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Canada: Oil price slump undermines controversial tar sand projects
Business Green: Plunging oil prices might have spelled bad news for renewable energy projects, but they are also undermining the commercial viability of some of the world's most carbon intensive energy projects. With the price of a barrel of oil dropping from almost $150 (£103) last summer to around $41 (£28) a barrel yesterday, many of the oil giants are having second thoughts about multibillion-dollar investment programmes designed to extract oil from tar-soaked sands or shale deposits in North ...
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Nuclear power station owners 'allowed leaks'
Independent: Nuclear power station operators unlawfully allowed radioactive waste to seep from a decontamination unit for 14 years, Chelmsford Crown Court has heard. Waste leaked into the ground from a sump at Bradwell power station in Essex between 1990 and 2004, the Environment Agency claimed. Magnox Electric Ltd, which had operated the station, denies 11 breaches of legislation governing the disposal of radioactive waste. Mark Harris, on behalf of the Environment Agency, told the jury ...
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New reptiles found in Tanzania's shrinking forests
Reuters: Seventeen previously unknown species of reptiles and amphibians have been found in the threatened rainforests of eastern Tanzania, Italian and Tanzanian scientists reported on Monday. The haul of new species, which include chameleons, tree frogs and snakes, highlights the rich biodiversity of the East African country's South Nguru Mountains region, they wrote in the journal Acta Herpetologica. Authors Michele Menegon of the Natural Science Museum of Trento in Italy and ...
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United Arab Emirates: 'You have to have the right green thinking approach.'
National: Each day, Sadek and Ahlam Owainati follow a well-versed routine at their home in Dubai that makes a contribution, however small, to taking care of the environment. Both were born in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and grew up in families that placed a strong value on minimising waste, whether it meant cooking discarded vegetable pieces or feeding birds with stale bread. That upbringing influenced the couple's focus on lessening the impact of global warming on the environment, from ...
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Australia: If you think it's hot now, wait until next year
Sydney Morning Herald: NSW was bracing for a heatwave today as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology published its annual report showing last year to be one of the hottest on record and predicting more scorching temperatures this summer. Firefighters were on alert across the state, with temperatures expected to reach 41 degrees in parts of NSW today. In Sydney, Penrith is tipped to be the hot-spot with a forecast of 41 degrees. Liverpool can expect 39 and Parramatta 38, while the CBD will reach a high of ...
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