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India's PFC inks pact with Exim Bank
Published: May 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India's Power Finance Corp. has signed an agreement with U.S. Exim Bank to receive an $800 million loan. -
India Oil to shelve refinery proposal
Published: May 16, 2008 at 12:09 PM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- State-run Indian Oil Corp. is contemplating shelving its 15 million-ton greenfield refinery in southern Tamil Nadu state. -
India won't cut duty on oil imports
Published: May 15, 2008 at 9:40 PM
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said there will be no reduction in the duty charged on imported oil, despite soaring energy prices.
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Fall River fights five-year battle against LNG facility
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:18 AM
By JOHN C.K. DALY
UPI International Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- A five-year struggle continues between Fall River, Mass., residents and Weaver's Cove Energy LLC over a proposed LNG facility. While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project, the Coast Guard opposes it as an unacceptable safety risk. -
UPI Energy Watch
Published: May 15, 2008 at 12:19 PM
OPEC cuts estimate of growth in world oil demand for 2008; The United Arab Emirates' crude oil output increased last month; Philippine government may cut taxes on oil and gas -
Nigerian militants attack oil vessel
Published: May 15, 2008 at 11:10 AM
By CARMEN GENTILE
UPI Energy Correspondent
Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama have called for a resolution to the conflict between rebels intent on crippling Nigeria's petroleum industry and government officials. -
Mongolia, coal and inflation
Published: May 14, 2008 at 7:56 PM
By JOHN C.K. DALY
UPI International Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Rising fuel and food costs are hitting Mongolia hard, with foreign investors exploiting the situation to pressure the country to open up its economy. Given the country's political isolation, sandwiched between China and Russia, its two major trading partners, Ulaanbaatar is being held over the proverbial barrel in negotiations with its giant neighbors, leaving its population of 2.9 million nervously awaiting further aftershocks from rising inflation. -
Congress blocks administration from stockpiling oil
Published: May 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM
By ROSALIE WESTENSKOW
UPI Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) -- Faced with growing pressure to decrease gas prices, U.S. senators voted to stop stockpiling oil in the national reserve yesterday, but they rejected a plan to increase domestic production. -
UPI Energy Watch
Published: May 14, 2008 at 3:47 PM
IEA: Developing nations cause high oil prices; New oil, gas fields will add to Indonesia supply; Australia says oil, gas tax breaks to go
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Iraqi oil, health, teacher demands unmet
Published: Dec. 21, 2007 at 5:15 PM
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- Iraq's teachers and healthcare workers, like the oil unions earlier this year, are demanding the government take action on improving working conditions.
The teachers union representing workers in 15 provinces took to the streets of Baghdad Sunday in a one-day strike, saying it will escalate actions if the government doesn't deal next month.
The teachers say they deserve the same pay as colleagues in the safer Kurdistan region, IraqSlogger.com reports.
The Ministry of Education "supports the demands of the teachers but it has not acted in a serious way with the Council of Ministers and the Committee on Education in the Parliament," said Amir al-Qaisi of the Iraqi Teachers' Syndicate. "The ministry's position is one of a spectator to the educational reality in Iraq."
Aside from pay disparity, the union says there is a lack of badly needed investment in the school system and buildings. There's also the rampant threat to security, with a director of a school in Baghdad being assassinated last month. Women also face threats by those who believe they are second-class to men.
The General Federation of Iraqi Workers has backed the plight of healthcare workers in Basra, including an increase of the average $100 per month salary and parity of hazardous pay with doctors and medical assistants, according to statements passed to the GFIW to United Press International.
Basra has been a hotspot of union activity, which made headlines this year as Iraq's oil workers demanded a say in controversial oil law negotiations and an increase in pay and other working conditions.
Oil unions made short-term halts on pipelines and threatened to do more, even as security forces surrounded the striking workers and arrest warrants were issued, sparking international outcry.
The national oil minister has relied on a decades-old anti-union law in issuing a directorate to the ministry not to deal with the union.
"The law enacted under the Saddam regime is still acted upon and implemented by the government in Iraq," Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions President Hassan Jumaa Awad told UPI in London last month. "Up until now the Iraqi government has not repealed these acts and are in the same position, basically."
Awad said the oil workers' demands have largely gone unmet.
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Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor
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(e-mail: blando@upi.com)
The teachers union representing workers in 15 provinces took to the streets of Baghdad Sunday in a one-day strike, saying it will escalate actions if the government doesn't deal next month.
The teachers say they deserve the same pay as colleagues in the safer Kurdistan region, IraqSlogger.com reports.
The Ministry of Education "supports the demands of the teachers but it has not acted in a serious way with the Council of Ministers and the Committee on Education in the Parliament," said Amir al-Qaisi of the Iraqi Teachers' Syndicate. "The ministry's position is one of a spectator to the educational reality in Iraq."
Aside from pay disparity, the union says there is a lack of badly needed investment in the school system and buildings. There's also the rampant threat to security, with a director of a school in Baghdad being assassinated last month. Women also face threats by those who believe they are second-class to men.
The General Federation of Iraqi Workers has backed the plight of healthcare workers in Basra, including an increase of the average $100 per month salary and parity of hazardous pay with doctors and medical assistants, according to statements passed to the GFIW to United Press International.
Basra has been a hotspot of union activity, which made headlines this year as Iraq's oil workers demanded a say in controversial oil law negotiations and an increase in pay and other working conditions.
Oil unions made short-term halts on pipelines and threatened to do more, even as security forces surrounded the striking workers and arrest warrants were issued, sparking international outcry.
The national oil minister has relied on a decades-old anti-union law in issuing a directorate to the ministry not to deal with the union.
"The law enacted under the Saddam regime is still acted upon and implemented by the government in Iraq," Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions President Hassan Jumaa Awad told UPI in London last month. "Up until now the Iraqi government has not repealed these acts and are in the same position, basically."
Awad said the oil workers' demands have largely gone unmet.
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Ben Lando, UPI Energy Editor
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(e-mail: blando@upi.com)
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