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LONDON
Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:17pm EST
UK's Brown says climate change agreement possible
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting.
"I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this," Brown told the BBC, when asked what came next after the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen.
"I think it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by," Brown said.
"I'll be working on that in the next few months and I can see a way forward because what prevented an agreement was suspicion and fear and forms of protectionism that I think we've got to get over," he said, without giving details of his plan.
The Copenhagen talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement when delegates "noted" an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that fell far short of the conference's original goals.
Environmentalists and many policymakers voiced disappointment at the outcome.
The accord set a target of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, seen as a threshold for dangerous changes such as more floods, droughts and rising seas, but failed to say how this would be achieved.
Another round of climate talks is scheduled for November 2010 in Mexico. Negotiators are hoping to nail down then what they failed to achieve in Copenhagen -- a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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BEIJING
Mon Jan 4, 2010 8:57am EST
PetroChina says oil pipeline supply unaffected by spill
BEIJING (Reuters) - PetroChina's newly launched oil pipeline running from northwest to central China is running normally after the company shut off a branch line that spilled diesel into a river last week, company officials said on Monday.
PetroChina switched off the Weinan branch line in northern Shaanxi province last Wednesday, following a leak of 150,000 liters of diesel into a river that has been largely contained.
The new branch line is part of the 1,188 km pipeline that pumps fuel from PetroChina's refining center in Lanzhou, northwestern Gansu province, to Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province, which started operations last March.
"There has been no impact on supplies. Volumes being pumped through the trunk line have been very sporadic anyway because of weak demand and competing train transport," said an official familiar with the pipeline's operations.
PetroChina plans to extend the trunk line to Changsha, Hunan province, with an annual supply capacity of 300,000 barrels per day, one of the country's largest by capacity.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Chris Lewis)
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SANTIAGO
Mon Jan 4, 2010 11:20am EST
Bolivia demands access to Pacific Ocean: Arica tunnel
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Three Chilean architects proposed a plan on Friday to expand sea access for Bolivia, which has been landlocked for more than a century, by constructing a tunnel that will run through Chile's first region in Arica.
Sea access has been a major issue for Bolivia since the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific that allowed Chile to annex a vast northern expanse of land from both Peru and Bolivia.
The proposed tunnel would stretch from the Bolivian border through Chile's Arica to an artificial island built in the Pacific Ocean.
However, Peru is disputing maritime border issues with Chile as they believe the artificial island, built in the Pacific Ocean, will be within Peruvian waters and not Chilean waters.
"Neither Chile or Peru will lose not one centimeter of land and at the same time its a solution to Bolivia's problem (...) to communicate with the great Pacific ocean with all its economic characteristics," said architect Carlos Martner, who's idea it was to construct the tunnel.
Chile says its maritime border with Peru is a horizontal line in the Pacific that was established in agreements signed in 1952 and 1954.
But Peru claims that those are not border demarcation pacts, but rather fishing agreements between both countries, and says the border should be considered as a diagonal line equidistant between both countries.
The conflict between Bolivia and Chile these days is squarely at the center of Bolivia's refusal to export any of its abundant natural gas supplies to energy-poor Chile, which last year was at the brink of an electric rationing.
"I don't want to think that this demand (...) of water access between Peru and Chile will affect and delay one of the possible historical solutions for sovereign access to the sea," said Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Bolivian Consulate, Magali Zegarra, who is located in Arica, said Chile will obviously invest in the project as construction will be on Chilean territory and therefore under Chilean jurisdiction.
But all three countries, Peru, Chile and Bolivia will need to come to a mutual agreement before construction can begin.
SANTIAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - Landlocked Bolivia could have its coveted sea access with the construction of a tunnel that will run through Chile's northern region of Arica, according to a plan proposed by three Chilean architects.
Sea access has been a major issue for La Paz since the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific that allowed Chile to annex a vast northern expanse of land from both Peru and Bolivia and leave South America's poorest nation without a maritime outlet to export its natural gas richness.
The proposed tunnel would stretch from the Bolivian border through Chile's Arica to an artificial island built in the Pacific Ocean.
"Neither Chile or Peru will lose not one centimeter of land and at the same time its a solution to Bolivia's problem (...) to communicate with the great Pacific ocean with all its economic characteristics," said to Reuters ? Architect Carlos Martner, who's idea it was to construct the tunnel.
But the plan won't be that simple.
The artificial island would be located in waters that are in the middle of a maritime spat between Peru and Chile that escalated to the International Court of Justice.
Santiago says its maritime border with Peru is a horizontal line in the Pacific that was established in agreements signed in 1952 and 1954.
But Lima claims that those are not border demarcation pacts, but rather fishing agreements between both countries, and says the border should be considered as a diagonal line equidistant between both countries.
In other hand, recent diplomatic friction between Peru and Bolivia could hurt the proposed plan.
Bolivian president, Evo Morales, said this week that his Peruvian counterpart, Alan Garcia, is using the maritime demand at The Hague to "harm Chile and Bolivia in their negotiations" about Bolivian access to the Pacific Ocean.
Morales has also criticized Peru for giving asylum to three former Bolivian ministers accused in their country of genocide.
La Paz and Santiago, which don't have diplomatic relations, recently agree an agenda that includes Bolivian demand for a sovereign access to the Pacific.
Bolivia has the second biggest natural gas reserve of South America, after Venezuela.
(Reporting by Alexia Vlahos)
[Green Business]
LONDON
Sun Jan 3, 2010 2:17pm EST
UK's Brown says climate change agreement possible
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting.
"I've got an idea about how we can actually move this forward over the next few months and I'll be working on this," Brown told the BBC, when asked what came next after the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen.
