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This week in spirits & wine, featuring the Brexit disaster for wine, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire's on-premise struggles and Treasury Wine Estates' US wine brand dump
2016-07-08 15:03:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Here's a round-up of this week's top stories in the spirits & wine categories. We also have similar round-ups for beer & cider and soft drinks & water.
Fort Mac wildfire damages estimated at $3.6B; costliest disaster in Canadian history
2016-07-08 08:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: The wildfire that rendered the heart of oilsands country a charred and ashy mess is estimated to be the costliest disaster in Canada, worrying evidence that extreme weather events have increased in frequency and severity, the Insurance Bureau of Canada said Thursday. About $3.58 billion in damage is expected due to the fire in May that swept through Fort McMurray, Alta., nearly twice as much as the January 1998 ice storms that paralyzed eastern Ontario and southern Quebec. That disaster resulted...
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Alberta wildfire was the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history
2016-07-07 23:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The wildfire that ripped through Alberta, Canada`s Fort McMurray area in June devastated homes, boreal forests, and tar sands oil production. Now that the dust has settled, another scary aspect of the fire has emerged: the cost. All told, the Fort McMurray wildfire cost $3.6 billion in Canadian currency (that`s $2.8 billion USD), the Insurance Bureau of Canada announced on Thursday, making it the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history. According to the bureau, the costs broke down as...
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Why Brexit is a disaster for the wine category - Comment
2016-07-01 13:19:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The UK's referendum rejection of the European Union is bad news for the wine trade, the UK and the EU itself, argues Chris Losh as he pores over the entrails of a slaughtered sacred cow in search of enlightenment.
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Health officials race to prevent Congo yellow fever disaster
2016-07-01 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: It is the stuff of a disaster movie: an outbreak of yellow fever in Congo's capital city, full of unvaccinated people mostly huddled together in slums with too few drains and the kind of sticky, fetid climate that mosquitoes love. Kinshasa's 12 million people - twice as many as there are doses of yellow fever vaccine anywhere in the world - are largely unprotected against this sometimes deadly but easily preventable illness, which has killed at least 353 in Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbour...
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