Day: September 8, 2009

Romania builds largest onshore wind farm in EU

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 / Energy / 6 Comments

This just broke in : Romania will have in 2011 the largest onshore wind farm in the European Union with 240 wind turbines accounting for no less than 600 MW of installed capacity. This 1.1 billion Euro ($1.6 billion) project is done in order to offset the emissions of the dirty coal fired plants of …

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Deforestation in Brazil decreases by 46 percent

Monday, September 7, 2009 / Environment, Sustainable development / 4 Comments

To the pictures taken by satellites the annual rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest have dropped by no less than 46 percent this year. If these figures were confirmed by ground data this would prove significant. These figures are the lowest since record keeping begun 21 years ago and can be explained by the …

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