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Colin Bennett

Black Markets for Rare Earth Metals - 0 views

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    That "evidence" relates to an article published by The Australian on May 28 which stated, "In Japan, the world's biggest importer of rare-earth metals, more than 10,000 tonnes per year about a fifth of the country's total annual consumption are thought to enter the country through a thriving black import network without which Japan would already be in a severe supply crisis, a senior government official said." We believe a black market exists, in this particular case, because of several actions taken by the Chinese government (by the way, the RE (rare earths) black market in Japan receives its supply from China). The biggest reason a black market exists however, relates to mining quotas and export restrictions. In addition, China has taken an active international M&A stance to make strategic investments.
Colin Bennett

Confronting Slow Rate of Auto Technology Change - 0 views

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    But the new technologies-which could help consumers cope with these prices-are unlikely to arrive in large numbers in time for the next oil spike. According to the authors of "The Impact of Plug-in Hybrids on U.S. Oil Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions," a chapter in the new book Plug-in Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington, published by the Brookings Institution, cars are durable goods that last well over a decade. "The transformation of the light-vehicle fleet to new internal combustion technologies or to hybrid and plug-in hybrid technologies will take decades from the time such vehicles are widely available at competitive prices," according to the authors, Alan Madian, Lisa Walsh and Kim Simpkins, researchers at consulting firm LECG. They believe it could take another decade from now until the new technologies compete on a price basis, and begin the process of replacing current fleets.
Colin Bennett

Greenpeace Tags HP for Lagging in Eco-Commitments - 0 views

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    The town of Guiyu in China's Guangdong Province, where residents have made an industry of recycling waste computer products with serious impact on their health, is one example. "People in Guiyu are breaking down mounds of toxic electronics with crude instruments and burning the electronics in fire pits for the gold and copper wiring in the circuit boards," Greenpeace International campaigner Casey Harrell told TechNewsWorld. "New studies show that the health impacts aren't just a combination of the impacts of chloro- and bromo-dioxin; it's exponentially higher than that," he said. "Among the few places in the world where you find mixed chloro- and bromo-dioxin is in places where you burn items with chlorine and bromine in them."
Colin Bennett

Corrosion Solutions Conference - Engineer Live, For Engineers, By Engineers - 0 views

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    At the 7th International Corrosion Solutions Conference (CSC09), 21st to 23rd September, 2009 in Park City, Utah, USA, metallurgists, fabricators, chemical and materials engineers will discuss topics ranging from alloy development and plant engineering to fabrication, failure analysis, and much more. Conference sessions are tailored to chemical processing, oil and gas, material selection, fabrication advances, and other challenging processing environments. The following abstract provides a glimpse of the papers being presented at this year's event
Colin Bennett

Efficiency debate: The pros and cons of consumer electronics - 0 views

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    The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy issued a report yesterday touting the role that semiconductor-based technologies have played in making the U.S. economy more efficient. At the same time, the International Energy Agency issued its own report calling on governments around the world to be more aggressive with efficiency standards for ICT and consumer electronics, which are expected to demand twice as much power by 2022 and three times as much by 2030 - creating a need for another 280 gigawatts of power generation (i.e. like adding another Japan to the world, or more than 230 nuclear reactors). "This will jeopardize efforts to increase energy security and reduce the emission of greenhouse gases," according to an IEA news brief.
Colin Bennett

Chemical Management: ICMM launches Minerals and Metals Management 2020 Strategy - 0 views

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    n the context of the second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management, ICMM has launched Minerals and Metals Management 2020, an action plan for chemicals management in the mining and metals sector.
Colin Bennett

'Action for a safer world' - ICMM's May Newsletter - 0 views

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    ICMM has released the May 2009 issue of its Good Practice newsletter: Action for a safer world. It is themed around the need for sound chemicals management and looks to the UN's Second International Conference on Chemicals Management in Geneva on 11-15 May. This will be the setting for the launch of ICMM's own action plan on chemicals management for the mining and metals sector - Minerals and Metals Management 2020.
Colin Bennett

Glencore`s Zambia unit reverses decision to halt copper production - 0 views

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    Zambia's Mopani Copper Mines (MCM), a unit of Swiss firm Glencore International AG, said on Monday it had reversed a plan to suspend output at its copper mines due to an uptick in prices and falling production costs.
Colin Bennett

