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You Haven’t Seen Blue Until You’ve Seen San Andres

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Connecting with history The archipelago of San Andres and Providencia is more than 400 miles north of the mainland of Colombia, and closer to 100 miles east of Nicaragua, but thanks to a historical wrinkle that is still being ironed out, it is part of Colombia. Each cay differs from the next.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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Highlights relevant international and national processes with links to publicly available data sources in an extensive reference section. In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. Water use and efficiency. Water quality. Biological diversity in the landscape.

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China’s CNOOC to acquire Canada-based Nexen for $15.1B; offshore oil and gas, oil sands, and shale gas

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Nexen has major positions in three of the world’s most significant conventional basins: the UK North Sea, Offshore West Africa and the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. Nexen has a joint venture shale gas project in Poland and is exploring for shale gas in Colombia. Nexen’s other international activities will be maintained as planned.

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IFQC annual ranking of gasoline sulfur standards sees progress around the world; US drops to 46th

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A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Montenegro leaped 48 slots, from 89 th place in 2010 to 41 st in this year’s ranking.

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Travels with Perplexity AI

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It had linked to a Web page that mentioned Aertssen’s French and world cup tasting championships and that he sources the kinds of beans I enjoy, like Muda’s sidra from Colombia, which tastes like raspberry jam. Perplexity didn’t exactly answer this one, but referenced an International Energy Agency site that stated wind met 7.8

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Gogoro expands its battery-swapping electric scooters to the Americas

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Gogoro will head off its South American operations by partnering with the Latin American energy company Copec to launch its battery-swapping network and Gogoro Smartscooters in Chile and Colombia. Now Chile and Colombia will join the growing list, representing the first two countries in the Americas to receive Gogoro scooters.

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