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Poweralternatives News headlines March 19, 2010

Asia Pacific News Edition

News: March 08, 2010

Better Weather Ahead

Obviously feeling braver than the UK Met Office, the US government’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) last week gave a long-term forecast that the deadly El Nino weather anomaly should dissipate by early summer in the northern

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News: March 07, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: Electric Cars Still Have A Long Road Ahead, But Solar And Nuclear Surge Forward

Show there certainly was - though not a lot of substance – in the line up of electric cars at last week’s Geneva Motor Show. Renault and Nissan were claiming that they would be the only ones on the market with volume production

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News: March 01, 2010

Indian Moves To Curb Food Prices And Imports

In a move likely to have far reaching effects India, a major player in international food import and export markets, is making a push to increase the size of its food bowl after a poor monsoon season cut harvests. Failure of much

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News: February 28, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: Incentives In India Boost Alternatives, While Nuclear Continues To Win Favour Worldwide

There was a major boost for alternatives last week as India announced a number of measures to encourage investment in the alternative energy space. These ranged from a tax on coal, to the creation of a new clean energy technology

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News: February 22, 2010

More Corporate Action Among The Big Boys In The Fertiliser Sector

More corporate action in the booming fertiliser sector! This time it was a US$4.1 billion all-cash bid from Yara International, the world’s largest listed fertiliser specialist, for Terra Industries, its US competitor. The price

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: February 21, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: Carbon Markets Weaken As The UN Loses A Key Negotiator

There was surprise and dismay in the climate change camp last week as Yvo de Boer, the United Nations officer who’s been in charge of global talks to cut greenhouse gas emissions for the last four years, announced his

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News: February 15, 2010

Climate Change May Mean Kevin Rudd Has Only One Term As Prime Minister Of Australia

When I returned to Australia after a prolonged trip to Europe I ran into an extremely well-known Labor elder statesman. Diplomacy dictates I don't mention his name. After an exchange of pleasantries he said to me, unprompted:

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News: February 15, 2010

Indian And Chinese Grocers Beat The World

Taking a look at the world’s food markets the Indian analysts IGD pointed last week to phenomenal speed at which India and China’s appetites for groceries are growing. China will become world leader in the grocery market by 2014,

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News: February 14, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: Strength In Chinese Windpower, And Local Emissions Trading Schemes Gather Momentum

With China now officially the world’s fastest-growing wind energy market, accounting for a third of all new capacity, the queue of IPOs of company’s hoping to cash in on this market is lengthening. Just days after Huaneng Group

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News: February 08, 2010

US Major Funds Go For Commodities

Even as commodity markets turned bearish, following other markets into a state of jitters about Europe’s economies, the second-largest of the largest US public pension funds announced it was considering investing in them. The

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News: February 07, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: A Brazilian Shortfall And New Measures From President Obama Combine To Boost Ethanol Prices

President Barack Obama lived up to his promises this week, annoucing a series of major steps to boost US biofuels production. At a meeting with a bipartisan group of governors from around the US, he laid out three measures which

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News: February 02, 2010

Altona Energy Moves To The Bankable Feasibility Stage On Its Huge Coal-To-Liquids Project In Australia

“We no longer have a putative project, we have a business.” So says Chris Lambert, chairman of Altona Energy, the London Aim-traded, Australia-based company with plans to develop a massive coal-to-liquids scheme in South

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: February 01, 2010

Potash Pulls In Bids, Bankers And Bulls

Fertilisers were where it was all happening last week, as supplies started to run low and the world’s two largest mining groups announced plans to spend a total of US$4.9 billion on acquisitions in the market. Vale is to buy a 16

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News: January 31, 2010

The Week In Alternative Power: Ted Turner And BlackRock Get Behind Solar, And Carbon Markets Weaken

As President Obama struggles to get a climate bill through the US Senate, flamboyant billionaire Ted Turner has announced that he is putting his money into solar power. He has joined forces with Southern, an Atlanta-based power

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News: January 28, 2010

Putting A Cork In It – The Russian Wine Ripoff, Or What A Kremlin Sobriety Will Cost

Russia’s anti-trust buster, the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), has established a record of making much ado about little; and of regulating only those corners of the Russian market where no oligarch-sized interest is

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