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Two Years After Fukushima, Japan's Nuclear Lobby Bounces Back
2013-03-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The crowds of anti-nuclear protesters have dwindled since Japan's "Summer of Discontent" last year, and a new government is keen to revive the country's atomic energy industry, but Morishi Izumita says he is not about to throw in the towel. "We can't give up. I'm here every week," said 64-year-old Izumita, one of hundreds gathered outside the prime minister's office one Friday nearly two years after a huge earthquake and tsunami triggered the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986...
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Ohioans Lobby for Support of Proposed Fracking Legislation at Statehouse Protest
2013-03-06 19:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Citizens from across the state converged on the Ohio Statehouse today to lobby for legislator support of proposed legislation that would protect Ohioans from the effects of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Organized as part of Legislator Accountability Day, the action was sponsored by Buckeye Forest Council, Frack Free Ohio, Food & Water Watch, Center for Heath, Environment & Justice and Ohio Sierra Club. The groups called for a return of local municipal control over oil and gas activities,...
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Israel Lobby asks Congress to Approve Attack on Iran & to Exempt Israel from Sequester
2013-03-04 14:18:14| IT Services - Topix.net
News from what Ross Perot used to call the guys in sharkskin suits and alligator shoes- the lobbyists who routinely outvote you and me on Capitol Hill: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which ought to be a registered foreign agent, opens its annual conference in Washington today.
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Canada: Keystone XL focus shifts to climate change, oil lobby says
2013-03-01 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Post: A delegation of oil sands CEOs couldnt get a clear reading in Washington this week over whether Barack Obamas renewed focus on climate change means more uncertainty for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, an executive with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said Thursday. The climate discussion, the carbon discussion, is clearly back as being a priority issue The Canadian lobby group and a handful of Canadian oil patch leaders met with members of Congress, the administration...
Canada: Coal lobby stresses jobs, economics as export terminal controversy heats up
2013-02-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: The Coal Association of Canada has released a special report on the industrys economic impact in British Columbia as the battle heats up over coal exports from Port Metro Vancouver. Arguing that coal is a catalyst for economic development, trade and employment, coal association president Ann Marie Hann said economics has been missed in the discussion over coal exports. Opponents of Vancouvers growing role as a coal exporting centre cite coals high greenhouse gas emissions and the health...
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