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United Kingdom: Wind turbines, a new airport and an atomic plant threaten historic wetlands
2013-03-24 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In the picturesque town of Lydd, the museum records the fate of two smugglers arrested at the turn of the 17th century. The men were locked in a room at a inn on the edge of Romney Marsh, a few miles from the English Channel, where they were guarded by six armed customs officers. But the officers were unprepared for the militancy of local residents. Hours after the arrests, more than 100 from the surrounding marshes confronted the guards, freeing the men. More than a century later, residents confirmed...
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Major Utility in Southern U.S. Upgrades Transmission Lines with 3M ACCR to Avoid Wetlands Tower Construction
2013-03-22 20:18:00| Transmission & Distribution World
Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, has chosen the lightweight, low-sag 3M ACCR overhead conductor to double transmission capacity on a set of lines that cross extensive wetlands near Savannah.
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IRW-Press: Orvana Granted Wetlands Permit For Copperwood Project, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
2013-02-26 13:55:21| Waste Management - Topix.net
Orvana Minerals Corp. , through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Orvana Resources US Corp , is pleased to report that the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has granted the Wetlands Part 303 and the Inlands Lakes and Streams Part 301 permits for the proposed Copperwood copper mine, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA.
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DEQ approves stream, wetlands permit for UP mine
2013-02-23 01:46:03| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has tentatively approved the last major permit needed for construction of a copper and silver mine in the western Upper Peninsula.
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Deforestation, wetlands loss in Brazil and Indonesia generated 45b tons of CO2 in 20 years
2013-02-22 03:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched a global set of statistics on carbon emissions from deforestation, agriculture and other forms of land use for the 1990-2010 period. The dataset, which is part of the FAO's database of statistics known as FAOSTAT, is based on FAO estimates of forest biomass, deforestation, and crop cover. The data is listed by country and region. Unsurprisingly, the FAOSTAT GHG dataset shows that high deforestation countries generated the...
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