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Fracking sand mines credited rising, dropping property values

2014-04-16 00:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Great Lakes Echo: Perry Schmitt describes himself as pro-mining but blames the frac sand mine across the highway from his home for driving down the asking price by more than $25,000, to $189,000. His neighbors made out better. Kari Curran and her husband sold 130 acres for $1.5 million to a company affiliated with Unimin Mining Corp., operator of the mine. The property was previously valued at about $225,000. It was kind of bittersweet, Curran said. That was the house we raised our kids in. In the three years since...

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Microsoft confirms it's dropping Windows 8.1 support

2014-04-14 13:15:41| InfoWorld: Top News

In what is surely the most customer-antagonistic move of the new Windows regime, Steve Thomas at Microsoft posted a TechNet article on Saturday stating categorically that

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Breakthrough: JPMorgan Chase Dropping Mountain Destruction

2014-04-14 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Rainforest Action Network: This could be the tipping point for the horrific practice of Mountaintop Removal coal mining. Just this week, JPMorgan Chase updated its environmental policy, revealing that it will be ending financial relationships with Mountaintop Removal coal mining companies. Wells Fargo and BNP Paribas/Bank of the West have recently taken similar steps. If the other major banks commit to stop financing mountaintop removal, fossil fuel companies will have no choice but to end the obliteration of mountains...

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