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Senin, 03 September 2007
Medco-Ormat-Itochu Consortium Signs Heads of Agreement for Sarulla Geothermal Project at the Japan-Indonesia Forum
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Medco-Ormat-
Itochu Consortium ("the Consortium"), which consists of Medco Energi
Internasional Tbk; Ormat International, Inc., a subsidiary of Ormat
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA); and the Itochu Corporation, today announced
the signing of a Heads of Agreement ("HoA") for the Sarulla Geothermal
Project. In addition to members of the Consortium, Mr. Eddie Widiono,
President Director of state-owned Indonesian power company PT Perusahaan
Listrik Negara ("PLN"), and Mr. Ari H. Soemarno, President & CEO of
Pertamina, also signed the agreement. The signing was witnessed by The
President of the Republic of Indonesia H.E. Mr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
and the Prime Minister of Japan, H.E. Mr. Shinzo Abe during the
Japan-Indonesia Business Forum.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040422/LATH066LOGO )
The Consortium received a Letter of Intent from PLN on July 25, 2006
following a tender process and, having reached preliminary agreements,
expects that it will soon formalize the Deed of Assignment ("DoA"), and
amendments of the Energy Sales Contract ("ESC") with PLN and Joint
Operating Contract ("JOC") with Pertamina.
The HoA sets forth the milestones achieved in the contract negotiations
and the parties' undertaking to expedite the contracts finalization and
formalization, including all relevant approval procedures.
The Sarulla Geothermal Project, located in Tapanuli Utara, North
Sumatra, represents the largest single-contract geothermal project to date
in the geothermal industry, and is a reflection of the large scale, high
productivity and potential of Indonesian geothermal resources.
The Sarulla Geothermal project is to be constructed over the next five
years. It will consist of three phases of 110 to 120 MW each, with the
first power generating unit scheduled to commence operation within 30
months of the financial closing, and the remainder scheduled to commence
operation over a period of 18 months following the first unit. Power
delivered by the project will serve the base load of PLN's North Sumatra -
Aceh grid system.
The project will be owned and operated by the Consortium members under
the framework of a JOC with the concession holder, PT Pertamina (Persero)
(the state-owned oil and gas company) through its subsidiary PT Pertamina
Geothermal Energy.
Medco is the leader of the Consortium, whose bid included completion of
the development of the geothermal steam field, construction of the field
piping systems and three Ormat designed and supplied power plants with a
combined gross capacity of approximately 340 MW. The Consortium will own
and operate the facilities, as well as sell electricity to PLN under a
30-year Energy Sales Contract ("ESC"). The total project cost is projected
to be approximately US$800 million, and it is expected that the Japan Bank
for International Corporation ("JBIC") will provide the majority of the
project financing based on the Umbrella Note of Mutual Understanding signed
between the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia and JBIC.
In addition to the HOA, The Consortium and Kyushu Electric Power Co.,
Inc. executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the same day. The MOU
confirms Kyushu Electric's strong interest in participating in the Sarulla
Project. Kyushu Electric is one of the largest electricity utility
companies in Japan and owns and operates a number of geothermal power
plants in Kyushu.
Mr. Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of PT Medco Energi Internasional Tbk, said,
"Geothermal is one of the primary energy resources for the future. This
project will be a cornerstone for the company's efforts to diversify its
energy resources portfolio."
Mr. Aries Pardjimanto, President Director of PT Medco Geothermal
Indonesia, added, "The Sarulla project is evidence of our commitment to
developing Renewable Energy Resources, and our desire to assist the
Government in its effort to provide new power generation capacity in the
region."
Also commenting on the project, Lucien Bronicki, Chairman and CTO of
Ormat Technologies, stated, "We are pleased that the long cooperation with
Pertamina, PLN and the teams of Medco and Itochu is approaching fruition.
Ormat's air-cooled geothermal Combined Cycle technology, well proven over
the last 15 years, is particularly suited to assure maximum utilization of
the Sarulla resource in a sustainable manner. We pledge to continue our
efforts to contribute to the development of this important renewable energy
of Indonesia by sharing our experience in constructing geothermal plants in
12 countries as well as the operating experience of the plants we own in
the US, Guatemala, Kenya, Nicaragua and the Philippines."
Mr. Akira Yokota, Executive Vice President of ITOCHU Corporation, said
"ITOCHU has been actively pursuing environmental renewable energy projects
in several countries and geothermal power projects are also an area we have
been truly focusing. Indonesia has quite rich geothermal resources and we
are very glad to have achieved this valuable step in contributing to the
further prosperity of Indonesia through Sarulla Power Project using such
environmentally friendly resources which Indonesia owns."
About Ormat Technologies
Ormat Technologies, Inc. is a vertically-integrated company primarily
engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company
designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered
energy power plants using Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology.
