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8 Nov 2012 - 11:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES — Argentine Judge Adrian Elcuj Miranda this week ordered an embargo on US-based oil giant Chevron Corp’s assets within Argentina in an attempt to uphold an Ecuadorian court ruling that awarded $19 bi
8 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Via Marina, a consortium led by French engineering group Vinci, released a report early this month on water demand and water potential in northern Chile.
8 Nov 2012 - 10:01 by Local Press Report
PORT-AU-PRICE (The Miami Herald) — The Haitian government and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are seeking $74 million USD to help poor farmers and boost agriculture after Hurricane Sandy. The storm
8 Nov 2012 - 09:47 by Local Press Report
RIO DE JANEIRO (Hydro World) — A $88.7 million USD loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) to Brazilian utility Companhia Esadual de Geracao e Transmissao de Energia Eletrica (CEEE) will allow for a number of hydr
8 Nov 2012 - 09:40 by Local Press Report
SAN JOSE (The Costa Rica News) — Earlier this month Costa Rica announced The Action Plan of the National Strategy on Climate Change (ENCC), which will be the resource that the country will use to mitigate the impact of climate cha
7 Nov 2012 - 11:07 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WASHINGTON DC — The results from the United States presidential election are almost all in, and results show current President Barack Obama has won re-election to a second four-year term.
7 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s Salta province is facing serious water shortages affecting thousands of residents.
7 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BOLIVIA, LA PAZ — The company carrying out the Misicuni multipurpose water project in Bolivia has requested an additional $30 million USD for the project and asked that the deadline for completing it be extended unt
7 Nov 2012 - 11:26 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Hydro World) — Peru's energy and mines ministry invites expressions of interest from consultants to perform technical and economic pre-feasibility studies of small and medium-sized hydropower projects in Peru.
7 Nov 2012 - 09:25 by Local Press Report
JERUSALEM (The Santiago Times) — Environmental Minister María Ignacia Benítez traveled to Israel on November 6 to meet with different officials on the topics of clean energy, water efficiency, recycling, conservation and environme
7 Nov 2012 - 09:12 by Local Press Report
SAN JOSE (Inside Costa Rica) — Costa Rica may employ cloud seeding in the coming months in the hope of avoiding a summertime increase in electric bills. Cloud seeding is a form of weather modification used to artificially
6 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BOLIVIA, LA PAZ — Peru and Bolivia are working together to rehabilitate Lake Titicaca, which sits on the Andean border between the two countries.
6 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — An investigation by Mexico’s National Nuclear Research Institute has detected the presence of heavy metals in the Lerma River.
6 Nov 2012 - 10:03 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Bernama.com) — Peru has the third highest hydro power generation potential in South America and oil reserves estimated at 532.7 million barrels, said business research and consulting firm Frost & Sullivan in
5 Nov 2012 - 10:14 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
HAITI, PORT AU PRINCE — Nearly a week after Hurricane Sandy hit the US East Coast, Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe issued a plea for more relief aid for the storm that caused 54 deaths and 20 injuries in his countr
5 Nov 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, NATAL — CAERN, the water company in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state, has presented $361 million USD worth of water projects to be funded and carried out under the country’s massive $470 billion USD Grow
5 Nov 2012 - 10:24 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Jamaica Information Services) — The National Water Commission (NWC) has assured that the damage to the Yallahs pipeline will not affect the supply of water to communities served by the Mona reservoir. The pipeline, which t
2 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, BRASILIA — With northeastern Brazil recording one of the lowest volumes of rainfall in the past 83 years, the storage level in the region’s hydropower reservoirs reached the danger zone in October.
