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Canadian spies met with energy firms, documents reveal
2013-10-09 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Canadian government agency that allegedly hacked into the Brazilian mining and energy ministry has participated in secret meetings in Ottawa where Canadian security agencies briefed energy corporations, it has emerged. Claims of spying on the ministry by Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) come amid the Canadian government's increasingly aggressive promotion of resource corporations at home and abroad, including unprecedented surveillance and intelligence sharing with companies....
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VIDEO: Outsourced firms 'duck public scrutiny'
2013-10-09 02:04:59| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Freedom of Information Act should be updated to include "any body funded by the taxpayer" said a Labour councillor.
World Bank 'gambling assets' by investing in private water firms
2013-10-07 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Civil society groups are pressuring the World Bank to disinvest from private water companies, saying that privatising ownership and management of this natural resource has failed to improve access to clean drinking water. The World Bank is subsidising private profiteering from an essential resource by lending public money to private corporations that manage or run water utilities but have failed to improve services, says Corporate Accountability International (CAI), a Boston-based advocacy group...
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Pig Sales Fly Blind as Data Cut by Shutdown Hampers Firms
2013-10-04 16:24:10| Food - Topix.net
For Brian Duncan, a 49-year-old hog farmer in Polo, Illinois , the government shutdown is converting the economic fundamentals of his business into a guessing game.
Food and drink firms urged to crack down on sugar 'land grabs'
2013-10-03 08:18:53| Sugar Industry News
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Associated British Foods and other global food and beverage companies are being urged to establish a zero-tolerance policy on land grabs.
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