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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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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:
Full story...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,
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...“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
Full story...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
Full story...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
Full story...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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Company Update on European BlueGen Sales and UK Feed-In Tariff
CERAMIC FUEL CELLS LIMITED CERAMIC FUEL CELLS’ BLUEGEN SALE IN THE NETHERLANDS
CERAMIC FUEL CELLS INSTALLS FIRST BLUEGEN UNIT WITH VICURBAN
Evergreen Solar Appoints Henry Ng as General Manager - Asian Operations
