Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says is the next major breakthrough in natural resource [...]
New Report Cautions Companies Operating in Israel
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Middle East Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – A new report has warned that companies with operations and suppliers in Israel, or offshore projects in disputed waters in the region, face the risk of "complicity in human rights violations by state security forces". Besides, terrorism, internal violence [...]
SOUTH-EAST ASIA: China Flexes Hydropower Muscle
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – After all the turbines in the Xiaowan hydropower station sputtered to life this week in China’s south-west Yunnan province, the Asian giant was able to lay claim to having the world’s largest hydropower capacity. A "great leap forward" was [...]
INDIA: Activists Use Legal Weapons to Stop Thermal Power Plants
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pankaj Sekhsaria HYDERABAD, India, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) – Green activists have various ways of pushing their causes, from enlisting movie stars to launching protests, but India’s campaigners have also been quietly using legal weapons to try to get the projects they oppose, such as thermal plants, [...]
ROMANIA: Austerity Deals Mortal Blow to Health System
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Claudia Ciobanu BUCHAREST, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – Five newborns died last week in a fire caused by an airconditioning fault at a Bucharest maternity. Insufficient, overworked staff and deficient maintenance — results of inadequate funding of the health system – -were listed among the causes. "I’m [...]
CORRUPTION-PERU: Gov’t Tries to Track Down Millions from Convicted Officials
August 27, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption. The aim is to recover 323 million dollars — the total amount that the [...]
Environment Group Fumes at UN Report on Nigeria Oil Spills
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By IDN Environment Desk IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis (IDN) – Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) says that it is "outraged" by reports that a major United Nations investigation into Nigeria oil spills, funded by oil giant Shell, relies more on figures produced by oil companies and Nigerian state statistics [...]
Asia Expects a New Decade in Sustainable Transport
August 25, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – A new town of about 150,000 people is expected to sprout every day in the next 20 years in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing the urban population from 1.6 billion to 2.7 billion in 2030. This will also influence mobility patterns [...]
INDIA: Cotton Farmers Reap Hope from New Techniques
August 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Nitin Jugran Bahuguna WARANGAL, India, Aug 24, 2010 (IPS) – Meruga Padma, 33, and her husband Veeramallu, 40, can still remember when cotton farmers here in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were in such dire straits that many were soon thrown into depression. Some of [...]
Asia Expects a New Decade in Sustainable Transport
August 24, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Taro Ichikawa IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BANGKOK (IDN) – A new town of about 150,000 people is expected to sprout every day in the next 20 years in the Asia-Pacific region, increasing the urban population from 1.6 billion to 2.7 billion in 2030. This will also influence mobility patterns [...]
