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Clive Layoffs: Dozens Lose Engineering Jobs

2013-12-17 03:02:53| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Chicago Bridge & Iron will move approximately 40 engineering positions away from its facility, according to Clive Assistant City Manager Matt McQuillen.

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Clive Palmer's $6bn China First coalmine faces last two hurdles

2013-10-25 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The future of Clive Palmer's $6bn China First coalmine now rests on two separate environmental decisions by the federal minister Greg Hunt, as the mining magnate prepares to wield his powerful four-senator balance of power voting bloc from next July. On Friday, the Department of Environment posted a determination on its website that the mine would have to comply with new laws requiring a cumulative assessment of the impact it -- and other coal mega-mines in the Galilee Basin -- would have on water...

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Australia: Clive Palmer plan for $6bn China First coalmine tests new environmental laws

2013-10-14 08:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The managing director of Clive Palmer's proposed $6bn China First coalmine met senior federal Environment Department officials on Monday to determine "whether or not" new federal environmental laws would apply to the project. The mining magnate who has clinched a powerful four-senator voting bloc from next July needs a federal government decision before he can proceed with plans to export 40 million tonnes of coal each year. The decision is required under new laws passed by the former Labor...

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09.30: Clive Thompson

2013-08-14 01:34:58| Powells Books Events Calendar

It's undeniable — technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding "yes." In Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better (Penguin Press), Thompson shows that every technological innovation — from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph — has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We worry that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But, as in the past, we adapt — learning to use the new and retaining what's good of the old.

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