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New legislation likely to slow down Bulgaria’s wind market
The Bulgarian government is likely to approve the new legislation for renewable energy that could deprive of courage the wind industry financial support, disturb the country’s market and induce among investors higher risks in terms of feed-in tariffs and capacity allocation.
read more... 10/11/2011
EU: new legislation on offshore oil and gas drilling
The European Union issued a new legislation on offshore oil and gas drilling to guard itself against a repeat of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It marks the first time the EU has proposed a bloc-wide legislation on offshore oil and gas, although it complements an existing directive on environmental liability under which the polluter pays.
read more... 01/11/2011
Poland might veto EU law on shale gas
During a conference on shale gas which took place on Wednesday, at Krakow, Maciej Olex-Szczytowski, an adviser to the Polish foreign minister on economics and business sustained that Poland would veto any European legislation which will threaten its energy policy.
read more... 03/10/2011
New legislation is necessary to have a fully decarbonized power sector by 2050
According to a recently released report by the European Commission called “Roadmap to a low carbon society”, there is a need for a new renewable legislation in order to achieve a reduction by 80-95 percent of carbon emissions by 2050.
read more... 17/03/2011
Russia seeks transparency of the Indian Nuclear Liability Legislation before implementing its project.
Russia wants to make clear the Indian nuclear civil liability legislation before it will implement its project of building 16 nuclear reactors in India. This action was performed at the Russian President’s initiative, during a delegation of two days.
read more... 27/12/2010