Full Coverage: Energy

11/29/2005 Campaigners welcomed Total Oil's "humiliating climbdown" on Tuesday ­in a case in which the company was being sued in French courts over its involvement in forced labour in Burma. In an out of court settlement, the company agreed to set up a £3.5 million humanitarian fund.

11/29/2005 Energy giant Shell has failed to meet the environmental and social standards set by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on its Sakhalin-II project in the Russian Far East.

11/24/2005 A pochi giorni dal primo meeting delle Parti sul Protocollo di Kyoto, i “testimoni del clima” sono arrivati a Bruxelles per raccontare la propria storia e come i cambiamenti climatici hanno modificato le loro vite e le loro attività produttive. Un apicoltore italiano spiega come le temperature più miti abbiano cambiato la fioritura e le “api impazzite” riducono le loro attività e la produzione di miele. “Per essere credibile a livello globale, l’Unione Europea dovrebbe per prima cosa far fronte agli impegni sottoscritti per il Protocollo di Kyoto e ridurre entro il 2012 le emissioni domestiche di gas serra dell’8%. Questo obiettivo può essere raggiunto attraverso un rafforzamento dell’Emissions Trading Schem” dice il Wwf. Da Legambiente arriva la preoccupazione per le possibili ripercussioni per l’annullamento della decisione della Commissione Europea che dichiarava inammissibile la richiesta da parte della Gran Bretagna di aumentare la sua quota di gas serra. Ma l’Italia deve rispettare gli impegni del Protocollo di Kyoto, scrivono in un documento di proposte le organizzazioni ambientaliste italiane.

11/17/2005 Kriza energjetike, e cila ka pëfshirë të gjithë vendin ka shtuar kaosin në auditoret e fakulteteve të Tiranës, ku që prej 3 tetorit mësimi zhvillohet me turne, për shkak të shtimit të numrit të studentëve dhe mungesës së auditorëve.

11/17/2005 Five million tons of heat-trapping ‘greenhouse’ gas was successfully injected into Canadian oil fields while enhancing the field’s oil recovery, said the U.S. Energy Department.

11/15/2005 NEW YORK, Nov 14 (OneWorld) - Multinational oil companies were ordered by Nigeria's highest court this week to stop engaging in a decades-old process that indigenous and environmental rights groups say has been poisoning the oil-rich area where Africa's Niger River meets the Atlantic Ocean.

11/14/2005 On Wednesday, November 9, 2005, the MJAFT! Movement launched the “Herald TV”, a TV station with greatest ratings among viewers that lack electricity.

11/08/2005 Join others at your local Ford dealership Saturday for a day of action, demanding that Ford increase the fuel efficiency of its automobiles, urges non-profit organizer Global Exchange. Ford vehicles today rank last of any automaker in fuel efficiency and travel fewer miles per gallon than Fords made 20 years ago.

11/07/2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. Nov 7 (OneWorld) - Renewable energy captured from the wind, sun, Earth's heat, tides, and from small dams is drawing record levels of investment as poor villagers and entire nations alike seek clean, abundant ways to fuel economic growth.

11/07/2005 Global investment in renewable energy set a new record of $30 billion in 2004, and it's become big business in developed and developing countries alike, says a new Worldwatch report released Sunday.

11/07/2005 Charles Mkoka and Mike Shanahan report on the drive to produce 'biodiesel' from billions of trees planted across the developing world.

11/03/2005 The Albanian Energy Corporation postponed the announced electricity price hike, originally planned to take place in January 2006. The current pricy for household consumers is 5.59 Lek/kWh, and AEC plans an 8% increase. AEC has decided to take postpone the price-change to the Summer of 2006.

11/01/2005 The UK Government must ensure that G8 countries reach international agreement on reducing the growing demand for energy said leading environment group, as G8 energy ministers meet in London today.