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Total Conducting Seismic Testing on Congo Oil Block
2016-02-06 15:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: French oil major Total is conducting seismic testing on a block it operates in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a company spokeswoman confirmed on Thursday, making it the first oil major to conduct such testing in the country. Congo produces just 25,000 barrels of oil per day along its Atlantic coast in the west but hopes that further exploration offshore and near Lake Albert, which straddles the eastern border with Uganda, will boost that figure significantly in coming years. Total...
VIDEO: Red tape strangles trade in DR Congo
2016-02-05 12:22:58| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Companies in the Democratic Republic of Congo are getting angry about bureaucracy.
Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co may be using cobalt dug by children in Congo: Amnesty International
2016-01-19 19:22:59| Electronics - Topix.net
Apple is evaluating "dozens of different materials, including cobalt, in order to identify labour and environmental risks as well as opportunities for Apple to bring about effective, scalable and sustainable change," it told Amnesty. Chinese companies that buy cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo and supply mobile-phone and laptop makers such as Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
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Production starts at Moho Bilondo Phase 1b project offshore Congo
2015-12-14 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Total E&P Congo and its partners have started production at their Moho Bilondo Phase 1b offshore deepwater project near the Congo.
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After errors, Congo Basin forest effort restarts with new scrutiny
2015-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Protecting increasingly threatened forests in central Africas Congo Basin will require not just cash but African governments enforcing their own forest regulations while pulling their people out of poverty, donors said on Tuesday. "At the end of the day, governments need to take responsibility for forests, said Per Pharo, director of the Norwegian governments International Climate and Forest Initiative, which has committed more than $2 billion to protect forests in countries from Indonesia...
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