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Argentina Faces the Dilemma of Unconventional Oil and Gas
By Marcela Valente *
BUENOS AIRES - Vast reserves of natural gas and oil trapped underground, whose exploitation would signify major environmental impacts, will be the greatest challenge facing YPF, the Argentine oil company that recently returned to state control.
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"We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets"
By Isolda Agazzi
GENEVA - The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries.
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French Environmentalists Want ‘Green’ Without the ‘n’
By A.D.McKenzie
PARIS - As France’s president-elect Francois Hollande prepares to form a new government, many environmentalists are calling for the appointment of an ecology minister with real power who can deliver on promises to reduce the use of nuclear power as well as cut carbon emissions.
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China Key to Green Tech Innovation?
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - With U.S. federal funding sources for renewable energy sources already drying up, coupled with a newfound antipathy towards "green" issues issue here in Washington, some are suggesting that China could offer an important opportunity for the future of renewables in the United States and around the world.
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Renewable Energies Need New Incentives
Fabíola Ortiz interviews BJÖRN PIEPRZYK of the German Renewable Energy Federation *
RIO DE JANEIRO - Clean, renewable energies contribute to economic growth and job creation while decreasing dependency on imports. This is why governments should be increasing incentives for the development of renewable energy during a crisis like the one facing Europe today, German engineer Björn Pieprzyk told Tierramérica.
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Egypt-Israel Gas Issue Becoming Explosive
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO - The two weeks since Egypt's abrupt cancellation of a Mubarak-era gas-export deal with Israel have seen an exchange of indirect threats and warnings between the two countries, culminating in an apparent Israeli military build-up on the border of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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Renationalised YPF Aims to Bring Self-Sufficiency in Oil and Gas
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - After the Argentine Congress approved the renationalisation of YPF, the country’s biggest oil company, late Thursday, thousands of demonstrators from different political and social groups cheered the decision outside the legislature.
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Standing Up for the Planet and the Future
By Stephen Leahy
UXBRIDGE, Canada - What are you doing on Saturday? Peter Nix, a retiree, will be standing on a railway track on Canada's west coast blocking a coal train destined to ship U.S. and Canadian coal to Asia.
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U.S. Corporations Sponsor Carbon Scam in Europe**
By Stefano Valentino *
BRUSSELS - Major publicly traded U.S. corporations, including Dow Chemical, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Cabot Corporation, have secured multi-million-dollar dubious carbon credits to compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, as revealed in this investigative report.
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Bolivia Boosts Incentives for Foreign Oil Companies
By Franz Chávez *
LA PAZ - Almost six years after the nationalisation of gas and oil reserves in Bolivia, foreign companies maintain an active presence in the sector, and the government is now offering them greater incentives to increase oil production.
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U.S. Lifestyle Is Not Up for Negotiation
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - Just before the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, some of the industrial nations, and specifically the United States, were lambasted for their obscenely high consumption of the world's finite resources, including food, water and energy.
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U.S.
Citizens Reclaim Energy Cooperatives
By Matthew Cardinale
ATLANTA, Georgia - As the United Nations and countries around the world look at cooperatives as an alternative economic model for the production of energy, rural energy cooperatives have thrived for over eight decades in the U.S., and citizens in some parts of the country are beginning to reclaim them through the democratic process.
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High Oil Costs Drive Jamaica's Clean Energy Agenda
By Zadie Neufville*
KINGSTON - A growing appetite for oil and some of the Caribbean region's highest electricity rates and petroleum prices are driving Jamaica's thrust toward clean energy alternatives.
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Q&A
The Road to Rio Goes Through Cairo
IPS U.N. Bureau Chief Thalif Deen interviews MICHAEL HERRMANN, Economics Adviser at the U.N. Population Fund
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) rightly believes the road to Rio goes via Cairo - and that sustainable development and population are inextricably linked.
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OP-ED
Carbon Doxide Emissions on the Rise as the Kyoto Era Fades
By Xing Fu-Bertaux*
WASHINGTON - At the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the latest on-site measurements of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography reveal that global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations reached 391.3 parts per million (ppm) in 2011, up from 388.56 ppm in 2010 and from 280 ppm from pre-industrial times.
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In New U.S. "Bioeconomy", Industry Trumps Environment
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON - The White House on Thursday announced the formulation of the National Bioeconomy Blueprint, aimed at shoring up the U.S. commitment to bioscience-related research.
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But What in Place of Nuclear Power
By Ray Smith
LUCERNE, Switzerland - In the wake of Fukushima, the Swiss government decided last year to slowly, but definitely phase out nuclear energy. But the new energy strategy for the next decade has drawn criticism, especially from environmental organisations.
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Kenya "Becoming Economic Heartbeat of Africa"
By Isaiah Esipisu
NAIROBI - When Kenya’s newly announced geothermal power generation project comes online, it will turn the East African country into an economic powerhouse in the region.
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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.