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Shell made false claims about Niger delta oil pollution, says Amnesty

2013-11-07 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Amnesty International accuses Shell of false claims about its environmental impact in the Niger delta, saying that the oil company cannot be trusted and that there are "serious discrepancies" between the evidence of pollution and what Shell claims. "[Its] claims about its environmental impact in the Niger delta are frequently untrue. Shell has claimed that the oil spill investigations are sound when they are not, that sites are cleaned up when they are not, and that the company is transparent...

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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets

2013-11-06 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Friends of Earth: The global convergence Reclaim Power, along with the No REDD in Africa Network, have named this week a week of action against false solutions. We offer this blog post as a contribution to that effort. In the landscape of global deforestation, a tension exists between policies and practices aimed at drawing a sharp halt to the exploitation of forests and forest peoples and those designed to stimulate a vaguely promised market shift toward more 'sustainable' extraction of an ever-dwindling resource....

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Video: Preventing False Alarms

2013-09-30 23:16:40| PortlandOnline

False alarms are a waste of resources, and if too many false alarms are reported from your business or residence, you may be fined and suspended from police response to future alarm calls at your location. The solution is to know how to operate your alar

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