Alinta debt deal fires up shares
Business Day Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:41 PM PDT
Alinta Energy shares soar after the utility group reached a deal with its lenders to relieve the electricty generator of its crippling multi-billion dollar debt. |
Needy in NH getting more help with energy bills
Boston Globe Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:40 PM PDT
Needy New Hampshire residents are getting nearly $800,000 in emergency aid from the federal government to help pay their energy bills. United States - Emergency management - Federal government of the United States - Business - Government |
Democrats fighting election battles ask environmentalists, 'Where are you guys?'
Los Angeles Times Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:39 PM PDT
Energy companies and businesses are ramping up spending on candidates and issues, while environmental groups face lagging donations and enthusiasm for campaigns key to climate-change action. Environmentalists who provided money, zeal and manpower to Democrats in 2008 are demoralized this campaign cycle, further fraying the coalition that sent Barack Obama to the White House and gave the party ... |
Worldwide medical isotope shortage threatens use of cardiac stress tests
Los Angeles Times Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:32 PM PDT
Nuclear reactors don't just create energy; a few also create medical isotopes vital to medical tests that doctors have come to rely on. The Radiological Society of North America estimates at least 80% of the nearly 20 million nuclear medicine procedures performed in the U.S. each year use technetium-99m, also known as Tc-99. |
Shifting To Green Economy Can Hasten Development, Says UN Report
Bernama Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:27 PM PDT
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (Bernama) -- Intensifying investments in clean energy can accelerate the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), China's Xinhua news agency quoted the United Nations Environment Programme ( UNEP) as saying in a new publication on Monday. |
Alinta will sell assets to pay $2.7bn debt
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:26 PM PDT
Electricity giant, Alinta Energy, has reached a deal to sell assets into a new company owned by its lending syndicate, instead of choosing a trade sale to pay down its debt. |
Wife-killer says caffeine in drinks led to murder
The Times of India Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:24 PM PDT
A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn’t have knowingly killed his wife, his lawyer has notified a court. |
Proposed industrial route through scenic Idaho raises alarm
Seattle Times Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:23 PM PDT
Highway 12 suddenly is being targeted as a heavy-duty commercial route for shipments of giant oil-field equipment, prompting some locals to go to court against big energy companies and the state to protect one of the West's premier hunting and fishing destinations. |
Cuban minister sacked amid policy changes
AFP via Yahoo! News Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:23 PM PDT
President Raul Castro's reform of the Cuba he inherited from his brother Fidel Castro has quickened after he sacked his energy and resources minister and moved forward with massive public sector job cuts. |
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