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Democratic U.S. senator raises concerns over potential CP, CSX deal
2014-10-17 03:36:35| Railroads - Topix.net
The head of a U.S. Senate subcommittee raised concerns in a letter on Thursday to the U.S. Attorney General and head of the top U.S. rail regulator about a potential merger between Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.and CSX Corp., and called on them both to fully review the antitrust implications of any such deal. A merger would create a transcontinental carrier worth more than $60 billion.
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Naomi Klein: UK fracking trespass law flouts democratic rights
2014-10-07 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ministers rewriting of the law to allow fracking to happen beneath peoples homes without their permission flouts basic democratic rights, according to Naomi Klein. The author and activist said that UK governments changes to trespass laws, to speed up the ability for shale gas companies to frack beneath landowners property, was energising resistance to fracking in Britain. What is animating the anti-fracking movement? Yes, its water. Its also a defence of democracy. The fact the government...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Africa oldest National Park under violent attack UK oil company
2014-09-10 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: UK oil company Soco is waging a war of violence and intimidation against those opposing its plans to drill for oil in Virunga national park, writes Gregory McCann. It has paid genocidal armed rebels, encouraged attacks on park rangers, financed phoney demonstrations, and is linked to the attempted murder of head ranger Emmanuel de Merode. Soco's willingness to accommodate, even finance armed rebel groups linked to the Rwandan genocide bodes ill for the future - not just for Virunga but for the...
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Battle for Virunga: The fight save Africa's oldest national park
2014-09-06 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: At 3.45pm on April 15 Emmanuel de Merode, the Belgian-born, British-educated head of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, left the city of Goma for the 90-minute drive north to the headquarters of Virunga in Rumangabo. The road was once paved, but two decades of constant warfare in this part of eastern Congo have taken their toll. Today it is a ribbon of rock and rutted mud, scarcely negotiable except in four-wheel-drive vehicles. De Merode was alone in a Land Rover marked...
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Did Big Soda swing a key endorsement by a progressive democratic club?
2014-08-27 11:16:42| Beverages - Topix.net
Did the soda industry buy a prominent progressive political endorsement? Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle raised the question in a story by Heather Knight , who goes on to air a number of rumors propagated by the soda tax supporters against the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club.
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