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Some crude production restarts as cool weather saps Canadian wildfire
2016-05-25 01:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some crude producers restarted operations on Tuesday in Canada's energy heartland as a mass evacuation of the Fort McMurray oil town entered its fourth week, though cool weather and light winds were helping firefighters dampen the blaze. No oil facilities or communities were in the fire's path as of Tuesday morning as its footprint grew slightly to 523,000 hectares (2,008 square miles) from roughly 522,900 hectares on Monday, Alberta officials said at a news conference. The blaze was spreading...
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VIDEO: Drought saps South Africa sugar crop
2015-12-11 13:19:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The BBC's Taurai Maduna finds out how the drought is affecting the sugar industry in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.
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RPT-Oil bust saps U.S. students' enthusiasm for petroleum degrees
2015-10-02 15:17:18| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Enrollment in U.S. petroleum engineering degree programs fell for the first time in 13 years this fall, as an oil industry slump makes college students wary of entering the boom and bust world of oil and gas. The drop, revealed this week in annual data provided by the country's 21 petroleum engineering departments and made available to Reuters, is modest - the number of enrollments dipped just 1 percent from a record high of 11,332 hit last year when oil was around $100 a barrel.
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Drought saps $2.7 billion from California economy, report says
2015-06-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: The drought is on track to dry up $2.7 billion in revenue and erase more than 18,600 jobs from the California economy this year, according to a preliminary report. But that blow has been hard to detect because the agriculture sector is just 2% of the overall state economy and because farm employment has grown steadily in the last decade, a panel of experts told the state Board of Food and Agriculture. Despite the drought, in fact, statewide agricultural employment grew by 3,100 jobs last year,...
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"The Free Market is for Saps". Noam Chomsky
2015-06-01 06:58:22| Agriculture - Topix.net
I recall the context being big companies actually hate the "free market". what they prefer is creating/having a monopoly ; monopolies insure much larger profits.
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