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Mascoma Acquires SunOpta BioProcess Inc.; Integrated Cellulosic Ethanol Company

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Mascoma, through its affiliate Frontier Renewable Resources LLC, is currently developing a commercial scale production facility in Kinross, Michigan. The facility is based on technologies developed in Mascoma’s laboratories in Lebanon, New Hampshire and operating in its 57,000 square foot demonstration facility in Rome, New York.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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They are fighting a multi-front war with Iran directly (in Yemen) and indirectly (in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq). The sharp drop in oil revenue damages each of these countries economically and financially, while the wars they wage directly and indirectly against each other drain resources from vital domestic projects.

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Syrian oil ministry announces oil shale tender

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Syria’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources has announced a tender for investing in oil shale in the Khanaser area, 103 km in southeastern Aleppo, over an area of 150 km 2 divided into 14 blocks with geological reserves of 2.3 to 3 billion tons in each block. Oil shale deposits in Syria. Source: Gerjes, 2010. Click to enlarge.

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Israel carves playground as automobile era powerhouse

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Even if it has made ease with some, it nonetheless faces blackmails from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Iran. “The access to venture capital resources is pretty immediate, at least the seed stage round.” All the way through a lot of its historical past, antagonistic neighbors have surrounded Israel.