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Toronto-Dominion Bank: A Growing Bank With A Rising Dividend
2015-01-11 05:15:15| Grocery - Topix.net
Toronto Dominion Bank , commonly referred to as TD Bank in the U.S. and TD Canada Trust in Canada is the second largest bank in Canada by market cap behind Royal Bank of Canada , with a peer group consisting of Bank of Montreal , Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce , and one of my favorites, ScotiaBank . You can see my analysis of BNS here .
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Obama facing rising pressure on Keystone oil pipeline
2015-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama came under new pressure on Friday to make a decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline as the Nebraska Supreme Court cleared the way for its construction through the state and the House passed a bill to approve the project. The House vote of 266 to 153 in favor of the pipeline sends the measure to the Senate, which is likely to pass the bill in the coming weeks. The Nebraska ruling eliminates Mr. Obamas chief reason for delaying his decision on whether the pipeline should be...
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Integrated farming: The only way to survive a rising sea
2015-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When the gentle clucking grows louder, 50-year-old Sukomal Mandal calls out to his wife, who is busy grinding ingredients for a fish curry. She gets up to thrust leafy green stalks through the netting of a coop and two-dozen shiny hens rush forward for lunch. In the Sundarbans, where the sea is slowly swallowing up the land, Mandal's half-hectare farm is an oasis of prosperity. The elderly couple resides in the Biswanathpur village located in what has now been declared a UNESCO World Heritage...
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Torres Strait Islands under threat by rising seas
2015-01-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: SAMANTHA DONOVAN: The rising seas of the Torres Strait could make some islands uninhabitable in a few decades. To prepare for projected rises of 50 to 100 centimetres over the next century, the Torres Strait Regional Authority has developed a climate change strategy. The authority's chairman, Joseph Elu, says a joint federal and State Government project rebuilding sea walls on six of the region's 14 inhabited islands is helping. But he told Nance Haxton a more comprehensive plan is needed to...
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United Kingdom: 7,000 properties to be lost due to rising sea levels, says Environment Agency
2015-01-05 11:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: By the end of the century an estimated 7,000 properties across England and Wales will be lost to rising sea levels, according to the Environment Agency, after a decision that states the cost of protecting the properties would be too high. The risk of flooding in the UK is expected to grow as the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and increased rainfall, escalate. Analysis published last year ranked the UK as one of the counties where flooding poses the greatest risk to economic...
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