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Deepwater Horizon: BP cry foul as 10,000 claims flood in each month
2013-07-07 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Observer: The Deepwater Horizon oil disaster had some awful, undisputed consequences: 11 people died when the BP oil rig exploded on 20 April 2010, and oil poured unchecked into the Gulf of Mexico for 86 days. After that, however, the picture gets murkier. Hundreds of thousands of people and businesses were affected by the disaster but, as every month goes by, 10,000 more claimants emerge. Tomorrow, lawyers for BP will appear in court in New Orleans to argue that its huge bill for compensation is out of...
Extreme Weather: How will Europe prepare for the next flood?
2013-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: German officials reacted with alarm when they found themselves not quite prepared last month for the worst flooding in 400 years. In mid-June, during the third week of the deluge, Germany found itself short of sandbags. Its neighbors -- the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and Denmark -- quickly came to Germany's aid and provided 1.65 million empty sandbags. According to a report in Der Speigel, government sources would only talk about the crisis on condition of anonymity, as this kind of shortfall...
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Flood insurance changes run into resistance
2013-07-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Just a year after Congress imposed significant changes in the government's oft-criticized flood insurance program, howls of protest from homeowners facing higher premiums have coastal lawmakers pressing for delays that would preserve below-cost rates for hundreds of thousands of people in flood-risk areas. The government can't say how many people could confront higher premiums, but homeowners in places like Staten Island, N.Y., along the battered New Jersey coast and in low-lying areas of Louisiana,...
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Flood Control District partners with Audubon for environmental restoration
2013-07-03 03:21:02| Waste Management - Topix.net
Together, they will develop and implement environmental restoration projects on land that RFCD has acquired through the Flood-prone Land Acquisition Program.
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Violent, Costly Flood Inundates Alberta
2013-07-02 22:21:03| ENR.com: Headline News
Premier Alison Redford says it will take Alberta, Canada, a decade and $5 billion to recover and rebuild from a once-in-a-century flood that tore through the southern portion of the province on June 20. Damage was extensive in Calgary, where a state of emergency extended into July as floodwaters receded.
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