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Farm groups highlight efforts to reduce Lake Erie runoff, oppose regulation
2014-08-08 00:13:12| Agriculture - Topix.net
Horacio Romero of Toledo looks at algae in Lake Erie at Maumee Bay State Park August 4 in Oregon, Ohio.
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Malawian civil societies oppose Monsanto's push for GM cotton release
2014-07-12 19:44:28| Chemicals - Topix.net
In a press release issued on July 4 by the organization Commons for EcoJustice, 19 separate civil society organizations and an organic vegetable farmers group have called on the government of Malawi to reject Monsanto's application to commercially plant genetically modified cotton.
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Maritime labour ministers oppose changes to foreign worker program
2014-07-02 12:32:51| Agriculture - Topix.net
Employment Minister Jason Kenney, left, and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander are seen in a reflection at a news conference in Ottawa on Friday, June 20, 2014 on reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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National regulators oppose EC remedies on E-Plus - report
2014-06-22 18:25:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Only two of the 12 national competition regulators advising the European Commission on Telefonica's proposed takeover of E-Plus from KPN supported the remedies proposed by the EC, two unnamed officials told the Financial Times. At a recent meeting to review the European Commission proposal to approve the merger of the third and fourth largest mobile operators in Germany, only Sweden and Belgium voted in favour of the proposed conditions. Germany, Ireland, Austria, Italy and the UK voted against the remedies, which require Telefonica to lease network capacity to rivals. Five other countries abstained: France, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Portugal. The advisory committee's vote is not binding, but it is unusual - in most cases, the vote is a formality to approve the proposals from the EC. Opponents of the Telefonica deal in Germany hope that the negative vote will prompt Joaquin Almunia, the EU competition commissioner, to revisit his plan, the paper said.
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Russia 'secretly working environmentalists oppose fracking'
2014-06-19 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Russia is secretly working with environmental groups campaigning against fracking in an attempt to maintain Europe's dependence on energy imports from Moscow, the secretary-general of Nato has said. Speaking at the Chatham House foreign affairs think-tank in London, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Russia was mounting a sophisticated disinformation campaign aimed at undermining attempts to exploit alternative energy sources such as shale gas. "I have met allies who can report that Russia, as part...
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