"I think it's not impossible that the groundwork that was done at Copenhagen could lead to what you might call a global agreement that everybody is happy to stand by," Brown said.
"I'll be working on that in the next few months and I can see a way forward because what prevented an agreement was suspicion and fear and forms of protectionism that I think we've got to get over," he said, without giving details of his plan.
The Copenhagen talks ended with a bare-minimum agreement when delegates "noted" an accord struck by the United States, China and other emerging powers that fell far short of the conference's original goals.
Environmentalists and many policymakers voiced disappointment at the outcome.
The accord set a target of limiting global warming to a maximum 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, seen as a threshold for dangerous changes such as more floods, droughts and rising seas, but failed to say how this would be achieved.
Another round of climate talks is scheduled for November 2010 in Mexico. Negotiators are hoping to nail down then what they failed to achieve in Copenhagen -- a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Janet Lawrence)
[Green Business]
BEIJING
Mon Jan 4, 2010 8:57am EST
PetroChina says oil pipeline supply unaffected by spill
BEIJING (Reuters) - PetroChina's newly launched oil pipeline running from northwest to central China is running normally after the company shut off a branch line that spilled diesel into a river last week, company officials said on Monday.
PetroChina switched off the Weinan branch line in northern Shaanxi province last Wednesday, following a leak of 150,000 liters of diesel into a river that has been largely contained.
The new branch line is part of the 1,188 km pipeline that pumps fuel from PetroChina's refining center in Lanzhou, northwestern Gansu province, to Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province, which started operations last March.
"There has been no impact on supplies. Volumes being pumped through the trunk line have been very sporadic anyway because of weak demand and competing train transport," said an official familiar with the pipeline's operations.
PetroChina plans to extend the trunk line to Changsha, Hunan province, with an annual supply capacity of 300,000 barrels per day, one of the country's largest by capacity.
(Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Chris Lewis)
[Green Business]
SANTIAGO
Mon Jan 4, 2010 11:20am EST
Bolivia demands access to Pacific Ocean: Arica tunnel
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Three Chilean architects proposed a plan on Friday to expand sea access for Bolivia, which has been landlocked for more than a century, by constructing a tunnel that will run through Chile's first region in Arica.
Sea access has been a major issue for Bolivia since the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific that allowed Chile to annex a vast northern expanse of land from both Peru and Bolivia.
The proposed tunnel would stretch from the Bolivian border through Chile's Arica to an artificial island built in the Pacific Ocean.
However, Peru is disputing maritime border issues with Chile as they believe the artificial island, built in the Pacific Ocean, will be within Peruvian waters and not Chilean waters.
"Neither Chile or Peru will lose not one centimeter of land and at the same time its a solution to Bolivia's problem (...) to communicate with the great Pacific ocean with all its economic characteristics," said architect Carlos Martner, who's idea it was to construct the tunnel.
Chile says its maritime border with Peru is a horizontal line in the Pacific that was established in agreements signed in 1952 and 1954.
But Peru claims that those are not border demarcation pacts, but rather fishing agreements between both countries, and says the border should be considered as a diagonal line equidistant between both countries.
The conflict between Bolivia and Chile these days is squarely at the center of Bolivia's refusal to export any of its abundant natural gas supplies to energy-poor Chile, which last year was at the brink of an electric rationing.
"I don't want to think that this demand (...) of water access between Peru and Chile will affect and delay one of the possible historical solutions for sovereign access to the sea," said Bolivian President Evo Morales.
Bolivian Consulate, Magali Zegarra, who is located in Arica, said Chile will obviously invest in the project as construction will be on Chilean territory and therefore under Chilean jurisdiction.
But all three countries, Peru, Chile and Bolivia will need to come to a mutual agreement before construction can begin.
SANTIAGO, June 5 (Reuters) - Landlocked Bolivia could have its coveted sea access with the construction of a tunnel that will run through Chile's northern region of Arica, according to a plan proposed by three Chilean architects.
Sea access has been a major issue for La Paz since the 1879-1883 War of the Pacific that allowed Chile to annex a vast northern expanse of land from both Peru and Bolivia and leave South America's poorest nation without a maritime outlet to export its natural gas richness.
The proposed tunnel would stretch from the Bolivian border through Chile's Arica to an artificial island built in the Pacific Ocean.
"Neither Chile or Peru will lose not one centimeter of land and at the same time its a solution to Bolivia's problem (...) to communicate with the great Pacific ocean with all its economic characteristics," said to Reuters ? Architect Carlos Martner, who's idea it was to construct the tunnel.
But the plan won't be that simple.
The artificial island would be located in waters that are in the middle of a maritime spat between Peru and Chile that escalated to the International Court of Justice.
Santiago says its maritime border with Peru is a horizontal line in the Pacific that was established in agreements signed in 1952 and 1954.
But Lima claims that those are not border demarcation pacts, but rather fishing agreements between both countries, and says the border should be considered as a diagonal line equidistant between both countries.
In other hand, recent diplomatic friction between Peru and Bolivia could hurt the proposed plan.
Bolivian president, Evo Morales, said this week that his Peruvian counterpart, Alan Garcia, is using the maritime demand at The Hague to "harm Chile and Bolivia in their negotiations" about Bolivian access to the Pacific Ocean.
Morales has also criticized Peru for giving asylum to three former Bolivian ministers accused in their country of genocide.
La Paz and Santiago, which don't have diplomatic relations, recently agree an agenda that includes Bolivian demand for a sovereign access to the Pacific.
Bolivia has the second biggest natural gas reserve of South America, after Venezuela.
(Reporting by Alexia Vlahos)
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