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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — Activists occupied Germany’s newest power plant on Sunday to protest against a law passed last week to end coal electricity generation, but which environmental groups argue is insufficient. Police said more than 100 protesters entered the site of the Datteln 4 coal-fired power plant in western Germany. The organizers, a protest group called Ende Gelaende (Game Over), put the number at 150. The group said in a statement that their […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte led the inauguration of the newly completed 420-megawatt Pagbilao Unit 3 project coal-fired power plant here that is expected to stabilize energy supply in Luzon as well as boost the economy. In his speech, President Duterte said that the opening of the Pagbilao Unit 3 plant will also provide employment and business opportunities to resident of Quezon province – even communist rebels should they decide to lay down […]
LUCKNOW, India (AFP) — The death toll from an explosion at a coal-fired power plant in northern India has risen to 26, the government said Thursday, as 10 more people died of their injuries. Several more victims are being treated for critical injuries sustained Wednesday when a boiler pipe burst at a plant run by India’s largest state-owned power utility in Uttar Pradesh state. A list prepared by the state government showed 26 people had died, though […]
Eagle News — Balik normal na sa pagsu-supply ng kuryente sa National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), ang isa sa dalawang pasilidad ng ‘first gen corporation’ na napinsala ng ‘Batangas quake’. Ayon sa NGCP, agad nilang nakumpuni ang unit 60 ng San Lorenzo switchyard na nagkokonekta sa San Lorenzo, San Gabriel at Avion Natural Gas Plants sa NGCP. Tiwala ang korporasyon na makukumpuni at maibabalik na rin sa operasyon ang unit 50. Nakapag-su-supply na […]
by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump declared the end of a “war on coal” Tuesday, as he moved to curb rules that underpin American emissions targets and a major global climate accord. Following through on an election promise, Trump signed an order to review some of his predecessor Barack Obama’s climate legacy, declaring an end to “job-killing regulations.” In a maiden trip to the Environmental Protection Agency, […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — At least 40 people were killed when part of a power station under construction in China collapsed Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, the latest industrial accident in a country with a dismal safety record. A cooling tower platform plunged to the ground in the early hours, trapping an unknown number of people beneath it, Xinhua said. Pictures of the scene in Fengcheng, in the central province of Jiangxi, showed […]
KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) — Suicide attackers stormed the site of a power plant being built by an Iranian company in Dibis in northern Iraq on Friday, killing at least 16 people, the mayor and security officials said. “Three suicide bombers attacked the power plant at around 6:00 am (0300 GMT), killing 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers and four Iranian technicians,” Dibis mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi told AFP. © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse
President Benigno S. Aquino III on Thursday led the ceremonial launch of the 420-megawatt Pagbilao III Power Plant project, signaling the start of the 37-month construction of the plant in Barangay Ibabang Polo, Pagbilao, Quezon province. “This (project) is absolutely necessary to ensure a steady supply of the power that Filipinos need day in, and day out, even as we seek to diversify the energy mix by bringing in other power sources,” President Aquino said in […]
