Hanoi (AFP) Jun 08, 2005 - Vietnam's government has ordered the relocation of more than 8,600 people from the site of a reservoir for a huge hydro-electric dam by November, an official working on the project said Wednesday.
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 08, 2005 - Microbiologists seeking ways to eliminate pollution from waterways with microbes instead discovered that some pollution-eating bacteria commonly found in freshwater ponds can generate electricity. They present their findings today at the 105th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology.
Washington, (UPI) June 7, 2005 - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday the proposed $4 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline should be accelerated because it is in the interest of all three countries, but those comments are likely to face U.S. opposition ahead of a visit by Pakistani Foreign Minister Kurshid Kasuri.
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 06, 2005 - Japan will ask the European Union to declare it a joint host of a revolutionary nuclear energy project even if the reactor is located in France, a newspaper said Monday.
Beijing (AFP) Jun 06, 2005 - A decision on who wins the right to build four 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plants is expected soon and political considerations will not play a part, China's top nuclear industry executive said Monday.
Kushiro, Japan (AFP) Jun 05, 2005 - In the often snow-covered landscape of northern Japan, French oil giant Total is working with a Japanese consortium with a goal of mass producing by 2010 a new eco-friendly fuel derived from natural gas.
Dhaka (AFP) Jun 05, 2005 - Bangladesh's state-owned Petrochemical company, Petrobangla, signed an 82 million dollar deal with two Chinese companies to extract coal from one of the country's biggest mines, a junior minister said Sunday.
Madison WI (SPX) Jun 03, 2005 - University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering researchers have discovered a new way to make a diesel-like liquid fuel from carbohydrates commonly found in plants.
Maputo (AFP) Jun 03, 2005 - Natural gas in Africa will play a major role in the future of the continent's energy needs and can be used in wide-ranging roles from household cooking to generating electricity at power stations, an African energy expert said Friday.
Washington (UPI) June 3, 2005 - Ships and pipelines transport more than 35 million barrels of oil daily and much of the traffic passes through narrow and hazardous straits.
Huntington NY (SPX) Jun 02, 2005 - Green Energy Resources is poised for a $2 billion dollar, 40 million ton, 10 year, 3 stage phase in deal in Europe. The contract begins in 2006 and escalates in volumes as 3 biomass power plants are constructed.
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2005 - SunPower has announced that SOLON has opened Phase One of the world's largest solar electric plant in Bavaria near Arnstein, Germany. Solarpark Gut Erlasse is a 12 MW solar electric plant located in a working agricultural field and can serve the electricity needs of thousands of customers each year.
Berlin (AFP) Jun 02, 2005 - Swedish energy group Vattenfall said Thursday it would not go ahead with a shipment of nuclear waste from Germany to Sellafield, the British nuclear plant where a leak of radioactive material went unnoticed for months.
Sydney (AFP) Jun 02, 2005 - Australia's most powerful state leader broke a long-held taboo Thursday by suggesting the country turn to nuclear power as a way to ensure energy supplies and combat global warming.
Beijing (UPI) Jun 01, 2005 - China and Japan failed to reach an agreement on the disputed gas-field project in the East China Sea following two days of talks that concluded Tuesday in Beijing.
Newport News VA (SPX) May 31, 2005 - Jefferson Lab's Institute for Superconducting Radiofrequency Science & Technology has, for the first time, successfully fabricated and tested a single cell accelerating cavity made from a single crystal of niobium.
