Flood Havoc
NEW DELHI, Aug 5, 2007 (AFP) - The death toll from raging floods in India neared 1,100 Sunday as more people drowned in swollen rivers that have stranded …
Renaissance
MCCLEAN LAKE, Canada, July 24, 2007 (AFP) - Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster poisoned the world's taste for reactors, a French firm is sniffing out …
Monthlies
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will adjust fuel prices monthly on a transparent formula to cut losses in petroleum utilities, an official said, which is …
Need Based
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has announced fuel subsidies to the poor on state welfare and warned of more price hikes with the onset of a hurricane …
Power Seed
July 11, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is seeking Indian support to develop bio-diesel plants in the island's Puttalam region, north of the capital Colombo, a …
Don’t Open
July 06, 2007 (LBO) – Opening up Sri Lanka's electricity sector to foreign competition under international free trade rules that are being negotiated …
Passing Bucks
July 04, 2007 (LBO) -- Sri Lanka's state-run oil firm Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has asked the treasury to pick up a six billion rupee subsidy tab for …
Power Profits
July 2, 2007 (LBO) – Problems at Sri Lanka's Kelanitissa thermal power station partly offset strong first quarter 2007 profit growth of AES Corporation …
Upward Revision
June 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has raised fuel prices by around 5 percent almost two months after the last price increase, after allowing petroleum …
Ruling Roost
LONDON, June 28, 2007 (AFP) - Ten years after British energy markets were liberalised the customer is king and can put pressure on prices with a click of a …
Structural Attempt
June 26, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lankan security forces found a powerful Claymore mine near an oil storage depot in the capital Tuesday, the defence ministry said. …
Water Water
June 22, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is boosting pipe-borne water supply to the capital Colombo by expanding two water treatment plants, a senior government …
Still Trying
June 21, 2007 (AFP) - The tsunami-devastated Galle International Stadium may not be ready to host the first Test against England later this year. online …
Synthetic Fuel
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2007 (AFP) - A fiery debate has been rekindled in Washington as US lawmakers mull proposed incentives to produce diesel fuel from coal. …
Heaven Sent
June 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's power utility has increased its hydro storage after heavy rains in the last three days, and if the trend continues it …
Off-Grid
June 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will be able to light up 60,000 rural homes and also connect new private-sector renewable energy to the urban power grid …
Power Blast
June 12, 2007 (LBO) – A blast ripped through a vital high voltage electricity transmission line in a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, but it failed …
Close Shave
June 12, 2007 (AFP) - Tamil Tiger saboteurs came close to cutting off a large chunk of Sri Lanka's electricity supply Tuesday by skirting tight security and …
Oil Oil everywhere…
TEHRAN, June 6, 2007 (AFP) - Iran hopes to begin a much-delayed plan to ration petrol in the next two weeks amid continued uncertainty over its launch date, …
Precipice
June 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is on the brink of the dangerous path of petrol and diesel rationing, which will give set amounts of subsidized fuel to …