The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) said this week that diesel fuel taxes and driver/vehicle registration fees paid by the trucking industry should not be used to fund the Metrolinx transit plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton area ...
Tags: Diesel Fuel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
How do consumers balance the scales between promised benefits and potential risks from novel food technologies? This was one of the research questions examined by a team of Irish researchers investigating consumer and industry acceptance of ...
Tags: novel food technologies, Food
The Ontario Trucking Association has a simple message for the Transit Investment Strategy Panel: The diesel fuel taxes and driver/vehicle registration fees paid by the trucking industry should be dedicated to fixing and expanding the ...
Tags: Transportation, Truck
The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has selected IT services and solutions provider Mastek to develop an identity and access management service. The announcement comes as part of the NHS Spine re-procurement and ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Initial stakes will be small but will grow The government of the United Kingdom welcomes Chinese investment — possibly including majority stakes — in the next generation of nuclear power plants, Chancellor of the Exchequer ...
Tags: Nuclear, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The bike industry likely will never tally all the delays and extra costs that resulted from the federal government shutdown that ended Thursday. Many shops lost sales as local federal workers were out of work, and many businesses dependent ...
Tags: bike, Transportation
The NHS has selected US developer Basho's open source database Riak to underpin its efforts to rebuild its Spine infrastructure. The new project, dubbed Spine2, will replace the existing infrastructure that was implemented as part of the ...
Tags: Computer Products
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says Australia’s car makers are facing “one hell of a challenge” but is confident they have a long-term future. Macfarlane, South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill and Holden chairman and ...
Tags: Car Makers, Auto Parts
Melbourne appears close to securing the Australian Formula One Grand Prix past its currently contracted 2015, according to the latest reports. News Limited reports Formula 1 insiders believe a new race contract for the event is on the ...
Tags: Melbourne, Formula One Grand
The UK International Underwriting Association (IUA) has urged the US government to keep providing its support for writing of terrorism insurance. "Without a renewal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA), private provision of ...
Tags: Insurance
Finger on the trigger, a hunter is shooting a wide-eyed badger frozen in a spotlight's glare; a few acres away, an activist is listening, moving toward the rifle's report; and on a nearby farm, a farmer is cursing, watching another cow ...
Tags: Agriculture
A grand NHS patient record system that was intended to computerise every patient record - before being abandoned - has cost UK taxpayers £10bn so far. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of pounds more in costs are expected to emerge ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A Guelph factory would happily recycle glass from local blue boxes again — for an annual fee estimated at $84,000. Unwilling to pay, regional government has chosen instead to dump 3,000 tonnes of glass that Ontario compels it to ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Glass
Gas tariff hike of up to Pk Rs. 85 per mmbtu (million metric British thermal units) for Captive Power Plants (CPPs) would render the most efficient and highest foreign-exchange generating textile industry ineffective, All Pakistan Textile ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Gas tariff
Improving alfalfa yields one drip at a time Irrigation water blocked by red tape Managing food safety risks on the orchard floor The Natural Resources Defense Council claims that much of last year's record Federal Crop Insurance Program ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food