Month: September 2011

Ecuador get carbon credits for a power project in an oil field

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Pañacocha (Ecuador), 15 sep (EFE).-Ecuador get carbon credits for the United Nations amounting to $ 20 million for a project of electric in an oil field in the Amazon that reuses the gas surplus to generate electricity, said today the President of the country, Rafael Correa.

Each bond of carbon, known as certificate reducing emissions, equivalent to one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) which does not emit to the atmosphere.

So far to generate energy took diesel oil field Eden Yuturi, but from today is reused surplus gas from the oil extraction process, yielding a saving of $ 70 million a year for Ecuador, explained the President on a visit to the facilities.

Field is in Pañacocha, in the province of Sucumbios, on the border between Ecuador and Colombia, and is a demonstration of the objective of Ecuador exploit its natural resources with the least possible environmental impact, according to its Government.

“Yes to the exploitation of oil, mining and water, but with social and environmental responsibility,” said Correa in a ceremony in front of workers of the State oil company Petroamazonas, the company that has created this system.

The representative explained that the cost of the power plant has been around 35 million dollars, but said that Ecuador will get 20 million dollars in bonds of carbon as a compensation for emissions reduced.

For the moment, this electric generation plant works 90% with gas and the other 10% with oil, but by may 2012 are expected throughout the plant to work fully with gas.

Until today, the surplus of the oil extraction process gas was burned, so the Ecuadorian Amazon was illuminated by a huge flame.

Correa gave start to the new system pistolazo and the flame was extinguished almost until the end, something that will make final year that comes when the plant only work with gas.

For its part, the Minister of renewable natural resources not, Wilson Pástor, stressed that with this electrical system, will generate up to 35 MW, Ecuador cease emit into the atmosphere “the same 70,000 vehicles that pollute”, because the project will prevent the burning of between six and nine million cubic feet of gas by day.

In a busy schedule for the Amazon, Correa visited several local infrastructure accompanied by the Ministers of coordinator of sectors strategic, George Glass, environment, Marcela Aguiñaga, and the Secretary general of the Institute for the ECO Regional Amazon (Ecorae), Carlos Viteri.

On a visit to the town of Pañacocha, the Manager of Petroamazonas, Osvaldo Madrid, indicated that since last year opened the plant oil with the same name, the State has logged 497 million dollars, of which 12 per cent will be used for the development of local communities and build “the new Millennium cities” with all the services basic.

Correa stressed that before the oil wealth would be to “Quito, Guayaquil, Miami and here (in the Amazon region) was pollution and garbage”, something that will change the resources that now will be devoted to the area, according to him.

The representative warned that this money must serve to generate other industries, such as tourism development, because the oil will eventually end.

“The future of the Amazon is not the oil, the oil is to develop other activities such as tourism, hotels, airports” that are friendly and respect the environment, as well as the traditions of the inhabitants of the area, stressed the President.

Within this project, is expected to develop in Pañacocha and Cuyabeno, two communities in the Amazon region and area performance of Petroamazonas, basic services like clean water, system of management of waste, port infrastructure, generation of electricity, new housing, school, health center, among others.

Also expected to build a market and collection, Center and a hotel community.

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa explained that the cost of the power plant has been around 35 million dollars, but said that Ecuador will get 20 million dollars in bonds of carbon as compensation for reduced emissions. EFE/file

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Program for water benefits thousands of Dominicans and Haitians

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Santo Domingo, 15 sep (EFE).-A working arrangement between several institutions and agencies Dominican Republic and Haiti has enabled nearly 14,000 people in both countries have had access to safe drinking water and other 450,000 received training on their preservation and best use, as reported today.

Convention “Water for development”, that runs from 2008 and will be extended until next year, comprises seriously depressed communities near the border between the two Caribbean Nations and a third stage reaches several neighborhoods of municipality Santo Domingo West.

Executives of the programme were announced that its scope comprises information on education, health, environment and gender equity of the inhabitants of these localities located in the provinces of the Dominican of Elías Piña and Pedernales (southwest) and the Central departments and South-East of Haiti.

Initiative is funded by the Spanish Agency of international cooperation for development (AECID) and the H+D Foundation (humanism more democracy), whose leaders stressed the way in which communities have taken advantage of the implementation of the project.

In addition to teach how to use and preserve the water resources, Dominican and Haitian residents receive advice and training on the cultivation of coffee, the preservation of catchment areas, information on the prevention of diseases caused by water, and the protection of the environment.

The work of information also includes the dissemination of the radio soap opera “Clara”, performed by members of the beneficiary, communities themselves that educates on the need to consume water and prevent the contamination of rivers, wells, and ravines.

“We are very pleased to observe that work is coming to these people, who work with dignity and hard to improve their living standards through educational councils receiving”, exhibited marine Pimentel, responsible for the Foundation in Santo Domingo

The “Water for development” Convention also counts on the collaboration of the Dominican Institute for Integral Development (IDDI), women in development (Mude), Sociocultural movement of Haitian workers (Mosctha), Haitian Institute for Integral Development (IHDI), Hubert Bogaert dermatological Institute and the Foundation for the Rural youth development (Fundejur).EFE

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Ecuador alert on the strengthening of dengue new varieties

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Quito, 15 sep (EFE).-the presence of two varieties of the dengue virus in Ecuador not had been circulating for some years on its territory raises the possibility that cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever, the most lethal, will according to medical sources told Efe.

