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US threatens to walk out of Paris pact over financial obligations
2015-12-12 05:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Standard: The chase for Paris climate agreement is going into overtime. French foreign minister Laruent Fabius, who is leading the negotiations, pushed back the deadline to Saturday after another round of all-night talks failed to yield any result till the original deadline of Friday 6pm. While making the formal announcement, Fabius expressed hope that the final package would announced on Saturday morning after negotiations on Friday. On the night between Thursday and Friday, the rich and poor countries...
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BA threatens to move abroad if Heathrow runway goes ahead
2015-12-11 13:47:17| Airlines - Topix.net
British Airways has threatened to move its operations to Dublin or Madrid if the government decides to go ahead with its Heathrow expansion plan. The airline's parent company International Airlines Group warned the A 17.6bn plan to expand Heathrow would lead to an increase in charges for passengers.
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Coastal erosion washes away beaches, threatens tourism in Senegal
2015-12-10 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The European winter is the high season for tourism in Senegal as visitors flock to its sea and sun to escape the cold, yet since last year the doors of the luxury Hotel Espadon have been closed. Its swimming pool has turned a swampy green. The skeletons of old parasols poke out from the sand and the sea gnaws at the foundations of its pretty beachfront rooms. The problem is not high prices or mismanagement but coastal erosion that is blighting the West African country's coast. The Atlantic...
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Union threatens strike action against Alcatel-Lucent, NBN
2015-11-30 08:12:14| Telecom - Topix.net
Workers at Alcatel-Lucent Australia, which is one of the national broadband network's biggest equipment suppliers, are threatening to go on strike and disrupt the $56 billion project in an effort to get better pay and working conditions. Alcatel-Lucent, the French technology giant, has a contract worth up to $1.5 billion to supply the crucial node cabinets to NBN.
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Congressman now threatens to subpoena commerce secretary over global warming report
2015-11-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) opened another front in his war with federal climate researchers on Wednesday, saying a groundbreaking global warming study was rushed to publication over the objections of numerous scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In a second letter in less than a week to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Smith urged her to pressure NOAA to comply with his subpoena for internal communications. Smith says whistleblowers...
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