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Clean energy is next, and you’ve been armed… to meet an agenda.
Take it for what its worth. No one knows, its all speculation.
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I had to do it Darren, needed a good example of an angry veteran. Imagine THIS guy coming to your house to enforce green laws. – http://www.youtube.com/user/fuckyouobama1
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MaximsNewsNetwork: KOSOVO: CLEAN ENERGY – POWER & ELECTRICITY (WORLD BANK)
MaximsNewsNetwork: 16 December 2009 – World Bank:
With support from the World Bank, Kosovo is cleaning up its energy sector to enhance long-term power development and electric supply and to mitigate the risk to public health.
Daut Gashi walks home past what appears to be ordinary hills, but they are mounds of ash.
He has lived 40 of his 65 years in Dardhishte, a village at the base of the huge mounds created by decades of dumping burned remains of coal used to run Kosovos main power plants.
Daut and others in his village say they have suffered years of sickness because of the ash from both the mounds and nearby energy plants.
SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Daut Gashi , villager :
If the ash dumps continue, the danger will be larger than now, because the ash is harmful.
Kosovo has a history of poor environmental practices in its energy and mining sectors.
It now gets most of its energy from this power plant outside the city of Pristina.
Nearby sits a defunct gasification plant dating from the 1950s. It leaks waste, some of which are toxic.
Kosovo is now cleaning up its energy sector with support from international donors, including the World Bank.
SOUNDBITE (Albanian), Ibush Bublaku, Ash Project Manager, Kosovos Energy Corporation (KEK):
It doesnt emit dust, so it is much cleaner.
Ibush Bublaku is a manager at Kosovos Energy Corporation (KEK), which runs the energy stations.
He explains to visitors that KEK has used the international donor finances to fund new technology that limits the amount of ash escaping into the environment, through a new system which allows ash to be transported via closed ducts and pipes to an empty mine.
The financing is also going toward the safe removal of hazardous chemicals left behind at the defunct gasification plant and to see whether the site can be rehabilitated.
SOUNDBITE (English) Behxhet Shala, Environmental Manager, Kosovos Energy Corporation (KEK) :
We are in the process to of reviewing the different options and to see the best way to of treating these chemicals.
Government-hired engineers are researching ways of leveling the ash mounds, and covering them with dirt where trees and other vegetation could grow.
And the government is now working out plans for a new energy station. The new plant would meet stricter European environmental rules and provide not only more energy for Kosovo but energy that could be marketed to neighboring countries as well……….. World Bank. ………. ……….. MaximsNewsNetwork:
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“GIVING POWER & RESONANCE TO THE VOICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY” …………… .
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NetworkNewsToday: CLIMATE CHANGE & CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY (UNTV)
NetworkNewsToday: 12 December 2009 – UNTV – United Nations: As the political momentum grows to reach a new climate deal in Copenhagen, the private sector is stepping up its efforts to invest in clean energy technology in developing countries.
Private companies like Himin Solar Energy Group, the worlds largest maker of solar water heaters, are today lighting up entire towns through clean energy technologies.
In Dezhou, a city located 300 kilometres south of Beijing, lies China Solar Valley, Chinas showpiece for a sustainable future.
China Solar Valley boasts numerous records, including the worlds largest solar-powered building known as the Sun Moon Mansion, the worlds longest street lit by photovoltaics, and the worlds largest manufacturing base for solar thermal technology. Nearly 70 percent of the city is powered by the sun.
SOUNDBITE (English) Huang Ming, Chairman, Himin Solar Energy Group:
We want to tell the world that green energy will not only benefit the environment, benefit the energy supplies but also benefit our lifestyle.
A recent study by the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme (UNEP) and a global partnership of investors and insurance companies reported that funds from the private sector and innovative public polices are required to help developing countries such as China adapt to climate change and power low-carbon growth.
SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP):
Anyone who argues that we can not achieve a low-carbon economy because of a lack of technology is simply wrong. Its the public policy framework, its the commitment to making that transformation towards a greener economy happen that will determine whether we succeed. And that comes back to human intelligence and courage.
The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) sees an emerging global development trend in favour of investments in the green industry with reports suggesting that about 15 per cent of global stimulus packages in 2009 were green with investments in technologies, infrastructure and strategies to combat climate change. . NetworkNewsToday:
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WORLD NEWS FROM GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
by Internationally Accredited News Journalists .
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