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PARIS (MARKET WIRE) EURO Ressources S.A. (TSX: EUR) (PARIS: EUR) reports that the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (the "AMF") has announced the preliminary results of the tender offer made by IAMGOLD Corporation. The total number of shares tendered is 43.4 million shares, representing 71.6% of the outstanding shares of EURO (69.4% on a fully-diluted basis): this is in excess of the minimum thresh-hold set by IAMGOLD of 50% plus one share of the fully diluted shares.

President-elect Barack Obama has made his sweeping environmental agenda a priority for his incoming administration.

There’s quite a lot of good news in the state’s latest economic climate report. But brace yourself for some bad news, too.

The global financial and economic crisis has unfolded for months like a serial drama with daily, even hourly, installments.

3S Swiss Solar systems AG has announced that it has handed over a semi-automatic production line to Spanish company Eurener Energia Solar. 3S Swiss Solar Systems AG entered the semi-automatic solar production line business in March of this year.

Another step has been taken towards the building of the first German offshore wind farm, alpha ventus. REpower systems AG and Deutsche Offshore Testfeld und Infrastrukturge-sellschaft mbH & Co. KG (DOTI) have signed a contract in Hamburg for the supply and installation of six REpower 5M wind turbines. The installation of the REpower turbines is expected to begin in the middle of July 2009 on the construction site of alpha ventus, 45 kilometers north of Borkum Island, Germany.

XsunX Inc., a solar technology company engaged in the build-out of its multi-megawatt thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing facilities in Oregon, announced that it had entered into a two-year supply contract for the sale of 15 megawatts (MW) of it ASI-120 TFPV solar modules.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA - December 1, 2008 - ICP Solar Technologies Inc. (OTCBB: ICPR.OB, FRANKFURT: K1U.F), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary solar panels and products, today announced that the Company has signed an agreement worth $500,000 for off-grid modules in Africa. Deliveries are expected to begin in January, 2009.

The Queen gave her "royal assent" to Britain's long-debated energy Bill on november 26, 2008, putting into law Britain's commitment to dramatically cut its greenhouse gas emissions. The Energy Bill also contained provisions calling on Gordon Brown's Labour government to implement a system of feed-in tariffs for small renewable energy producers by 2010.

Environmental Business and Supply Base transfer to India with the further development on the local market place. The new prospects of the Indian State promotion policy and legislative regulations toward attracting foreign investors' confidence and expectations