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The elephant in the room on the Longview coal port
2013-08-30 16:24:04| Paper - Topix.net
With an undereducated population and a struggling economy, Longview would seem an easy sell on a new coal port.
Australia: Climate campaigners start 'hunger strike' to block Queensland coal project
2013-08-30 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's coal industry is being targeted by a range of campaigns from divestment to civil disobedience Share Tweet this Email Andrew Bartlett, left, and Ben Pennings, who are hunger striking in Brisbane in protest at a Queensland coal rail project Ben Pennings has recruited six so far but, according to his campaign group's website, another 150 people are going to join for a day or two in support. "We will only have water, and tea with no milk or sugar," says the 41-year-old environment...
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As Coal Plants Shut Down, United Kingdom Faces Power Crunch
2013-08-29 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: London at night sparkles with beautiful lighting, from the 11,500 lights that brighten the Edwardian facade of iconic department store Harrods to the 4,000 that illuminate the outline of Albert Bridge, spanning the River Thames. But are these popular tourist attractions-and the rest of the United Kingdom-at risk of going dark? British authorities have been issuing some dire-sounding warnings. In February, the man then in charge of Ofgem, Britain's industry regulator, warned of an impending "near-crisis"...
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Mercury Fingerprint of Pacific Fish Points to Asia Coal Power Plants
2013-08-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Mercury found in high levels in deep Pacific Ocean fish such as swordfish has a chemical fingerprint, and it implicates coal-burning power plants in Asia, according to a new study. A research team from the universities of Hawaii and Michigan looked at mercury in the flesh of nine species common to the massive North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the largest ecosystem on the planet, at 7 million square miles. Four years ago, the team found that mercury levels in such fish as tuna increased with the depth...
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Port Metro Vancouver coal shipments on record pace
2013-08-28 08:57:20| Energy - Topix.net
Much of the coal now exported through Port Metro Vancouver goes through Westshore Terminals loading facility at Roberts Bank in Delta.
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