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Iran puts May 26 deadline on IPI pipeline
A top Iranian oil minister put a May 26 deadline for finalizing agreements on the $7 billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline.
The 1,724-mile IPI gas pipeline is a proposed venture to transport gas from Iran to Pakistan and India.
Washington, DC - The day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) releases its scaled-back annual report on 2007 pesticide use in American agriculture, a coalition of 44 environmental, sustainable farming, and health advocacy organizations called on USDA to reverse its plan to eliminate its pesticide reporting program in 2008.
A World Trade Organization agreement removing barriers to commerce is ``absolutely essential'' to bring down soaring food prices, European Union Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson said.
Sandy Peifer keeps a six-month supply of food in her home in Ashley, Ohio. It's in closets, cupboards and wherever else she can find space. That's her way of protecting her family against natural or personal disaster.
Against a backdrop of sharply rising demand for corn, DuPont Co. said yesterday that it had formed a $140 million joint venture that aims to make ethanol from corncobs and other nonfood materials, leaving the kernels for food production.
The wealth gap among Middle Eastern nations may widen as countries with crude oil spend their way out of the food crisis and those without bust their budgets.
EdiblePortland.com, May 14, 2008
CALGARY, Alberta, - Japan Canada Oil Sand Ltd, a unit of Japan Petroleum Exploration Co (1662.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it plans to expand its Canadian oil sands operation to produce an additional 35,000 barrels a day by 2014.
A proposed ballot initiative would block construction of some new oil pipelines in North Dakota.
The measure is being promoted by opponents of the Keystone oil pipeline.
TransCanada Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, is developing the pipeline to transport Canadian crude to refineries in the Midwest. Its proposed route goes through eight eastern North Dakota counties.
Summaries of the eight ballot measures being circulated or prepared for North Dakota's November general election ballot:
BUDGET GROWTH: Says annual state and local government spending increases may not rise beyond the Midwestern inflation rate unless 60 percent of the voters approve higher spending.
Environmental advocacy organization EARTHWORKS is calling on the American Petroleum Institute to cease its multi-million dollar public-relations campaign designed to burnish the green credentials of the oil industry, while gearing up for a marketing campaign of its own.
Last week Hamish McRae, one of the world's best economic journalists, declared in "The Independent" that "Hardly anyone a year ago successfully predicted the rise in the oil price to $120 a barrel --in fact I have not found a single forecast of that." Regular readers of this column may recall that I predicted oil at over $100 a barrel in April, 2006, and well north of that price in another colu
Sen. Orrin Hatch
(R-Utah) today called on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to lift a moratorium that essentially bars the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from leasing land for commercial oil shale development.
The U.S. Congress passed a bill Wednesday that could wrap lumber imports from Canada in red tape and has the potential to impose limits beyond the restrictions already in the softwood lumber agreement.
These beauties offer shade. They filter the air. And they serve as homes to generations of birds and squirrels.
Ten Tarrant County trees are among this year's state champions.
Waterfalls of sawdust pouring out of the backs of trucks are a beautiful sight to Saanich farmer Rob Galey.
"It's raining wood," said a relieved Galey at the family farm on Blenkinsop Road. This week, he managed to obtain one of the most coveted of materials these days -- sawdust, once only seen as a waste product. "We've got a whole year's worth now."
2006 Bravo Regional Award winner Neiman Enterprises Inc. has purchased a sawmill in Spearfish S.D. from Pope & Talbot Inc., more than doubling the size of the company. First Interstate Bank, Jonah Bank, and Farm Credit Services of America helped Neiman Enterprises tackle the acquisition.
An invasive weed that already has infested more than 1 million acres nationwide continues to spread across the parched Southeast, and experts say the region's drought makes the flammable intruder more threatening than ever.