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UK Government backs proposed HS3 development
2014-10-27 01:00:00| Railway Technology
The UK Government has agreed to the proposed development of HS3, a high-speed rail link that connects cities in the north, in a bid to improve connectivity and reduce journey times.
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Dispute prompts new laws by B.C. government for container trucking industry
2014-10-23 22:32:55| Trucking - Topix.net
The B.C. government is introducing new laws that it says will bring labour stability to the container trucking industry at Port Metro Vancouver. The legislation would bring in rate regulation for the industry, addressing a long-standing complaint by truckers about companies that undercut driver wages.
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United Kingdom: Government allowing coal industry to get green subsidies
2014-10-23 20:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The boss of British Gass parent company has criticised the Government for allowing old, dirty coal stations to qualify for subsidies worth hundreds of millions of pounds in a scheme designed to promote green energy. Sam Laidlaw, the chief executive of Centrica, said the list of power stations which the Government has just cleared to apply for the scheme contains some of the countrys most polluting stations putting it at odds with its goal of keeping carbon emissions to a minimum. Mr Laidlaws...
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ESnet: The 100-gigabit shadow internet that only the US government has access to
2014-10-20 18:43:38| Extremetech
One day, as I surfed the web on my laptop and lamented how long it takes a YouTube video to load, I found myself wondering if employees of the US government are also beholden to the same congestion and shoddy peering that affects everyone else on the internet. Surely, as hundreds of scientists at Fermi Lab near Chicago wait for petabytes of raw data to arrive from the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, they don't suffer interminable connection drops and inexplicable lag. And, as it turns out, they don't.
Taiwan Government sets-up new food safety office
2014-10-20 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
The Taiwanese Government is launching a new food safety office, which will begin operations this week in response to the recent cooking oil scandal.
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