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1 dead in crash with NJ Transit bus on icy Pine Hill road
2014-01-10 17:31:03| Railroads - Topix.net
One person is dead after a motor vehicle crashed into a Philadelphia-bound New Jersey Transit bus in Pine Hill.
Icy weather threatens oil output from Texas to Canada
2014-01-06 12:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The severe cold weather sweeping across the central United States is threatening to curtail some oil production, if only briefly, as it disrupts traffic, strands wells and interrupts drilling and fracking operations. Weather stations recorded some of the coldest temperatures in two decades in the Midwest, threatening lives, closing businesses and schools and causing thousands of flights to be canceled. Arctic cold air was also spreading across Texas on Monday with temperatures in the oil country...
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Are you prepared? What you need to do when snow & icy weather are forecast
2013-12-01 09:59:16| PortlandOnline
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Icy truth: Greenpeace on whistleblowing and reckless attitudes in the Arctic
2013-05-16 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
A new whistleblowing website launched by Greenpeace International aims to expose the shocking operational blunders some of the biggest oil companies in the world are making in one of its most delicate regions. Elly Earls met Ben Ayliffe to find out m
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Icy Arctic rising as economic, security hot spot
2013-05-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The icy Arctic is emerging as a global economic hot spot -- and one that is becoming a security concern for the U.S. as world powers jockey to tap its vast energy resources and stake out unclaimed territories. Diplomats from eight Arctic nations, including Secretary of State John Kerry, will meet next week over how to protect the thawing region as its waterways increasingly open to commercial shipping traffic. U.S. officials estimate the Arctic holds 13 percent of the world's undiscovered oil...
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