Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2013
19th July, 2013
In a blow for shale gas explorers and government alike, Water UK, which represents all major water suppliers, has published a series of concerns about fracking and warned that failure to address them could “stop the industry in its tracks”.
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Posted by seumasach on August 11, 2013
10th August, 2013
Any politician suffering a little in the polls knows he or she needs only to tickle the public’s home-buying erogenous zones for a general feeling of warmth to flow from the voter to the MP.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2013
Pump and prey: Tepco might have to pour water on Fukushima wreckage forever
Professor Chris Busby
7rth August, 2013
Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2013
Obama touts NSA surveillance reforms to quell growing unease over programs
9th August, 2013
Barack Obama announced the first public review of USsurveillance programs since 9/11 on Friday, in what amounts to the president’s first concession that the mounting public concern in response to disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden justifies reform.
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Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2013
9th August, 2013
WASHINGTON – New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”.
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Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2013
New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites
Theodoric Meyer
A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
Stephen Smith
6th August, 2013
Northern Scandinavia is probably the most rugged terrain on Earth. It is a peninsular landmass extending outward from the Asian continent for 2000 kilometers and is notable for the enormous number of deep fjords carved into its northwestern edge. Some of the chasms plunge 800 meters deep with cliff walls 1000 meters high. Many are more than 100 kilometers long – Sognefjorden being the longest at 204 kilometers. In some places, it is more than 1300 meters deep with surrounding mountains of equal height.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
Pierre Khalaf
29th July, 2013
De la Syrie à l’Égypte en passant par la Tunisie et la Libye, les peuples arabes se soulèvent contre la terreur des Frères musulmans et des autres mouvements islamistes extrémistes, qui ont volé leurs révolutions avec l’appuie de l’Occident et d’Israël et tentent d’étouffer leurs aspirations à coups de massacres, d’assassinats politiques, de violences physiques et de terrorisme intellectuel.
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Posted by seumasach on August 8, 2013
7th August, 2013
No tanks, no bullets, no boots on the ground, but a mix of money (a lot of money) and engineers. China and its companies are betting on geopolitical corridors to expand their international clout and business opportunities. Though it is grappling with a creeping economic slowdown, the government in Beijing seems to be keen to fund a string of new, innovative transport arteries around the world.
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Posted by seumasach on August 7, 2013
And so will these debts be financed via the bailout of the banks?
6th August, 2013
Buoyed by an improving housing market, President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed a broad overhaul of the nation’s mortgage finance system, including winding down government-backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He declared that taxpayers should never again be left “holding the bag” for the mortgage giants’ bad bets.
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Posted by seumasach on August 6, 2013
5th August, 2013
A Turkish court on Monday announced verdicts and long prison sentences for dozens of defendants in the so-called ‘Ergenekon’ plot to overthrow the government. The rulings expose how uncertain and divided the country is.
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