Travel to Cardiff and join the Power Mad protest
MORE than 1,000 people are expected to descend on Cardiff Bay next week to protest against plans to blight the Montgomeryshire landscape with 47 metre high steel pylons and a 20-acre electricity substation.
Goa to recover power dues from industrial units
The Goa government’s power department has gone into overdrive to recover Rs.16 crore in dues from nearly 92 industrial units in the state, Power Minister Aleixo Sequeira said Tuesday.
Next week Americans go to the polls to elect Congress and state officials. In California they will also be voting on a proposal called Proposition 23, which could have a profound impact on efforts to deal with climate change. In 2006, California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act. This was landmark legislation designed to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2020. However, Proposition 23 would suspend efforts to reduce those emissions until the state’s unemployment rate stayed below 5.5 per cent for four consecutive quarters. That has only been achieved three times in the last 40 years, and the number of jobless currently stands at more than 12 per cent. With Barack Obama, the US president, and Congress unable to pass a national clean energy bill, the state’s global warming law was being hailed as the most powerful stimulus for a green technology revolution in the US. But as filmmakers Joe Rubin and Dan McKinney found out, powerful fossil fuel interests are determined to stop California from providing that lead.
More Indian cultural centres to showcase soft power: PM
India will set up cultural centres in five more countries to showcase its soft power and acquire a global footprint for its rich diversity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Saturday.
Origin Energy and CLP win NSW power auction
Hong Kong’s CLP Holdings and Australia’s Origin Energy have won the much-delayed auction for electricity assets put on the block by Australia’s New South Wales state government, agreeing to …