Skye Resources receives environmental permits for Fenix Project (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Skye Resources Inc. announces that its Guatemalan subsidiary, Compania Guatemalteca de Niquel, S.A. , has received formal written approvals from the Guatemalan Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources for the four component environmental impact assessments relating to the processing plant and related activities at its Fenix ferro-nickel project....more...Concordia Project Advances Interoperability Among Digital Identity Management Solutions (SYS-CON Media)
The Concordia Project today announced the third face-to-face meeting taking place at Catalyst 2007 on June 26 in San Francisco....more... Social Software: Challenges, Risks, Issues And How To Confront Them (Part IV) (MasterNewMedia.org)
Social software is a concept that groups all those web-based means of interaction (blogs, wikis, instant messengers) that enable collaboration while emphasizing the importance of humans over the tools they use to communicate. Photo credit: Pathathai Chungyam In the first excerpt from the extensive research done by the Australian Flexible Learning Framework the topic of social software was ......more... Brown risks isolation if he plays veto politics in Europe (Guardian Unlimited)
Among the very first issues Gordon Brown will be forced to address as prime minister is Europe, and in particular plans to salvage parts of the ill-fated European constitution in the form of a new mini-treaty....more... Community fights plan for phone tower at school (Baltimore Sun)
Lawmakers, activists upset they weren't consulted Angry about a decision they say was made without community consultation, local legislators and advocates are pressing the Baltimore County school board to scrap plans for a cell phone tower to be built at Randallstown High School -- a project that would pump an estimated $450,000 into the school system. ...more... Pepco Energy Services Awarded Energy Savings Performance Contract by Prince George's County Public Schools (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Pepco Energy Services, a subsidiary of Pepco Holdings, Inc. and a leader in energy savings performance contracting, has been chosen by the Prince George's County Maryland Public School System to implement a comprehensive energy performance contracting project....more... Canada Energy Partners Inc. to Complete the Acquisition of All Non-Operator Owned Working Interests in the Peace River ... (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-- - Canada Energy Partners Inc. is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire an additional 0.5% working interest in the Peace River Coalbed Methane Project and 1% working interest in the deep conventional petroleum and natural gas rights on the lands covered by the Project....more... Nobel Laureate James Watson Receives Personal Genome In Ceremony At Baylor College Of Medicine (Medical News Today)
The $1 million, two-month project is a collaboration of 454 Life Sciences and the BCM Human Genome Sequencing Center (HGSC), said Dr. Richard Gibbs, director of the HGSC and a scientific advisor to the Connecticut-based company. [click link for full article]...more... EarthTalk: honeybees, 'terminator' seeds (MSNBC)
Dear EarthTalk : What is causing the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in the U.S. and elsewhere in recent years, and what is being done about it?...more... |