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Oil Drops Below $60 As China Virus Stokes Demand Concern
2020-01-27 16:52:47| OGI
Both Brent and WTI suffer hits of more than 3%.
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Global Cyberattack on Energy Sector Stokes Deep Fears
2017-09-07 20:11:22| TechNewsWorld
The hacker group known as "Dragonfly" is behind sophisticated wave of recent cyberattacks on the energy sectors of Europe and North America, Symantec reported. The attacks could provide the group with the means to severely disrupt energy operations on both continents. Dragonfly launched a simililar campaign from 2011 to 2014, but it entered a quiet period in 2014 after its activities were exposed.
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Zimbabwe note launch stokes currency fears
2016-11-28 12:18:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Zimbabwe's launch of new notes is raising fears of a return to the local dollar, which was abandoned seven years ago.
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Chinas trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fears
2016-08-29 12:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Chinas fast-rising population and its burgeoning economy make steep demands on natural resources, so steep that Beijing is searching constantly for supplies from overseas. And it wants to obtain them, naturally, as cheaply as it can. Now in prospect is Chinas trans-Amazon railway a 3,300 mile-long (5,000 km) artery to link the soya-growing areas and iron ore mines of Brazil to the southern Peruvian port of Ilo, providing a cheaper, shorter route than the Panama Canal. Feasibility studies on...
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Record Heat Sparks Warnings, Stokes Wildfires In Western U.S
2016-06-20 09:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Wildfire warnings were posted across parts of three Western U.S. states on Sunday as a heat wave baked the region in record, triple-digit temperatures, stoking flames in California from the coastal foothills outside Santa Barbara to desert brush near the Mexican border. Excessive heat advisories and "red flag warnings" for extreme fire conditions were in effect across southern portions of California, Nevada and Arizona, the National Weather Service reported on the eve of the first official day...