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Shift from fossil fuels risks popping 'carbon bubble': World Bank
2015-10-10 15:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: The transition from fossil fuels must be carefully managed to avoid an economically disastrous bursting of the "carbon bubble," the World Bank's top climate official said on Saturday. Decades of reliance on oil, gas and coal have made them central to the global economy, and polluting industries risk a potentially catastrophic crash as the world shifts to alternative energies, said Rachel Kyte, the Bank's special envoy for climate change. "If we accept that we need to have less carbon in our...
China's econ shift promises to aid climate fight but packs a commodity punch
2015-10-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: When officials in the southern end of the Chinese province of Shanxi feared their local golf course might attract unwanted attention from a nationwide crackdown on corruption, they artfully changed its name to the Yishan Ecological Park. China is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, and that's increasingly acknowledged by China's leaders. Qi Ye, director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Centre for Public Policy Compared with the new apartment towers and eight-lane highways slicing...
Enbridge considers 'strategic shift' to grow presence in U.S. Gulf Coast
2015-10-07 20:34:37| Energy - Topix.net
Enbridge Inc. has its eye on a bigger presence along the U.S. Gulf Coast, a gigantic energy market that the company sees as being resilient to commodity price swings. The Calgary-based pipeline giant is looking at a "strategic shift in thinking" in the region, said Guy Jarvis, who heads Enbridge's liquids pipeline division.
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Enbridge considers 'strategic shift' to grow presence in U.S. Gulf Coast
2015-10-07 20:34:10| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Enbridge Inc. has its eye on a bigger presence along the U.S. Gulf Coast, a gigantic energy market that the company sees as being resilient to commodity price swings. The Calgary-based pipeline giant is looking at a "strategic shift in thinking" in the region, said Guy Jarvis, who heads Enbridge's liquids pipeline division.
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Shift in demographics crucial to real estate future
2015-10-06 00:55:40| Real Estate - Topix.net
A growing retirement-age population in Garfield County and across the Western Slope will be an important economic and real estate market driver in the coming years. Retiring baby boomers "tend to hang out in one place and spend money a and will maybe even continue working" in some capacity, Colorado State Demographer Elizabeth Garner pointed out during a presentation at the Mountain Real Estate Summit Friday in Snowmass Village.
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