Rising oil prices, high pollution levels and the global warming, a strong dependence on Russia’s gas supplies, have prompted Eastern European institutions to focus on switching from coal and oil to natural gas.
read more... 20/09/2012
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the first-ever national rules to control air pollution from gas wells that are drilled using a method called hydraulic fracking, the practice that revolutionized the domestic gas sector.
read more... 19/04/2012
Global carbon technology market will see huge increase once the utility and oil and gas industries comply with new environmental regulations, which became more rigorous than ever due to worries over environmental situation. According to an analysis of the global air pollution “Control Equipment in Energy and Power Market”, the market can expect profits of 9.69 billion dollars in 2017 from 7.27 billion dollars in 2010.
read more... 09/03/2012
The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced that China envisages cutting its energy consumption by 21% by 2015 and closing inefficient companies in more than 10 industries because of overcapacity, high energy consumption, and pollution.
read more... 28/02/2012
China is focusing now on a higher natural gas –fired generation capacity as an alternative to polluting coal for power generation and as its electricity demand is growing sharply, according to Bloomberg.
read more... 23/12/2011