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Australia collects $130m mining tax
2013-02-08 06:00:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Australia's revenue collection from its controversial mining tax falls well short of initial expectations, Treasurer Wayne Swan announces.
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Mining - not agriculture - is the major worry for the Great Barrier Reef
2013-02-06 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is both a national marine park and a World Heritage Area. But next to the reef, a catchment of 400,000km2 is almost completely developed for agriculture, predominantly beef grazing and sugarcane, horticulture, cotton and grains cropping. How does this development affect the integrity of the reef? It is well recognised that pollutant runoff (particularly sediment, nutrients and pesticides) from agriculture to the GBR is causing serious widespread damage to the reef's...
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EPA Requires Nevada Gold Mining Companies to Correct Reporting Violations
2013-02-06 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
U.S. EPA settled with 3 gold mining companies, all subsidiaries of Barrick Gold Corporation, for failing to correctly report toxic chemical releases and waste management activities as required by Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). Barrick Cortez, Inc.; Barrick Gold US, Inc.; and Homestake Mining Company will pay $278,000 total in penalties and spend additional $340,000 to conduct environmentally beneficial project as well as audit/correct TRI reports for ...This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
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Osisko Mining Price Target Cut to $8.70 by Analysts at Canaccord Genuity
2013-02-04 20:48:50| Apparel - Topix.net
Osisko Mining traded down 1.45% on Monday, hitting $6.78. Osisko Mining has a 52-week low of $6.25 and a 52-week high of $12.97. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $7.55. The company has a market cap of $2.959 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.57. OSK has been the subject of a number of other recent research reports.
Large blocks of Sumatra's endangered rainforest may be put up for mining, logging
2013-01-28 02:37:55| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Indonesian province of Aceh on the western tip of the island of Sumatra may be preparing to lift the protected status of key areas of lowland rainforest potentially ending its bid to earn carbon credits from forest conservation and putting several endangered species at increased risk, according to reports. Under a draft plan developed by the Aceh parliament's spatial planning committee, some 71,857 hectares of protected areas will lose their protected status and be turned over for logging,...
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