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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Brazil signs deal to export sustainable ethanol
SAO PAULO,--- A group of Brazilian ethanol companies signed a deal to export certified sustainable ethanol to Sweden, in the world's first agreement of such a kind, they said on Wednesday. Brazilian groups Cosan , Guarani , NovAmerica and Alcoeste agreed sell to Sweden's Sekab 115 million liters ... Continued...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Toxic Algae Poisons Klamath River and Two Reservoirs
SANTA ROSA, California, June 18, 2008 (ENS) - A California Superior Court judge has invited the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to exercise its authority to regulate water quality to rid the Klamath River of toxic algae. The ruling by Judge Elaine Rushing comes in a lawsuit filed... Continued...

2008 Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Could Be Largest Ever
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, June 18, 2008 (ENS) - As a record-breaking volume of floodwater laden with sewage and fertilizers rolls down the waterways of the Mississippi Basin towards the Gulf of Mexico, a joint federal-state task force released an updated action plan to reduce low oxygen levels that ca... Continued...

Current water crisis: Floriculture needs 20 times more water than cotton cultivation
When Punjab exported 18 million tonnes of surplus wheat and rice in 2003-04, it actually exported 55.5 trillion litres of water as well. The focus on exports and the shift to cash crop cultivation will come at a huge social and environmental cost as India's water crisis worsens An Australian TV j... Continued...

Guest column in Des Moines Register, Iowa: Eroded soil sends message: Step up conservation
A huge hunk of Iowa is washing away with the Flood of '08 - a disaster whose magnitude dwarfs the visible impact. Soil scientists consider a soil loss of five tons per acre per year to be acceptable on most tillable soils. That's a small fraction of an inch off the top of the field. But this mont... Continued...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Somali crisis 'worse than Darfur'
The UN says Somalia has one the world's most challenging aid situations The number of people in Somalia in need of emergency food aid is likely to rise to about 3.5m in the coming months, the United Nations has warned. Mark Bowden, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for the region, says the foo... Continued...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Canadian Natural Resources: The Case for Tar Sands
There is a particular company poised to benefit greatly, and its stock price might double over the next 18 months as a result. Matt Badiali is, as far as I'm concerned, one of the finest energy company analysts in North America. I've subscribed to his S&A Oil Report from its inception and I can't... Continued...

ONGC, others eye Canadian sand beds
On the sidelines of crude oil price rise, Indian oil majors including Reliance Industries (RIL), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Essar Oil are eyeing exploration opportunities at the oil-rich sand beds of Alberta in Canada. The firms are believed to be drawing up plans in consultation wit... Continued...

After the oil crunch?
There are two competing explanations for today's high oil prices. One sees the price rise as the result of a temporary imbalance between supply and demand, exacerbated by a weak dollar and a bubble of speculative commodities trading. Fix these problems, adherents suggest, and the price can return to... Continued...

ND selects firm to inspect Keystone oil pipeline
NEW YORK - North Dakota's Public Service Commission picked an engineering firm to inspect construction work along the eastern North Dakota path of the Keystone crude oil pipeline. The commission, during a special meeting Wednesday, said it intends to award the job to Kadrmas, Lee & Jackson, a fi... Continued...

SEC Staff Recommends Oil Reserves Reporting Changes
WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators will consider updating rules on accounting for oil and gas reserves as early as this summer, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said Thursday. The SEC's corporation finance division, which oversees financial reporting, and the SEC's chief acc... Continued...

Report tries to steer U.S. from Canada's 'dirty oil'
"The environmental costs of tar sand development are staggering," says a report made public yesterday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington group, in the latest salvo in a pitched public relations battle over western Canada's resource riches. The report, Tar Sands: Feeding U.S. Ref... Continued...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

EPA: Water transfers will not need permits; EPA decides not to require discharge permits for water transfers
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The movement of billions of gallons of water around the country for drinking, irrigation and other uses will not require permits under the Clean Water Act, even though the water could contain contaminants, the Bush administration announced Monday. The new rule will allow water ... Continued...

‘Huge rewards’ await water investors: Goldman Sachs
LONDON — A panel of experts at the recent Top Five Risks conference, hosted by investment and banking management firm Goldman Sachs, has said a catastrophic water shortage poses a significant threat to humankind this century and referred investors to a Goldman Sachs report that has advised investors... Continued...

Food Crisis Forces New Look at Farming
PONT-SONDÉ, Haiti -- Leonid Eustache coaxes a small rice crop out of his tiny plot here, but he could use some help from his government. He can't afford fertilizer. His only tool is a hoe. And half of his crop rots because nearby drainage canals are filled with water hyacinth. "The water stays, a... Continued...

Obama Economic Adviser Draws Fire On Left
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., underscored his affinity with Democratic centrists this week when he tapped Jason Furman, who worked closely with former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, to be his director of economic policy. But the selection is now drawing criticism from some on the left who are wonde... Continued...

Monday, June 9, 2008

Nitrites and cancer
Research from China suggests that even low levels of nitrites in drinking water can cause cancer. Why is the West ignoring the evidence? The possibility of a link between nitrite in drinking water and cancer was first noted in 1970. To this day the view of the western ‘scientific establishment’ ... Continued...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Biotech Giants Demand a High Price for Saving the Planet
Giant biotech companies are privatising the world’s protection against climate change by filing hundreds of monopoly patents on genes that help crops resist it, a new investigation has concluded. The study - by the authoritative Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC Group), b... Continued...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Turning Los Angeles wastewater to tap water
Politics killed a 1990s plan to recycle, but drought, technology and Orange County's success offer hope. In a conference room atop a downtown Los Angeles tower, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's point man on water conservation was confidently ticking off the protections built into a plan to recycle hi... Continued...

Food Is Different
Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, warns that the unfolding food crisis could force 100 million people deeper into destitution and set back In the midst of this crisis, the immediate humanitarian challenge is to feed the hungry. But the suddenness and breadth of the emergency has raised fu... Continued...