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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground in Canada’s Far North but none of the fuel has spilled, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Thursday.
CANBERRA (Reuters) – The government of an Australian territory said on Thursday it will enact tough carbon cutting laws, a step that comes after a national election that punished the ruling Labor party over lack of action on climate change.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP Plc likely won’t put the final plug in its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well until September to allow replacement of a critical piece of seabed equipment, the top U.S. oil spill official said on Thursday
STAVANGER, Norway (Reuters) – Norway’s oil safety watchdog said on Thursday it was seeking improvements from the petroleum industry to prevent offshore blowouts and leaks in the wake of BP’s damaging U.S. oil spill.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Nations face an uphill battle to reach agreement on a tougher climate pact by the end of 2011, a senior Indonesian climate change official said on Thursday, describing progress to date as bleak.
Australia one of the world’s top carbon polluters can cut carbon emissions by at least 15 percent by 2020 without hurting its economy business leaders at a climate conference said on Thursday.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian palm oil giant PT SMART Tbk, accused by green groups of clearing valuable forest, aims to expand its plantations by 50,000 hectares a year, the company’s president director said on Thursday.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – A dead whale was discovered pinned to the bow of a Princess Cruises luxury liner near Juneau, the third such incident involving the company’s Alaska fleet in a decade, officials said on Thursday.
DETROIT (Reuters) – Oil spilled from a pipeline in Michigan does not present a threat to the Great Lakes and the spill has been contained on a river about 50 miles inland from Lake Michigan, federal officials said on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s worst drought for decades is set to drag on for at least the next 7 days in some areas but further serious damage to grain crops is not expected, a senior government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Dalian Port has resumed operations of all its terminal and ground facilities, it said on Thursday, nearly two weeks after a fire and oil spill forced the closure of most of the port’s berths.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Greenpeace said on Thursday it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orangutan habitats in Kalimantan.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Water supplies were cut for a time to part of the northeastern Chinese city of Jilin, after a flood washed thousands of barrels of a dangerous chemical from a factory into the area’s main river, state media said on Thursday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senate Democrats struggled to salvage climate-change legislation and the leading proponent of the effort said on Thursday it could be tough to get a bill that caps carbon emissions passed.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government said on Thursday it would cut funding to green advisory bodies, a move sharply criticized by green campaigners and members of parliament.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senator John Kerry said on Thursday at a town hall meeting that chances to pass a climate bill right now are “very tough.”
MUSCAT (Reuters) – Oman plans to build a $1.5 billion bridge to an island turtle habitat off the Gulf Arab state’s east coast to boost tourist numbers, a finance ministry official said on Thursday.
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will seek compensation from Thailand’s PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) over an oil spill in the Timor Sea last year, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s emissions of carbon dioxide need to peak by 2020 if the world is to meet its 2050 targets aimed at curbing climate change, the head of the International Energy Agency said on Thursday.