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Non-Traded REITs Battle Fundraising Woes

2016-03-02 09:00:00| National Real Estate Investor

Since peaking at $19.6 billion in 2013, fundraising among public, non-listed REITs has dropped significantly in the past two years. read more

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Palmetto Pipeline battle raging in Georgia could stop in Jacksonville next

2016-02-28 00:18:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Aug. 4, 2014 - The Palmetto Pipeline goes public with the announcement by Texas-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners that it is launching what is known as a binding open season, the process by which pipeline companies solicit commitments from potential customers. It says the $1 billion Palmetto Project would move gasoline, diesel and ethanol through a 360-mile pipeline running from Belton, S.C., to Jacksonville.

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Drought adds fuel to fire as Zambia loses battle save forests

2016-02-25 04:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Bare-chested, Alan Siyampondo shovels soil onto a smoking kiln stuffed with burning teak wood to produce a batch of charcoal in the heart of Dambwa Forest Reserve outside Livingstone. Nearby in the savannah woodland close to Zambia's southern border, another man prepares to turn his chopped logs into charcoal. Despite concerted efforts to reduce deforestation, this season's poor rainfall - influenced by the El Nio weather phenomenon is causing food and power shortages that could force more Zambian...

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Sami reindeer herders battle conservationists and miners to cling to Arctic culture

2016-02-20 18:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: When Europes indigenous Arctic people want to find their reindeer in a snowstorm and temperatures of -30C, they turn to their 10,000 snowmobiles and an app that is also used by British sheep farmers. In seconds, the satellite tracking device linked to their phone tells them if the animals are on a frozen lake, up a mountain or, in the worst case, have fallen prey to wolves or lynx. So far, so simple, thanks to new technology. But when the Sami people of northern Norway want to complain about...

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