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ENVIRONMENT-CAMBODIA: Opting For The Big Dam
By Andrew Nette
PHNOM PENH - It has been a long held plan of Cambodia’s government -- a hydropower dam on the mainstream of the Mekong River in the central part of the country.
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PORTUGAL: Mega Solar Power Plant Begins to Operate
By Mario de Queiroz
AMARELEJA, Portugal - The most ambitious and innovative solar power project in the world kicked off Monday in this white-walled village in the southern Portuguese municipality of Moura, one of the most impoverished areas in the European Union.
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VENEZUELA: The Cost of the World’s Cheapest Gasoline
By Humberto Márquez
CARACAS - The world’s most inexpensive gasoline is sold in Venezuela, through a longstanding subsidy programme that benefits car owners while depriving the oil industry of a large source of funds for reinvesting.
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ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Widespread Opposition to Power Plants
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Not only the five mega-dams planned for two pristine rivers in southern Chile have drawn opposition from environmentalists, local residents and indigenous groups, but other major hydropower and thermoelectric projects have as well.
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ENERGY-US: Obama Faces Hungry Nuclear Industry
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia - As Democratic President-elect Barack Obama prepares to take office in a few weeks, he faces a hungry nuclear industry that wants to be included in his energy plan.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Arctic Is the Canary in the Coalmine
By Stephen Leahy
QUEBEC CITY, Canada - Nearly 1,000 scientists and representatives of indigenous peoples from 16 countries have braved a major winter storm to share their findings and concerns about the rapidly warming Arctic region at the International Arctic Change conference in Quebec City.
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DEVELOPMENT-INDONESIA: Farming On The Edge
By Kafil Yamin
BANDUNG - She wore a scruffy, batik turban for protection against the midday sun. Aas Juasih, 42, looked satisfied with the paddy growing on the ‘illegal’ sawah (paddy field) that she has been cultivating for more than 15 years.
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ENVIRONMENT: EU Bank 'Financing Destruction' in Africa
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - The European Union is financing ecologically and socially destructive projects in Africa, a Brussels conference has been told.
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ENVIRONMENT-US: Bush Quietly Passes Dozens of New Rules
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - As the world community meets in Poland this week to find solutions to the climate crisis, the George W. Bush White House is chaining the United States' tiller to prevent a change of course by President-elect Barack Obama by passing new anti-environmental rules and regulations at a furious pace.
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BRAZIL: Using Science and Thinking Small to Relaunch Biofuels
By Neuza Árbocz*
SÃO PAULO - Clean and renewable energy sources are the new "El Dorado" in these times of economic crisis and global warming. While most people, it seems, want to have a car, travel and consume endlessly, the planet is giving us signs that it can no longer withstand a production model based on fossil fuels.
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TRADE: Report Sees Bonanza for U.S., Iran if Sanctions Scrapped
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - Think of it as a stimulus package without deficit spending: Were the United States to normalise trade relations with Iran and were the Islamic Republic to liberalise its economy, Washington could cut its fuel costs and add tens of billions of dollars to its economy, say U.S. exporters.
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POLITICS-US: The Second Coming of Newt Gingrich
Analysis by Bill Berkowitz*
OAKLAND, California - Ten years ago, Newt Gingrich was forced to resign as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, in a desperate search for leadership, Republican National Committee members are debating whether to turn back to the past and tap the ever-ready Gingrich.
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SRI LANKA: Oil Futures Gamble Burns 300 Million Dollar Hole
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government is grappling with a costly 300 million dollar payout to Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), following a disastrous oil futures contract between the banks and the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).
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CLIMATE CHANGE-LATIN AMERICA: Frightening Numbers
By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO CITY - The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean need billions of dollars to deal with the economic impact of climate change -- funding that is not easily found on the international market.
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FINANCE: China Takes Lead on Green Investing
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - China's efforts to green its financial sector have earned a thumbs-up from U.S. environmentalists, who say regulators here could learn from Beijing's recent success in stimulating investments that don't despoil the planet.
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DEVELOPMENT-VIETNAM: Rare Criticism of Dams Surface
By Tran Dinh Thanh Lam
CAN THO - While arguments against the development of hydropower dams on the Mekong River and its tributaries have from time to time emerged in Vietnam’s state-controlled press, rarely have government officials been as open with their criticism as they have in recent months.
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ENVIRONMENT-CHILE: Patagonia Dams On Hold
By Daniela Estrada
SANTIAGO - Environmental groups in Chile welcomed the decision by the HidroAysén energy company to seek a nine-month extension of the environmental impact assessment phase of a controversial project to build five hydroelectric dams in wilderness areas in the south of the country.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: World Willing to Pay More for Green Energy
By Wolfgang Kerler
NEW YORK - A new poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org, a global network of research centres, finds that a majority of people in 21 nations support greater use of alternative energies like wind and solar and modifications to make buildings more energy efficient, even if costs more in the short term.
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The war in Iraq, fear of one in Iran. Uncertainties in Europe over gas dependence on Russia. Greenhouse gases and the consequent fear of climate change. The battle over sources to power development in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The nuclear option, and its own dangers. One crisis after another round the world is at heart an energy crisis.