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...“If we compare to Canada . . . Indonesia will, by 2030, produce about eight or nine times as much carbon per kilowatt-hour of electricity as Canada will.”...
...While there have been some efforts to develop low-carbon aluminium, these have focused mainly on smelters that use hydro-power....
...DuPont of the US, the UK’s BT and Canada’s Hydro One have the worst-funded pension schemes in the world, according to new research that underlines the negative impact low interest rates and ageing populations...
...A utility in British Columbia, Canada, is set to join in 2018 and Mexico’s grid operator is also exploring membership. Renewable energy has soared in California....
...The Swansea project, which will generate 320MW of power, enough for 155,000 homes, is in talks with the three turbine suppliers — Alstom, Voith, and Andritz Hydro....
...… If one moment encapsulates aluminium’s fall from grace, it is Rio Tinto’s disastrous acquisition of Canada’s Alcan in 2007, at the peak of the market....
...Resources of oil and gas – not to mention renewable energy forms, notably hydro-electric and wind power – are abundant. Opportunities abound for further discoveries....
...The two companies are at loggerheads over a put option granted to Constellation in 2008 as part of a bail-out of the US group, which gives it the right to sell coal, gas and hydro power plants to EDF for...
...“Could Barrick take over Norsk Hydro? Shenhua Coal? Rio Tinto?” he continued. “No. That’s because the Brazilians and Norwegians and Chinese and Australians would never allow such a thing to happen....
...● Largest producers: Russia, Canada, Indonesia and Australia. ● Largest consumers: China, Japan, US, Germany....
...Cold weather in Canada has stopped the snowcap from melting, which has caused Rio’s hydro power costs to surge, Merrill Lynch said....
...Among the biggest hydro schemes in development are the 844MW Porce III project by EPM, the Colombian power company, and a $2.8bn, 2.4GW Hidroituango project to be auctioned in June....
...Meanwhile, Canada’s natural gas output has proved disappointing so Canadian exports to the US are running below normal....
...Statoil-Hydro of Norway and Total of France have also announced multi-billion dollar investments in the region....
...Mergers and acquisitions were high on the agenda on Monday, and Europe’s metals groups were driven by an offer for Canada’s Alcan from Alcoa of the US....
..., such as China, are currently building new nuclear fired power plants while also investing heavily in renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar and hydro....
...Canada is one western country that seems to have a healthy aluminium industry, thanks to its hydroelectric power supplies....
...Mr Bulygin said he was “absolutely confident” of pulling ahead of Alcoa of the US and Alcan of Canada, Rusal’s biggest rivals, and produce 5m tonnes of aluminium a year by 2013....
...The province of Ontario, Canada’s industrial heartland, is on the brink of an energy crisis, in spite of exhaustive efforts to decide on its future energy supplies....
...Bertrand Montel, Montreal, Canada Douglas Ferrans: Uncertainty about the future of climate change policy - will there be a post-Kyoto international regime?...
...Christan Bader highlighted Andritz’s robust cash position ahead of the sale of VA Tech Hydro Power Generation which is expected to be auctioned by Siemens for €180m to €250m in March....
...AMAG, based near Salzburg and with more than 1,500 staff, is also believed to have attracted interest from leading aluminium producers, including Alcan of Canada, Alcoa of the US and Norsk Hydro....
...A third-generation Norman B. is a director, but is also heavily involved in another British Columbia company that harvests trees submerged by hydro-electric dams....
...Nepal is producing only about 500MW of its estimated hydro capacity of 43,000MW....
...The closures would be Canada's biggest contribution towards meeting its targets for greenhouse gas reductions under the Kyoto protocol on climate change....
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