Chad has become the latest country to expel foreign companies operating in its country, after the country’s president kicked energy giants Chevron and Petronas, out of a World Bank-backed project. Ironically, Chad-Cameroon pipeline project was meant to serve as a model for oil extraction in Africa. The President, Idriss Déby accused the American and Malaysian … Read More
Day: September 5, 2006
Largest Rise in CO2 for 800,000 Years
The last two centuries have seen the biggest rise in greenhouse gases in 800,000 years, according to a study of the oldest Antarctic ice core. Air bubbles trapped in ice for hundreds of thousands of years have revealed that humans are changing the composition of the atmosphere in a manner that has no known natural … Read More
20 Years Until Climatic Point of No Return
A leading expert has warned that the world has just 10 years to develop and implement new technologies to generate clean electricity before climate change reaches the point of no return. Peter Smith, a professor of sustainable energy at the University of Nottingham, said the UK and other countries had to embark on a strategy … Read More