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Climate change prompts new concerns about Delta tunnels, Sacramento water supply
2013-09-14 03:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: The Sacramento City Council this week stepped up its critique of a plan to build two giant water diversion tunnels in the Delta, warning that it may harm the city's ability to access drinking water in the decades ahead. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan, as the tunnel project is formally known, is being pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown and a contingent of major water suppliers, mostly in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley. The goal is to improve water delivery to farms and cities south of...
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Niger delta oil spill victims reject 'derisory' Shell compensation offer
2013-09-13 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Niger delta communities devastated by giant oil spills from rusting Shell pipelines have unanimously rejected a compensation offer from the company, calling it an insult, and cruel and derisory. A court in London is now likely to decide how much the Anglo-Dutch firm should pay 11,000 fishermen and others from the Bodo community who lost their livelihoods when the 50-year-old Shell-operated trans-Niger pipeline burst twice within a few months in 2008. Sources close to the negotiations in Port...
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Delta Air Lines churns 2% of its route network; Seattle-Tacoma...
2013-09-12 12:10:10| Airlines - Topix.net
June 16 2013: Delta Air Lines adds Seattle-Tacoma to Shanghai Pudong. Seattle's growing importance in Delta's network is further confirmed by the recent announcements of trans-oceanic services to Hong Kong, London Heathrow and Seoul Incheon, all starting next summer.
BP Egypt announces significant gas discovery in deepwater Nile Delta
2013-09-09 15:30:18| Green Car Congress
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Delta to join S&P 500 index of stocks
2013-09-08 23:44:42| Airlines - Topix.net
Delta Air Lines Inc. is scheduled to be listed among the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index next week, a sign of the airline's turnaround since it filed for bankruptcy protection eight years ago.
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