Uncertain economic returns and duration of federal tax credits could delay or cancel project proposed by six oil firm majors, set to be the world’s largest, says energy sector research firm Wood Mackenzie.
Engineers and sustainability experts are testing some high-tech approaches to bring improved water and air quality to millions of people in remote parts of Africa and, eventually, elsewhere in the developing world.
Even as India moves to complete by this fall a planned 45-MW hydroelectric project on the Indus River, it still faces objections from neighboring Pakistan to the structure's design and to the award of U.N. carbon credits.