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Greenfield Project Management Ltd has confirmed that it has entered into an agreement with Litasco SA, Geneva which both parties intend will lead to the conclusion of an offtake (sales) agreement for the output of bioethanol from the first phase of Greenfield’s bioenergy complex at Mozyr, Republic of Belarus.
Litasco (LUKoil International Trading and Supply Company) is [...]
WASHINGTON—Punctuated by President Obama’s Wednesday announcement of $2.4 billion in Recovery Act funding for 48 new advanced battery and electric drive projects, top Administration officials fanned out across the nation this week to highlight the enormous opportunities for Americans in the emerging clean energy economy.
“The United States led the world’s economies in the 20th century [...]
By Jan Battles
Sunday Times
It will be centuries before Belarus is completely free from the radio-activity that fell after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 23 years ago. But an Irish company has come up with an innovative way of cleaning up the country’s contaminated land in as little as 30 years.
The Chernobyl Bio-clean Programme is being presented [...]
DUBLIN, 25 June 2009 — A delegation from Greenfield Project Management Ltd has arrived in Minsk, Belarus, to advance arrangements for the start of construction of its bioenergy plant at Mozyr. Led by CEO Michael Rietveld, the delegation will meet officials of local state companies including Greenfield’s joint venture partner Belbiopharm, agriculture services company Belagroservice, [...]
Beltway for electrical energy solves long-standing problem
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries — for cell phones and other devices — that could recharge in seconds rather than hours.
The work could [...]
There were conflicting estimates of the numbers of people at the march, which began on the north side of Dublin in the middle of the afternoon.
Police said 100,000 people were on the streets, while organisers said they expected 200,000 to protest in total.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (Ictu), which organised the [...]
Gazprom flexes muscles with european supply concerns mounting.
The talks with Ukraine over gas supplies in 2009 have yielded no result. The arrears to Gazprom for previous gas deliveries haven’t been cleared till the end of this day. Despite the oral declarations from Kiev, Gazprom hasn’t received any money. We have heard a negative reply to [...]
MEPs’ biofuel vote could bring production to ’standstill’
LEIGH PHILLIPS
12.09.2008 @ 09:29 CET
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – European legislators in an influential parliamentary committee have voted to drastically scale back the EU’s plans for the use of biofuels.
In a 50 to 2 vote MEPs in the European Parliament’s industry committee on Thursday (11 September) voted to maintain [...]