Additionally, the Company designs, manufactures and sells geothermal and
recovered energy power units and other power generating equipment, and
provides related services. Ormat is a pioneer and a leader in the
manufacture of ORC power equipment its products and systems are covered by
approximately 70 patents. Ormat currently operates the following geothermal
power plants: in the United States - Brady, Heber, Mammoth, Ormesa, Puna
and Steamboat; in the Philippines - Leyte; in Guatemala - Zunil; in Kenya -
Olkaria; and in Nicaragua - Momotombo. In the U.S., Ormat owns and operates
four OREG1 Recovered Energy Generation plants.
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10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2007.
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Today’s anti-war songs are more subtle than the anthems of the ’60s.
The Dixie Chicks nearly lost their careers after bad-mouthing President Bush on the eve of the war in Iraq, but today brings a surge in protest songs by popular artists.
And they’re not just penned by the people you’d expect to be topical, such as Neil Young, Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam or Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine.
Songs with anti-war sentiments are popping up from some unlikely places in the pop music marketplace, from artists like John Mayer and John Legend.
The difference between the protest songs of the 1960s — think “Eve of Destruction” by Barry McGuire or Edwin Starr’s “War” — and today’s is that these newer messages tend to come in more subtle musical packages. And they can be so hummable that people may mouth the words and never know they’re dissing the president.
“Particularly in the ’60s, artists tended to just come out with much stronger messages with less fear of upsetting anybody,” says Lee Abrams, the chief creative officer for XM satellite radio. “Jim Morrison and Bob Dylan didn’t give a damn. When the Dixie Chicks came out with their Bush statement, a lot of country radio stations stopped playing them. A lot of record companies don’t want anything over the top. It’s symbolic of the era we’re in.”
Norah Jones’ piano and breathy vocals are so soothing that the music could be a theme for Bed Bath & Beyond. But at the piano stool, the singer is taking a stand against the current political state in “My Dear Country.”
Some artists say they do a balancing act. Linkin Park’s latest album, for example, features a detour into politics with “Hands Held High.”
“We’re not a band that wants to be political or preach to fans,” says Linkin Park drummer Rob Bourdon. “All of us are very involved in all of the lyrics, especially critiquing them, and were very aware that it didn’t come off that we had a political agenda or were preaching. We don’t like that ourselves when we’re listening to music.”
The rock band has sold millions of records with songs about self-loathing and inner angst, but “Hands Held High” wouldn’t play so well in the red states:
“Like this war’s really just a different brand of war
“Like it doesn’t cater the rich and abandon poor …
“For a leader so nervous in an obvious way
“Stuttering and mumbling for nightly news to replay.”
All Top 40 music with a message depends on a common denominator: a tune that sticks in your head. Minus the scathing lyrics, Pink’s “Dear Mr. President” sounds like a campfire song. The song is built on strummy acoustic guitars and harmony vocals from the Indigo Girls. Think of it as “Kumbaya” for the anti-Bush set.
“The best protest songs have melodies that are simple enough to be sung by almost anyone,” says Christopher Reynolds, a music professor at the University of California, Davis. “ ‘We Shall Overcome’ is probably best in this regard. But in some cases the tune is why the song survives. The popularity of the Christmas carol ‘It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,’ which almost no one realizes originated as an anti-war song, is the reason why that song is still sung.”
Politically minded songs such as “Hands Held High” and “Dear Mr. President” tend not to be released as singles. These tracks are usually buried in the middle of an album — or in the case of John Legend’s “Coming Home,” at the very end.
“A pop star is trying to play to the greatest amount of people all of the time,” says Dan Mason, program director and station manager of Sacramento’s Top 40 radio station KDND. “They’d segment the audience by being too in-your-face. Artists might not mind that, but the record label will want to play it more conservatively. A song like (‘Dear Mr. President’) is also one that plays differently in Sacramento than the Midwest or the heartland. You’ve got to sell those concert dates in California, but you’ve got to play in Kansas, too.”
More overt protest anthems may be coming soon. After the umpteenth song about partying and summer love — and with approval ratings for the Iraq war continuing to tank — the pop music landscape is primed for an even bigger swell of anti-war tunes.
“I do think we’re about to get into a period of time where we’ll see the messages getting stronger,” Abrams said. “The political conditions are certainly right.”
sorce: http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/256044-p2.htmlInside Politics: A vote for Lafayette
A murderer. A drunk. A corrupt politician. A stuffed-shirt daddy’s boy.
That’s how the cast of presidential characters was negatively portrayed in 1824.
It was an election that split the country, pitting North against South and East against West. West, at the time, was the Mississippi River. The Louisiana Territory was mostly stateless.
Since all the candidates came from the same political party, the election focused on personalities rather than issues.
Andrew Jackson of Tennessee was the alleged murderer. Henry Clay, the Speaker of the House from Kentucky, was called a drunk and a gambler. William Crawford, the secretary of treasury from Georgia, was called corrupt. John Quincy Adams’s temperament and outlook mirrored that of his father, John Adams, the second president.
