Path free for IRENA Secretariat and IRENA Innovation Center   18/1/2010
The 3rd preparatory meeting for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has opened the pathway to the buildup of the IRENA secratariat in Abu Dhabi as well as for the IRENA-Innovationcenter in Bonn, Germany. IRENA starts operations in 2010 on a budget of more than 13 MM US-Dollar. The Federal German Government will provide additional 3 MM US-Dollar for the new .... ...

Environment Minister requests legal measures against companies for air pollution   18/1/2010
Dr. Maged George, Minister of State for Environmental Affairs, advised today the persons in charge about the necessity of taking rapidly legal measures against 2 companies situated in the port of Al Dakheila. The 2 companies did not take the necessary measure to avoid polluting gas and dust emissions. The EEAA has received earlier complains from the residents in this area from dust .... ...

Car transport in Cairo and Alexandria increasingly inefficient and dangerous   17/1/2010
The streets of Cairo and Alexandria would be transformed into a garage if car owners had decided to move them into the two cities simultaneously. This is pointed ot by a study of the Egyptian Society for the Safety and Technology for Traffic in 2009. The study shows that there are in Cairo alone 1,165,237 vehicles, and each vehicle needs 8.11 square meters, while Alexandria holds .... ...

Aswan High Dam 39 year completion jubilee   15/1/2010
On 15 January 1971, Egypt celebrated the completion of the High Dam, whose funding was the center of a Cold War dispute that led to the 1956 Suez War. Located on the Upper Nile, around 1000km downstream from Cairo, the gigantic mountain of concrete and steel is among the 20th century's most elaborate engineering work. The construction of the High Dam began in 1960, and it was .... ...

Industry askes to mainain subsidizing energy for 6 more months   14/1/2010
It has come to the knowledge of Al Masry Al Yom that the Energy Pricing Committee pertaining to the industrial sector has recommended a delay of six more months prior to implementing the second phase of energy price increases extended to factories. At the end of the period, the prices will be revised. A responsible source within the committee has stated that the .... ...

Electricity Minister: Development March Pushed by Arab Power   13/1/2010
Minister of Electricity Hassan Younis stressed the importance of power linkage among Arab states for giving a stronger momentum to economic and social development in the Arab world. Addressing a meeting of the executive office of the Council of Arab Electricity Ministers, Younis highlighted the role played by the Council in taking all needed measures to put this project into .... ...

Aswan High Dam 50 years after construction start   9/1/2010
The Egyptian Electricity Ministry is seeking to complete a plan to upgrade power generators at the High Dam by mid 2010, Minister Hassan Younis said Monday 11/1/2010 at the occasion that mark 50 years since the establishment of the High Dam that 10 of 12 generators have already been rehabilitated at about 1.7 billion pounds worth of investments. The High Dam station is an essential .... ...

Powerfull interconnection planned around North Sea   5/1/2010
The German Ministry of Economic Affairs announced at a press conference the creation of an interconnecting grid of countries bordering the North and Irish Sea. The respective agreement was already signed in Brussels, at an Energy Council meeting on December 07, 2009 between minsters from U.K., France, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ireland, Sweden, and the Netherlands in an .... ...

Nile pollution reaches the courts   3/1/2010
The Summary Court of Imbaba passed on Saturday the first ever verdict against factory owners that dump their industrial waste into the Nile. The court sentenced Sherif Mahmoud el-Sayed and Mohamed Ali Thabet, managers of the two branches of the Nile Company for Food Industries, better known as Enjoy, to one year in prison on a conviction of dumping industrial waste into the Nile in .... ...

Dr. Younes' temporary charge as Transport Minister ends   3/1/2010
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak issued a presidential decree Sunday to appoint a new education minister and a new transport minister, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported. Alaa Eddin Mohamed Fahmi, CEO of the postal services was named as transport Minister and takes over from Dr. Hassan Younes, the Energy and Electricity Minister, who was the caretaker of the Ministry .... ...