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C&C Group to cut 180 jobs as competition bites
2016-01-12 16:44:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
C&C Group is to close cider packaging and production facilities in England and Ireland, with the net loss of 180 jobs.
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Zimbabwe turns to fossil energy, as drought bites
2016-01-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Herald: With back-to-back droughts since 2013, Zimbabwes main hydroelectric power plant at Kariba is failing, forcing the southern African nation to turn to dirtier fossil fuel-based energies to make up for the deficit. The Kariba Hydropower Station is capacitated to generate 750 megawatts of electricity, but the plant has operated at just 63 percent of capacity since early October when the Kariba dam began to dry up. In good times, hydropower accounts for over 50 percent of...
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Quick Bites: Carmel by the Glass 2.0, Happy Girl pizza?!, Twisted Roots sparkling and more.
2015-12-09 04:42:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
Two Carmel pillars team with a wine industry ringleader for a party that honors a burgeoning Carmel-by-the-Glass tradition and looks worth the $50 ticket. It moves from Devendorf Park to La Playa Carmel for the 5-8pm Friday, Dec. 11, event and stars Caraccioli Cellars , Wrath , Scheid Vineyards , De Tierra Vineyards , Manzoni Vineyards , Shale Canyon Wines , Silvestri , Blair , Figge , Dawn's Dream Winery , Alexander Smith Paraiso -and yes, Galante Vineyards and Pepe Winery.
Chevron cuts Perth staff as oil price bites
2015-12-08 10:33:24| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
OIL and gas giant Chevron is cutting staff in Perth as part of a global workforce cull to combat low oil prices. THE Everest that suddenly burst into flames on a test drive does not warrant a recall of 1000 Everest SUVs or 100,000 Ranger utes, Ford state.
Climate Change Bites Kenyan Tea Farmers
2015-11-11 23:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: You wouldn`t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth`s climate is changing -- and this is affecting one of the world`s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya. For Joseph Mwangi and his wife, picking tea early in the morning has become more difficult lately. "We have been experiencing frost on the leaves," Mwangi says. "This makes it hard to work, because the frost stings our hands," he added. Mwangi and his wife Alice Muthoni earn their living as tea-pickers...
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