China hopes to lead green race
China has made global headlines in recent months for overtaking the US as the largest emitter of carbon dioxide, while state media ran almost daily stories of chemical water pollution and contaminated food, writes the Mail and Guardian.
North Korea boasts about nuclear capabilities at new uranium enrichment plant
Nuclear-armed North Korea boasted today it has "many thousands of centrifuges'' running at a new uranium enrichment plant, which has raised fears the regime wants to make more fuel for atom bombs.
Lithuania has questions on Belarusian nuclear power plant construction
Lithuania "has questions" about the report on the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the future nuclear power plants in Belarus
Iran, Turkmenistan inaugurate gas pipeline
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov inaugurated on Sunday the last section of a pipeline to export Turkmen gas to northeast Iran, media reported.
Putin says EU energy laws are uncivilised 'robbery'
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday lashed out at European Union laws aimed at liberalising the continent's energy market, saying they hinder investment and amount to uncivilised 'robbery'.
SOCAR announced discovery of a huge gas field in Azerbaijan
SOCAR has announced the discovery of a huge gas field Umid in the Azerbaijani section of the Caspian Sea, SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev said.
DTEK to start exporting Ukrainian electricity to Moldova
Kyiv-based Power-Trade Ltd., part of the largest Ukrainian private energy company DTEK, expects to start commercial supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Moldova from the second quarter of 2011, Power-Trade director Andriy Favorov has said.
China, Russia agree on energy cooperation
Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met with his Russian counterpart Igor Sechin on Monday, exchanging views on Sino-Russian bilateral energy cooperation and reaching consensus on further development.
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