Japan: Back to (a New) Normal After summer in the U.S. and Shanghai, I have been back in Shibuya for several weeks. Compared with the funereal pall that seemed to envelop the national psyche in April and May, when daily life was made doubly depressing by incessant, repetitive television commercials from celebrities appealing for unity and optimism in the face of disaster, as well as seemingly hourly alarms about radioactive pollution from the Fukushima nuclear plant, life seems to have returned to the patterns, and generally, concerns pre -3.11. 米国と上海の夏の後、私は数週間のために戻って渋谷になっている
Green Column: Questioning Europe's Math on Biofuels Findings by an influential group of European scientists have added to concerns that bioenergy may not benefit the environment as much as previously thought. ヨーロッパの科学者の影響力のあるグループによる調査結果は、バイオエネルギーは同じくらい以前に考えられていたとして、環境に利益をもたらす場合がありますとの懸念に追加しました
Abundant U.S. Natural Gas Supply Slakes Asian Demand Gas prices are expected to remain depressed in the U.S. with the EIA weekly report on gas inventories in the U.S. showing a higher than expected build-up of reserves as the increase in production outstripped demand. Players like Anadarko Petroleum have used technologies such as hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) and horizontal drilling to boost the American gas supply. In contrast to low prices in the U.S., strong growth in liquefied natural gas demand from China, Japan and India is resulting in prices for liquefied gas rising despite macroeconomic concerns. Analysts expect exports from the U.S. to meet international demand over the long term. Natural gas sales are an important driver for firms such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and BP.
We have a near $85 price estimate for Anadarko, which implies a 13-14% premium over its current market price.
Oversupply in U.S. markets
The EIA long term forecast expects the U.S. to increase its natural gas demand to increase by 14% from 2008 to 2035 with growth in the industrial and utility sectors. However despite increasing demand, supply from shale deposits across the U.S. are expected to flood the market and their output is expected to triple from present levels by 2020. Despite depressed natural gas prices, LNG prices in the U.S. have risen in anticipation of demand from Asian countries. Liquefied gas can be shipped across to foreign markets and some estimates suggest that the U.S. could export as much as 5 Bcf / day of LNG by 2017 to meet the requirements in Asia and Europe. _NULL_
Uplands protest over ban on bracken spray Has spinach queered the pitch for the long, long struggle against the beautiful but rampantly invasive plant?Farmers and conservationists in the north's uplands are alarmed about a European Union ban on the most effective way of controlling bracken.Beautiful though the plant is, with its dying colour illuminating areas such as the Lake District in autumn, its bramble-like potency can lead to the overwhelming of heather, grass and worst of all bilberries.Knock-on victims potentially include rarer plants and bird species and bracken control has a long and varied history. Traditional cutting depended on manpower levels long gone in areas such as the Trough of Bowland or the North York Moors, and there is no longer any call for harvested bracken as animal bedding, thatch or an ingredient of potash.Six EU countries have now blocked an attempt to stall a ban on the long-used alternative, asulam spraying, which the European Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health considers potentially unsafe if aerial spraying drifts to a number of other crops. The nub of the issue is concern over very limited use of asulam by spinach growers in continental countries, with bracken getting caught up in the issue.This led to an approach by the European Food Safety Authority to the Standing Committee in March which triggered the process os a ban. A reprieve in May referred the decision to the EU's Appeal Committee but that has ruled against asulam this week.The National Farmers Union has appealed for a stay on the ban with its Scottish president Nigel Miller, a hill farmer on the border with Northumberland, saying:This decisiont will make the annual struggle of trying to contain the spread of bracken even tougher. The lack of alternative products – particularly products suitable _NULL_
Refugee Protection at Risk Head of UNHCR expresses concern for increasing anti-foreigner sentiment when hundreds of thousands people are in need of sanctuary 千数百人が聖域を必要としているときにUNHCRの頭部は増加する反外国人感情に対する懸念を表明
Philippines mops up after two typhoons in a week MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities were struggling on Sunday to reach communities in northern provinces of Luzon island that were hit by two powerful typhoons in less than week, as concern grew about a third storm forming off the coast.
マニラ(ロイター) - フィリピン当局は懸念が沖に形成する第三嵐について成長するにつれ、1週間足らずで二つの強力な台風に見舞われたルソン島の北部地域のコミュニティに達するために日曜日に奮闘していた
Not a Good Argument Against Fracking My home town has just advanced one of the more silly arguments against fracking (or frakking if you prefer) that I've seen. Bath, that home town in the SW of England, is claiming that exploratory fracking 15 miles away, in the Mendips, would threaten the supply of hot water to the famous springs and thus damage the economy of the City.
