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Canada (Alberta): Petro-Canada gas supply still coming up short

A gas shortage is causing more and more Petro-Canada stations in our city to run on empty.

The company's refinery has had problems with a machine and that has forced Petro-Canada to ration its fuel shipments.

El Salvador: De la crisis integral, contradicciones oficiales y despidos masivos

No sector of the Salvadoran population is foreign to the crisis overwhelming the country. The high cost and shortage of propane gas, high fuel prices, the hike in the cost of basic food basket and unemployment are, among others, the main determinants for concern and uncertainty that increase every day.

India: Diesel still short, LPG runs out too

The city continued to face a shortage of diesel for the fourth day on Tuesday with most fuel stations running out of stock or getting insufficient stock.

India: Rationalising coal prices

We are facing a double whammy here with coal imports for the power sector shooting up even as its international prices have zoomed about 125% in the past eight months or so. Coal is the mainstay of energy resource of our economy: Of the total installed power capacity, more than 50% is coal based and the power sector consumes about 75% of domestic coal production. Yet locally mined coal isn’t enough for our needs. Coal imports have shot up by almost 130%, an increase of almost 17 million tonnes between 2004-5 and 2006-7, and India’s appetite for coal is growing at a particularly fast clip.

Indonesia: Black Out in Timika

The electricity cut happened started on Tuesday morning.

Hormat Pakpahan, supervisor of the state power plant for Timika, said that the power cut was caused by a diesel shortage.

Indonesia: Shopping centers say no to forced power-saving plan

Shopping centers have rejected a planned govt regulation requiring them to switch to their own power generators for ten hours every week starting Aug. 25, citing burdensome extra costs.

The Indonesian Shopping Center Association (APPBI) is not ruling out the possibility of temporarily closing down its operations and staging a rally if the government goes ahead with its plan, chairman Stefanus Ridwan said Friday.

Papua New Guinea: Lae in PNG hit with power blackouts

Papua New Guinea’s second largest city, Lae, is being hit with power blackouts after the breakdown of two power generators led to the rationed supply of electricity to the city.

The power crisis is expected to last up to three weeks, as work is done to repair the broken generators.

South Africa: Get real - there is no power

Maroga initially spelt out the situation in a press release on June 12 in which he said, "Our operating reserve margin is such that Eskom cannot accommodate any new connections unless space is created on the system." On July 17, he described SA as being at a crossroads and stated that Eskom would not be able to get on top of SA's power supply crisis purely through building new power stations until about 2014.

South Africa: Power cut hits Joburg

POWER cuts in several areas of Johannesburg yesterday morning were not due to load shedding, but were caused by too great a strain on distribution equipment as a result of Eskom’s constant blackouts that occurred earlier this year.

A malfunction at City Power’s Kelvin substation caused outages in several areas including Highlands North, Halfway Gardens, Houghton, Dunkeld, Rosebank, Bez Valley, Killarney, Illovo, Atholl and Glenhazel.

Argentina: Quejas por la escasez de gasoil

Fuel dispensers took aim against the national government's "watch and do nothing" attitude to avoid a shortage of diesel at service stations, estimated at 30 percent.

So there was the president of the Federation of vending fuels in the province of Buenos Aires, Luis Malchiodi.

"The diesel is still missing by 30 percent, and we have witnessed how oil companies are uninterested in the problem, since they are the real culprits for this. But in addition, the Government looks and does nothing,"

Bangladesh: The food, climate and energy crisis

Rising food prices and shortages have joined the energy and climate crisis, economic recession, and the war in Iraq, as headline news. While consumers struggle to pay their bills and put food on the table, Monsanto, Cargill, and Archer Daniels Midland rake in billions from taxpayer-subsidized biofuels. Monopolizing markets, polluting the environment with genetically modified organisms, and hoarding future reserves of crop seeds, wheat, rice, soy, corn, and other grains, the food and gene giants profit from global crisis and misery. Adding fuel to the fire, Wall Street speculators have shifted their greed from sub-prime mortgages to food and non-renewable resources.

Bolivia: Sube consumo de GLP por Urkupiña y se genera escasez en la ciudad

The demand for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) has increased in recent days in Cochabamba, causing some supply problems and unrest in neighborhood groups that have blocked city streets, demanding that they ensure the provision of domestic fuel.

China: China July power output growth at 6-year low

China's power generation growth eased in July to 8.1 percent, it slowest in over six years, underlining the deepening supply woes that have forced nearly half the nation to ration power.

Power firms are cutting output in the face of costly and scarce coal and fixed electricity prices, threatening the worst summer power crisis in China since 2004 that is already being felt in a number of sectors, particularly energy-intensive metals.
Jiangxi Copper Co <0358.HK>, the country's top integrated producer of the metal, became the latest victim when it said on Thursday it would cut output of semi-finished products by up to 30 percent in August, after the local government asked it to reduce power use.

Mexico: Reportan escasez de gasolina en Chiapas

The restriction implemented by Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) to dealers not to sell fuel in jerry cans and drums, has caused havoc to thousands of Indians and peasants, who remain "idle", particularly since their tractors, irrigation pumps, extraction water and spraying are crippled by lack of fuel.

Nepal: Essentials shortage in east

As the eastern region of the country continues to reel under the transportation strike called by various transport organizations for the past four days, shortage of foodstuff and daily commodities, including fuel has surfaced in various districts.

Northern Marianas: NMI under state of disaster

Gov. Benigno R. Fitial has declared a state of disaster emergency for the CNMI, citing that one of the power engines at the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.'s Power Plant 1 in Lower Base could explode at any time, maiming or killing power plant workers.

“This declaration is necessary to protect the health and safety of our children, or senior citizens, businesses and all other CNMI residents and visitors,” Fitial said.