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Hawaii rides out storm, but remote islands at risk
2014-10-21 04:05:36| Airlines - Topix.net
Sunny skies returned to the Aloha State, the day after a hurricane left Hawaii without inflicting much harm beyond heavy rain. While the main Hawaiian islands rode out the storm with no reports of any serious problems, the National Weather Service said Tropical Strom Ana has set her sights on small, remote islands that make up what's known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
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GET Compliance Announces Risk Mitigation Strategies and Training
2014-10-17 16:01:00| Power Technology
In Australia, many high profile companies rely on GET Compliance for key risk mitigation strategies for their HV network.
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Oxfam: inaction and financial short-termism putting millions at climate change risk
2014-10-17 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A toxic triangle of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests is preventing action to curb climate change, putting millions of people at risk of food and water shortages, Oxfam has warned. In a damning new report, the leading poverty charity estimates that current global warming trends, which will result in a world 4-6C warmer by 2100, could leave 400 million people blighted by famine and drought by mid-century. While warming of this magnitude would have...
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Australia: Climate change forcing rethink on fire risk, RFS chief Shane Fitzsimmons says
2014-10-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change is having an impact on every level of fire management, the New South Wales rural fire chief has said on the first anniversary of the Blue Mountains bushfires. The NSW Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said with more days of high fire danger, there is now a shrinking window of opportunity to carry out back-burning and other hazard reduction. "If our window of opportunity continues to shrink, in order to get those really important pre-season activities underway...
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ENVOY360 Risk Management Expands Operations into West Africa
2014-10-17 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
US-based security firm Six Maritime has taken on new contracts providing safety and security services to the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Guinea this year.
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