Brazilian firm to build thermal plant in Peru
Source: NewKerala
Iquitos :: Peru | updated 2013-05-18 01:04:40 -0700 | green-news
Peru's Private Investment Promotion Agency, or ProInversion, said the Brazilian company won the project, which carries an investment cost of $100 million, after "offering the lowest remuneration per power unit proposed, which was the competition factor in the process".
Peru upbeat about boosting natural gas exports
Source: United Press International
Pisco :: Peru | updated 2013-05-13 13:07:13 -0700 | green-news
Peru, the fastest growing economy in Latin America, is hoping its natural gas development projects will transform its economy and Fitch rating agency agrees. Peru is a net oil importer and natural gas exporter but rising exploration and development may...
Body of missing woman found in Illinois River flood waters
Source: The Daily Journal
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-05-03 08:28:19 -0700 | green-news
The body of a 62-year-old woman, missing since April 19, was found Thursday in flood waters along Illinois Route 351, a north-south road that runs south of Interstate 80 and runs through the towns of LaSalle and Oglesby. Nancy Greening,...
Complementary Actions Protect Both Rare Birds and Water Resources in Northern Peru
Source: Salem News
La Unión :: Peru | updated 2013-05-01 12:14:16 -0700 | green-news
Four communities in Peru have agreed on complementary land actions that will protect 930 acres of vital cloud forest and double the size of an increasingly popular bird reserve generating benefits for all. In one action, the communities of Miraflores,...
Balloon with seven aboard missing off Peru
Source: The Courier-Mail
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-28 19:20:10 -0700 | green-news
A HOT air balloon carrying seven people is missing after disappearing over the Pacific Ocean south of Lima during a tourist excursion, its owner says. "We are looking at a probable accident, we assume the balloon has fallen," Globos Peru...
Peru says no to GMO
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-25 09:56:15 -0700 | green-news
O Peru is the first country in the Americas to ban genetically modified foods, putting its food policy closer to that of Europe, than the United States or many of its South American neighbors...His highly accliamed Amaz restaurant is devoted to...
Worldwide protests to stop Amazon gas project expansion
Source: Scoop
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-19 19:59:57 -0700 | green-news
Survival Survival International supporters will protest outside Peruvian embassies and consulates around the world on April 23rd to call for an end to the deadly expansion of the Camisea gas project in Peru's Amazon rainforest, which puts the lives of...
Teague: Flowers that die in Valley heat may return in fall
Source: The Fresno Bee
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-19 19:29:24 -0700 | green-news
Some return and rebloom when temperatures cool; others die off completely. There are also several summer vegetables that really suffer and eventually die when temperatures remain high in July and August...They flower in April and May and the leaves of...
Peru Moves To Protect The Most Heavily Exploited Fish In The World
Source: BusinessInsider
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-14 06:32:11 -0700 | green-news
Peru Growing to about 5 inches on average, the Peruvian anchovy might seem an unlikely candidate for the title of the world's mightiest fish. Yet thriving in the Humboldt Current, the plankton-rich upwelling of Antarctic waters off South America 's...
A New "Rosetta Stone" Tropical Ice Core
Source: KQED
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-04 19:27:20 -0700 | green-news
When it comes to studying glacier ice for records of past climates, the poles are easy: Antarctica and Greenland have huge ice caps that we can drill cores in to our hearts' content. The real problem is in the rest...
Mining Investment Won't Switch from Chile to Peru
Source: Inter Press Service
Cajamarca :: Peru | updated 2013-04-02 10:33:07 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles One high-profile case was that of the Castilla plant, a project of the MPX Energia company owned by Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista, that was to be the largest coal-fired generating plant in South America. The Supreme Court ordered...
Illegal logging has all but wiped out Peru's mahogany
Source: War In Context
Lima :: Peru | updated 2013-04-01 12:51:09 -0700 | green-news
Its rich, red grain and durability make it one of the most coveted building materials on Earth, favored by master craftsmen, a symbol of wealth and power. A single tree can fetch tens of thousands of dollars on the international...
Rescue workers rush to reach trapped miners in Peru
Source: CNN
Ica :: Peru | updated 2012-06-24 15:48:45 -0700 | travel-news
The miners have been stuck since Thursday in the wildcat Cabeza de Negro mine, the state-run Andina news agency said. "My understanding is that we are a little less than two meters away and that tonight, it's very likely the...
Homes destroyed and 1,200 evacuated as fire ravages holiday island of Ibiza
Source: Mail Online UK
Santa Eulalia :: Peru | updated 2011-11-25 02:34:54 -0800 | travel-news
Some 150 firefighters were battling to control the blaze yesterday, which threatened to engulf the exclusive Roca Llisa development on the south of the island. Police ordered residents to leave the area, near the town of Santa Eulalia, in the...
Meteorite in Peru leaves forest fires in its wake in Cusco
Source: Mail Online UK
Cusco :: Peru | updated 2011-10-27 21:04:17 -0700 | sports-news
Meteorite blasts across skies of Peru leaving forest fires in its wake Last updated at 12:44 PM on 26th August 2011 Blazing with the fury of a mini-sun this amazing video shows the moment a suspected meteor streaked across the...
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