Kyoto in Burgundy is in Chalon-sur-Saone. The municipality yesterday presented the results of three years of efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions under the program Privilèges (project initiative of cities for the reduction of greenhouse gases). And this record is prodigious: in three years, [...]

Two freighters, a bulk carrier and a chemical tanker, collided on Tuesday morning 31 January, off Cherbourg, in the Channel, said the maritime prefecture. The accident required the evacuation of 22 crew members from the chemical tanker. While the two ships were following the same route, the bulk carrier, with on board 26 000 tons [...]

Denis Baupin, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of Transport, will propose by a deliberation to the next council of Paris (30 and 31 January) to launch a market to offer bicycles in free service to Parisians. "We want to give competitors the opportunity to come up with innovative things. We wanted to be the [...]

Threatened with widespread blackout on the 2009 / 2010 horizon, Brittany is seeking to increase its low electricity production, with at least one new thermal power station and renewable energies in a region with the strongest wind potential in France. Read more

The National Assembly decided on Wednesday to subject to the housing tax vacant buildings for five years throughout the territory, and to increase this tax 50% if "the duration of vacation is greater than ten years". The deputies, who continued Wednesday the examination of Bill Borloo on the housing, approved at [...]

A French report states that increased use of coal as an alternative source of energy to oil is possible, provided that technology advances to control the greenhouse gases it releases. Read more Econological note: it is coal that will probably be retained to replace the German nuclear fleet.

Opening of a new section on the site entitled "Documentaries and Films". You will find, regularly, documentary and film presentations, with possibility of downloading or buying the work. To begin, we present you the following works: Documentary on the HVB by 6clones The free energy (documentary) The madness of the men ([...]

PARIS (AP) - The snow and ice storm in the southern half of France caused traffic problems on Saturday morning and the National Road Information Center (CNIR) advised users to postpone their non-urgent trips. Read more

Tbilisi, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) - Iran will start supplying Georgia with gas as early as 27 or 2006 January, Georgian President Milhaïl Saakashvili announced on Friday. According to Civil.ge, Saakashvili did not specify the price, or even the volume of gas that Georgia plans to import from Iran via Azerbaijan. [...]