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Australia: Taxpayers fund Abbott MP's climate-change denialism

2015-01-05 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: One of the federal government's most prominent climate-change deniers has billed taxpayers for a series of books that argues global warming is a hoax. MPs are allowed to buy publications including books, journals, magazines and newspapers as part of their taxpayer-funded allowances. Queensland National MP George Christensen's latest expenses filed with the Finance Department show that he bought three books on climate-change denialism: The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens...

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UK's PAC reports DfT's new train contracts left 'taxpayers bearing all the risk'

2014-12-18 01:00:00| Railway Technology

The UK Department for Transport's (DfT) decision to purchase two fleets of trains worth 10.5bn has left 'taxpayers bearing all the risk', according to a report by the Public Accounts Committee.

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US taxpayers bear financial burden of smoking-related disease

2014-12-16 11:24:29| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Cigarette smoking generates as much as $170 billion in annual health care spending in the United States, according to a new study co-authored by researchers at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and RTI International. Dr. Terry F. Pechacek, a professor of health management and policy at Georgia State, was the senior author of the study, "Annual Healthcare Spending Attributable to Cigarette Smoking ," which was published by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

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United Kingdom: Taxpayers to fund hundreds of fracking boreholes across country

2014-11-22 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Hundreds of government-funded boreholes are set to be drilled across Britain to try to persuade the public that a looming shale gas boom can be developed safely, the Observer has learned. Sensors in the boreholes would detect possible water pollution or earthquakes caused by fracking and the information would be made public. We will be taking the pulse of the sub-surface environment and will reveal if things are going wrong, but also if they are going right, said Professor Mike Stephenson, director...

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