Bruce Schulberg – Updated on Mar 31, 2008 – SCMP The mainland’s new draft energy law is short on detail but big on signals. While it remains a shell of a law waiting to be approved, it provides a glimpse of the talking points and the opportunities in coming years. With China now the world’s [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2008’
Turning The World On To Switching Off
Mark Chipperfield – Updated on Mar 27, 2008 – SCMP It is rare that Sydney has an opportunity to take the high moral ground. Founded as a dumping ground for British felons, the harbour city has always had a shady reputation – historians say its first crime, a stabbing, was committed 24 hours after the [...]
Guangdong Chief Cites Bars To Growth
Fiona Tam – Updated on Mar 26, 2008 – SCMP Guangdong must clear eight obstacles to development before it can make further economic gains, Governor Huang Huahua told provincial officials at a government meeting on Monday. The eight obstacles mainly relate to regional co-operation, construction of railway and electricity networks, insurance for rural residents, industrial [...]
Huadian In 1.4b Yuan Wind Turbine Deal
Reuters in Shanghai – Updated on Mar 25, 2008 China Huadian Corp, one of the country’s five big power generators, has agreed to buy up to 142 wind turbines worth 1.4 billion yuan (HK$1.54 billion) from China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corp under a wind power co-operation pact. In the initial phase [...]
Get Rid Of Crass Light Shows
22nd March 2008 – SCMP The article by Charmaine Carvalho (“Frazzle dazzle”, March 17), illuminates the problem of light pollution that is increasingly plaguing our city. The title of Rosemary Sayer’s biography of tycoon Gordon Wu Ying-sheung is The Man Who Turned the Lights On. Many Wan Chai residents now wish that he would turn [...]
Clear The Air Support Earth Hour 2008
Clear The Air have signed up as an organisation on the www.earthhour.org website, fully supporting the Earth Hour Initiative. On 31 March 2007, more than 2 million Sydney businesses and households turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour – sending a powerful national and global message that it’s possible to take action [...]
Fiji 7s backs Earth Hour campaign
21 MAR 2008 – Fijilive The Fiji sevens team have come out openly to support the noble initiative taken by the World Wildlife Fund for the Earth Hour campaign in the country. Fiji’s fight for global action against climate change has been very proactive for the last few weeks as business houses and individuals have [...]
Light Pollution Is Plaguing Hong Kong
Frazzle dazzle – Light pollution is plaguing a city that finds it hard to switch off Charmaine Carvalho – Updated on Mar 17, 2008 – SCMP The clock says 7pm but it’s hard to tell if it’s night or day in many parts of the city. A combination of neon signs, dazzling store windows and [...]
Potential Greenhouse Pollutant Helps Power Treatment Plants
Biogas from sewage to save HK$15m a year Potential Greenhouse Pollutant Helps Power Treatment Plants Cheung Chi-fai – SCMP – Updated on Mar 15, 2008 Up to HK$15 million would be saved annually under a plan by the Drainage Services Department to use sewage-generated biogas for power generation, officials said yesterday. Under the plan, about [...]