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Drumbeat: May 22, 2013
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22.5.2013 |
The Oil Drum |
| Oil-Fixing Probe Accelerates as EU Asks Traders for Help
The investigation into possible oil-price fixing gathered pace as trading houses from Glencore Xstrata Plc, the $70 billion mining firm, to Gunvor Group Ltd. were asked to provide information to European regulators.
Glencore Xstrata, Gunvor and Vitol Group, which aren’t under investigation, along with other firms with offices in Switzerland, are assisting the European Commission with the inquiry, said three people familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private. The commission announced last week that it’s probing whether oil companies colluded to distort prices.
(Reuters) - Authorities have bypassed a court order and re-arrested an executive at Chevron Corp's Indonesian unit in a graft case that highlights growing tension with big oil companies in a country struggling to reverse a decline in oil production.
The attorney general's office said on Wednesday it had re-arrested Bachtiar Abdul, an ... |
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How America became a third world country
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22.5.2013 |
Le Monde Diplomatique |
| The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the (...)
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Minn. DNR Plans Stepped Up Watercraft Inspections
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22.5.2013 |
WCCO: National |
 The Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the boating season for many Minnesotans. So the Department of Natural Resources is reminding boaters and anglers to be extra vigilant to help stop the spread of aquatic invasive species. |
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WA license plate fee to help pay for wolf kills
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22.5.2013 |
AP Washington |
| OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Legislation signed Tuesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee adds $10 to the cost of a personalized Washington license plate with the money going to help compensate livestock owners for wolf kills.... |
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DNR plans stepped up watercraft inspections
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22.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Science |
The Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the boating season for many Minnesotans. So the Department of Natural Resources is reminding boaters and anglers to be extra vigilant to help stop the spread of aquatic invasive species. |
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How America Became a Third World Country (Kramer & Comerford)
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22.5.2013 |
Informed Comment |
| Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford write at Tomdispatch: The streets are so much darker now, since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air [...] |
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Ex-Vikings coach Bud Grant to governor: Veto part of Legacy bill
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22.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: News |
| Bud Grant says Gov. Mark Dayton knows the right call on $9.3 million in outdoors projects approved by the House and Senate. |
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DeFazio vying for Markey slots
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21.5.2013 |
Politico |
| DeFazio vying for Markey slots |
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How America became a third world country | Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford for TomDispatch
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21.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| The politicians who tweeted while America burned are dismantling our society piece by piece with budget cuts
The streets are so much darker now since money for streetlights is rarely available to municipal governments. The national parks began closing down years ago. Some are already being subdivided and sold to the highest bidder. Reports on bridges crumbling or even collapsing are commonplace. The air in city after city hangs brown and heavy (and rates of childhood asthma and other lung diseases have shot up), because funding that would allow the enforcement of clean air standards by the Environmental Protection Agency is a distant memory. Public education has been cut to the bone, making good schools a luxury, and, according to the Department of Education, two of every five students won't graduate from high school.
It's 2023 – this is America a decade years after the federal budget cuts known as sequestration. They went on for a decade, making no exception for effective programs that were ... |
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Sportsmen, outdoors council: Legacy bill sets bad precedent
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21.5.2013 |
Minnesota Public Radio: Legislature |
The Nature Conservancy and nearly two dozen other habitat and sportsmen's groups are asking Gov. Mark Dayton to veto part of the Legacy bill after lawmakers added projects that weren't recommended by the Lessard Sams Outdoor Heritage Council. |
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Alaska unveils plan to assess gas, oil in ANWR
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21.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| JUNEAU, Alaska—The state of Alaska on Monday proposed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plan aimed at determining the true oil and gas potential |
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Gov. Hickenlooper signs four bills aimed at helping Colorado outdoors
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20.5.2013 |
Headlines: All Headlines |
| Gov. John Hickenlooper signed four bills aimed at preserving and improving Colorado's outdoors Saturday. |
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King Juan Carlos of Spain: a man of sacrifice
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20.5.2013 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| When your country's unemployment rate is 27%, having your own yacht isn't a good look, as this king found
Name : King Juan Carlos of Spain.
Age: 75.
Appearance: Barely regal.
King who? King Juan Carlos of Spain.
Oh right. What's he done now? Given up his yacht.
Aww. Sad. Because he's getting too old to sail? No, it's not that kind of yacht. It's the other kind. The kind that's 136ft long, worth £18m and costs around £17,000 to refuel.
Ah. The kind a king gets. Yep, and the kind that, arguably, looks a little bit too lavish for the monarch of a country with a 27% unemployment rate. Especially when his popularity ratings have plummeted in the wake of a string of royal scandals and embarrassments .
Such as? Such as last April, when the king – then the honorary president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Spain – was caught jetting off to Botswana for a secret elephant-hunting safari at an estimated cost of £8,000 a day.
And? And a corruption probe into the charity run by ... |
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Udall seeks feedback on proposed monument
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19.5.2013 |
Durango Herald |
| GOLDEN x2013 U.S. Sen. Mark Udall is asking for the publicx2019s help in crafting legislation to create a national monument that would include 22,000 acres on both sides of the Arkansas River between Salida and Buena Vista in south-central Colorado x2013 an area renowned for its whitewater rafting.The Democrat, who held a... |
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Green diary rescue: Pedal power, electric cars, OFA on climate change
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19.5.2013 |
Daily Kos |
| Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 226 of these spotlighting more than 12,645 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 64 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.]
Mr. President, Arctic Ice Loss Portends a Climate Tsunami: The National Arctic Strategy is Suicidal —by FishOutofWater : "President Obama, your advisers just don't get it. We should be running as fast as we can from fossil fuels, not going out to sea to get more of them. The loss of summer sea ice portends a climate tsunami. The ice is keeping the Arctic cold, even in summer. Retreat of the ice is accelerating the ... |
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
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18.5.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| O'BRIEN, Ore.—Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set |
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Ore. timber country ponders future with fewer logs
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18.5.2013 |
AP National |
| O'BRIEN, Ore. (AP) -- Jennifer Phillippi's grandparents started producing lumber in this corner of Oregon timber country in 1922, when a man could set up a mill, log the trees within range of a team of horses and move the mill to a new stand when those trees ran out.... |
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Fighting the feds
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18.5.2013 |
Salt Lake Tribune |
| Published May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT
Rep. Mike Noel is no friend to the federal government. But that can also be said of the Kanab Republican’s relationship with old-growth trees, wildlife, children affected by dirty air, environmentalists and conservation of almost any kind. Still, while his motives and tactics in sponsoring HB155 are “same old, same old” Noel, and certainly no surprise to most Utahns, it seems that this bill making it illegal for federal land-management officers to do their jobs goes too far. Under this legislat... ... |
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Staunton State Park finally open, a wilderness oasis near Denver
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18.5.2013 |
Denver Post: Local |
| Staunton State Park finally open, a wilderness oasis near Denver |
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California bills on firearms, violence clear hurdles
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17.5.2013 |
LA Times: Top News |
| California bills on firearms, violence clear hurdles |
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