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Barriers Set Up, Water Being Testing at North Dakota Site of 3M Gallon Saltwater Spill
2015-01-23 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Earthen barriers have been set up across a creek and water was being tested Thursday around the site of a nearly 3 million-gallon leak of saltwater generated by oil drilling, the largest spill of its kind during North Dakota's current oil rush. The berms were built at Blacktail Creek to prevent potentially contaminated water from flowing out of the creek and into a bigger body of water that eventually leads into the Missouri River. "So when the ice starts to melt if there's any oil or contaminated...
2015 World Pork Expo Set for 3-5 June
2015-01-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The dates are set for the 2015 World Pork Expo — 3-5 June — at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa. World Pork Expo is brought to you by the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and presents a wide range of activities, including the world’s largest pork-specific trade show, educational seminars, and swine shows and sales.
Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight
2015-01-22 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The world is "3 minutes" from doomsday. That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m. It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic...
Builders focus on 55-plus set
2015-01-22 17:23:07| Real Estate - Topix.net
Developers working in the 55-and-older home sector are gaining confidence in the market, based on a third-quarter report issued by the National Association of Home Builders. Builder confidence in the sector is up over the same period of 2013, jumping 9 points to a level of 59 -- the highest third-quarter reading since the inception of the 55+ Housing Market Index in 2008 and the 12th consecutive quarter of year-over-year improvements.
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Domestic sales set to bounce back
2015-01-22 10:17:23| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
But there are discrepancies in the forecast figures given by the Federation of Thai Industries and Toyota, the country's automotive leader. Toyota Motor Thailand projects the country's car sales to grow 4% this year to 920,000 units, while the FTI's automotive industry club estimates sales this year to reach 1 million units, a 13.4% increase from the year before.
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