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Weekly Overview: Chinese Government Policy and Opportunities for Pork Exports
2014-02-17 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - A new report looks at the development of agriculture in China, which includes government encouragement for large, modern farms of all types, writes Jackie Linden. At a recent conference, the UK's farming minister talked about the great potential for pig meat exports to countries such as China. Meanwhile, there have been new cases of African Swine Fever in Russia and in Canada, Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea has now been reported in a second province, Manitoba.
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United Kingdom: Flood area defences put on hold by government funding cuts
2014-02-16 22:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Flood-stricken communities, including those visited by David Cameron in the Somerset Levels and Yalding in Kent, have been left without planned defences following government funding cuts, the Guardian can reveal. Undelivered defences, totalling many millions of pounds, also include schemes on the stretch of Devon coast at Dawlish where the mainline railway fell into the sea and near the nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset. Ministers have been heavily criticised for cutting flood...
United Kingdom: These floods are washing away the founding logic of David Cameron's government
2014-02-14 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Men in wellies, talk of "grip", Cobra in near-permanent session: the politics of natural disaster has its own vocabulary, both visual and verbal. Repeated regularly is a set of maxims now seared into the soul of every Westminster special adviser: that a party leader cannot go abroad when the country is under water; that Bush's Katrina debacle showed what a delayed or tin-eared response to tragedy can do to a political reputation; that the prime task of all governments is to keep citizens safe, from...
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Quebec government announces plan to explore Anticosti Island oil reserves
2014-02-14 04:27:59| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The Quebec government is going ahead with plans to exploit the oil resources of Anticosti Island, estimated at 46 million barrels.
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United Kingdom: Government to review flood defence investment decisions
2014-02-14 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The government will re-examine investment decisions on flood defences as part of a series of reviews of the country's resilience and response to the flooding that has devastated parts of southern England over the past two months. David Cameron yesterday announced further reviews into transport infrastructure and the Bellwin scheme that provides financial help to local authorities in emergencies. In addition, he announced the launch of an annual resilience review to consider the local, regional,...
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