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Canada: Kitmat, British Columbia: Ground zero in the race to fuel Asia
Posted by CTV: David Ebner, Nathan Vanderklippe on October 8th, 2011
CTV: Two kilometres beyond an old logging road, workers are building the foundation of the future of Canada's ailing natural gas business. Since the summer, crews have blasted the hard rock at Bish Cove on the Douglas Channel, the deepest and widest fjord on the rugged north coast of British Columbia. More than 40,000 cubic metres have already been excavated to reform the land, in preparation for a $5-billion-plus project that would for the first time ship Canadian natural gas to buyers in Asia. The...
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Drought-dry Texas driving its cattle north
Posted by LA Times: Molly Hennessy-Fiske on October 8th, 2011
LA Times: The cowboys rose well before dawn, stars still high in the West Texas sky. They strapped on spurs and leather chaps and climbed into their saddles for one last roundup.
They didn't have to do much to rustle the cattle from the dusty flats about 220 miles west of Dallas. Hundreds of hungry black Angus and Herefords, tired of foraging for scarce, drought-dry grass, came running - drawn by the hope of feed. The cowboys herded the youngest, thinnest and weakest animals into a separate pen, some with...