Enter the Frenchman, the Marquis de Lafayette. The man who helped secure America’s liberty would play a pivotal role in a young country finding its national conscious.
“He affirmed something about America, the belief that it’s better here than anywhere else,” said Lloyd Kramer, chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Lafayette scholar.
Kramer will speak about Lafayette at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Pate Room in the Headquarters Library, 300 Maiden Lane. He wrote “Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolution.”
In an interview last week, Kramer talked about some of the inside politics of the 1824 election and Lafayette’s visit.
Jackson won the most electoral votes during the election, with 99, including 15 from North Carolina.
Adams got 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. None had the 131 votes needed to become president.
The election, for the second straight time, was thrown into the House of Representatives.
Adams won. North Carolina cast its votes for Crawford. Jackson supporters charged Adams and Clay struck a deal.
Enter Lafayette.
“We were still a young country, insecure of our world status,” Kramer said.
Lafayette was warmly embraced on his two-year national tour, which included a visit to Fayetteville.
For many, Kramer said, Lafayette was a connection to the founding fathers who had died. Lafayette was like a second son to George Washington, an intellectual equal of Benjamin Franklin, and a farmer and freedom lover like Thomas Jefferson.
He was a firm believer in liberty, fighting for it in America and in France and helping others to do so in South America, Greece and Poland.
He also brought an outsider’s opinion, Kramer said.
Lafayette helped people understand that America’s revolution and democracy were a great achievement.
“He was a European who affirmed the deepest belief Americans had about themselves,” Kramer said. “Lafayette was a symbol of unity at a decisive time.”
Thirty-six years after his visit, the unity Lafayette helped forge was fractured and the Civil War ensued. Slavery, a practice Lafayette abhorred, was one of the divisive issues.
A fight of honor
The spat in Congress over commending resolutions on Lafayette is nothing new — at least for the North Carolina delegation.
Led by Sens. Richard Burr and Elizabeth Dole, Congress passed a resolution commending Fayetteville for its 250th birthday celebration for Lafayette.
Residents of Lafayette, La., — which is also celebrating the marquis’ birthday — cried foul. The Louisiana delegation plans to submit its commending resolution on Tuesday, when Congress is called back into session.
The tiff is reminiscent of the competing resolutions to honor the Wright brothers on their centennial of flight.
Congress honored festivals in Dayton, Ohio, and Fayetteville. U.S. Rep. Robin Hayes of Concord voted against the Dayton resolution.
Hayes and Ohio Rep. John Boehner traded barbs.
“To say that the Wright brothers learned to fly in North Carolina is like saying that a teenager learns to drive by moving his parents’ car 15 feet in the driveway,” Boehner said. “The dream and the advancement of flight was born in Ohio. Case closed.”
Hayes said it was important to keep history straight. “Where did they land? What state is that in?”
In a statement, Hayes said, the “Wright brothers ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, and I don’t see anyone claiming that Dayton is the birthplace of the wheel.”
For the record, Lafayette did sleep in Fayetteville. The Wright brothers didn’t.
What’s in a name?
When it comes to naming places in America, George Washington is our favorite. Then comes Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Lafayette.
But not every place named Lafayette or a derivation is named directly for the Frenchman.
There is a Fayetteville in Arkansas and one in Tennessee. The Tennessee town was settled by people from Fayetteville, N.C., and the Arkansas town was settled by people from Tennessee. The Arkansas town wanted to be named for Washington. There was already a Washington, Ark. Because two town commissioners were from Fayetteville, Tenn., the town was named after their former home.
Fayette, Mich., a mill town that is a forgotten crossroads on the map, was named for Fayette Brown, the Jackson Iron Co. agent who chose the site. Fayette was once the site of prosperous iron-smelting operations.
Fayette, Colo., is named after Lafayette Miller, one of the original settlers.
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source: http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=271333
Barnett 'playing politics' over proposed mill
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![Proposed site of pulp mill to be built by Gunns near Launceston in northern Tasmania [File photo].](http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200707/r157938_573241.jpg "Proposed site of pulp mill to be built by Gunns near Launceston in northern Tasmania [File photo].")
Proposed site of pulp mill to be built by Gunns near Launceston in northern Tasmania [File photo]. (ABC TV)
Tasmanian Deputy Premier Steve Kons has attacked Tasmanian Liberal Senator Guy Barnett for not taking a clear stance in support of Gunns proposed pulp mill.
Mr Kons says Senator Barnett has been secretly lobbying federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull in a bid to undermine the development.
He says Senator Barnett has been playing politics because of rivalry with the federal Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation, Eric Abetz.
"He has certainly turned green and unfortunately what he's been doing, [is] he has been doing it behind the background," he said.
"We want him to come out and point his position. He should support this project.
"Everything that has happened with this project has been legitimate and the environmental processes certainly have brought it forward."
source: http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/02/ 2021755.htm?section=business
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