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GVSU to put parking lot on $1.2 million plot of land on Lake Michigan Drive
2014-02-17 00:57:25| Grocery - Topix.net
Grand Valley State University will put a parking lot on an 18-acre plot of land along Lake Michigan Drive, property that the school purchased Friday for $1.2 million.
United Kingdom: Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
2014-02-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flood-stricken communities, including those visited by David Cameron in the Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have been left without planned defences following government funding cuts, the Guardian can reveal. Undelivered defences, totalling many millions of pounds, also include schemes on the stretch of Devon coast at Dawlish where the mainline railway fell into the sea and near the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Ministers have been heavily criticised for cutting flood...
Climate change: time for sceptics to put up or shut up
2014-02-16 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Say I were to ask you to prove that the dinosaurs were wiped out when an asteroid collided with the Earth 66m years ago, in what is now snappily called the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. If you were as weirdly obsessed by these catastrophes as I am, you would maybe start by citing the worldwide layer of sediment known as K-Pg boundary, which was first discovered near Gubbio, in Italy, and is thought to be the fallout from a massive explosion. You would mention the soot that is associated...
United Kingdom: Fracking proposal at South Downs national park put on hold
2014-02-15 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Plans for exploratory drilling in Fernhursts South Downs national park in West Sussex have been suspended, amid requests for more detailed information on the environmental impact of the activity. The National Park Authoritys chief executive Trevor Beattie said on Thursday that he had asked energy firm Celtique Energie for additional details over the operations the company was planning in the park. Beattie said that the application was missing details about hydrology, noise and the geological...
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Partisan politics put UK climate change policy at risk: minister
2014-02-13 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Britain's efforts to combat climate change are in danger of disarray because "partisan politics" may scare off investors, Energy Minister Ed Davey said on Thursday. Davey, a member of the junior coalition partner Liberal Democrats, criticized both Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservatives and the opposition Labour party for endangering plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage investment in cleaner energy sources. "If we are to persuade companies to make long-term investments...
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