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<title>Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180202779</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 09:33 GMT</pubDate>
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...  shortages and growing demand for bio-fuels and hydro-electricity due to high fossil fuel prices rank  ...  developers look for new areas for agriculture, energy crop plantations and hydro dams. However, resisting  ...  shows a large wetland in arid northern Nigeria yielded an economic benefit in fish, firewood,  ...
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<title>Oil survey says Arctic reserves may rival top suppliers</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180199812</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 07:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  more than all the known reserves in Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico , and enough to  ...  just 1,2% of the Arctics crude . Energy producers such as Royal Dutch Shell and  ...  petroleum remaining on earth. Russia dispatched a nuclear-powered icebreaker to the Arctic Ocean last year  ...
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<title>Time to change old attitude</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180181971</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 05:44 GMT</pubDate>
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...  changes in Bangladesh, right after seizure of power by millitary controlled interim government, although people  ...  country is based on granite, gas, petrolium, coal, gold and other precious metals. According to  ...  decrease. Do we know the fact of Nigeria? That country being one of the biggest  ...
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<title>Rising energy, food prices major threats to wetlands as farmers eye new areas for crops</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180179093</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  developers look for new areas for agriculture, energy crop plantations and hydro dams. However, resisting  ...  shows a large wetland in arid northern Nigeria yielded an economic benefit in fish, firewood,  ...  affected by the construction of dams for hydropower generation and by lateral dikes that modify  ...
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<title>Oil prices ease</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180175980</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:48 GMT</pubDate>
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...  between Iran and the West over its nuclear program. Oil&apos;s slide marks the biggest three-day  ...  demand for fuel in the world&apos;s biggest energy consumer. &quot;Consumers are being pinched between higher  ...  were limited by fresh supply disruptions in Nigeria and Canada that together pulled nearly 200,000  ...
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<title>The Prospects for the 21st Century</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180175481</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT</pubDate>
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...  economic bloc. The foundation of American economic power is its physical land. There are two  ...  cells as being the next great cheap energy source. The technology promises to create useable  ...  hold on the Middle East, Venezuela, Columbia, Nigeria, the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and sections  ...
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<title>Into Africa</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180173942</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:46 GMT</pubDate>
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...  road out of colonialism, a new pseudo-colonial power--China--is busily engaged in getting exactly what it  ...  the past three years, Beijing has signed energy deals with Algeria, Nigeria, Angola, Gabon, and Sudan. Its investment in  ...
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<title>Arctic may contain 90 billion barrels of oil, USGS says</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180173346</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  more than all the known reserves of Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Mexico combined, and enough to  ...  the Arctic&apos;s crude, the U.S. report showed. Energy producers such as Royal Dutch Shell Plc  ...  petroleum remaining on Earth.&quot; Russia dispatched a nuclear-powered icebreaker to the Arctic Ocean last year  ...
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<title>Nigeria: Okenwa&apos;s Scorecard in Anambra State opinion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180173246</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
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...  ones. Before leaving office, Okenwa had signed an agreement with a Canadian firm, Access Energy of Canada, for the production of 188 mega watts of electricity from an average supply of 2000 tones of waste daily. The project which is  ...
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<title>Nigeria: Okenwa&apos;s Scorecard in Anambra State</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180173245</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  ones. Before leaving office, Okenwa had signed an agreement with a Canadian firm, Access Energy of Canada, for the production of 188 mega watts of electricity from an average supply of 2000 tones of waste daily. The project which is  ...
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<title>BUSINESS OF GREEN: Lack of funds limits potential of carbon capture</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180172742</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:44 GMT</pubDate>
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...  are considering importing coal to meet their energy needs while selling their oil and gas  ...  developing and poor countries like Angola and Nigeria, and they &quot;cannot solve the problems of  ...  Technology Platform on Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants, a coalition of European utilities, oil  ...
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<title>Government Unveils New Oil and Gas Policy</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180172079</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and gas sector. - The Ministry of Energy is now scrapped and is being replaced  ...  the National Petroleum Directorate (NPD). - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) will now be  ...  of State for Energy (Petroleum, Gas and Power), Ministers of Finance and National Planning, the  ...
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<title>Local company grows systems to meet power demand</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180155904</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 01:15 GMT</pubDate>
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... Local power specialist Structa Power, has improved its alternative  ...  alternative power systems to provide an effective energy saving solution to its portable and stationary  ...  Africa, as well as in Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Dippenaar says that Structa Power  ...
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<title>Interrogating official mechanisms for tackling climate change</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180152130</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 00:39 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to the polluter/business and a stimulus for energy guzzling countries in the North, to maintain  ...  Oil and gas projects and coal fired power continue to play a significant role in  ...  for national and global climate governance. In Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is  ...
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<title>Oil prices up on economic jitters</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180150284</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 00:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  bleaker than expected, suggesting that the purchasing power of the U.S. consumer may be waning,  ...  a general downward trend,&quot; said Rachel Ziemba, energy analyst with RGE Monitor. One factor contributing  ...  program remain high. On Wednesday, militants in Nigeria, Africa&apos;s largest oil producer, threatened to destroy  ...
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