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Street network patterns reveal global trend towards increasing urban sprawl

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New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. emissions for a century or more.

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Opinion: Why Lithium Will See Another Price Spike This Fall

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Electrical Grid Connections. In some locations, grid-scale peaking applications have already been implemented, often in old coal power plants, re-using the building and grid connections. Orocobre Limited is commissioning their Olaroz project in Argentina, and is currently at 68% of its 17,500 TPA full capacity.

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PwC analysis finds meeting 2 C warming target would require “unprecedented and sustained” reductions over four decades

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—Jonathan Grant, director, sustainability and climate change, PwC. Other G20 (Australia, Korea, EU, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Argentina). Each country is modelled individually but connected with linkages via US productivity growth (known as the global technological frontier).

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Opinion: Busting The “Canadian Bakken” Myth

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The area has seen 14 exploration licenses granted and $628 million in work commitments over the last five years. China, and Argentina, combined. The project was approved by the NEB in 2010. But with U.S. But as was mentioned earlier, the NEB did not do that recoverable-oil calculation.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

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And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. The Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grants is giving $302 million to local California governments and L.A. County AB 811 program is about a year from granting its first loans to property owners.