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Coal executive turned climate change activist fights for seat on BHP board
2013-10-17 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A former chairman of the Australian Coal Association, who has accused the fossil fuel industry of stuffing up effective action on climate change, is fighting an insurgent battle to gain a seat on the board of the mining giant BHP Billiton. Ian Dunlop, formerly a senior executive in the oil, gas and coal industries, is attempting to gain shareholder support for his bid to challenge what he claims is utter bullshit from a resources industry that has stymied an urgent transition away from carbon-intensive...
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Can GM's French Investment Be Turned Around?
2013-10-04 02:40:09| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A Peugeot factory in France may soon be making the Opel Zafira minivan for GM. Photo credit: General Motors Co.
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Girl who lost leg to New York taxi tells how holiday tragedy turned her life 'upside down'
2013-09-25 03:25:16| Footwear - Topix.net
A British tourist who lost part of her leg after being mowed down by a New York taxi has spoken for the first time describing how the accident has turned her life "upside down".
VIDEO: Has the UK economy turned a corner?
2013-09-18 14:32:29| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Lib Dem activists were asked whether they agreed with the chancellor who claimed the economy was "turning a corner" or Vince Cable who suggested it was still in a "long dark tunnel."
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Why environmentalists turned against fracking bill
2013-09-13 10:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
San Francisco Chronicle: Late Wednesday night, when California's state Senate approved a hotly contested bill to regulate fracking and sent it to Gov. Jerry Brown for approval, it did so without the endorsement of some normally supportive environmentalist groups. The bill from State Sen. Fran Pavley had provoked intense opposition not just from the oil industry but from fracking opponents, who had been urging Brown to ban the practice outright. Word that he plans to sign the bill appears to have dashed those hopes, at...
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