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• $70 million London Underground deal awarded to ABB

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 139
  ABB, an automation technology leader, has won a $70 million deal from Transport for London to construct a point substation to power London’s underground rail network. Under the contract, the Swiss company will build the Edgware Road substation and supply the needed electrical components – including switchboards ...
  18 hours ago

• First solar charging point installed in New York

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 139
  Beautiful Earth Group, a sustainable energy firm, had earlier unveiled the first solar-powered charging station for electric cars in New York. The newly installed charging point will also let the company to recharge its electric-powered MINI E vehicle using solar power, making it one of the few automobiles to run ...
  2 days ago

• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  5 days ago

• Mystic Wolmar on the ball. Tube Lines not.

  
  Railway Eye - the railway blog — Authority: 140
  Telegrammed by our International Correspondent Mystic Wolmars crystal ball is working well these days. On the 13th December he predicted the demise of Tube Lines, the other half of the dead and rotting PPP Siamese twin, Metrodebt. Lo and behold today Regulator Bolt obliged, favouring LULs projected £4 ...
  6 days ago

• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  6 days ago

• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
  6 days ago

• Tube Lines vs TFL: A judgment which will please nobody

  
  Westminster Blog — Authority: 536
  The Chris Bolt adjudication (I flagged it up yesterday) came through this morning, as my colleague Robert Wright reports. It is particularly bad news for the Tube Lines PPP consortium.The PPP arbiter has told Tube Lines it will have to do the upgrade work on its three Underground lines for £4.4bn. That suggests a gap ...
  6 days ago

• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
  6 days ago

• London Mayor Johnson pledged 25,000 electric car charging points

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 139
  London Mayor Boris Johnson earlier revealed his plan to turn the UK’s capital city into an ‘electric car capital of Europe’, vowing that each Londoner is within one mile reach from an electric charging point by 2015. Speaking in the Copenhagen climate conference, Johnson informed fellow policymakers on his plan ...
  6 days ago

• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
  1 week ago

• Johnson pledges: one mile to an electric car charging point

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 481
  Every Londoner will be no more than one mile from an electric car charge point by 2015, London Mayor Boris Johnson has said.Speaking yesterday at the Copenhagen climate summit, the Mayor revealed detailed plans to deliver a comprehensive network of electric charge points in the capital, supporting the mainstream use ...
  1 week ago

• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  1 week ago

• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
  1 week ago

• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
  1 week ago

• GLA PLENARY QUESTION TIME – 9/12/09

  
  Richard Barnbrook — Authority: 117
  Last Wednesday I had an opportunity to question Boris Johnson in his capacity as Chairman of Transport for London (TfL) and Peter Hendy Chief Excutive of TfL. My question is detailed below: If Tube Lines do not renew their Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contract at the end of 2009, what are the contingency plans ...
  1 week ago

• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
  1 week ago

• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
  1 week ago

• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
  1 week ago

• TfL draws up plans to take over Tube Lines

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  Underground contractor facing crunch finance decision as its projects descend into shambles, writes Andrew Gilligan
  1 week ago

• Solar power mounts in Canada

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Solar power is heating up in the northern reaches of Canada, a country not exactly known for its sunny rays and warm weather. The industry has seen a heap of news from the region this week. US. solar heavyweight First Solar and Canadian pipeline company Enbridge announced that they are quadrupling the size of a ...
  1 week ago

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