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LNG plans for Kitimat, B.C., turns doom town to boom town, says mayor

2013-01-13 14:33:29| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

The northwest British Columbia town cited by Census Canada in March 2007 as the community with the greatest population decline in Canada now is looking at multi-billion-dollar investments in proposed liquefied natural gas projects, aluminum smelter upgrades and the Northern Gateway pipeline.

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Harrison secession fight redefined town; fire escape was key

2013-01-13 12:31:44| Beverages - Topix.net

It's not hard for 81-year-old Arthur Schreier to look back over his decades-long legal career and spot the highlight: the 1975 civil war fought on paper and in conference rooms between the Town of Harrison and the community of Purchase.

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LNG plans for Kitimat, B.C., turns doom town to boom town, says mayor

2013-01-13 11:30:03| Energy - Topix.net

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Australia: Weather watchers look to red-hot outback town to predict temperatures

2013-01-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Sydney Morning Herald: IT'S perhaps no accident the tiny outback town of Meekatharra is an early warning site for the Bureau of Meteorology's weather watchers as they plot what's ahead for Australia's great summer of heat. Believed to mean "place of little water" in the local indigenous language, Meekatharra has been a place of little relief when it comes to scorching temperatures. On Tuesday, the town in the mid-west region of Western Australia hit 47.1 degrees, smashing its previous maximum temperature by 1.4 degrees...

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