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Chile glacier bill pits mines against water supply

2013-10-08 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Just how to define a glacier is at the heart of a Chilean congressional battle that could determine the future of mining in the world's largest copper-producing country. The revival of legislation to ban mining in glacial areas is spawning debate among miners, farmers and environmentalists about how to protect both vital water supplies and Chile's mining industry. If the bill passes, mining experts fear it could shutter multibillion-dollar mining projects and slow investment. The key will be...

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Michigan Fight over Kalamazoo River's Dam Pits Enbridge, DNR Against Community

2013-10-07 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

MLive: The Michigan Department of Natural Resources would like the Kalamazoo River to return to a free-flowing state. Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline company that leaked a million gallons of crude oil into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River in July 2010, would like to complete the conditions of its mandatory river clean-up. Smack dab in the way of those goals is a 174-year-old dam across the Kalamazoo River. The Ceresco Dam, originally built to power flour and saw mills in the early settlement about...

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Poland pits itself against EU climate promises

2013-10-02 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: European ministers are sharply divided over proposed promises on carbon cuts as part of U.N. negotiations, a draft document shows, with Poland at the forefront of opposition. A meeting of environment ministers in Luxembourg on October 14 is meant to agree a joint EU stance ahead of U.N. climate talks in Warsaw in November and December. The EU and U.N. meetings will be litmus tests of whether the latest U.N. report on climate change is spurring or slowing the appetite for international action. ...

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CherryTree Takes the Pits Out of Pruning Your Notes

2013-09-04 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

Keeping track of my bits and pieces of information across several computers running Linux and Microsoft Windows has long been a problem. CherryTree is a sweet solution that keeps my information local and cloud-free. CherryTree is an outliner-style hierarchical note-taking application that features rich text and syntax highlighting. It stores data in a single xml or sqlite file.

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South Africa Shale Pits Shell Against Sheep Farmers

2013-08-27 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA)s shale gas drilling plans for South Africas Karoo semi-desert are pitting the government and its energy goals against farmers and conservationists like billionaire Johann Rupert who say the land will be spoiled. The government estimates enough gas can be discovered to generate 1 trillion rand ($100 billion) of sales within three decades and help bring a country that imports 70 percent of its crude oil needs closer to supplying its own energy demand. Landowners are...

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