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Digicel set to launch pay TV in Papua New Guinea
2014-07-08 08:00:09| Digital TV News
Digicel Papua New Guinea (Digicel PNG) has said that it plans to launch a terrestrial pay television service in November. The new TV offering, which is expected to grow to 30-40 channels, would be both free-to-air and prepaid.
Papua New Guinea: My dive into the blighted future of acidified oceans
2014-06-16 09:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: I HAVE gazed into the future of the tropical oceans, and it's not a reassuring sight. In Papua New Guinea, the Ring of Fire has bestowed a unique gift on science - an underwater vent of pure carbon dioxide. Normally researchers projecting the effect of rising CO2 must rely on computer models. But here they can observe it for real as the CO2 bubbles dissolve to form carbonic acid, creating on a small scale the conditions expected globally by the end of the century. At first it is a beguiling...
Dutch, Indo universities develop new solar energy system in Papua
2014-05-22 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: A Dutch-Indonesian initiative has developed a new system for photovoltaic (PV) solar energy, offering a solution to rapid increases in electricity demand in Indonesia due to the countrys vibrant economic growth and rising prosperity. Solar energy expert from Twente University, Angele Reinders, who is also the project leader, said the new system could produce about 50,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity per year, the equivalent of saving around 5,000 liters of diesel and 11,000 kilograms of...
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ExxonMobil starts production at Papua New Guinea LNG project
2014-05-01 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
ExxonMobil has started producing liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its $19bn plant in Papua New Guinea.
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Illegal logging makes up 70 percent of Papua New Guinea's timber industry
2014-04-22 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Corruption, weak governance, and powerful timber barons are illegally stripping the forests of Papua New Guinea, according to a new report from the Chatham House. The policy institute finds that 70 percent of logging in Papua New Guinea is currently illegal, despite the fact that 99 percent of land is owned by local indigenous communities. "The biggest challenge is dealing with collusion between corrupt officials and logging firms," author of the report Sam Lawson told mongabay.com. "The logging...
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