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Tar-sands mining in Canada is unleashing mercury pollution
2014-01-03 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Drilling for tar-sands oil in Alberta has long been recognized as a driver of climate change, helping to nudge the mercury up in thermometers around the world. Now, it appears that it`s also dousing the Canadian province with straight-up mercury pollution. Canadian government researchers have discovered that oil-sands operations have puffed out mercury over 4.7 million acres of northeast Alberta, boosting levels to as much as 16 times higher than background levels. Mercury is a potent poison that`s...
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Retail, Mining Shares Post Gains But Indian Shares Decline
2014-01-03 19:33:15| Jewelry - Topix.net
All of the publicly traded retail firms that Rapaport News follows each week out of the U.S. experienced strong share price gains in 2013 with one exception -- JCPenney's shares tumbled 55 percent year on year to close at $8.88 on January 2. The best share performance for jewelry-related retailers in the U.S. came from Zale Inc. as its stock price ... (more)
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Shell Canada and Caterpillar to explore LNG fueling options for oil sands mining trucks
2013-12-17 15:30:22| Green Car Congress
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Massive surge in Litecoin mining leads to graphics card shortage
2013-12-10 16:40:56| Extremetech
Radeons have largely vanished from store shelves, while low-end AMD Sempron processors are suddenly skyrocketing up Amazon's sales charts. What's driving the trend? A new type of cryptocurrency that's been called the silver to Bitcoin's gold.
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Mining and Fracking Public Lands Creates 4.5 Times More Carbon Than They Can Absorb
2013-12-09 16:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wilderness Society: Public lands generate about 4.5 times more atmospheric carbon than they are currently able to absorb, according to a new report from the Center for American Progress. In short, oil and gas drilling is outpacing the capacity of our forests and grasslands to capture the carbon that is being emitted. Strip mine in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Photo credit: Bureau of Land Management The report cites analysis commissioned by The Wilderness Society, which showed that fossil fuel extraction...
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