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Why only now have we been warned of the dangers of sugar?

2014-01-22 07:30:10| Sugar Industry News

My good friend Adam Carey, the doctor from the old TV series Celebrity Fit Club, has always told me to interpret the government guidelines of five portions of fruit and veg a day as meaning four veg and one fruit to allow for the sugar content in fruit.

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Dangers Water Privatization Emerge In the Wake of West Virginias Chemical Spill

2014-01-17 14:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: It took a few days after a state of emergency was declared across nine West Virginia counties--and one-sixth of the states population was told not to drink or bathe using their tap water--for the national news media to discover a story of national importance occurring in the political backwaters of Appalachia. Filings by the West Virginia Public Service Commission reveal the dramatic expansion of West Virginia American Water Companys water network over the past 20 years, and why one-sixth of...

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N.B. train derailment fire renews questions of oil-by-rail's dangers

2014-01-09 06:04:26| Railroads - Topix.net

A fiery derailment in New Brunswick Tuesday night was the third time a crude-laden train has caught fire in recent weeks.

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In 2013, Exxon Spill Showed Dangers Pipelines Buried Under Backyards

2013-12-24 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: When a 65-year-old ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on March 29 [3] and spilled 210,000 gallons of oil in Mayflower, Ark., it opened the nation's eyes to the potential dangers lurking in the thousands of miles of aging and overlooked pipelines buried beneath neighborhoods and farms. The spill also brought fresh attention to the debate over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline and the inherent risks of transporting Canadian tar sands across America's heartland. Exxon's Pegasus pipeline was carrying dilbit...

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