| Tue 9 Feb 2010 |
Toyota set to recall Prius
Al Jazeera | Toyota looks set to inform Japan's transport ministry that it will recall its Prius flagship hybrid on Tuesday, according to Japanese media. | Expectation has been building since last week that it would recall nearly 300,000 units of its Prius mode... |
Comments by Guma spark fears of rate hike
Business Report | Talk of end to stimulus plan | By Ethel Hazelhurst | Submit your comment | Comments from Reserve Bank deputy governor Xolile Guma, implying that South Africa's rate cutting cycle may soon be reversed, took economists by surprise. | According... |
SA's inflation targeting band needs to be widened
Business Report | By Annabel Bishop | Submit your comment | Despite South Africa experiencing a severe recession recently, one that had likely not ended in the labour market by the end of last year, inflation was 6.3 percent year on year in December. | If the... |
Blast Probe Looks at Gas-Line Clearing
Wall Street Journal By MARK PETERS And KRIS MAHER | MIDDLETOWN, Conn.—Investigators are looking at a range of possibilities, including a procedure that uses natural gas to purge pipes, as the cause of an explosion at a power plant here Sunday. | Middletown Mayor S... |
Pacific Northern Gas Raises Quarterly Dividend 12 Percent on Strength of 13 Percent Gain in ...
Stockhouse VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Feb 08, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- | Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. (TSX: PNG)(TSX: PNG.PR.A) announced today that the Board of Directors increased the first quarter 2010 dividend on common shares by 12 perce... |
Tinubu: Tomorrow’s Cabinet Meeting, Our Defining Moment
This Day Former Governor of Lagos State Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday asked the Executive Council of the Federation (ExCof) to accept Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan as acting president, saying tomorrow’s meeting would be a defining moment for the countr... |
FG, Gas Producers Meet over Power Generation Slump
This Day In a bid to arrest the slump in the country's power generation, the federal government yesterday met with chief executives of oil and gas companies in Abuja to see how to resolve the gas supply crisis which has led to the shutting down of power gener... |
Criminal probe is launched in Conn. plant blast
The Guardian | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Associated Press Writers= MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) — Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they could not rule o... |
Sugar power will help meet electricity demand in Mackay
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Construction of a co-generation plant capable of putting 27 megawatts of power into the national grid will begin this year in Central Queensland. | Mackay Sugar made the announcement after five years of planning. | The company's CEO Quinton Hildebran... |
Chavez puts Venezuela under 'electricity emergency'
Inquirer | CARACAS- Venezuela is facing the worst drought in a century and needs to be placed under an "electricity emergency," President Hugo Chavez said Monday in his new, "any-time" radio program "Suddenly With Chavez." | Electricity cuts last month were r... |
David Prosser: Carbon prices are going the wrong way
The Independent | The Confederation of British Industry says it is not convinced that a minimum price for carbon in the European Union Emissions Trading System would necessarily encourage greater investment in low carbon energy. Perhaps it needs to talk to more of i... |
Falling oil rig deployment threatens new fields development
Business Day Online •Development of new fields, employment threatened | Oil rigs, the major facility for the exploitation of crude oil both onshore and offshore, have been moved out of Nigeria’s operational territory with none deployed in the past three years, a Bus... |
Vandals compound fuel crisis, break NNPC pipeline
Business Day Online The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s (NNPC) efforts to put an end to the excruciating fuel scarcity bedevilling the country suffered a setback on Sunday following the vandalisation of the pipeline at Abaji in Kogi State conveying crude oil... |
Iran condemned as it reveals nuclear plans
The Independent | International pressure for new sanctions against Iran grew on Monday after Tehran announced plans to make higher-enriched uranium and add 10 nuclear sites in a year, raising Western fears it wants to develop atom bombs. | The United States and Fran... |
Strike affects revenue of Electricity Department
The Hindu | Staff Reporter | A total of 2,700 employees of the department have been demanding upgrading of posts | PUDUCHERRY: The revenue of the Electricity Department has been affected following the ongoing strike of the staff across the Union Territory sinc... |
Catering to lighting needs of remote agency villages
The Hindu | B. Madhu Gopal | NGO provides solar lanterns in Paderu and Y. Ramavaram mandals | Out of Rs. 2,100 per unit, the beneficiary has to pay Rs. 580 | Tapping of local resources and setting up of mini hydel plants needed | Dispelling darkness: Tribals w... |
Work on furbishing of interiors at IIT-M begins
The Hindu | Special Correspondent | VELLORE: The Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), Tiruchi, and the BHEL, Ranipet, began the work on furbishing interiors at the leased modules at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Madras Research Park, Chennai, on... |
End in sight to garbage woes of Varkala ACROSS THE DISTRICT
The Hindu | City Bureau | VARKALA: Work is on in full swing for the garbage plant being set up in the Varkala municipality at an estimated cost of Rs.5 crore. With the commissioning of the plant at Sreenivasapuram-Nadayara, a solution is in sight for garbage d... |
Vytilla bus terminal to be set up soon: Minister
The Hindu | Staff Reporter | Union Environment Ministry's move opposed | Speaker calls for balance between Nature and development | Issues of traffic, water and waste management should also be addressed | KOCHI: The formalities for establishing a bus terminal ... |
New SMS services launched
The Hindu | Staff Reporter | 'SMS the fault and the complaint will be registered' | NEW DELHI: Power distribution company BYPL has launched two new SMS-based services that would allow its consumers to access their bills and other payment details and register c... |
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