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Gale Force Buys Additional Texas Reef Properties
2013-05-23 15:30:00| OGI
The working interests will increase the company's ownership in its highly-profitable wells at the Texas Reef Properties and the prospective acreage and five-mile gas gathering line system.
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Australia: Great Barrier Reef is at risk even if it doesn't make Unesco's danger list
2013-05-13 11:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It might be regarded as some sort of sick joke that the Great Barrier Reef happens to nestle beside the heart of Australia's fossil fuel export boom. When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make passage through the 2300 kilometre/1430 mile-long reef the world's largest. Now environment groups and the United Nations World Heritage Committee have decided this joke just isn't funny any more. WWF Australia, the Australian Marine Conservation Society...
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Australia: Shale mining under Great Barrier Reef 'likely to be banned'
2013-04-25 06:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Mining shale oil under the Great Barrier Reef is likely to be banned by Australia's federal Labor government as tensions rise over the environmental impact of the booming oil and gas industry on the coastline beside the reef. In February, the conservative Queensland state government lifted a moratorium on the shale oil industry in most places along the coast to allow companies to assess whether the US shale oil boom could be replicated in Australia. Power firm Queensland Energy Resources is...
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Greenpeace activists board Australian coal ship in reef protest
2013-04-24 08:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six Greenpeace activists boarded a coal ship bound for South Korea near Australia's Great Barrier Reef on Wednesday, protesting against the expansion of the rich Australian coal industry and its impact on the World Heritage site. Environmentalists say the Great Barrier Reef, a popular tourist site worth about A$6 billion ($6.1 billion) a year to the Australia economy, is threatened by dredging, sedimentation and coal port and shipping development. UNESCO will decide in June whether the reef...
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Pollution slows coral reef growth
2013-04-07 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PlanetEarth: Fine particles produced by burning fossil fuels are slowing coral reef growth, say scientists. The new research, which is published today in Nature Geoscience, shows for the first time that there is a clear link between the speed at which corals grow, and pollution caused by human activity. The international team found that when these fine particles -- known as aerosols -- are released into the atmosphere by either volcanic eruptions or burning coal, they reflect incoming sunlight and shade...
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