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 Energy portal archived news 2006

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2006

 * December 19, 2006: The Pakistan government has formally launched the country’s first policy on renewable sources of energy.
 * December 14, 2006: The Governing Board of the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that Mr. Nobuo Tanaka will succeed Mr. Claude Mandil as the Executive Director of the IEA from 1 September 2007.
 * December 6, 2006: The UK government announce their 'ambition', supported by a tax exemption, that all new homes will be zero energy buildings by 2016.
 * November 21, 2006: 7 governments sign an agreement to build the ITER tokamak, intended to test the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.
 * October 1, 2006: The Langeled pipeline, the World's longest underwater pipeline, starts piping gas between Norway and the United Kingdom.
 * September 27, 2006: The Global Warming Solutions Act becomes the first law to require cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
 * September 14, 2006: The British Government issue a prospectus for investors in their proposed national Energy Technologies Institute.
 * August 30, 2006: Six people shot dead while protesting against an open pit coal mine in Phulbari, Bangladesh.
 * August 1, 2006: Former US President Bill Clinton signs an agreement to support the Large Cities Climate Leadership Group on behalf of the Clinton Foundation.
 * July 31, 2006: The United Nations Security Council demands that Iran suspends uranium enrichment due to continuing concerns over Iran's nuclear power program
 * July 13, 2006: Oil prices reach a record high of $78.40 per barrel in the oil price increases of 2004-2006.
 * July 1, 2006: The European Union and 9 further European countries sign the ECSEE treaty to regulate energy trading in south east Europe.
 * June 21, 2006: A Government commission publishes proposals to break Sweden's dependence on oil by 2020 as part of a long term oil phase-out in Sweden.
 * April 11, 2006: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium as part of its resumed nuclear power program
 * January 1, 2006: Gazprom, the world's largest supplier of natural gas, stops supplying Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute.