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Halliburton Deploys First Frack-Fluid Cleaning Unit in Australia
2013-01-25 09:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Halliburton Co. (HAL), the biggest hydraulic-fracturing services provider, deployed its first bacteria-fighting truck in Australia to clean fracking waters and reduce the environmental impact of drilling for natural-gas. The worlds second-largest oilfield services provider helps companies drill and complete wells using the pressure-pumping technique known as fracking, which blasts water mixed with sand and chemicals underground to free trapped hydrocarbons from shale formations. Halliburtons...
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Indra to deliver radio navigation systems for Airservices Australia
2013-01-25 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Indra has received two contracts from the air navigation services provider Airservices Australia for the delivery of Doppler VHF Omni Range (DVOR) and Distance Measuring Equipment (DME) radio navigation systems.
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Australia: Coal Exports Would Lock in Catastrophic Climate Change
2013-01-23 15:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A new global study has named Australias export coal proposals as the worlds second largest fossil fuel expansion, threatening to lock in worst-case projections of global warming. The 14 carbon intensive projects highlighted in Point of No Return from Greenpeace International range from massive coal expansion in Australia, China, the U.S. and Indonesia, to oil expansion in the tar sands of Canada, the Arctic and Brazil, to new gas production in the Caspian Sea and the U.S. Groundbreaking analysis...
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Storm off Australia iron belt intensifies to cyclone strength
2013-01-23 06:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A tropical low off Australia's northwest coast that brought nearly half the world's iron ore trade to a halt intensified to cyclone strength on Wednesday, keeping huge ports used by miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton idle. Cyclone Peta has formed just off the Pilbara coast where the ports are located, generating 100-kph gales, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology said. At 0400 GMT, the category 1 cyclone -- the weakest on a scale of one-to-five -- was tracking south of Port Hedland towards Cape...
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VIDEO: Australia prime target for hackers
2013-01-23 05:13:00| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The Australian prime minister, Julia Gillard, says preventing attacks by online hackers will be a key part of the country's national security strategy.
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