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Gas exploration plans in Heritage site

A report leaked to British newspaper The Guardian has revealed secret plans by Argentine gas giant Pluspetrol to explore for natural gas in an area inhabited by uncontacted tribes in southeast Peru. Plans to search for gas in one of Peru’s most important protected...

Energy Turns Out To Be Expensive

“Free” Energy Turns Out To Be Expensive A new study by the UK’s Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) shows that wind farms are much less viable than expected. The assumptions used for planning new installations and subsidy programmes are hopelessly optimistic. Turbines...

Kate Nash launches Girl Talk

Kate Nash launches third album, ‘Girl Talk’ at St Martins Lane in London. The celebrity-packed event ushered in the platinum selling, multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter’s highly anticipated third album. Written on the bass guitar, lending...

Are we all Argentina Now?

Are we all Argentina Now? What do you think? There’s your question for the day. Am I serious? Yes. But things have been so extreme in Argentina. It can’t possibly get like that in the US or Britain and Europe. Can it? Seriously though, pictures of riots, looting, rush...

SA doing well, despite global woes

Cape Town – South Africa is holding up amid the suppressed global economy and the continuing uncertainty over the Eurozone, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday. Speaking at a New Age Business Briefing following the State of the Nation Address in Parliament last night,...