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Jordanian Activists Take To The Streets For A Sustainable Future

Activists gathered on the streets of Amman today to say 'No' to nuclear energy and 'Yes' to renewables Following years of anti-nuclear campaigning and (more...

Turkey’s Economic Growth Hampered By Oil Addiction, Analysts Say

Rising international petroleum prices are bad news for Turkey, which imports 90 percent of the oil it consumes. Turkey's dependence on imported oil has already...

Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

On August 9th an electrical power outage hit people in parts of Cairo.  This happened only ten days after India's massive blackout grew to...

Turkish Cabinet Invokes Wartime Law To Seize Property For Hydro Projects

The more than 20 hydroelectric projects that Turkey has built on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have been sharply criticized for displacing populations and...

Qatar Eco-Summit Spotlights Environmental Safety

8th annual Health, Safety and Environment Forum in Energy happens in Doha from October 8 -10 Accidents associated with oil and gas operations endanger human...

Plans For Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant Revealed

Located in the southern province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean Sea, the Akkuyu nuclear plant has been controversial since it was first proposed in...

Nuclear Updates from Jordan, Egypt and the UAE

From growing protests in Jordan and Egypt to the first ever approved plant in UAE – we have the latest on nuclear from the...

Novel-tee Charges Your Phone, Someday

Charging our clothes to credit cards is nothing new.  Now our clothes may be doing the charging. Scientists at the University of South Carolina (USC)...

Turks Trade Gold for Iran’s Energy Allegiance

To continue feeding its addiction to Iranian oil, Turkey exported eight times as much gold to Iran in the first five months of 2012...

Biofuel from Plastic for this Young Egyptian Scientist from Alexandria

Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad was the winner of the 2011 European Union Contest for Young Scientists for finding a new way of turning plastic into biofuel. A sixteen-year-old...

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Woes Solved by Red Sea Drilling?

Gas is 15 cents a liter (60 cents a gallon) in Saudi Arabia: the government is fighting to keep both high standard of living...

Palestinians Embrace Solar To Reduce Dependency on Israel

Palestinians want to be more energy independent but will Israeli authorities, which are currently threatening the demolition of solar plants in the West Bank,...

Leap-second Bug Consumes Megawatts of Electricity

Was it the leap-second bug that pushed America's power plants beyond their capacity? A 61 second minute was added to clocks around the world on...

US Sanctions on Iran’s Oil Pressures Turkey’s Energy Supply

Libya is one of the countries with which Turkey signed a rapid oil supply deal after the United States threatened to sanction countries that...

Morocco solar energy deals led by Saudi Arabia

ACWA rumored to win the contract to build a 160 MW CSP project in in the south of Morocco.

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