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Tackling the electric car doubters

Electric cars are being hailed as a major breakthrough in the battle against greenhouse gas emissions - but reservations remain. One of the major criticism of electric cars is their...

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The Farmer's Share

An announcement today by Manitoba's largest general farm organisation, Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP), about the amount of money that farmers see from the food that we buy brings into focus...

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Trickle down effect

Standard and Poor's, one of the three major credit ratings agencies, took the extraordinary step last week of downgrading the US credit rating from AAA to AA+, with a negative...

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Cash grants support green building jobs

The American Government has just awarded $2.6 million to training programmes for green jobs in Florida, providing 40 newly trained green workers a year. The grants, made through the Department...

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''Where's the fish!'' call for new salmon jobs plan

After a judge ruled that US Government Columbia-Snake River salmon conservation plans weren't legal, businesses affected by the loss of salmon in West Coast rivers have called for action to...

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Deloitte signs on to Water Disclosure Report project

Deloitte, the international management consulting company, on Monday announced a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project, based in London, to develop the second edition of the CDP's Water Disclosure Report....

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