Last updated: April 28, 2010 Source: The Christian Science Monitor The Interior Department has approved the Cape Wind project, clearing the way for the first offshore wind power in the US. The long-embattled Cape Wind project won federal approval today, marking a major step toward becoming the first US offshore wind-power project and paving the [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2010’
Exxon Mobile is again 2nd worst air polluter in the US
Source: Political Economy Research Institute Exxon Mobil owns 60% of CLP Researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst today released the Toxic 100 Air Polluters (http://toxic100.org), an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States. “The Toxic 100 Air Polluters informs consumers and shareholders [...]
Mainland dams accused of carbon credit scams
Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Environmental lobby group International Rivers has condemned the emergence of trade in fake carbon credits and says the biggest source is hydroelectric power projects on the mainland. Under what is known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialised countries can support [...]
Blackout woes for plants in Dongguan
Last updated: April 7, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Severe drought results in power rationing The devastating drought in the southwest is forcing once-a-week blackouts at Dongguan factories due to power shortages from the nation’s hydroelectric dams. Since April 1, Hong Kong manufacturers say power supplies have been suspended one day each week in [...]
Letters to the Editor: Expensive, unsightly wind farms will have tiny impact on carbon footprint
Last updated: March 21, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post I refer to the article concerning the plans by power firms’ CL Power and Hongkong Electric (SEHK: 0006) to pump HK$10 billion into offshore wind farms (“Clearly inadequate”, March 14). I have to question the wisdom of these proposals. Not content with defacing Lamma with [...]