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ECC: Allow Crude Exports Or Brace For Impact, Pioneer CEO Warns

2014-06-19 18:19:00| OGI

In addition, storage capacity is also a problem, Scott Sheffield said.

Military Bases Brace for Slow-Motion War With Climate Change

2014-06-09 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NBC: Military bases across the country have a new enemy to brace against: climate change. Naval Station Norfolk, located in Virginia near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, has long been known as the worlds largest naval complex. But more recently it has become the poster child for a relatively new risk facing the U.S. military: how to protect bases around the country from rising seas, more severe storms, wildfires, droughts and other impacts tied to a shifting climate. That realization, Pentagon spokesman...

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Australia: Anti-gas protesters brace for massive police dispersal operation

2014-05-07 09:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A large anti-gas drilling protest camp near the NSW town of Lismore is bracing itself for a major police dispersal operation. The Bentley camp, west of Lismore in north-east NSW, has been the home for around 250 people for the past month, with numbers swelling for protest events each Monday. The camp is on land next to a site where energy exploration company Metgasco plans to begin drilling for tight gas, a type of unconventional gas which is a trapped within layers of sandstone. The local...

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Longtime Vegas water czar warns other cities to brace for climate change

2014-05-01 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Patricia Mulroy has been called "the water empress of Vegas. For 25 years, she lead the Southern Nevada Water Authority, the agency responsible for keeping the taps running in a desert metropolis that was growing like the fat guy in the Monty Python skit. As I wrote yesterday, she was a force to be reckoned with. Today, Mulroy`s name evokes a mixture of hatred and admiration among her fellow western water managers, environmentalists, and rural residents who have long opposed her proposal to import...

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