China’s policy towards Iran, especially with respect to nuclear proliferation, and its reported sale of solid-fuel missiles to Saudi Arabia, are further indicators of China’s global strategy to challenge what it perceives as declining US power.

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  External Relations  |  from indianexpress.com

Prime Minister Andrus Ansip met with Khalid Irani, the minister for energy and natural resources from the Kingdom of Jordan, and the delegation accompanying him at the Stenbock House today. The main aim of the Jordanian delegation’s visit to Estonia is to learn more about the country’s oil shale industry.

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  Energy  |  from valitsus.ee

The future for European coal generation looks gloomy with the odds stacked against new coal plants but if Turkey is included in the European zone a very different picture emerges, analysts say

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  Energy  |  from todayszaman.com

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban on Thursday, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports.

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  Markets  |  from cnn.com

The Foreign Ministry said Thursday it has set up a task force to examine Japan’s policies concerning the North Pole, as melting ice due to global warming opens the door to increased ship navigation and chances for resource development in the Arctic sea.

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  External Relations  |  from japantoday.com

Wheat climbs after Russia, the third-largest grower last year, extends a ban on exports into next year after a drought destroyed crops, tightening global supplies.

• Date: 03.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 03.09.2010  |  Markets  |  from hurriyetdailynews.com

In its first transaction in Baltics, the EBRD-EIB Multilateral Carbon Credit Fund (MCCF) has agreed to buy carbon credits from a group of wind farms managed by OÜ Nelja Energia, a renewable energy company, owned by Freenergy AS, a leading Estonian investor in renewable energy in Eastern Europe, the EBRD announced on Wednesday.

• Date: 02.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.09.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com

Estonia’s largest natural gas supplier Eesti Gaas raises on Wednesday the price of gas for home consumers and small-time consumers have to pay 10.3 kroons per cubic metre instead of the earlier 8.8 kroons

• Date: 02.09.2010  |  Published on EGF: 02.09.2010  |  Energy  |  from baltic-course.com