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Raging River Enters $14 Million Equity Financing
2013-10-23 19:25:00| OGI
Net proceeds will be used to fund the acquisition of properties in the Dodsland area of southwest Saskatchewan.
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Raging Australian wildfires raise questions about climate change
2013-10-18 08:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: The worst fires to hit Australias east coast in more than a decade have raised questions about what if any lessons have been learned from previous bushfire tragedies and stoked controversy over the federal governments climate change credentials. Firefighters in New South Wales admitted they were unprepared for the hot and windy conditions that led to Thursdays inferno, which turned hundreds of houses into smoldering ruins and left at least one person dead. At the height of the emergency, 97...
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Yosemite wildfire still raging, keeps tourists away
2013-08-30 03:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Fire crews battling to outflank a monster wildfire inside Yosemite National Park made headway on Friday in confining flames to wilderness areas but were powerless to salvage the region's sputtering tourist economy at the end of its peak summer tourist season. By morning, the tally of charred landscape from the so-called Rim Fire surpassed 200,000 acres, or nearly 315 square miles, three-quarters of that in the Stanislaus National Forest west of the park, fire officials said. But a second straight...
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Raging wildfires force evacuation of two Colorado towns
2013-06-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Three wildfires sparked by lightning raged out of control in rugged Colorado mountain terrain on Friday, prompting the evacuation of two towns and menacing a third. The West Fork Fire Complex - consisting of two separate fires in Rio Grande County in southern Colorado - forced 600 residents of South Fork to flee as high winds helped the blazes grow from 12,000 acres to 30,000 acres overnight. "The fire behavior we saw yesterday was so extreme, it was ... unprecedented," said Eric Norton, a...
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Raging Colorado, Arizona wildfires prompt evacuations
2013-06-21 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Several wildfires raged unchecked across drought-parched Colorado on Thursday, one threatening oil and gas wells close to the Utah border and another about 300 miles to the southeast chased a group of Boy Scouts from their camp near New Mexico. A separate wind-whipped fire roaring through chaparral and pine forests in central Arizona forced the evacuation of about 460 homes near the town of Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix. Scorching temperatures, low humidity and gusting winds have...
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