Archive for the 'Envoirment' Category
GE Boosts Offshore Wind With Acquisition
Posted on September 15, 2009 - Filed Under Envoirment, Wind Engergy | Leave a Comment
General Electric filled out its offshore wind turbine portfolio by buying ScanWind, which makes direct-drive turbine components.
GE said that it has completed the acquisition, which was valued at a about $18.5 million. ScanWind, which is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway and has a design center in Karlstad, Sweden, is now testing 11 turbines off the Norwegian coast.
ScanWind [...]
Gorgon Gas Project Given Environmental Approval
Posted on April 30, 2009 - Filed Under Envoirment | Leave a Comment
ALI MOORE: Australia’s largest proposed resources development, the Gorgon gas project has been given environmental approval.
The owners of the $50 billion project have welcomed the decision and will make a financial investment decision later this year.
Eliza Blue reports.
ELIZA BLUE: The Gorgon gas project is one of the world’s most ambitious and expensive LNG projects. It [...]
Antarctica and Arctic Are Getting Less Icy Due To Global Warming: Scientists Say
Posted on October 31, 2008 - Filed Under Climate, Environmental Problem, Envoirment, Global Warming, environment, environmental issue | Leave a Comment
Both Antarctica and the Arctic are getting less icy because of global warming, scientists said in a study that extends evidence of man-made climate change to every continent.
Detection of a human cause of warming at both ends of the earth also strengthens a need to understand ice sheets on Antarctica and Greenland that would raise world [...]
