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Mercury cleanup costs rise again on Bellingham waterfront
2013-12-18 13:40:51| Paper - Topix.net
Port of Bellingham commissioners have agreed to spend another $1.2 million to pay for mercury cleanup on the old Georgia-Pacific Corp. waterfront site.
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Africa faces sharp rise in climate adaption costs UNEP
2013-11-19 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Africa faces climate adaptation costs in the range of $7 billion to $15 billion per year by 2020, and that figure could rise to around $350 billion annually by 2070 if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius, a U.N. report said on Tuesday. Even if the 2 degrees goal - agreed by nearly 200 governments in 2010 - were to be met, the cost of adapting to more extreme weather and longer-term climate shifts would still be around $35 billion per year by the 2040s and $200 billion per year by the 2070s,...
Climate costs rise like sea levels with delayed action on climate change
2013-09-18 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Many of the readers have visited Charlestons Market, just a couple blocks from the harbor, where my business is located. Tourism is our lifeblood as it is for our city. So when our low-lying area of Charleston is flooded from heavy rain and tourists think twice before wading through more than a foot of water to shop, Im concerned and very worried about even worse flooding problems in the future. Charleston, like all of South Carolinas coastal tourism communities, is significantly threatened...
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Portugal's borrowing costs rise
2013-07-12 17:54:17| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Portugal's borrowing costs jump to a seven-month high as political tensions rise over the terms of the country's bailout.
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Costs Rise for Southern Co's Coal Gasification Plant
2013-07-02 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The cost to finish building Southern Co's controversial coal-gasification power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi, may increase by at least $160 million to $4.5 billion or more, or more than double initial cost estimates, the company said in a filing with regulators. Separately, the utility last week filed a petition asking state regulators to hold a "prudency review" to approve all money spent on the Kemper project through the end of March. In April, Southern Co said it needed to spend an additional...
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