TAG: Infrastructure
Crisis grows in Berlin as court warns 2023 supplementary budget is ‘problematic’
BERLIN — Germany's ruling coalition risks falling into a deeper crisis after the country's federal a...
8 months ago
Northern Europe’s new naval priority: Submarine sabotage
HANKO, Finland — Finnish and British troops undertaking a routine naval training exercise on a recen...
8 months ago
Russian bombs failed to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid. Corruption could break its own
When Vladimir Putin landed in Khabarovsk on his tour of Russia’s Far East last week, he was given a...
8 months ago
Europe’s new energy risk: Trading Russia for America
On cloudy days, from his house John Beard can see the fireballs lighting up the dark sky, flares from the distant fossil fuel plants where he once made his living as a technician.The fiery discharge of excess gas is a constant reminder of the industry tha...
6 months ago
Net zero meets the NIMBYs: Inside the battle for the UK’s biggest solar farm
EYNSHAM VILLAGE HALL, OXFORDSHIRE, England — On a winter afternoon, dozens of local residents pour into a drafty village hall, tucked away in the picturesque English countryside. They wear thick coats and skeptical frowns, and are here to fight plans to b...
6 months ago
With Theresa May’s exit, UK Conservatives face green leadership vacuum
LONDON — Former Prime Minister Theresa May's announcement that she'll leave Westminster at the election creates a vacancy for a climate leader at the top of the Conservative Party. Nobody is in a rush to apply.The Tories have had a rocky relationship with...
6 months ago
Claire Coutinho: The UK’s chancellor-in-the-wings?
LONDON — Late summer 2023. Claire Coutinho, a junior minister at the Department for Education and a rising star in the U.K. Conservative government, is enjoying a quiet morning at home when her phone rings.The caller has a message from one of Coutinho’s o...
6 months ago
Shrinking Arctic ice redraws the map for internet cable connections
Thawing ice in the Arctic may open up new routes for internet cables that lie at the bottom of the ocean and carry most international data traffic. And more routes matter when underwater infrastructure is at risk of attack.Baltic Sea gas and telecoms cabl...
6 months ago
Putin bombards Ukraine but US tells Kyiv to stop targeting Russian oil
KYIV — Russia launched a huge barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure overnight, leaving several cities without electricity and damaging the Dnipro hydropower plant, Ukraine's biggest dam.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy s...
6 months ago
Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris faces political reckoning
PARIS — Nearly 10 years ago, newly minted Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made “a genuine energy and environmental transition” a cornerstone of her plans for the city.The Socialist politician stayed true to that platform — in the process becoming one of the most...
6 months ago
A new inconvenient truth: Europe’s global plans all require money no one has
BRUSSELS — EU leaders are on a grandiloquent streak, even by their standards.The EU can stay relevant in a world of resurgent big power politics. Europe won’t drown in the sea of public cash the U.S. and China are throwing at futuristic industries. We can...
5 months ago
Why India is the ‘ultimate emerging market’
He talks about a hungry, digitally driven, young capitalistic culture, supported by an involved government with high approval ratings. Carter says the long-term adoption of digital state infrastructure to work alongside big infrastructure projects that th...
5 months ago
Azerbaijan president: COP29 won’t stop us investing in ‘god-given’ gas
Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan — the host of the U.N.’s next climate talks — used a major address Friday to send Europe a pointed message: you need our gas.The country’s fossil fuel reserves were “a gift of the gods,” Aliyev told a gathering of min...
5 months ago
EU energy supplies targeted in Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Russia's latest missile attack on Ukraine hit energy infrastructure used to supply the European Union with natural gas, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.Ukraine's energy system was struck by 34 Russian rockets in a "massive missile attack" on...
5 months ago