May 24 2008
Argentina: Otro fin de semana con poco combustible en las estaciones
At 7 and 66 the picture is repeated. "Since we have no diesel on Thursday. It's a disaster. Deliveries are irregular, the truck comes when it wants and leave us the liters they want," said Julia, an employee of the dispenser of Spain Square, and assured us that "not only are clients inconvenienced by this situation, we do not benefit at all. "
Belize: Belizeans warned of possible power blackouts
The electricity company in Belize has warned that it will be forced into rotating blackouts across the island within weeks if it is not granted the 25 per cent rate increase it has asked for.
Bolivia: Gobierno instruye militarizar fronteras del país para frenar a los contrabandistas
The Executive instructed the Armed Forces (FFA), starting on Wednesday or Thursday of next week, to militarize all avenues, rivers and borders of the national territory to prevent the smuggling of fuel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), and food staples.
China: Coal shortages spark into power production
COAL shortages have forced 39 power plants in China to halt generation with 6.37 gigawatts of capacity affected, as fuel inventories further decline, the industry watchdog said.
Among the most affected provinces, Hebei only has 5.1 days worth of consumption and Hunan 3.4 days, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission said. Anhui has slightly recovered with 3.7 days of supply. The government's warning level for coal inventories is seven days.
Ethiopia: Blackouts, drought put Ethiopians in distress
Ethiopia's business community and the public in general would be better prepared to carry on with their daily activities if there were regular official reports on electricity availability in the country, the weekly Capital newspaper stated.
Expressing public irritation over the now commonplace outages here, the paper suggested that businesses deserve a compensation for the losses incurred due to power shortage.
Guinea-Bissau: Bissau menacée de manquer d'eau et d'électricité dans six jours
The capital of Guinea-Bissau, Bissau, will be threatened by lack of water and electricity in six days for lack of money for the purchase of fuel feeding the central provision of electric power, said a press release the Company's water and electricity (EAGB) published Saturday.
India: ‘Uranium shortage serious issue’
Reiterating their total opposition to the India-U.S. civilian nuclear cooperation, the Left parties on Friday said their discussions with the government were still going on.
“At the last meeting of the UPA-Left joint committee on the nuclear deal, we were told that there is a shortage of uranium and reactors were working at 50 per cent of their level of production,” Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat told reporters here.
India: Communists protest against water and electricity shortage in Bihar
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) activists disrupted traffic and set up road blockages with the help of burnt tyres and water containers in protest against the Bihar Government’s inability to end the shortage of water and electricity across the state.
Mexico: Mexico State Oil Company Says April Production Drop Is Biggest in 12 Years
Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, said April crude production fell the most in more than 12 years as output at its largest field declined faster than the company forecast.
Crude oil production fell 13 percent to 2.767 million barrels a day in April, Mexico City-based Pemex, as the company is known, said today on its Web site. Output a year earlier was 3.182 million barrels a day. The decline was the largest since October 1995, when output fell 29 percent.
Nepal: PM promises Rs 1 billion to cash strapped NOC to ease fuel supply
Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has promised that the government would issue another Rs 1 billion in loans to Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) to ease its mounting debts and help it import more fuel to normalise fuel supply in the country faced with a resurgence of its shortage.
Nicaragua: Nicaraguan leader threatens to nationalize Spanish electricity provider
Nicaragua's government accuses Fenosa of breaching its concession agreement by failing to invest enough to improve infrastructure in the energy-starved country.
"Every day there are power blackouts," said Ortega. "These are actions of economic sabotage."
Pakistan: Power conservation in factories opposed
The provinces have warned that there may be massive cuts in daily-wage employment in several industries if the government tries to reduce the duration or change the hours of electricity supply to industrial zones under its new 90-day energy conservation plan to be implemented from next month.
