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Chesapeake settles with Bass brother, other landowners in royalty fight
2015-09-09 07:54:33| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Three weeks after a federal judge ruled Chesapeake Energy had underpaid mineral rights owners in North Texas' Barnett Shale - including billionaire Edward Bass - the owners group has agreed to drop its case in exchange for an undisclosed payment. The settlement will end what could have been a long, costly legal battle against Chesapeake, the Oklahoma City-based oil and gas company that took in $21 billion in revenue last year.
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Oklahoma receives grant to fight prescription drug overdose
2015-09-08 23:26:33| Biotech - Topix.net
The Oklahoma Department of Health has received an $820,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to prevent overdose deaths due to prescription opioids. The grant is part of the Prevention for States program that will support 16 states with annual awards over the next four years to improve prescribing practices and try to decrease the number of prescription drug overdoses.
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India launching campaign to publicise measures to fight climate change
2015-09-07 01:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: The government is launching an aggressive outreach campaign in the country and abroad to publicise all the measures India is taking to reduce carbon dioxide pollution and slow down the global rate of temperature rise, shedding its traditional defensive approach. The outreach campaign will kick off on Monday and continue all the way till the Paris climate summit in December, officials said. "India is taking many measures to deal with climate change, and specifically mitigation. The government...
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California's climate fight comes down to late negotiations
2015-09-06 16:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Jerry Brown has made climate change the centerpiece of his final tenure by laying out the most aggressive benchmark in North America, which would reduce California's carbon footprint and boost the state's renewable energy use to 50 percent in 15 years. Securing legislation requiring that standard in the world's eighth-largest economy would be a timely win for Brown before international leaders meet in Paris in November for the United Nations climate change conference. Brown is likely to attend...
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Former Hub Meat Packers workers fight pension cut
2015-09-04 11:50:44| Food - Topix.net
Former employees of the decommissioned Hub Meat Packers in Moncton will see their pensions slashed by as much as 25 per cent. Maple Leaf Foods, which took over Hub Meat Packers in 2000, transferred production to its other facilities and decommissioned the plant last fall.
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