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Canadian researchers have found antibiotic-resistant Staph bacteria in pork products purchased in retail stores across the country - a discovery that raises questions about how the contamination occurred, how frequently it happens and whether it has implications for human health.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A scientist who developed a way to calculate how much water is used in the production of anything from a cup of coffee to a hamburger was awarded the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, New York, March 17, 2008 (ENS) - The international community needs to start creating strategies for using water more efficiently and sharing it more fairly, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, warning that unless action is taken soon, the conflicts and problems caused by water shortages around the world will multiply.
HONG KONG, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The School of Law of City University of Hong Kong has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD) here Monday on enhancing capacity-building on international dispute settlement.
Trade using surface transportation between the United States andits North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada andMexico was 3.1 percent higher in December 2007 than in December2006, reaching $60.9 billion, according to the Bureau ofTransportation Statistics (BTS) of the US Department ofTransportation.
When the farm bill process started in earnest in early 2007, the debate centered around how much lawmakers would be able to spend above the budget baseline on the new farm legislation. The House and Senate Budget Committees came up with "reserve" funds that could be used to write a farm bill that went beyond the budget baseline by $10 billion to $20 billion.
US lawmakers have failed for almost six months to agree on a new farm bill.
Authorities have twice extended the old law that expired last September.
Farm bill writers lack firm funding commitments from other committees, and agreements with the Bush administration on how to pay for extra spending in a very tight budget year, as well as how much subsidy reform is enough.
HAMMOND Ind. -- More than 1,000 people attending a state Department of Environmental Management public hearing Friday on a permit for BP's planned $3.8 billion Whiting refinery expansion were told the permit will be granted.
...Oil edges lower
Oil prices stepped back from Thursday's latest record close, with the April crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange losing 12 cents a barrel to $110.21 a barrel.
The TSX's energy sector fell 0.87 per cent.
Today's inflated oil prices should be gone within a few months, veteran analyst Henry Groppe told Ohio's oil and gas producers Friday.
But they are not likely to fall back to any level that will make U.S. motorists very happy.
The average price of oil will settle to between $70 and $100 a barrel, he said.
You have to hand it to the Americans. The U.S. softwood lumber market, not to mention the global economy is tanking, because of their self-inflicted subprime mortgage crisis. Nevertheless, they have the audacity to haul Canadians into arbitration for failing to anticipate it.
This paper argues that trade and human rights regimes need not be in conflict, so long as the trade regime is interpreted and applied in a manner consistent with the human rights obligations of states.
WASHINGTON -- Another attempt to limit farm subsidy payments is working its way through Congress, this time seeking to cap payments at $250,000 per individual per year.
The plan's author, Sen. Chuck Grassley,
R-Iowa, says it would save taxpayers $1.4 billion over the next decade.
Federal Environment Minister John Baird came out swinging earlier this week, presenting the Conservative government's most aggressive climate change plan to date.
Video monitoring supports employee training and troubleshooting efforts in sow farms.
Bill Beckman suffers from a common plight facing production supervisors and managers throughout the swine industry - the inability to be in more than one place at a time.
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada has petitioned the Conservative federal cabinet to overturn two controversial National Energy Board (NEB) decisions to allow exports of unprocessed bitumen to the United States.
EDMONTON - I fully expected a one-sided slag job, featuring the usual assortment of capitalist-bashing, America-loathing lefty ideologues.
I wasn't disappointed. Thursday's airing of Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta, on CBC Television's Doc Zone, was merely the latest in a string of sensationalist hatchet jobs on Alberta's key industry, courtesy of the national media.
Washington, D.C. - Iowa's senators are at odds over a plan to allow landowners to get federal conservation benefits in tax credits rather than direct payments.