Pipeline & Gas Journal – June 2008 Canada’s Husky Energy plans to construct a 320-km pipeline as part of a major development in the South China Sea. Husky estimates development costs of the Liwan gas field may reach $US5 billion. The field is estimated to contain 4-6 Tcf of gas, making it potentially one of [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2008’
China Not To Blame For Rising Oil Price
China not to blame for rising oil price, says Xi Vice-president puts country’s use at half the world average Eric Ng – Updated on Jun 24, 2008 – SCMP Vice-President Xi Jinping hit back at criticism the mainland is guilty of energy gluttony as a Middle East oil summit failed to arrest a global increase [...]
The Village That Aims for Energy Autarky
Monday 23 June 2008 – truthout by: Jean-Pierre Stroobants, Le Monde “Mir hunn energie!” – “We have energy!” The slogan is everywhere in Beckerich. On building facades, official documents, in the heads of ecologist Deputy-Mayor Camille Gira’s fellow citizens. This fiftysome-year-old, who boils over with ideas and plans, has set an objective for his rural [...]
Lights-Out Campaign
Hong Kong skyscrapers join Asia’s major lights-out campaign Monday, 23 June 2008 Over a hundred buildings in Hong Kong, including some landmark skyscrapers, joined at least 70 other cities across Asia to turn their lights off for an hour on Saturday evening in a major lights-out campaign. Wim Chang and Kimmie Yip had a lights-out [...]
Australian Carbon Trade To Boost Affordable Energy
Reuters in Sydney – Updated on Jun 23, 2008 Australia’s emissions trading scheme starting in 2010 should make energy more affordable in the long-term, but short-term price hikes could see the government facing an A$1.8 billion (HK$13.2 billion) a year compensation bill. The Climate Institute report on energy affordability and emissions trading released on Monday [...]
Hong Kong’s Nightly Neon Blaze
City needs more enlightened approach to nightly neon blaze Updated on Jun 21, 2008 – SCMP The brighter the lights in our city and the longer they shine, the hotter and dirtier it will become. Excessive use of lighting for shops, advertising billboards and building decorations is fast becoming the norm, creating a new kind [...]
Asian Cities To Turn Off Lights One Hour
Asian cities to turn off lights one hour: energy savings June 21st, 2008 – 11:29 am ICT by IANS – DPA Taipei, June 21 (DPA) Selected areas of Asian cities including Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul plan to turn off their lights for one hour later Saturday to promote energy conservation and reduce [...]
New Bulbs To Curb Pollution
The Environment Bureau has switched to using lower-watt bulbs, turned off some lamps or adjusted the illumination angles at 40 government-owned sites that had faced complaints of light pollution, secretary Edward Yau Tang-wah said. He said that although two government slopes would be allowed to have advertisements on them, they would be muted so as [...]
Energy Demands Too Big For State Control
Wang Xiangwei – Updated on Jun 09, 2008 – SCMP As the mainland focuses its attention and resources on providing disaster relief and planning the massive reconstruction effort in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake, another crisis looms on the horizon. While last month’s disaster in Sichuan and the crippling snowstorms in February were natural [...]
Coal Supply Woes Force Early Power Rationing
Pollution threat to Olympics as factories shift to costly diesel Denise Tsang – Updated on Jun 09, 2008 – SCMP Coal supply disruptions intensified by China’s recent earthquake have brought forward scheduled peak-power rationing in industrialised Guangdong province and raised power costs, according to manufacturers. In local production hubs such as Dongguan, a three-day-a-week compulsory [...]