Day: September 24, 2008

EDF takes over British Energy for 15.7 billion €

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 / Energy / Leave a Comment

The French national utility Electricité de France – known as EDF – is beginning to take over the UK company British Energy for an estimated cost of 15.7 billion Euros (or $23 billion). According to the Financial Times quoted below, this is the largest international expansion plan for EDF. The company plans to build at …

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Arctic ice keeps on melting more and more…

Wednesday, September 24, 2008 / Climate change / Leave a Comment

You perhaps read it before somewhere else as I am pretty late on this, but Arctic sea ice melt to a worrying extent this summer and almost beat last year’s record. But according to the people from the WWF, the extent may not be as small as last year, but in terms of thickness – …

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