GMP says saving bats would cost $4 million
Source: Boston.com
Montpelier :: VT :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 01:30:29 -0700 | green-news
Vt. (AP) The owner of Vermont's most hotly debated wind power project says fully protecting bats around the site would cost about $4 million a year in reduced power output. Vermont Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/1bNAT6x) that the Vermont Agency of...
Kenya: Sewerage Project Stalls Due to 'Bad Omen'
Source: Africa Headlines
Nairobi :: Kenya | updated 2013-06-18 01:07:28 -0700 | green-news
Communities around Iten town have opposed the construction of a Sh15 sewerage system and setting aside land for a cemetery due because cultural beliefs associate such projects with bad omen. Deputy Governor Gabriel Lagat has said the town faces a...
Expert Appraisal Committee defers Tata power modernization plan
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-18 00:56:22 -0700 | green-news
Trombay thermal power station (TPS), which ran into protests, has been deferred by the Reconstituted Expert Appraisal Committee on Environmental Impact Assessment of thermal power and coal mine projects in its meeting in May. However, the Committee is not in...
Forest officials seize 5,000 tortoises in AP
Source: The Hindu
Mumbai :: India | updated 2013-06-18 00:56:18 -0700 | green-news
The Krishna District Forest Department authorities (of Wildlife Management) seized about 5,000 tortoises being transported illegally on Tuesday. On a tip-off, the team led by Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife) G. Anand conducted a raid in Kalidindi mandal in the wee...
Russia to close paper mill on Lake Baikal
Source: Associated Press
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-06-18 00:53:47 -0700 | green-news
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says authorities will shut down a paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal, which environmentalists say is a major pollutant threatening the world's largest fresh water lake. Authorities first closed the Baikal Pulp and...
NY maple syrup rebounds 59 percent after slow 2012
Source: SF Gate
Albany :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 00:31:21 -0700 | green-news
N.Y. (AP) New York's maple syrup production surged this year, thanks to better weather for the sweet crop...Department of Agriculture says production was up 59 percent, from 360,000 to 574,000 gallons. Sap flow was held down in 2012 because of...
Hasbro to develop new toys and games based on the Angry Birds brand
Source: Denver Post
Denver :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 00:20:56 -0700 | green-news
Font Resize Dow Jones Newswires Hasbro Inc. has struck an expanded licensing agreement that allows it to develop toys and physical games worldwide based on the popular Angry Birds brand. The agreement with Rovio Entertainment also encompasses the upcoming game...
New law allows wild horse management agreements
Source: SF Gate
Carson City :: MI :: USA | updated 2013-06-18 00:12:48 -0700 | green-news
Nev. (AP) Wild horse advocates are celebrating a newfound ability to help manage wild horses in the Silver State. Advocates gathered Monday with Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval during a signing ceremony for AB264. The new law allows agreements between the...
Medicago wins European patent for influenza virus-like particles in plants
Source: Pharmaceutical Industry News
London :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-06-18 00:10:49 -0700 | green-news
Patent titled 'Influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) comprising hemagglutinin produced within a plant' was originally filed by the biopharmaceutical company on 11 July 2008. Medicago business development vice president Frederic Ors said as the company expands the development of influenza...
$500 million tourism deal announced
Source: Myanmar News
Yangon :: Myanmar | updated 2013-06-18 00:04:54 -0700 | green-news
In a statement, ADB said the plan was agreed in coordination with the Myanmar and Norwegian governments, and would involve 38 specific development projects. "This master plan outlines a path to welcoming more visitors to Myanmar without threatening our unique...
Car triggers natural-gas leak
Source: The Durango Herald
Durango :: CO :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 23:47:36 -0700 | green-news
Durango Herald Firefighters with Durango Fire & Rescue Authority and a Durango police officer responded Monday afternoon to a natural-gas leak at Cubby Hole Storage on Florida Road (County Road 240). Repairs were expected to be completed Monday night or...
New law to upgrade farm, fishin...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Doha :: Qatar | updated 2013-06-17 23:29:19 -0700 | green-news
President Benigno S Aquino III has approved the law that will further modernise the agriculture and fisheries sector, the presidential palace said yesterday. The Agricultural and Fisheries Mechanisation Law mandates the state to promote the development and adoption of modern,...
Pesticides kill more river life than was thought
Source: Germany News in Englsh
Sydney :: Australia | updated 2013-06-17 23:27:56 -0700 | green-news
www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20130618-50367.
Meteorology Brought To You From Europe -- 6/18/13
Posted by: Adrian Holman
Zurich :: Switzerland | updated 2013-06-18 15:26:27 -0700 | green-news
Tuesday 18 June 2013 (Degrees for this European continental weather forecast are in Celsius. All weather statistics for this forecast has been provided by The Weather Channel.) Madrid, Spain: Light rain. 23/11. Dublin, Ireland: Partly Cloudy. 20/9. London, England: Rain...
Plan opens up acres of Calif. dunes to off-roaders
Source: Sacramento Bee
El Centro :: CA :: USA | updated 2013-06-17 23:22:07 -0700 | green-news
About 85 percent of an extensive dune system near the U.S.-Mexico border would be open to off-road vehicles under a new federal management plan opposed by environmentalists...Nearly 180,000 acres of the 210,000-acre Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area and surrounding public...
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