At the beginning of this month, US Senators Mary Landrieu and John Hoeven introduced a bill to approve the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. According to
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Estonia’s Become the 29th Member of International Energy Agency
Estonia has officially become the 29th member of the International Energy Agency (IEA) as the country completed the final steps towards full membership, IEA Executive
Namibia’s Marine Phosphate Mining Not Sustainable
The environmental lobby group Swakopmund Matters said that the Namibian marine environment was not able to meet needs of a viable fishing industry and mostly
G7: Energy Should Not be Used As a Means of Political Coercion
The Energy ministers of the seven most industrialized countries in the world have agreed that “energy should not be used as a means of political
China More Environmentally Conscious than the West?
According to a latest survey conducted in the United States, European Union, and China, the Chinese find themselves more environmentally conscious than their American and
Africa’s Next Challenge: Electricity Access
Nigerian banker and philanthropist, Tony Elumelu, spoke at the Skoll World Forum, which was held in Oxford in the UK last month, about Africa’s next
Namibia’s Moratorium on Off-Shore Phosphates Project
A moratorium has been issued against an offshore phosphates project, controlled by Lev Leviev Namibia Phosphates Ltd., which was due to begin production in 2018.
DRC Has One of Largest Gold Mines in Africa
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has just opened one of the largest gold mines in the African continent. South African companies Randgold Resources and
General Electric to Buy France’s Alstom for $17 billion
General Electric (GE), a US company, is considering buying the French engineering company Alstom for about 16.9 billion USD. GE is not the only major
Ethiopia Wants to Produce Its Own Fertilizers
Ethiopia, which spends more than $103 million on fertilizer imports every year, has decided to produce its own fertilizer to cut imports and meet its