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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
The Oil Hits the Fan Oil Pipeline Through Georgian Republic Runs Into Trouble A $3 billion, 1,000-mile pipeline -- slated to be pumping oil from the newly opened Caspian oilfields through Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey to the world market by April 2005 -- has run into a whole mess of trouble. Environmenta ...
Topics: Azerbaijan, business, energy, food and agriculture, Georgia, globalization, mining and drilling, population, renewable energy, Turkey, wildlife (all these topics)

Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA		20 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Nafta-shocks Thwarted by Environmental Rules, Mining Company Sues Under NAFTA Critics have long said the North American Free Trade Agreement spells trouble for the environment. Now, mining company Glamis Gold is poised to prove them right: It plans to use an obscure provision of the treaty to challenge California's strict environmental laws. For years, the company, which is owned by a Canadian-based multinational, has bee ...
Topics: globalization, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Dead in the Water	Donella H. Meadows	14 Feb 2000	Global Citizen
Here's a story of the global economy at its worst and maybe also at its best. Early this month a cry of alarm came over email from my friend Zoltan Lontay in Hungary. The Hungarian news had just announced an enormous fish kill in the Szamos river on that country's eastern border. A wave of cyanide was moving down the Szamos and into the Tisza, Hungary's second largest river. No one knew what had happened, but there was talk of a mine, operat ...
Topics: globalization, Hungary, mining and drilling, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

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