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Transport Canada issues emergency directive to increase rail safety following Lac-Mégantic disaster

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Transport Canada announced an emergency directive pursuant to section 33 of the Railway Safety Act to increase rail safety. Transport Canada inspectors will continue to work in cooperation with the Transportation Safety Board as it conducts its investigation. Transportation Safety Board findings. Work on the investigation to date.

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Where Minus 35 Is Perfect Weather to Get Outside

Baua Electric

These are the kinds of safety considerations that tend to arise in rugged places like the Yukon, a roughly 186,000-square-mile wedge of northwestern Canada that extends from British Columbia across the Arctic Circle to the Beaufort Sea. 9 to 25 with events like chain saw chucking and flour packing, not to mention the hair freezing.

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The Relay That Changed the Power Industry

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Inspired by a blackout and a protective relays book Schweitzer says his relay was, in part, inspired by an event that took place during his first year of college. Northeast and Ontario, Canada,” he recalls. “It It was quite an event, and I remember it well. I learned many lessons from it. It is now part of SEL.

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TomTom extends coverage of real-time traffic products for congestion reduction

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TomTom, the leading supplier of in-car location and navigation products and services, has extended its HD Traffic portfolio of real-time (updates every 2 minutes) traffic products for congestion reduction with the addition of Australia, Canada, Luxembourg and Poland, bringing the total count of countries covered to 18.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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A Brief Look at Today's Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and the Companies That Are Revolutionizing an Old Industry - Yahoo! Finance

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This Nobel Laureate Paved the Way for High-Intensity Lasers

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She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.” She is an extremely giving person and a shining example of what an IEEE honorary member should be.” That is referred to as a “chirped pulse,” Strickland says, because a bird’s chirp has a similar frequency structure.

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