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Canada: First Nation Pulls Out of Hearings into Grand Rapids Oil Sands Pipeline
2014-07-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: An aboriginal group that lives in northern Alberta's oil sands region has withdrawn from a regulatory hearing into the proposed Grand Rapids crude pipeline, but the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation vowed to explore other ways to fight the $3-billion project. The ACFN announced late Tuesday it would no longer be participating in the Alberta Energy Regulator's process, which it criticized as too rushed and skewed in favour of the oil industry. Landowners along the proposed route raised similar concerns...
Australia Becomes First Nation Repeal Carbon Tax
2014-07-17 20:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: With Australia`s standing as the world`s highest per-capita emitter of carbon dioxide, one would think the country would be the last to repeal a pollution tax. Think again. The country defied the odds Thursday with a 39 to 32 Senate vote to repeal laws requiring companies to pay for their emissions. The law had been in place less than three years. The country`s big emitters were paying up to $23.45 per metric ton of carbon dioxide as of this month, the New York Times reported. Todays...
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1942 Farm Journal magazine chronicled a nation at war
2014-07-13 20:30:42| Food - Topix.net
The Farm Journal magazine, priced at 5 cents in 1942, wanted Americans to understand rising prices on wartime goods and food.
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Biden calls on governors to lead nation
2014-07-12 00:02:22| Biotech - Topix.net
Citing a recurring problem with safety, U.S. officials have suspended the shipment of potentially dangerous germs from government laboratories in Atlanta to other labs.
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With Sea Levels Rising, A Small Island Nation Buys A New Home
2014-07-11 08:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fast Company: Kiribati's escape plan is a Fijian island. Rich people like to buy property on tropical islands for privacy on vacation. For the people of the nation Kiribati, whose government recently announced that it purchased land on a Fiji island more than 1,200 miles away, the reasons are more dire. The property is an escape plan. Kiribati is a tiny island country with a population of 100,000 people in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It faces an existential crisis: Within a few decades, as sea levels...
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