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At Risk: Oil and Gas Boom across East Africa
2014-09-30 11:09:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The discovery of significant commercial oil and natural gas reserves in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Mozambique has ignited the interest of both international oil companies (IOCs) and national oil companies (NOCs).
Could Fracking Boom Drive Silica Sand Mining Operations in 12 More States?
2014-09-26 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Victoria Trinko says she hasnt opened the windows to her home in Bloomer, Wisconsin, in more than two years. Thats around the time a mining company began churning up silica sand a half-mile from her family farm, filling the air with tiny particles and making it harder for her to breathe. I could feel dust clinging to my face and gritty particles on my teeth, Trinko recalls. Silica sand is one of many ingredients used in the hydraulic fracturing process. During fracking, operators blast thousands...
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UK: Clothing to drive online shopping boom
2014-09-23 13:48:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Online shopping in the UK is set to generate more than 1.35bn deliveries a year by 2018, up 29% on 2013, with clothing and footwear driving demand.
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Canadas shale boom: more to come in Montney
2014-09-19 14:30:40| Green Car Congress
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Deep Inside the Wild World of Chinas Fracking Boom
2014-09-18 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: ON A HAZY MORNING LAST SEPTEMBER, 144 American and Chinese government officials and high-ranking oil executives filed into a vaulted meeting room in a cloistered campus in south Xian, a city famous for its terra-cotta warriors and lethal smog. The Communist Party built this compound, called the Shaanxi Guesthouse, in 1958. It was part of the lead-up to Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward, in which, to surpass the industrial achievements of the West, the government built steelworks, coal mines, power...
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