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Big insurers are brought into discussions on how to protect NYC against future storms

2013-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ClimateWire: Some of the world's leading insurance companies assembled in a room on Wall Street this fall to hear the opening pitch for a massive undertaking, constructing a chain of coastal barriers to defend the New York City region from future flooding. The ambitious vision differs from the $14 billion system completed recently by the federal government to protect New Orleans from hurricanes that might mimic Katrina. The East Coast project, a potential network of walls, gates and dunes, would be financed...

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VIDEO: Pension age delay brought forward

2013-12-05 09:09:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The date when eligibility for a state pension rises to the age of 68 is being brought forward to the mid 2030s, George Osborne will confirm in the Autumn Statement.

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This wine brought to you by...retired teachers

2013-12-04 18:46:04| Beverages - Topix.net

When you're enjoying a glass of wine at the office holiday party this month you may, indirectly, have your old college econ professor or elementary school nurse to thank.

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Inside the Oil-Shipping Industry That Brought Disaster to Lac-Mégantic

2013-12-03 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Globe and Mail: Long before disaster struck, the 5,900 residents of Lac-Mégantic had grown accustomed to the sight of large oil tankers rolling through their small, tightly knit community in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. A shortage of oil pipelines in North America had created a new kind of railway industry traversing the continent. In just a few years, tankers carrying crude oil from the resource-rich West had grown from a mere 8,000 in 2009 to nearly 400,000, and Lac-Mégantic is located along one of the...

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