Mexico pig manure project enters Kyoto pollution scheme
A scheme to cut greenhouse gas emissions from pig manure has become Mexico’s first project to win approval under the Kyoto Protocol rules on investing in poor countries, the project’s developer said on Tuesday.
The scheme, which covers 23 farms, has gained United Nations registration under Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), said Ireland-based AgCert International in a statement.
“We are delighted to be the first company to have a CDM project registered in Mexico and we will now be moving toward certification as soon as possible,” said AgCert’s chief executive officer Bill Haskell.
Registration of the Mexican project comes as the CDM, and possible ways to speed up its project approvals process, are discussed at a major United Nations conference in Montreal.
More: today.reuters.co.uk
Mexico and Spain signed a cooperation agreement Friday on the use of water resources and the control of water pollution in their semiarid areas and the control of water pollution.
The uneven distribution and shortage of water resources checkedthe economic development and affected people's life in both countries, Spanish Environment Minister Cristina Narbona said at the signing ceremony.
Spain will provide Mexico with technologies in water conservancy and irrigation projects, purification of sea water and treatment of waste water, she said.
As a member of the European Union
NIC Mexico Improves the .MX Domain Names Infrastructure
NIC Mexico (www.nic.mx), the organization that manages the country code top level domain .MX, presented a new technology development that strengthens the performance of its infrastructure.
"Two years ago, we implemented the Shared Unicast/Anycast technology in one of our servers. This scheme prevents the users from experiencing service degradation in the DNS (Domain Name System) of .MX domain names. During 2005 we implemented the same scheme in all the DNS servers from our network," mentioned Oscar Robles, CEO at NIC Mexico.
"The main idea of the Anycast scheme is to provide a fault
Project Mexico auction planned for Wednesday
Project Mexico will be holding its annual auction tomorrow, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in McGuire Hall, with all proceeds going to fund the Project Mexico team's trip to Tijuana in January. The goal for the team is to go and serve communities in Mexico, but also to bring the spirit of Mexico back with them.
With 240 items this year, Project Mexico is auctioning off the largest amount of items ever. Items students have come to expect at the auction such as a car raffle and puppy will be there, as well as
Sigalsport enters Mexico City event
Sigalsport has recently acquired several PTG BMW M3s and one of the BMW M3s will be co-driven at Mexico City by Gene Sigal and Matt Alhadeff.
The Sigalsport BMW M3 Alhadeff Companies / Guarneros Racing Wear / Motul / GlycoMax / The Speed Gallery / Envista No. 05 will be the only BMW car to compete in the final round of the 2005 Rolex Sports Car Series. The BMW M3 has won seven Rolex Series GT races this season and its PTG BMWdrivers have scored six pole positions.
Sigalsport's BMW team will race at Mexico with
Hurricane Katrina enters the Gulf of Mexico
HURRICANE Katrina passed through southern Florida overnight Thursday and entered the Gulf of Mexico early Friday morning at a point north of and near Cape Sable, in the southwestern Florida peninsula, according to Official Note No. 12 from the Cuban Meteorological Institute’s Forecast Center.
Katrina, after weakening somewhat upon touching land, once again reached the category of hurricane; the storm now has sustained maximum winds of 120 kilometers per hour, with stronger gusts, and its central pressure has gone down to 987 hectoPascal, which is why is remains a Category 1 hurricane on the
Iran probably win oil contracts in Mexico,Nigeria
Ahmad Azimi, managing director of Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company (IOEC), said that his company would probably win two major offshore oil contracts in Mexico and Nigeria, MNA said.
He explained that the projects consisted of offshore pipe-laying or installing oil platforms. He added that the details of the projects would be announced after the negotiations are finalized.
Azimi put the value of Mexico offshore project at $500 mln, noting that the discussions on the Nigerian project are underway.
More: iranmania.com
CentAm Energy Summit in Mexico
Central American presidents are meeting this Tuesday in Cancun, Mexico, to discuss energy plans and agree on a project to build a refinery and a 1,625-mile gas pipeline, as well as a regional power generating plant.
The project, according to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, also includes the establishment of a marketing company to purchase oil and sell gasoline in southeast Mexico, Panama and Colombia. Some $6-billion will be invested on this enterprise.
The refinery will process Mexican oil for the country and Central America and create a gas station network under the franchise of the state Mexican
Company says Mexico to allow pipeline for Arizona refinery
The Mexican government will permit construction and operation of a pipeline to deliver crude oil to a proposed new Arizona gasoline refinery that would be the first such project built in the United States in nearly 30 years, the company behind the project said Tuesday.
Arizona Clean Fuels Yuma said it has reached an understanding with a Mexican ministry, the Secretariat of Energy of Mexico, regarding the pipeline, an offloading facility for tanker ships and a tank farm for temporary storage of oil.
David Traenor, a spokesman for Scottsdale-based Arizona Clean Fuels, called
Chevron Invests in New Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Project
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced that it is proceeding with the development of the
Blind Faith Field in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The field will be developed using a semisubmersible production facility, with first production expected during the first half of 2008. Chevron is the operator and holds a 62.5 percent working interest.
Blind Faith is located in approximately 7,000 feet of water, about 160 miles southeast of New Orleans, on Mississippi Canyon blocks 695 and 696. The discovery well was drilled in June 2001 and encountered more than 200 feet of
Monumento a los Héroes de la Independencia
A first monument to Independence was designed in the Seat of the Constitution without it got to be constructed. He was president Antonio Lopez of Santa Ana who, after summoning an aid, assigned to the project to the architect Lorenzo to him of the Hidalga. The design consisted of a great commemorative column flanked by sources, its construction began in 1843 but, due to the unstable situation of the country, the socle, or plinth was only finished, that would support the column; this plinth baptized to the seat of the Constitution like? the Socle.
