Energy News of the Week (May 19-25, 2014)
2016/05/20
< Asia >
The Significance of the China-Russia Gas Deal
the Diplomat-2014/05/24
LNG projects due to come online in Australia, and the prospect of LNG exports from the U.S. and Canada, give Beijing ... The threat of sector-focused sanctions from the U.S., aimed at Russia's energyindustry, has intensified Russia's desire to ...
Asia's future
Republica-2014/05/25
Thailand, one of Asia's most prosperous countries, seems determined to render itself a basket case. ... (“fracking”) technology in Xinjiang suggests that China, like America, will soon be able to draw on its own reserves of shale energy.
< North America >
Energy companies are hacked more than banks
Houston Chronicle-2014/05/24
Two in five U.S. energy companies say cyberattacks have sneaked past their defenses in the past year, an even bigger ... Increasingly complex malware programs are slipping by energy firm's security measures and have infected a growing ...
< South America >
Lagging Urban Transport Works Hinder World Cup Sustainability
Truth-Out-2014/05/24
NATAL, Brazil - Brazil's efforts to promote the image of an environmentally sustainable World Cup have focused on the ... But the coordinator of transport research in the CivilEnergy Department of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, ...
< Africa >
Let's build green cities now
The Standard Digital News-2014/05/24
The flip-side is East Africa is also urbanising at a fast rate, leaving little time to plan and execute green cities. With a population of ... If it has perennial traffic jams, then it is doing the exact opposite ? increasing energy usage. IBM's Commuter ...
< Europe >
EU Project Provides State-Of-The-Art Atmosphere Monitoring Service
Eurasia Review-2014/05/21
MACC-II (Monitoring Atmospheric Composition and Climate ? Interim Implementation), an EU-funded project, combines ... air quality, global atmospheric composition, climate forcing, the ozone layer and UV radiation, and solar energy.
< Australia >
Australia's pollution U-turn
Southland Times-2014/05/24
Australia's program to rein in pollution is losing momentum, the latest in a series of setbacks for the international effort to ... Obama," said Kobad Bhavnagri, the Sydney-based head forAustralia research at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.