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Spain's pay TV subscriber base drops below 4 million in Q1 2013

2013-07-22 18:40:08| Digital TV News

Spain's Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT) has published statistics for the country for the first quarter of 2013. Total pay TV subscribers dropped below 4 million at the end of the quarter, down from around 4.4 million at the same point in 2012.

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Spain's shipyard support broke rules

2013-07-17 16:03:33| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Support for Spanish shipyards will have to be repaid after the European Union ruled that the scheme broke competition rules.

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Spain's wetlands wildlife at risk from illegal boreholes for strawberry crop

2013-06-28 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Spain must act urgently to stop illegal water extraction from a protected national park or risk the wildlife-rich wetlands being placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger, a UN agency has warned. Doana national park in Andalusia is threatened by huge demand for water, fuelled by a strawberry industry which supplies British supermarkets. Some producers in the area are accused of using illegal boreholes to draw water from underground aquifers, which the fragile ecosystem is dependent...

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Black clouds hang over Spain's small solar farms

2013-06-20 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: After retiring from a long career at IBM, Spain's Angel Miralda poured his savings into a small solar farm in the hilly northern region of Huesca, encouraged by government promises of stable returns. Now Miralda fears a new government energy policy will deepen cuts to renewable energy subsidies, wipe out his savings and push his business over the brink. Small-scale photovoltaic (PV) energy producers like Miralda started investing in solar panels when the government was offering lucrative subsidies...

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