2 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, PACHUCA — The cities of Pachuca, Real del Monte, and Mineral del Monte in Mexico’s Hidalgo state have stopped supplying themselves with water from mines in the area due to abnormally high levels of manganese
2 Nov 2012 - 09:01 by Local Press Report
GRAND CAYMAN (Compass Cayman) — Cayman customers in Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac will be hit with a sizeable rate increase that took effect starting Thursday, according to regulations approved in Cabinet this week. For Gra
2 Nov 2012 - 08:44 by Local Press Report
KWAKWANI (Stabroek News) — Residents of Main Road, Kwakwani are complaining that it has been approximately two weeks since they have received potable water. Residents say that about two weeks ago, workers from ASH Civ
1 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, COCHABAMBA — An assembly member from the “All for Cochabamba” alliance – which brought togetherthe National Unity Front and Popular Consensus parties in the 2010 elections in Cochabamba department –has formally
1 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Overhauling water management, especially in regions where rainfall patterns are going to change drastically, is going to be necessary to cope with climate change and its effects on agriculture and
1 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, HERMOSILLO — The contentious Independencia pipeline project, which would transport water from the Cajeme region to Sonora’s state capital, Hermosillo, may face a new hurdle, with Green Party of Mexico (PVEM)
1 Nov 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
LONDON, United Kingdom — UK-based fashion retail giant Marks & Spencer has announced a commitment to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals throughout their entire supply chain and products by 2020.
1 Nov 2012 - 08:39 by Local Press Report
QUITO (AlertNet) — Ecuadorean plaintiffs plan to sue Chevron in Argentina and Colombia to collect a $19 billion USD award for pollution in the Amazon that has become one of the world's most high-profile environment
1 Nov 2012 - 08:24 by Local Press Report
TEMACAPULIN (rabble.ca) — Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will be in Temacapulín, Mexico this coming November 5-6 to participate in the Permanent Peoples Tribunal examining the impacts of the construction of d
31 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Federal Chamber of Deputies has appointed Tabasco State Federal Legislator Gerardo Gaudiano Rovirosa, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), to head its Water Resources Commiss
31 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — Peru needs to pick up the pace of dam-building to meet the country’s water and power needs by 2050, according to the country’s National Committee on Big Dams.
31 Oct 2012 - 09:17 by Local Press Report
CIENFUEGOS (Prensa Latina) — The management of water resources in the central Cuban province of Cienfuegos, affected by high rainfalls associated with Hurricane Sandy, was highlighted by a senior member of the Communist Part
31 Oct 2012 - 08:53 by Local Press Report
TORONTO (Mining Weekly) — What has been called the most severe drought north-eastern Brazil had seen in 30 years had prompted TSX-V-listed Largo Resources to imminently suspend operations at its Currais Novos tungsten tai
30 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s National Assembly last week approved $35 million USD to address rising water levels in Lake Valencia.
30 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, SAO PAULO — Brazilian mining giant Vale said last week that it had implemented mechanisms to reduce water use at its two main iron projects – S11D and Carajas -- in the Brazilian state of Para.
30 Oct 2012 - 08:47 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Associated Press) — Residents of Cuba's second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as the island's deadliest storm in seven years, rip
30 Oct 2012 - 08:36 by Local Press Report
BOTHELL WA (Herald Online) — HaloSource, Inc.
29 Oct 2012 - 08:03 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, CIUDAD VICTORIA — Mexico’s Tamaulipas state needs to build more dams to prevent the negative impacts of drought conditions currently affecting the state, Juan Báez Rodríguez, president of the National Farmer’s Confe
29 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Paraguay’s Minister of Public Works Enrique Salyn Buzarquis last week presented the National Sanitation Plan for 2013-2017, which was approved by both chambers of government.
29 Oct 2012 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, BRASILIA — Another power outage, whose causes are still under investigation, hit northern and northeastern of Brazil in the early hours of October 26.
29 Oct 2012 - 10:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
HAITI, PORT-AU-PRINCE — The death toll left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which tore through the Caribbean late last week, has been raised to 65 across the region, with Haiti having the largest number of deaths at 51.
29 Oct 2012 - 08:35 by Local Press Report
CHIHUAHUA (World War 4 Report) — Hundreds of campeisnos staged a protest outside the Governor's Palace in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua last week, following the Oct.
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