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India: Ecologically disastrous dams may get the go-ahead
2015-03-06 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: In mid-February, the ministry of environment and forests virtually approved six hydropower dams. This is the latest in an 18-month-long debate on the ecological impact of dams in Uttarakhand. In June 2013, floods severely damaged parts of the state. About 6,000 people died, and tens of thousands of pilgrims were stranded. The disaster destroyed six villages, buried dozens of others in silt, and wrecked highways. Within days of the disaster, environmentalists and villagers alleged dams aggravated...
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Obama: Keystone XL contribute disastrous climate change
2014-12-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: President Obama spoke in dismissive terms of the Keystone XL pipeline Monday during an interview on "The Colbert Report Monday, saying its modest benefits need to be weighed against its contribution to climate change, "which could be disastrous." During an interview taped at George Washington University, the president did not explicitly say whether he would grant or deny a permit to the controversial project that would transport heavy crude from Hardisty, Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast. But he...
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Averting Disastrous Climate Change Could Depend Unproven Technologies
2014-04-15 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
MIT Technology Review: Carbon conundrum: One way to decrease the amount of carbon in the atmosphere would be to reverse the kind of deforestation shown here in Victoria, Australia. A U.N. climate report released on Sunday concludes that there may still be time to limit global warming to an increase of two degrees Celsius or less, which could help the world avoid the worst effects of climate change. But doing so will depend on making extraordinary changes to energy infrastructure at a much faster pace than is happening...
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Rail abandonment disastrous for passenger service in New Brunswick, says rail union
2014-02-06 13:14:51| Railroads - Topix.net
The union is calling for a public consultation before the section of rail can be abandoned.
Fix the disastrous national flood insurance rate hikes
2014-01-02 09:31:07| Real Estate - Topix.net
Before adjourning for the holidays, Congress failed to slow down implementation of a new law that threatens to cripple a large part of Florida's real estate market -- an unintended consequence of an overly ambitious solution to the deep indebtedness of the federal National Flood Insurance Program.
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