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Aboriginal Groups Trying Halt a Natural Gas Boom in Australia's Northern Territory
2016-03-28 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Conservationists and indigenous communities in northern Australia are gearing up for a fight, as some of the world's largest energy companies line up to frack the region for shale gas. Santos, Sasol, Inpex and, more recently, businessmen who have made billions from fracking in the United States have all been lured to the McArthur Basin in Australia's Northern Territory. American Energy Partners (AEP), the company established by US fracking pioneer Aubrey McClendon who died two weeks ago has...
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GMO labels spread as U.S. congressional effort to halt them fades
2016-03-25 00:42:42| Food - Topix.net
Even as General Mills Inc and other companies vow to keep fighting mandatory labeling of genetically modified food ingredients, they have begun rolling out these disclosures across the United States to comply a new Vermont law. The moves come as U.S. lawmakers are unlikely to derail Vermont's law requiring labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, before it takes effect on July 1. The law sets fines of $1,000 per day per product for noncompliance.
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Nigerian government urged halt land grab in Ekuri community forest
2016-03-11 10:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A proposed superhighway in southeast Nigeria has prompted calls from locals and the international community to stop what they claim is a land grab in the middle of a celebrated community-managed forest. The people of Old Ekuri and New Ekuri, villages in Cross River State that are collectively known as the Ekuri Community, live in one of Nigerias last surviving rainforests. The two villages co-manage a 33,600-hectare (about 83,000-acre) community-owned forest, one of the largest in West Africa....
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Contract Impasse Could Force Halt in Houston Recycling Program
2016-03-09 23:29:00| Waste Age
Houston Chronicle The city of Houston's curbside recycling program could be put on hold after negotiations between Waste Management and Mayor Sylvester Turner's office reached an apparent impasse. read more
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Japan court issues injunction to halt Takahama nuclear reactors
2016-03-09 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Japanese court on Wednesday issued an injunction to halt operations at Kansai Electric Power's Takahama No.3 and No.4 nuclear reactors, the operator said, siding with local residents worried about the safety of the plant. The order, by the Otsu District Court, will take immediate effect and lead to the shutdown of Takahama No.3 reactor, which restarted in late January, Jiji news agency said. This is the first injunction issued in Japan to halt a nuclear plant that is under operations, said Jiji...
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