Can renewable energy save Uganda’s Rwenzori glacier?

Project goal: 100 percent green energy in Uganda’s Kasese district by 2020.

Project implementation: Encouraging households, hospitals and schools to switch to renewable energy. The focus will be on solar but hydropower will also be expanded. In addition, the local authorities hope to establish energy efficient stoves and to plant new trees.

Project scope: Almost 700,000 people live in Kasese district in southwestern Uganda in nearly 400,000 households. The project aims to include everyone.

Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: Once implemented, the project will save 58,786 tons of CO2 a year.

“People of the snow” – that’s what those living at the foot of the Rwenzori mountains call themselves. The mountain and its glacier aren’t merely the source of their name, but their water. The snowmelt allows them to farm year round but climate change is causing their snow-caps to shrink.

Rather than look on helplessly, the district has decided to shift to renewable energy by 2020. That might save the snow but will it ensure the local communities reach their goal?

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The U.S. notes potential misuse of F-16 by Pakistan

The F-16 jets were basically meant to be used to "enhance Pakistan's ability to conduct counter-insurgency and counter terrorism operations"; and surely not to invade India.

source http://www.ncairways.co/india-news/f-16/

NTSB recovers cockpit voice recorder from crashed Atlas 767F

The National Transportation Safety Board has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the Atlas Air Boeing 767-300ER Freighter that crashed southeast of Houston on 23 February. The safety investigatory agency announced the news on Twitter, saying it is sending the recorder to an NTSB laboratory in Washington, DC for analysis. The agency has not commented […]

source http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/ntsb-recovers-cockpit-voice-recorder-from-crashed-atlas-767f/

ANALYSIS: ATSG profits rise as 767F fleet balloons

Air Transport Services Group (ATSG) continues to acquire more Boeing 767s, riding a wave of demand for package shipments that pushed the company to a $69.3 million 2018 net profit, up nearly four times from 2017. The Wilmington, Ohio-based air cargo company intends to operate another 10 767 Freighters this year, including several former American […]

source http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/analysis-atsg-profits-rise-as-767f-fleet-balloons/

United details premium-heavy 767 fleet plans

United Airlines plans to operate 17 Boeing 767-300ERs in its new configuration with 16 additional business class seats. The Chicago-based carrier will reconfigure 14 767s that currently have 30 business class seats in a two-one-two configuration, and configure three aircraft it purchased from Hawaiian Airlines in the premium-seat heavy layout, it says in a recently […]

source http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/united-details-premium-heavy-767-fleet-plans/

OPINION: Only luck saved lives in Durango’s unqualified disaster

On an August day in the Alps last year, a teenage enthusiast on a pleasure flight aboard a single-engined Piper was offered the opportunity to take the controls, even though he had no experience and the pilot had no instructor qualification. The heavily-laden aircraft laboured to climb in the warm air, negotiating a course through […]

source http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/opinion-only-luck-saved-lives-in-durangos-unqualified-disaster/

New vehicle set to absorb Air India debt, sell off units

New Delhi has approved the establishment of a special purpose company that will take around half of Air India’s debt and four subsidiaries that are set to be sold off. Air India Asset Holdings was incorporated on 22 January, and will take Rs295 billion ($4.4 billion) of the carrier’s unsecured debt, along with regional unit […]

source http://www.ncairways.co/aviation/new-vehicle-set-to-absorb-air-india-debt-sell-off-units/