Concerns were raised on Wednesday that the controversial process of extracting gas from underground could pose a threat to Bath's world famous hot springs. 私の故郷は、ちょうど私が見てきた(またはお好みならfrakking)frackingに対してより多くの愚かな引数のいずれかを進んでいる
2,700 hacking attempts on S.Korea military in year South Korea's military has seen more than 2,700 attempts to hack into its websites over the past year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, amid growing concern over North Korea's cyber warfare capability.Kim Ok-Lee of the ruling Grand National Party said the military's websites had seen 2,772 hacking attempts from July 2010 to last month, according to data from the defence ministry.The monthly average number of attacks has grown from some 170 last year to more than 200 in 2011, the ministry said in a report submitted to Kim. 韓国軍が過去1年間そのサイトに侵入するために2,700以上の試みを見ている、議員は、与党ハンナラ党の水曜日、北朝鮮のサイバー戦争capability.Kim〜への懸念が高まる中で。李軍のウェブサイトは見ていた前記2010年7月から先月まで2772ハッキングの試みが、防衛ministry.Theからのデータによると攻撃の毎月の平均の数は2011年に約170昨年から200以上に成長して、同省は金に提出された報告書で述べた
Asian stocks plunge by midday on Monday on Greek concerns TOKYO (AFP) - Tokyo stocks fell 2.26 per cent on Monday morning as exporters tumbled on a weaker euro amid fears of a default by Greece and concerns over the European economy. 東京(AFP) - 輸出業者は、欧州の経済上のギリシャとの懸念により、デフォルトの懸念の中でユーロ安で下落、東京株式市場は、月曜日の朝に2.26パーセントの減少となりました
US twisted Seoul's arm in drone deal The South Korean media has reported that the United States has been stalling for years on the sale of four RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude aerial surveillance drones over technology transfer concerns. But investigation of US cables revealed by WikiLeaks exposes how the US Embassy has actually been exerting considerable diplomatic pressure on Seoul to complete the purchase. - Sunny Lee (Sep 28, '11) 韓国のマスコミは、米国は技術移転の問題で4つのRQ - 4グローバルホーク高高度航空監視の無人機の販売で年間ストールされていることを報告している
Kodak Stock Craters As Cash Crunch Stokes Bankruptcy Talk The venerable Rochester, N.Y. based company Eastman Kodak may simply not have the cash necessary to complete the transformation it has been attempting, at least since 2003, into a 21st century cutting-edge digital concern with a focus on commercial printing. 由緒あるニューヨーク州ロチェスターに本社イーストマンコダック社は、単にそれが商業印刷を中心とした21世紀の最先端のデジタル懸念に、2003年以来、少なくとも、しようとしている変換を完了するために必要な現金を持っていない可能性があります
U.S. states petition Supreme Court for healthcare reform concern WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Attorneys general in 26 U.S. states on Wednesday announced they have formally petitioned the Supreme Court to take up their case to challenge a specific mandatory clause of the healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but the White House responded that the administration remains convinced the law is constitutional.
One clause of the Affordable Care Act, which was passed last year, has contained a stipulation which compels most people to have health insu ... ワシントン、9月28日(新華社) - 水曜日の26米国の州の検事総長は、彼らが正式に医療制度改革法、手ごろな価格の医療法の特定は必須の文節に挑戦する彼らのケースを取るために最高裁判所に請願したと発表しましたが、ホワイトハウスは、行政が法律が合憲だと確信残ると答えた
Has George Osborne shown it is time to stop being beastly to the Germans? Chancellor of the Exchequer overlooks German concerns about single currency as he mocks 'headlong' rush to form euroIn the early autumn of 1989 George Osborne was eighteen. This means that the mind of the future chancellor may have been on other matters when the Warsaw Pact started to crumble.In September 1989 Hungary unilaterally opened its border with Austria for citizens of East Germans who then poured, in their tens of thousands, into West Germany. Within months the Berlin Wall fell and the rest of Europe was faced with a challenge: would a unified Germany be a threat or a blessing?Margaret Thatcher was sufficiently troubled by these events that she convened a summit of historians at Chequers in March 1990 to assess the dangers. François Mitterrand, then president of France, went even further and floated the idea a Franco-Soviet military alliance to resist German unity.France eventually calmed down when Germany agreed to anchor itself fully in Europe by embarking on a move that, to many, was unthinkable. It would scrap the Deutschmark and join a single currency. Germany was fully aware of the dangers and signed up to what became the euro with a heavy heart.But this is not the picture Osborne painted today when he gave the impression that European leaders embarked on the euro in the way that naive young lovers elope. This is what the chancellor told the Tory conference:Our European neighbours plunged headlong into the euro without thinking through the consequences. How could they believe that countries like Germany and Greece could share the same currency when they had vastly different economies and no mechanism to adjust?Britain feels it can offer lectures to the 17 members of the eurozone because Sir John Major negotiated an opt out from the single currency during 彼はモックとして大蔵大臣は、単一通貨に関するドイツの懸念を見下ろす1989ジョージオズボーンの初秋をeuroInを形成するために、。。u0026quot;向こう見ず。。u0026quot;ラッシュは18だった
Key at odds with Mapp on SAS Prime Minister John Key appears to be at odds with his Defence Minister about the extent to which SAS troops in Afghanistan are involved in combat.There have been fresh concerns about the dangers facing New Zealand troops following... 首相ジョンキーは、次のニュージーランドの軍隊が直面する危険性についての新たな懸念をされているアフガニスタンでのSASの部隊がcombat.Thereに関与している程度に関する彼の防衛大臣と対立してように見える...
World stocks post worst quarter in 3 years NEW YORK (REUTERS) - Global stocks closed their worst quarter in nearly three years on Friday on nagging concerns about the world economy and the lack of a credible solution to Europe's debt crisis. ニューヨーク(ロイター) - グローバル株式市場は、世界経済と欧州の債務危機への確かな解決策の欠如についてのしつこい懸念に金曜日にほぼ3年で最悪の四半期に閉鎖
Senate reaches deal to prevent US government shutdown Deal to maintain funding for federal government reached after Fema said it had more money that previously thoughtThe US Senate has reached a deal to avert a government shutdown and make billions of dollars of aid available to victims of recent disasters.The complex deal would end a standoff that has threatened disaster aid for thousands of Americans and imperiled government operations for the third time this year.The resolution is not likely to quell concerns that Congress is unable to pass even basic legislation without a fight, and lacks the stomach for tougher budget decisions in the coming months.Republican and Democratic lawmakers had been deadlocked over whether additional budget cuts were needed to offset the additional disaster aid needed to help those displaced by one of the most extreme years for weather in US history.Earlier on Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said its dwindling disaster fund could probably last until the end of the week, several days longer than previously thought.That allowed Democrats and Republicans to drop their fight over how to pay for the additional aid.The Democratic-controlled Senate was expected to approve a measure that would keep the government running on a temporary basis through 18 November, giving lawmakers enough time to finalise their spending bills for the fiscal year that starts on 1 October.That measure includes $2.65bn for Fema's disaster fund, which would be available on Saturday. Fema's fund could run out before then, but the disruption would only last for a few days.The Republican-controlled House of Representatives would have to approve the bill as well, but it is out of town on a week-long break. So the deal includes a separate, short-term bill that would fund the government until the House ret _NULL_
Victory for Burma reformers over dam project Work on £2.3bn Myitsone dam halted after Burma's president says he has to 'act according to the desire of the people'Burma will suspend a massive Chinese hydropower project on the Irrawaddy river after the country's president joined a chorus of concerns raised by environmentalists, democracy activists and tribal militias.The proposed halting of the $3.6bn (£2.3bn) Myitsone dam is a remarkable step for a government that has long ruled by military fiat, but appears this time to have put public and ecological concerns ahead of economic priorities and the interests of its powerful neighbour.In a rare concession to opposition groups, President Thein Sein informed parliament on Friday that construction of the 3,600MW project on Burma's most important river should be in halted because it was against the will of the people.The decision will be seen as a victory for Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma's pro-democracy opposition. In August, the Nobel laureate called for the plan to be reassessed and greater efforts be made to protect the Irrawaddy and the interests of people who would be affected.Chief among them are the residents of the Kachin region, which would have been flooded by a reservoir the size of New York City, forcing the displacement of 10,000 people and submerging important cultural sites.Earlier this year, the Kachin Independence Organisation broke a 17-year-ceasefire after warning that it would fight to block the project.Environmental groups warned that the dam, which was to be built by the China Gezhouba Group on the confluence of the Mali and N'Mai, would inundate one of the world's biodiversity hotspots and pose a major risk in the event of an earthquake.The Burma Rivers Network, an NGO which represents communities along the river, released what it says is a 国の大統領は環境保護が提起した懸念のコーラスに参加した後、ビルマの大統領がpeople。。u0026#39;Burmaはイラワジ川沿いに大規模な中国の水力発電プロジェクトを中断されるの欲望にしたがって。。u0026quot;行動すると言っているの後で停止円23億Myitsoneダムに取り組む、民主主義の活動家や部族militias.Theは$ 3.6bnの停止を提案(£ 23億)Myitsoneのダムは、長い軍事布告により支配された政府のための顕著なステップですが、今回は先に経済的な優先事項の公開と生態系への懸念を入れているように見えるそれはpeople.Theの意思に反していたため、その強力なneighbour.In反対のグループにまれな譲歩の利益は、社長テインセインは、ビルマで最も重要な川で3600 MWのプロジェクトの建設は停止にあるべきことを明らかに議会を通知決定は、アウンサンスーチー、ビルマの民主化反対のリーダーのための勝利として認識されます
Kia Motors CEO says no plans for new plants SEOUL (REUTERS) - Kia Motors, South Korea's No. 2 automaker, said on Tuesday it had no plans to build new plants in South Korea or overseas and would focus instead on product quality, despite concerns its limited production capacity may slow sales growth. _NULL_