Innovations

This section deals with environmentally friendly innovations in the energy production sector. Over the past years many new technologies have come to light that help produce waste, greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful effects on human health and the global environment.

ARTICLES
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whitehouse.gov

[ 23.02.2010 ]
‘Hybrid’ US climate legislation likely to back track on some environmental promise to throw big bones to industry
NEW YORK – For weeks following Predident Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, in which he more or less put at arms length or overturned some of the brighter climate promises he had made only a year before, his administration is spreading itself thin to come up with climate and energy legislation that will pass the Senate.
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www.bundesregierung.de

[ 03.02.2010 ]
Landmark EU decision to finance CCS
Tuesday, an overwhelming majority of Member States finally endorsed a European Commission Decision setting out the procedures and criteria for selecting the large-scale projects for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).
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(Illustrasjon: Statoil)

[ 24.11.2009 ]
New report on the Tampen leakage
This week the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) published a report a major leakage accident at the Tordis oil field in the Tampen area. The report indicates that the rock formation used by Statoil for injection of produced water was not appropriate, and that they should have consulted geologists at a much earlier stage.
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NEWS
[ 29.10.2009 ]
Low-CO2 emissions and social justice: the “smart” response to the global crisis

BRUSSELS - The inaugural conference for the Wellbeing 2030 Project was organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) and took place on October 28th. The conclusions derived from the headline topic “Beyond the crisis: strategic options for Social Europe by 2030” identified “smart growth” – characterised by low CO2 emissions and social justice – as the way forward for Europe.

[ 30.05.2008 ]
Russian sub rescue team couples with Norwegian sub in unprecedented rescue drill

A Russian rescue system coupled with a NATO submarine for the first time on Wednesday in a joint exercise off Norway in an unprecedented act of cooperation for Russia, Reuters reported.

[ 25.11.2005 ]
$30 billion spent on alternative energy development

According to the Worldwatch organization, the total world investment in renewable energy development was $30 billion dollars for 2004.

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