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World Bank Funds Hydro Dam for Africas Great Lakes Region
2013-08-13 19:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The World Bank has approved US$340 million for the long-planned Regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project, which will generate power for residents of Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. While local officials eagerly anticipate the power scheduled to start flowing in 2017, river advocates say ecosystem impacts of the project have not even been evaluated. The 80 megawatt hydroelectric power station in Rwanda will dam the Kagera River. It will be located at Rusumo Falls on the border with Tanzania, near...
Africa's Oldest National Park may be Put at Risk by Oil Exploration
2013-08-01 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A proposal by British oil-exploration company Soco International to look for oil in Africa's oldest national park is being criticized by the conservation group World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), which says Soco's plan puts the park's true value at risk. Soco International wants to explore for oil beneath Lake Edward, which exists within Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. About two-thirds of the lake is within the DRC's political boundary, the rest is in western...
Pace and MultiChoice work with South Africa's Vektronix to build DStv Explora
2013-08-01 17:10:03| Digital TV News
Pace (LSE: PIC), in partnership with MultiChoice, has announced that it is working with local South African manufacturer Vektronix to assemble and deliver MultiChoices new HD PVR decoder, the DStv Explora.
South Africa's sugar industry invites government to incentivise cogen projects as power shortages loom
2013-07-30 09:22:49| Sugar Industry News
South Africa's sugar industry has proposed an investment of 20.4 billion rand ($2.1 billion) for bagasse-based cogen projects in the country's 14 mills to address power shortages.
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Logging slows in Africa's rainforest
2013-07-22 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Tree loss in one of the world's largest rainforests has slowed, a study suggests. Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared. The work is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. It is part of a series that is examining the state of Africa's forests. Dr...
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