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Calgary to Begin Flood Cleanup as Downtown to Remain Closed
2013-06-23 15:55:09| Energy - Topix.net
Calgary's downtown, home to Canada's oil industry, will remain closed through the early part of this week after swollen rivers flooded parts of the city, cutting off power and forcing evacuations.
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Encana Contributing $500,000 to Flood Relief Efforts
2013-06-23 12:22:05| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
This includes an initial donation of $250,000 to the Red Cross to assist in immediate relief work in impacted communities, as well as $250,000 to be allocated to a number of Encana's partners which are actively engaged in the effort in both the Calgary area and elsewhere in southern Alberta.
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Canada: Calgary evacuated ahead of flood
2013-06-23 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Around 75,000 people have been evacuated from the centre of the city of Calgary as floodwaters devastated much of Canada's southern province of Alberta, killing three people. Some 1,300 troops have been deployed in the flood zone. Alberta's premier, Alison Redford, warned that communities downstream of Calgary had not yet felt the full force of the floods, as rivers washed out roads and bridges, soaked homes and turned streets into dirt-brown waterways. On Friday, the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper,...
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Iowa: Recent flood and drought signal what's to come, scientists and officials say
2013-06-22 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Press-Citizen: Given the choice between a drought or flooding, Johnson County farmer Russ Meade would take his chances with swampy fields any year. Psychologically, a drought affects you a lot worse because youre seeing things slowly die, said Meade, who helps run his familys 720-acre corn, soybean and cattle farm near Tiffin. The past two growing seasons, though, Meade has faced both extremes. Last summer, his crops wilted during the fifth-driest summer on record in Iowa. That was followed by the wettest...
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KSB Supports Flood Relief in the City of Halle, Germany
2013-06-21 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Entire streets are flooded and tens of thousands of Halle residents face the threat of evacuation, so KSB is helping by providing pumps and food supplies.<br /> <br /> HENRICO, Va. — <a href="http://www.ksb.com/ksb-us">KSB</a>, the world's most experienced supplier of pumps and pumping equipment, is supporting flood relief efforts in the city of Halle, which is situated on the Saale River in southern Germany.<br /> <br /> Normally a placid river, the Saale has completely swamped parts ...
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