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Over 170,000 without power in U.S. Midwest, Northeast and Canada
2013-12-26 20:44:46| Energy - Topix.net
Over 170,000 homes and businesses were without power in the U.S. Midwest and Northeast and eastern Canada early Thursday following severe ice storms earlier in the week, according to local power companies.
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"Breakfast Cereals in Canada" is now available at Fast Market Research
2013-12-25 04:38:48| Agriculture - Topix.net
The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
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Is Canada prepared for climate refugees?
2013-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Straight: The winds, at more than 150 kilometres per hour, flattened almost all the homes, leaving bodies washed as far as 90 kilometres from the coast. Rice fields were destroyed, thousands died, many more were displaced, and, ever since, the soil has been saturated with salt. The tsunami that devastated the region in 1988 was the trigger, Donatien Garnier wrote in 2010s Climate Refugees about the disaster that struck southwestern Bangladesh 25 years ago. Salt contamination has been increasing since...
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Canada: 75 Alberta Environment Regulators Now on Payroll of Oil Industry
2013-12-24 07:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: More than 75 environment officers who watched over oil industry activities left the provincial environment department this fall, to take higher paying jobs with the new industry-funded Alberta Energy Regulator. Another 75-plus are expected to leave in the spring. In mid-November, the department also began handing over to the regulator thousands of files on oil industry activity pertaining to the Public Lands Act, according to documents obtained by the Journal. This shift in staffing and the...
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Canada: Alberta Families Fed Up With Energy Oil Fumes, Turn to the Courts
2013-12-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canadian Press: An Alberta family that says it was forced to leave its home due to intolerable smells from a nearby heavy oil producer has turned to the courts to try to get the sickening odours to stop. "It's necessary to try and bring the venting of these emissions to an end as quickly as possible," said Alain Labrecque, who is asking a Peace River court for an eight-month injunction to shut down 46 wells owned by Calgary-based Baytex Energy (TSX:BTE). A Baytex spokesman said Monday that tests last spring...
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