Bhutan King visit to India and sign a no. of pacts and MoUs

New Delhi: India and Bhutan sign a number of agreement and MoUs during the 5 day visit of Bhutan King King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. The fifth King of Bhutan, who is in India on his maiden foreign...

Carol James celebrates Earth Day by polluting it!

I guess the NDP have completely given up on getting any votes from those of us who care about environmental issues.  If I am not mistaken, travel by private aircraft is the single most polluting means of...

Sidewalk Plates Shocking People and Their Pets in Toronto

I keep seeing these stories pop up and thought I should post about it. Apparently a number of dinner-plate sized metal covers that dot the sidewalk all over Toronto are suffering from wiring issues, and have been shocking people and their dogs as they walk over it. So far at...

Kid Gets Tongue Stuck To Pole In Scene Out Of A Christmas Story

Like in the scene right out of the move, "A Christmas Story," a ten year old Indiana boy got his tongue stuck to a metal light pole.  Police say the fouth-grader did it on a dare.  Have all boys in the...

How to cut your hydro bill by 22%

This seems like a timely piece."Today I got my Hydro bill. The regular monthly payment has been cut by $10. The previous amount was set by the consumption of the previous owner. I have not replaced any of the major electrical appliances and I heat the house and the hot...

German students assist Jal Sansthan workers with hi-tech equipment in Mussoorie

The German technology will be used in uttraklhand to detect the leakage in the drinking water pipeline.   " MUSOORIE, 13 Nov: Rene Rother and Marcel Gossman from University of Applied Sciences, Dresden,...

Power off for Hundreds After Toronto Vault Fire

It's the second underground fire in Toronto in a week, and the third in Canada this month after last week's power-cutting Vancouver fire. While this one wasn't nearly as serious, hundreds of people were left...

Vancouver blackout crashes websites worldwide

Today's power outage in Vancouver has had an impact on business both within the city and far beyond. Hundreds of Internet servers at Vancouver's Harbour Centre lost power, and as a result, websites crashed...

BC Gold Rush: Energy From The Air

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorDropping everything to Cash in on the Energy Bandwagon, may in principle sounds like a good idea, but many have tried to make a living on principle, leaving many with a...

Canadian Cycling Team Symmetrics Feels Financial Heat

One of the best stories in Canadian Cycling from 2007 may become one of the most unfortunate in 2008. After a phenomenal showing last year, including Svein Tuft winning the overall UCI America Tour. The team is...

Huge Weekend Storms Blanket Ontario, Quebec and Maritimes

Ontario, Quebec and the maritimes are digging themselves out of the huge amount of snow dumped down throughout the weekend. At least 15-40 cm of snow dropped on to the Greater Toronto Area over a 36 hour...

Major Storm to hit Ont. - Winter Storm Watch in Place

If a declining US economy isn't bad enough for Ontario...a major winter storm currently pummeling the U.S. is expected to move North. "All of Southern Ontario is under a winter storm watch this afternoon as...

Four national parks in Jambi to be discussed in UNFCCC

"The four are the National Parks of Kerinci Seblat, Berbak, Bukit Dua Belas, and Bukit Tiga Puluh, Director of the Indonesian Community for Conservation (KKI-Warsi) Jambi Rakhmat Hidayat said on Sunday.He said the condition of the four national parks were relatively good and...

90,000 still without power after BC Storm

Many British Columbians will have to keep the candles out for a little while longer..."Ninety thousand BC Hydro customers were still without power Tuesday morning as crews continued to repair damage from the massive storm on Sunday and Monday.""It could be Wednesday before...

RI Offers power sector investment opportunity to U.S business delegation

" "Our energy policy now is building coal-fired power plants. And we are also using hydro and geothermal energy in power generation because it is cleaner," Minister of Industry Fahmi Idris said after receiving a 30-member American business delegation grouped in the US-ASEAN...

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