LIMA, Peru, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

PERU LNG announced today that they have secured US$2.25 Billion in loans from third party credit agencies to finance the construction of the PERU LNG project. The PERU LNG project is the largest direct foreign investment in Peru's history, with a total project cost estimated at US$3.8 Billion including financing costs.

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PERU LNG is a partnership between Hunt Oil Company of Dallas, Texas (Project Leader, 50%), SK Energy of South Korea (20%), Spain's Repsol YPF (20%) and Marubeni of Japan (10%).

LONDON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ --

A new clinic has opened in London today (Friday 27 June 2008), offering for the first time, a surgical approach to migraine. The Migraine Surgery Centre brings hope to the six million people in the UK who suffer from migraine attacks.

Migraine is a complex condition with a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from painful headache to disturbed vision. Attacks can last anywhere between four to 72 hours(1), during which time sufferers often have no choice but to lie still in a darkened room.

EDMONTON, Canada, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Edmonton will be home to the world's first industrial scale facility to produce biofuels from municipal solid waste. The City has signed a 25-year agreement with GreenField Ethanol, Canada's largest ethanol producer and Enerkem, a leading biofuels technology company.

The CDN$70 million biofuels facility will initially produce 36 million litres of biofuels per year and reduce Alberta's carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint by more than 6 million tonnes over the next 25 years - the equivalent of removing 12,000 cars off the road every year.

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Partners, Directors and Senior Architects are set to gather at Building's Sustainable Non-Dwellings Conference on 10th July 2008 in London, to hear how the construction industry could be affected by the 2019 zero-carbon targets for non-domestic buildings.

"This is the first public event to try and grapple with an enormous challenge for the industry. To be able to design build and operate zero carbon offices, schools and hospitals is a massive task, one that requires fresh ideas, initiative and co-operation. This conference will be important for the industry in making the first step," quotes Phil Clark, Editorial Director of Sustainability for Building Magazine.

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- YouGovStone, an opinion research agency, reports new findings which state that 83% of top Britons believe the Government should change its plans concerning the two pence fuel duty rise scheduled for October. These findings increase pressure on Gordon Brown.

Only 13% of Britain's 'influentials' - people at the top of their field, drawn from business, politics, media, the arts, charities, health and education - think the fuel duty increase should go ahead as proposed. 10% say the amount should be reduced, 22% feel it should be postponed for 6-12 months, while 18% say it should be postponed indefinitely. 33% believe the rise should be scrapped altogether.

NEW YORK, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Business solution provider challenges global banks trading FX to increase trading volumes and reduce costs in a single deployment

TraderTools LLC (TraderTools), a provider of business solutions, software and services to financial institutions trading FX, announced today the launch of its Liquidity Management Platform (LMP), which will replace STPlatform(TM) as the company's flagship product.

PARIS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

Intertek, the leading global provider of certification, Corporate Social Responsibility, quality and safety services to a wide range of global and local industries, today announced that OpenSRI has launched the first collaborative web platform on Socially Responsible Investments (SRI) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at www.opensri.com.

OpenSRI offers a new approach to CSR rating, based on a real involvement of stakeholders who will rate the social and environmental performance of companies. The objective is to create an innovative and interactive tool that will foster dialogue on CSR issues between companies and their stakeholders.

LONDON, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Merger between Servite Houses and Thames Housing Association prompts housing staff HQ consolidation

- Zipcar partnership signals fresh direction in business and residential car use

ServiteThames today announced it has teamed with Zipcar, the world's largest and fastest growing car sharing club, to forge a 'radical' and environmentally friendly work-life travel plan for its expanded staff at its housing HQ following its recent merger with Thames Housing Association.

The partnership will help ServiteThames better utilize its limited parking space and enable the company to provide its increased staff of 120 employees with an alternative to the costs and inconvenience of bringing and parking a vehicle at work each day.

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 26 /PRNewswire/ --

- Test Declared One of the Most Pioneering Healthcare Innovations in 21st Century

Agendia BV, a world leader in gene expression analysis-based diagnostics, is pleased to announce that the company recently received a prestigious award for its groundbreaking MammaPrint(R) test from the Dutch Innovation Platform. MammaPrint, a 70-gene signature diagnostic test that predicts high or low risk of breast cancer tumor recurrence, was chosen out of more than 150 entries as the most pioneering healthcare initiative and will have the distinguished honor of being actively supported at a national level by the Dutch government.

A friend wonders what I think about this editorial by Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired. Anderson says “faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete.” Anderson confuses statistical models with scientific ones. As far as the content goes, I’m completely unconvinced. Anderson gives no examples of this approach to science being replaced by something else. For me, the larger lesson of the editorial is how different science is from engineering. Wired is mainly about engineering. I’m pretty sure Anderson has some grasp of the subject. Yet this editorial, which reads like something a humanities professor would write, shows that his understanding doesn’t extend to science. It reminds me why I didn’t want to be a doctor (which is like being an engineer.)