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United Kingdom: Wildlife groups criticise green farm subsidy move
2013-12-20 05:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Wildlife groups have accused the government of caving in to big farmers over planned changes to farm subsidies in England. The government proposed increasing the proportion of farm payments transferred to protecting wildlife from 9% to 15%. But it backed it down to 12% after farmers said this was not fair. The government said it would be spending a bigger share on the environment despite a smaller overall budget for subsidies. Farmers get 50bn of taxpayers' money a year based mainly...
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Indigenous groups win right to pursue Chevron assets in Canada in Amazon pollution case
2013-12-20 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indigenous plaintiffs in a long-running legal dispute against Chevron won the right to pursue the oil giant's assets in Canada as part of a $9.5 billion judgement by an Ecuadorean court over damages in the Amazon, reports Amazon Watch. On Tuesday Ontario's Court of Appeal ruled that 47 Ecuadorean plaintiffs can proceed with an effort to seize Chevron's Canadian assets. The decision reversed an earlier ruling that the oil company didn't have any assets in Canada. In the ruling, the three judge...
Minnesota arts groups are losing their greatest generation of donors
2013-12-15 06:00:30| Agriculture - Topix.net
"It used to be you took someone to lunch at the Minneapolis Club, told them about this great group that deserved support, and they'd write you a check," said Ford Bell, grandson of the founder of General Mills .
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More Than 150 Green Groups Push for an Offshore Fracking Ban in California
2013-12-13 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: More than 150 environmental groups are asking California coastal regulators to halt offshore fracking, saying the practice violates state law. Wetsuit-clad demonstrators holding surfboards submitted the letter to the California Coastal Commission on Thursday before its meeting in San Francisco. Fracking involves pumping huge amounts of water, sand and chemicals into deep rock formations or old wells to release oil or natural gas. While the state oversees oil wells, there have not been specific...
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SE Quadrant Plan Focus Groups and Business Interview Results
2013-12-11 21:11:39| PortlandOnline
Summary of results of business outreach conducted to inform the SE Quadrant planning process PDF Document, 1,417kbCategory: SE Quadrant Documents
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