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Bill would punish sheepherders who abandon animals
2013-02-25 18:22:05| Livestock - Topix.net
Sheepherders who abandon their animals on the open range could soon be guilty of a misdemeanor, according to a livestock-industry proposal that seeks to enlist the state to help enforce conditions of employment.
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Nepali farmers abandon rice as monsoon shifts
2013-02-19 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: For most of his adult life, Bidur Basnet has planted paddy rice each monsoon season on his five hectares of mountain land. But in the last five years, as monsoon rains have grown increasingly unreliable, he has had to abandon the country's staple crop. Now he grows easier-to-water vegetables on half his land, leaving the other half fallow. "How can we prepare our paddy fields when we do not know which month in any year the monsoon rains will drench our fields?' grumbles Basnet, 43, who gave...
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Archer wins modular rig contract to abandon Heimdal field wells
2013-02-12 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Global oil field service provider Archer said it has been awarded a contract by Statoil to construct an advanced modular rig to permanently plug and abandon 12 gas wells on the Heimdal field in the Norwegian North Sea.
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