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Euronews
17-06-2025
- Climate
- Euronews
Portugese landowners face fines as wildfire inspections begin
Portugal's police force, the National Republican Guard (GNR), began nationwide inspections on Monday after the deadline passed for mandatory land clearing intended to prevent wildfires. Landowners had until Sunday to clear undergrowth near properties, a deadline that was previously extended due to rainy weather. On the ground, GNR officers explained the specific regulations to property owners. An officer from the GNR's Environmental Protection Unit in Coruche, Felizardo, pointed out an infraction: "In this case, the grass is a bit taller than the prescribed limits, and therefore, fuel management should have been carried out within 50 metres around your building to comply with the established regulations." For some landowners, the wet weather that led to the extension created its own problems. A landowner was asked if she knew she had to clear the land. "Yes, we do know, but sometimes things don't happen the way we want. It rained a lot. My son was supposed to plough the land before going to the fields, but the soil couldn't support the tractor's weight, and it got stuck, so he had to leave it like that." Those who have failed to comply now face significant fines, which can reach up to €5,000 for individuals and €60,000 for companies. By the end of April, authorities had already identified over 10,000 potentially non-compliant properties. Despite the threat of penalties, the GNR's commander in Coruche, Mateus, expressed that the immediate focus is on education rather than punishment. "At this time, and despite being authorised by law to carry out inspections and issue fines, our approach is always focused on prevention," he said, adding that the ultimate objective is clear: "What we want is for the land to be cleared and for there to be fewer forest fires in 2025." The urgency of the campaign has increased in significance due to an impending heatwave. All of the Portuguese mainland's districts are already under a yellow weather warning, with maximum temperatures forecast to fluctuate between 33 and 40 degrees Celsius over the next few days. Once reliant on coal for the majority of its electricity, the country of 36 million that currently holds the EU rotating presidency is trying to reduce its dependence on the fossil fuel. With many mines becoming unprofitable and old infrastructure in decline, the Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk has planned a gradual closure of coal facilities in the south of the country. As the coal regions of the country come to terms with this shift, northern Poland adjacent to the Baltic Sea is booming. Ignacy Niemczycki, the deputy minister in the Chancellery, briefed a handful of Brussels-based journalists on board the Jantar passenger ship, telling Euronews that the wind farm should have a lifecycle of up to 30 years and be a major part of the energy transition. 'It's in the interest of the Polish economy to invest in renewables, nuclear, and gas to stabilise the grid,' the minister told Euronews. Situated 23 kilometres off the northern coast near Choczewo and Łeba, the wind farm is among the most advanced renewable energy projects in the Polish Economic Zone. The final installed capacity of the project is expected to reach 1140 MW, enough to supply electricity to approximately 1.5 million Polish households. Renewables will only be one part of the Polish energy mix. Plans for the first ever nuclear plant, which will also be located on Poland's northern Baltic Sea coast, were put in place under the former Law and Justice (PiS) government and have been continued by Prime Minister Donald Tusk's current ruling coalition. Niemczycki told Euronews that a second nuclear project is being considered and Poland is keeping a close eye on Canada as it experiments with the first ever mini nuclear plant, known as a Small Modular Reactor (SMR). SMRs could can potentially power up to 300 MW(e) per unit. 'We will see a major change in Poland's energy mix over the next 15 years,' said Niemczycki. 'Nuclear will become the new baseline, with renewables and gas providing flexibility and stability.'
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How Mateus Asato changed gears from sideman and Instagram guitarist to fully-fledged artist
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. It's a truth universally acknowledged that social media can make or break you. In Mateus Asato's case, social media has proven to be a way for him to carve a path to the higher echelons of the music industry, leading to an ever-evolving résumé that includes names like Bruno Mars, Tori Kelly, Jessie J, Joe Satriani, and John Petrucci, as well as a signature guitar with Suhr. However, back in 2016, Asato's role as an A-list sideman left him questioning his future. While traveling to South Korea for a guitar clinic – and confronted with real-life human beings who had discovered him through Instagram and were actually invested in his personal career – he realized there was tremendous potential to switch gears from 'sideman' to 'artist.' 'I had no idea of the impact that these little Instagram videos were having until I actually went to South Korea,' he tells 'There were 500 people there just to see this 'Mateus Asato guy'. That totally changed the game for me: 'Wait a minute, I play for an artist… but also there's a big potential for me to just do my own stuff'.' Working on his own material has been far from easy, however. Discussions with friend and producer Matt Mainhard made him realize that 'it's not okay to just have a list of songs. We gotta have a theme. We gotta have some sort of concept, or something that will tell you where to go'. As for what we can expect from his hotly anticipated debut record, Asato sums it up as, 'The album is definitely a journey through all the sides of Mateus. The Mateus who's a sideman, Mateus as the Instagram boy, and then the Mateus that got more mature over the years. Who developed a different vision regarding music, regarding how I see guitar.' So-called 'Instagram guitarists' have been in hot water recently, with the Giacomo Turra controversy putting into question the lengths some go to to achieve virality and reap the benefits that guitar stardom offers.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Fire Of Wind:' Locarno & NYFF Title From Marta Mateus Lands North American Distribution Via Cinema Guild
EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to Fire Of Wind, the latest feature from Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus. Fire Of Wind debuted at last year's Locarno Film Festival and had its North American premiere at the New York Film Festival. The film was produced by Mateus and Pedro Costa of Clarão Companhia, in collaboration with Fabrice Aragno of Casa Azul Films and Richard Copans of Les Films d'Ici. Cinema Guild will release the film in theaters in 2025. More from Deadline Cinema Guild Acquires North American Rights To Restored Prints Of Shinji Somai Classics 'The Friends' & 'Love Hotel' Films Of Pioneering Portuguese Director João César Monteiro To Receive 4K Restorations, Cinema Guild Lands North American Rights 'Richland:' Irene Lusztig's Tribeca Competition Doc About America's Nuclear Weapons Program Lands Domestic Release Via Cinema Guild Set in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, where Mateus was raised, a peasant community of grape-pickers become agents in an open-air ritual of remembrance and rebellion. The synopsis reads: It's harvest time and there's discontent in the fields. Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose and the laborers must scramble for shelter up in the oak trees. As the specter of the beast looms below, they share bread and wine, memories and dreams, the history of the landscape, and struggles past and present. We enter a long night, where nature also speaks. The fiery wind that brings the heatwave, is burning. The deal was negotiated by Peter Kelly and Edward McCarry of Cinema Guild with Clarão Companhia. 'Mateus is a rare filmmaker, one whose deep sense of form, language, gesture, and poetry is inseparable from her political commitment to the working class of her home region,' McCarry said in a statement. 'Her first feature heralds an essential vision in contemporary film. We are very proud to be releasing it in the cinema.' Cinema Guild's other upcoming releases include Matías Piñeiro's You Burn Me, Shinji Somai's Love Hotel, Hong Sangsoo's By the Stream and What Does That Nature Say to You, Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, and the films of João César Monteiro. Recent past releases include Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs and Somai's Moving. Best of Deadline How Jon Gries' Return To 'The White Lotus' Could Shape Season 3 Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us' 'The White Lotus' Season 3 Release Schedule: When Do New Episodes Arrive On Max?
