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Canada: Nothern Gateway Pipeline Not Popular Among B.C. Coastal Businesses
Posted by Edmonton Journal: None Given on January 2nd, 2014
Edmonton Journal: As far as business groups go, the Tofino-Long Beach Chamber of Commerce isn’t the biggest or most powerful organization in British Columbia, but its members are still taking a very vocal and public stand against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. Their motive is simple: past experience. In late December 1988, fuel from an 850,000 litre spill in Grays Harbour, Wash., made its way north to the west coast of Vancouver Island, fouling local beaches, killing thousands of seabirds and closing commercial...
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Comments Off on Canada: Nothern Gateway Pipeline Not Popular Among B.C. Coastal BusinessesProduction Ohio’s Utica Shale Increasing Fast
Posted by Columbus Dispatch: None Given on January 2nd, 2014
Columbus Dispatch: Ohio energy companies extracted more than twice as much oil and gas from the Utica shale in the third quarter of 2013 as they did in all of 2012, according to new figures issued by the state.
Although that might seem like a dramatic increase, the spike in production was not unexpected, considering the increase in active wells, industry experts say.
The numbers are part of the first-ever quarterly report on the Utica shale, the result of a new state law that requires companies to file a report...
Great Lakes wind controversy blowin’ strong
Posted by Toledo Blade: None Given on January 1st, 2014
Toledo Blade: Wind power is, predictably, generating more controversy each day it grows.
No surprise there. Now one of America's fastest-growing forms of new electricity, wind power is no longer a boutique industry.
But as the controversy and drama builds toward some sort of crescendo, here's one word you often don't hear: Fascinating.
o me, a veteran journalist who's been following the wind power industry longer than it's had a foothold in the Great Lakes region, the national debate evolving over it...
Heatwave kills seven in Argentina
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 1st, 2014
BBC: A heatwave affecting Argentina has left at least seven people dead - most of them elderly - in the past week, officials say.
The heat has been compounded by power cuts, which have prevented many people from using air conditioning.
In Santiago del Estero and other northern provinces temperatures have soared to over 45C (113F).
Meteorologists say it has been the worst heatwave in the region since records began in 1906.
The victims of the extreme weather lived in Santiago del Estero, located...
Climate change: Planet to warm by 4 degrees by 2100
Posted by Sydney Morning Herald: Peter Hannam on January 1st, 2014
Sydney Morning Herald: Climate models: New research suggests that temperatures will rise between 1.5 degrees and 5 degrees. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones
Temperatures are on course to rise at least 4 degrees by the end of the century, according to research that finds earlier climate models projecting smaller increases are likely to be wrong.
The research, by a team led by the University of NSW, says a 4-degree rise in temperature would be potentially catastrophic for agriculture in warm regions of the world, including...