Time for a revolution
There can be no state solutions to climate change: governments won't give up the powers that lead to environmental ruin
by Ewa Jasiewicz


Thursday August 21 2008 08:00 BST


There was a joke going round the Climate Camp in the last days. As well as the "wellbeing tent", which dealt with mildly traumatised activists on the receiving end of 5am police batons, someone proposed a "wellmeaning" tent. It would accommodate those who'd like to include state and capitalism-based solutions in the movement to reverse climate change. The camp's outer fence would curve into the wellmeaning tent to create a round-table for stakeholders including the police (successfully kept out of the site after days of stand-offs), E.ON UK and other energy industry representatives ? tea and hand-wringing optional.

by The Jakarta Post website   BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific
Thursday, July 24, 2008


Korea Gas Corp (Kogas) has agreed to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Tangguh project at the record price of USD 20 per million British thermal units (mmbtu).

Bangkok Post 6 August 2008
 
ENERGY

YUTHANA PRAIWAN

Southeast Asian countries and Japan are conducting a regional power development plan aimed at securing energy supply for the region in the future, according to Dr Twarath Sutabutr, director of the Energy Ministry's Policy and Strategy Co-ordination Office. The plan, being considered by senior energy officials from Asean and Japan, would focus on the demand and supply in Southeast Asia from this year to 2030.

8/2/2008 6:59 AM ET

(RTTNews) -  Brazil launched an international fund to raise as much as $21 billion by 2021 to fight deforestation in the Amazon, and combat global warming, reports said on Friday.

According to the Chinese Technology Minister Wan Gang, the Beijing lympic Games will result in the release of some 1.18 million tonnes f carbon to the atmosphere, "in part because so many athletes and pectators were traveling long distances". However, we need not worry bout this, because the Chinese authorities assure us that the lympics will be "basically" carbon neutral.

- Asian Civil Society Groups Call For 'Climate Justice'

Over 170 activists who gathered in Bangkok from 12-14 July harshly criticised governments and corporations for their failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They called for "climate justice" and a "fundamental departure from the current global order" to solve the climate crisis. Conference participants included fishers and farmers, forest and indigenous peoples, women, youth, workers and activists from 31 countries.

July 22, 2008 Edition 1


Tony Carnie


PLANS are afoot for a massive expansion of the petrol and chemical storage facilities in Durban Harbour, close to the Bluff residential areas of Fynnlands and Marlborough Park.