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BT CEO leaves to become govt minister
2013-06-19 15:16:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) BT CEO Ian Livingston is stepping down to become the UK government's Minister of State for Trade and Investment. BT announced that Gavin Patterson, currently CEO of BT Retail, will succeed Livingston as group CEO from September. Livingston has served as CEO for five years, having replaced Ben Verwaayen in June 2008. He will join the House of Lords prior to taking up his government post in December. Patterson has been at BT since 2004, when he joined as managing director of its consumer division. He previously spent four years at Telewest (which later merged with NTL to become Virgin Media), including as managing director of its consumer division. Before entering the communications sector, he spent nine years at Procter and Gamble, rising to become European marketing director.
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Leave coal in ground, scientists urge govt
2013-06-17 08:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
sydney morning herald: Most of Australia's coal reserves will have to be left unburned if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming, according to a major new report from the federal government's Climate Commission. The report puts the key science advisory body on a collision course with some of the nation's biggest export industries, and marks the first time a government agency has endorsed calls for fossil fuel industries to be phased out because of their contribution to climate change. Its findings mean that...
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Australia: Gov't Report Says 80% of Fossil Fuel Reserves Must Stay in the Ground
2013-06-17 07:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC: The latest Climate Commission report has warned that 80 per cent of global fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in the ground if the planet is to avoid dangerous climate change. The paper says global emissions need to trend downward by the end of the decade to keep temperatures at a "manageable" level. Professor Will Steffen, a climate commissioner who co-authored the report, says reaching the goal will be a challenge, given greenhouse gas concentrations are now at the highest level on record....
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Gov't Sues Exxon For 'Disrupting Lives and Damaging Environment'
2013-06-15 18:56:27| Energy - Topix.net
The Department of Justice and the state of Arkansas are suing Exxon Mobil over the March 29 rupture of the company's Pegasus pipeline which spilled thousands of barrels of crude tar sands oil over the town of Mayflower, Ark.
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UK MP blames previous govt for Huawei security risk report
2013-06-12 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Science minister David Willetts confident that concerns over use of Chinese vendor's kit will not affect its relationship with U.K.
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