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Northern Gateway equity offer would give First Nations about $70K a year: report
2013-06-23 20:51:10| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The equity offer from Northern Gateway to aboriginal groups along the route of a controversial oil pipeline would amount to an average of about $70,000 a year for the bands, which would be obliged to borrow the millions of dollars needed to purchase equity from Calgary-based Enbridge itself.
Fracking Fuels Water Fights in Nation's Dry Spots
2013-06-16 08:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes of water, fine sand and chemicals into the ground to crack open valuable shale formations. But now, as energy companies vie to exploit vast reserves west of the Mississippi, fracking's...
ERI Partners with United Nations Campaign to Recycle Electronics
2013-06-12 18:19:00| Waste Age
Electronic Recyclers International (ERI) has partnered with the United Nations Foundations Girl Up campaign to provide for the recycling of electronic products for resale. read more
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Nation's drinking water system needs $384B upgrade
2013-06-05 13:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CNN: The nation's drinking water systems are deteriorating, and $384 billion needs to be spent in the next 17 years to maintain a safe supply for millions of Americans, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The most significant expense, $247.5 billion, should go to replacing the aging pipes, many of which are between 50 to 100 years old, the EPA said. Although upgrades need to be made to systems nationwide, the agency said California, Texas and New York need the money the most....
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United Nations Environment Programme and World Resources Institute
2013-06-04 22:47:39| PortlandOnline
Worldwide, about one-third of all food produced, worth around US$1 trillion, gets lost or wasted in food production and consumption systems. When this figure is converted to calories, this means that about 1 in 4 calories intended for human consumption is never actually eaten.
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