je.st
news
Tag: ecuador
Chevron ordered to pay Ecuador $9.51 bn...
2013-11-13 11:48:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
An Ecuadoran court upheld a ruling that US oil giant Chevron was liable for environmental damage in its Amazon basin region by sister company Texaco, but ordered it to pay a reduced $9.51 billion.
Tags: pay
ordered
ecuador
chevron
Ecuador in new probe to see if climate change worsens El Nino
2013-11-09 09:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Think Galapagos and you think nature in its most pristine expression. But the destructive weather phenomenon called El Nino turns coral reefs there a sickly white and sea iguanas scrawny. And now, in an unprecedented experiment, scientists using unmanned submarines in the waters off the Ecuadoran archipelago are probing whether global warming is related to El Nino. There is not yet conclusive evidence of a link. But experts are very serious about the possibility that climate change is making...
Tags: change
ecuador
climate
probe
Ecuador Congress Approves Yasuni Basin Oil Drilling in Amazon
2013-10-09 18:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Ecuador's parliament on Thursday authorized drilling of the nation's largest oil fields in part of the Amazon rainforest after the failure of President Rafael Correa's plan to have rich nations pay to avoid its exploitation. The socialist leader launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni jungle area, which boasts some of the planet's most diverse wildlife, but scrapped it after attracting only a small fraction of the $3.6 billion sought. The government-dominated National Assembly authorized...
Tags: amazon
oil
congress
ecuador
Indra modernises air surveillance network in Ecuador
2013-10-07 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Indra has launched an airspace surveillance network in Ecuador that enables the civil aviation authority to shift from covering 30% of the country's airspace to more than 90%.
Tags: network
air
ecuador
surveillance
Indra's Radar Network Controls the Movements in the Skies of Ecuador
2013-10-03 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
• Indra's new MSSR mode-S radars and multilateration system make it possible to cover 90% of the nation's airspace<br /> <br /> • Indra has renewed the Quito, Shell and Manta approach centres, in addition to the Guayaquil en-route centre it modernised last year<br /> <br /> • The cost for renewing these infrastructures is approximately $30 million<br /> <br /> Indra has rolled-out an airspace surveillance network in Ecuador that has enabled the Civil Aviation Authority to shift ...This story is related to the following:Sensors, Monitors and TransducersTransportation Industry ProductsSafety and Security EquipmentSearch for suppliers of: Radar Detectors | Air Traffic Control Equipment | Surveillance Systems
Tags: network
controls
ecuador
movements
Sites : [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] next »