By Julie Gordon and Ethan Lou VANCOUVER/CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Canada failed in its duty to consult First Nations and other groups on the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion, and therefore the approval of the C$7.4 billion ($5.9 billion) project must be overturned, lawyers for project opponents argued at the launch of a judicial review […]
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia has awarded Austria’s Kapsch TrafficCom AG a joint venture contract to design, install and operate a road traffic surveillance system to curb accidents, the company said on Monday. The number of vehicles on Zambia’s roads almost tripled to 700,000 in the 10 years to 2016, increasing road fatalities in the southern […]
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By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Offshore wind firm, DONG Energy, soon to be renamed Orsted, says big European companies are increasingly interested in buying renewable power directly from renewable developers as they seek to reduce their carbon footprint. The shift comes as the price of renewable power has plunged to levels that make it […]
Read More BERLIN (Reuters) – The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said it would appeal against a court ruling obliging it to ban diesel cars from the streets of its capital Stuttgart, meaning the ban will not come into force at the start of 2018 as planned. The government of the southwestern region, home to Mercedes-builder Daimler, said […]
Read More By Shereen Lehman (Reuters Health) – Less than an extra hour a week of moderate exercise can make a big difference in helping older adults stay mobile and reduce their risk of developing major mobility problems, a U.S. study suggests. Improvements were seen in all the 70-to-90-year-olds who added some physical activity to their weekly […]
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain will work with industry to launch a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles in a bid to clamp down on the huge waste that litters the land and sea every year, Environment Secretary Michael Gove said on Monday. The government says Britain recycled only 57 percent of the bottles that […]
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – The U.N. World Food Programme is cutting food rations by 30 percent for more than 400,000 refugees living in camps in Kenya due to insufficient funding, it said on Monday. Dadaab and Kakuma camps in Kenya are primarily home to refugees from neighbouring Somalia and South Sudan, both ravaged by wars that […]
Read More By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Anglian Water’s issuance of the first water utility green bond in Europe should pave the way for more such instruments which should help the market grow, Dutch bank ING’s head of sustainable capital markets said. Green bonds are a growing category of fixed-income securities, which raise capital for projects […]
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LOLOWAI, Vanuatu (Reuters) – Vanuatu hopes to evacuate all 11,000 people from its northern island of Ambae by Wednesday, with a flotilla of boats ferrying people to nearby islands as a volcano spewing rock and ash into the air threatens to erupt, disaster officials said on Monday. Manaro Voui volcano, the South Pacific island nation’s […]
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By Alison Bevege SYDNEY (Reuters) – Vanuatu has launched a Dunkirk-style evacuation on the northern island of Ambae as a flotilla of boats rescues islanders from an erupting volcano that has polluted many of the island’s sources of drinking water. Crowds of islanders from at least three evacuation points on the island have begun boarding […]
Read More (Reuters) – Ascend Performance Materials said on Sunday that it had evacuated several structures after an ammonia product supply line leak in an undeveloped, publicly inaccessible area south of Houston in Brazoria County. The flow of ammonia has been turned off and Ascend, the owner of the supply line, said it was working to repair […]
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will finish unloading a 63,000-tonne cargo of Romanian wheat held by the country for containing poppy seeds by Tuesday, an official source close to the matter said on Sunday. Forty-three thousand tonnes have already been unloaded, said the source, adding none of the cargo had been transferred for sieving yet. Minister […]
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