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Oil Company Lease Stirs Revolt in Green Seattle
2015-03-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The environmental messaging never stops here, whether from a city-owned electric utility that gets nearly 98 percent of its power from sources untainted by carbon (and is not about to let residents forget it) or the fussy garbage collectors who can write tickets for the improper sorting of recyclables. So when a lease was signed allowing Royal Dutch Shell, the petrochemical giant, to bring its Arctic Ocean drilling rigs to the citys waterfront, the result was a kind of civic call to arms. A unanimous...
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VIDEO: Black Friday: Wal-Mart workers revolt
2014-11-28 09:50:08| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Black Friday has long been the most important day of the year for the US retail sector.
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Batteries included: ReVolt charges up for short sea shipping
2014-11-13 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Classification society DNV GL has developed a battery-powered concept vessel for short sea shipping to take the pressure off roads. With potentially zero-emissions operation, unmanned navigation and a number of economic advantages, could ReVolt help
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DNV GL develops battery powered vessel concept ReVolt
2014-09-12 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Classification society DNV GL has developed a new vessel called ReVolt that runs on a 3000kWh battery.
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Canada PM Stephen Harper faces revolt by scientists
2014-06-07 09:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, faces a widening revolt by the country's leading scientists against sweeping cuts to government research labs and broadly pro-industry policies. The scientists plan to march through Ottawa in white lab coats on Tuesday in the second big protest in a month against the Harper government's science and environmental agenda. Harper is accused of pushing through a slew of policies weakening or abolishing environmental protections with an aim of expanding...
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