“The risk is given by the simultaneous circulation of at least two serotypes in populations of endemic areas who have already suffered from classic dengue”, told Efe the director-general of health, Juan Moreira, and the director-general of the National Institute of hygiene, Marcelo Aguilar, in an interview by e-mail.

If a person has suffered dengue fever, caused by any serotype is infected by a different one will have an “increased risk” of developing dengue hemorrhagic fever, the severe form of this disease, according to experts, why is dangerous various varieties are present in a same territory

Between 2002 and 2007 predominated in Ecuador the movement of serotype 3, which was then displaced by the 1.

But the presence of serotype 2 in the province of Esmeraldas, and 4 in Guayas and Manabí provinces that had not appeared for some years now has been detected.

This indicates that there might be a circulation simultaneously for at least two varieties of dengue fever in these provinces.

The Minister of health, David Chiriboga, warned Tuesday of a possible epidemic in the coming winter – between December and February – following the discovery of the circulation of these two serotypes.

The last major of the disease in Ecuador outbreak occurred in 2010, when it affected 4,000 people and produced 4 deaths.

The authorities recommended preventive measures to avoid that the mosquito that loads the virus, such as housing and its environment free of objects where stagnated water. develops

“The mosquito that transmits dengue can grow in containers as small as a lid of the bottle or can of tuna, and above all used tires,” explained Moreira and Aguilar.

Before any symptoms the patient should not self-medicate with anti-inflammatory medications or flu, according to experts, who emphasized that the only drug “insurance” to lose in case of dengue fever is acetaminophen, known also as paracetamol.

They also recommend going to the nearest health suspected of suffering from dengue fever.

The last major outbreak of this disease in Ecuador occurred in 2010, when it affected 4,000 people and produced 4 deaths. EFE/file

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35 Percent of New Yorkers stopped smoking anti smoking campaign 2002

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New York, 15 sep (EFE).-more than one third of New Yorkers stopped smoking since the launch now nine years ago of an aggressive campaign to reduce tobacco use among the population, announced today the Mayor of the Big Apple, Michael Bloomberg.

The number addicted to nicotine in New York has decreased by 35% (450,000 people) since the year 2002, when it entered into force the first law prohibiting smoking in offices, bars and restaurants, and currently only smokes 14% of the population, the lowest level in the history

“Tobacco is the leading cause of premature and avoidable deaths in New York and United States, and we are proud that a record number of New Yorkers are saving their lives leaving the cigarette”, said today the Mayor, who emphasized that this trend will help prevent 50,000 premature deaths by 2052.

, The head of the Department of health of New York, Thomas Farley, highlighted the progress being made in the fight against the person responsible for the largest number of deaths in the city, although regretted that this year will die because of tobacco other 7,000 New Yorkers.

According to the data provided by the City Council, the number of adolescents addicted to nicotine in New York has fallen “dramatically” from 2001 to 2010 in a city where the smoke only 7% of the boys who come to the Institute, compared to 18% of nine years earlier.

After the first anti-smoking law passed in 2002 by the team of Bloomberg, New York in 2009 expanded the veto on the cigarette at the entrances of hospitals and clinics, and last may smoking outlawed even in parks, beaches, promenades, squares and areas pedestrian.

The Bloomberg administration anti-smoking measures have the majority of New Yorkers, although some groups of smokers, such as the Clash, Association consider that legislation is excessive.

Currently, the only places in the city in which smoking is allowed are sidewalks, parking lots and private houses, though increasingly more homeowners are forbid to their tenants.

New York expanded in 2009 veto cigarette at the entrances of hospitals and medical centers, and last may smoking outlawed even in parks, beaches, promenades, squares and pedestrian areas. EFE/file

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Damaging African giant snails put on alert to Miami

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Miami (USA.)(UU.), 15 sep (EFE).-copies of giant African snail of Earth have been detected in Miami, which has made skip alarms, since that is one of the most damaging animals in the world, able to cause structural failures in buildings and even cause meningitis in human

The Department of agriculture and services to the consumer of the State of Florida confirmed today that it has positively identified a population of these molluscs in Miami-Dade County.

“The giant African land snail is one of the snails more harmful in the world because they consume at least 500 different types of plants, they can cause structural in plaster and stucco, damage and even carry a nematode parasite that can cause meningitis in humans,” he explained that agency.

This animal, called Achatina fulica, is one of the world’s largest land snails, grows to 20 centimeters long and more than ten of diameter.

Each copy, which can live nine years, contains male and female reproductive organs and a sunset can produce up to 400 eggs, so that in a normal year each one makes an average of 1,200 eggs.

The Achatina fulica is original in East Africa and it has been established along the Indo-Pacific, including the islands of Hawaii.

This scourge has also been introduced to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe, with the recent detection in St. Lucia and Barbados.

“The latest outbreak detected and eradicated in Florida came in 1966, when a child brought three smuggling to Miami as pets”, explains the Florida Agriculture Department in a statement.

Shortly after “the grandmother of the child released the snails in your garden and seven years later there were more than 18,000 snails, a plague that cost eradicate ten years and more than one million dollars”.

“This is the only known case of eradication with success of giant African snail”, claim Florida authorities, calling for cooperation of citizens to detect other copies. EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips