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Indonesia’s long, winding road to nuclear power
-The Jakarta Post- Taswanda Taryo, the National Nuclear Energy Agency’s (Batan) research chief, is phlegmatic about building the nation’s first nuclear power plant. “Despite the pros and cons, we’ll try to work on schedule,” Taswanda said. After the leak at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, however, concerns on the safety of nuclear [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Petition against Japanese export of nuke power technology
-Aliran- Despite the on-going environmental and human disasters brought by the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear reactors meltdown, the Japanese government is hell-bent on continuing its export of what has become questionable nuclear power generation technologies. A huge explosion occurred at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan following a major earthquake and tsunami Since [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Southeast Asia’s 1st nuclear plant will start in Vietnam in 2020
Bernama MOSCOW: South East Asia’s first nuclear power plant will be operational in Vietnam in 2020 after six years of construction, as demand for nuclear energy remains strong in the region in the post-Fukushima era, a nuclear conference was told Monday. It will be commissioned two years after Bangladesh completes its Roopur Nuclear Power Project [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Environmental impact report on petrochemical plant to be released Friday
-http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?ContentID=123990- The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) says the environmental impact of a controversial petrochemical plant will be decided on Friday. The EPA’s comments came Thursday after members sitting on the environmental assesment committee failed to reach a consensus on the petrochemical plant project. Scholars on both sides of the issue discussed whether the Kuokuang petrochemical company’s proposed plant would harm [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RAPID DEVELOPMENT THE WAY TO FACE CLIMATE CHANGE, SAYS ENERGY EXPERT
-Bernama- A country”s rapid economic development accompanied by their adoption of higher environmental standards can be an effective way to face climatic change, says an energy expert and former top climate negotiator for India. Although it seemed a route off the usual course for the protection of the environment, Ambassador Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, Distinguished Fellow at [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Environment a priority in Kuokuang plant controversy: Premier
http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?ContentID=123070 The future of a controversial petrochemical plant construction site will be determined by a strict environmental impact assessment. That’s the word from Premier Wu Den-yih on Thursday. The two biggest shareholders in the proposed complex are Kuokuang Petrochemical Technology Co. and CPC Corp., Taiwan. The complex has been the subject of much debate in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Southeast Asia Nuclear Power Plans Unfazed by Japan Emergency
-voanews.com-The nuclear emergency in Japan has renewed debate about the safety of nuclear power in the Asia Pacific, possibly the world’s most natural-disaster prone region. Southeast Asia has no working nuclear power plants, but most countries there plan to develop nuclear power despite the emergency. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam plan to build nuclear power [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Australia can no longer stay a lone nuclear denier
The Canberra Times Last May, at a United Nations conference in New York, the veteran Japanese diplomat and director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, glowingly endorsed civilian nuclear power. He said, “More than 60 countries are now considering the introduction of nuclear power to generate electricity. It is expected that between 10 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Strange outcome of Cancun conference
The Star – Global Trends by MARTIN KHOR Cancun climate conference had a strange outcome, with the adoption of a text created by unfamiliar methods, and which passes the burden of action onto developing countries. THE United Nations’ Cancun climate conference which adopted a text early on Dec 11 had a strange outcome. It was [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Palm oil: environmental curse or a blessing?
-AFP- By Jerome Rivet NUSA DUA, Indonesia – It is blamed for everything from deforestation to threatening the extinction of the orangutan, but palm oil is a vital source of income for many developing countries, the crop’s producers say. In Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, where the plant provides work for three million [...]
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