New ISO Standard For Safety Of Consumer Goods - 0 views

  • The future standard is expected to provide guidance to all parties involved in the consumer product supply chain (designers, manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers, etc). It should result in fewer preventable injuries, promote consumer confidence, provide an international benchmark to facilitate access to international markets, serve as an adjunct to regulatory approaches, offer a systems approach to product safety, level the playing field, educate suppliers, and more.
Colin Bennett

Xstrata stresses internal growth targets - 0 views

  • Xstrata, the multinational mining company, raised its project spending guidance for next year sharply, in a sign that it is emphasising internal and not acquisition-driven growth.
Colin Bennett

Short-term thinking on issues has harmed int`l mining, a new Deloitte report suggests - 0 views

  • A report issued Tuesday by international accounting and consulting firm Deloitte contends activity in the international mining industry "has often been disproportionately influenced by short-term outlooks."
Colin Bennett

Reducing Copper Theft - 0 views

  • Copper theft is growing problem across many industries. According to a 2009 survey published by the Electrical Safety Foundation International about copper theft, utilities in the United States reported approximately $60 million in losses and 450,000 minutes of outage time annually because of theft. Additionally, utilities report 35 to 50 deaths or injuries associated with copper theft every year. While the wireless industry does not have any official copper theft statistics, there have been reports stating copper theft is costly and only getting worse.
Glycon Garcia

Spain's Iberdrola To Invest €365m into Mexican Wind | Renewable Energy News Article - 0 views

  • Spain's Iberdrola To Invest €365m into Mexican Wind
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    "Spanish energy company Iberdrola is to invest €365m to grow in Mexico's booming wind-power market at a time when other international firms are also rushing to muscle in Latin America's second-largest economy"
Colin Bennett

Seabed Council Approves 7 Plans of Work; Brazil Submits Proposal on Extension of Exploratory Contracts - 0 views

  • Seven new applications for approval of plans of work for exploration in the international Seabed Area were approved this morning by the Council of the international Seabed Authority as it nears conclusion of its work of the twentieth session in Kingston.
Colin Bennett

Takeaways from the 2014 Underwriter's Laboratories Wire and Cable International Conference - 0 views

  • As price competition increases in aircraft harness fabrication, the producers in Chinese market will get attention from companies abroad.
Colin Bennett

The Climate Group - Hosts for the Future of Energy - 0 views

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    "We welcome The Climate Group as hosts of The Future of Energy. The Climate Group is an award winning, international non-profit whose goal is a prosperous, low carbon future. "
Colin Bennett

A new Energy Policy for the new European Commission? - 0 views

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    "The collapse of key energy policy pillars of Barroso's decade 1. The world has cheaper and more abundant fossil fuels than expected. 2. The EU internal Market conceived for gas-fuelled plants competition (CCGTs) has to deal with a fierce RES subsidised push. 3. The EU Green Revolution (to push us as world R&D and leading manufacturer of a decade-long green growth) is gone. 4. Carbon pricing originated in the EU and was adopted to some degree here and there but ceased to offer any incentive to change the EU vis-à-vis GHG emissions. 5. The EU Supply Security is lower than at the fall of the Soviet Union, or before the Bush-Blair invasion in Iraq; and the EU has to address it by itself. Then what are the key components that can put EU energy policy back on track toward reaching our 2020-2030 goals? The following policy brief offers a new vision of the energy policy for our new Commission from an independent, academic point of view."
Colin Bennett

India eyes ambitious renewables targets - with US help - 0 views

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    "Green energy could give many more Indians access to electricity. "Forty per cent of India is still not connected to the grid," says Krishnan Pallassana of the Climate Group, an international think tank. "Clean energy, particularly solar and wind, could eventually connect these homes via renewable sources, and revitalise India's failing energy system.""
Colin Bennett

Copper Slag Market Share, Growth, Trend Analysis and Forecast to 2026 - 2 views

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    Star Trace, GritSablare, Apex Abrasives Industries, Rolex Enterprise, Vedanta, STAR GRIT, Mitsubishi Materials, SHANGHAI Hmard MINERALS, Abrasive Shot, Copag Abrasives & Minerals, Opta Minerals, Inexo Cast Metal Solutions, CNK International
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