VIDEO: Smoke From California’s Wildfires Reached New York City (USA)

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Category: News - Natural Disasters

23 November 2018. Smoke from the wildfires that have devastated California for weeks has stretched some 3,000 miles to East Coast cities. The Weather Channel reported this week that the haze was expected to linger through Wednesday before an arctic chill descends on the Northeast over the Thanksgiving holiday.

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Sibanye shuts gold mines in South Africa as strike turns violent

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Category: News - Mining

23 November 2018. South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater has halted all its gold mining operations in the country after violence broke out overnight during a strike by workers demanding higher wages.

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Sikkim inaugurates 110 MW Hydro Electric Power Project (India)

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Category: News - Energy

23 November 2018. Sikkim Chief Minister PK Chamling inaugurated 110 Mega Watt Chujachen (East) Hydro Power Project on Sunday. The chief minister said power generation in state has increased from 32 MW in 1994 to about 3310 in 2018.

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Coast Guard orders cleanup of massive 14-year oil spill in Gulf of Mexico (USA)

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Category: News - Oil & Gas

22 November 2018. The Coast Guard is coming down hard on the owners of a broken oil platform that has been allowed to leak off southeast Louisiana for more than 14 years. New federal estimates put the leak rate at the Taylor Energy Co. well at 10,500 gallons to 29,000 gallons of oil per day. That’s five to 13 times larger than government’s estimate from just a year ago, and would rank the Taylor Energy leak as one of the largest and longest-running oil spills in North America.

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Enel plans to deploy another 11.4 GW of renewables by 2021

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Category: News - Energy

22 November 2018. In its new strategic plan for the period 2019-2021, the Italian power utility announced it will invest an additional €10.6 billion in renewable energy projects. It aims to strenghten its position in the markets where it has an integrated presence such as Italy, Spain, Chile and Brazil.

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Google plans renewables-powered Danish data centre

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22 November 2018. Internet giant Google today said it will build a new data centre near Fredericia, western Denmark, and power it solely with renewables. In order to provide the needed electricity, the company said it will seek to sign power purchase agreements (PPAs) for solar power, onshore and offshore wind.

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GE to start modernization of 14 GW Itaipu hydro power plant

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21 November 2018. Itaipu Binacional has chosen the GE consortium, established by GE Power and CIE Sociedad Anonima, to provide electrical equipment for the early stages of the modernization project of the 14-GW Itaipu hydro power plant. Located on the Parana River on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, the Itaipu hydroelectric facility has a capacity large enough to meet 75% of Paraguay’s total electricity needs and about 15% of Brazil’s at the same time.

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