The European Commission today launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of solar glass from China. The initiation is based on a complaint lodged by the association EU ProSun Glass, which claims solar glass from China is being ...
Furniture makers should speak up now if they have concerns with California's new upholstered flammability rule, a top California official told an industry audience here last week. Tonya Blood, chief of the California Bureau of Home ...
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The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is seeking to block file-sharing sites Fenopy, H33t and Kickass Torrents, the BPI said on Tuesday. "We are seeking court orders requiring ISPs to block access to three infringing websites," said BPI ...
Canadian oil sands startup Athabasca Oil Corp said Monday it would start an environmental impact study as part of plans to expand its Hangingstone oil sands facility in northern Alberta to 82,000 b/d. "We currently hold regulatory ...
There isn't a shortage of rare earth metals in the ground, but one country, China, has managed to dominate about 95% of the market. It not only mines the metals, but it has built a supply chain to produce them. The U.S. once led global ...
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The project is unprecedented by scale for Eastern Russia's gas industry it features extremely harsh geographic conditions and calls for advanced engineering solutions. Gas production in Yakutia will evolve as a unified complex with ...
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Financial Post reported that a line of yellow buoys marking the boundaries of a scallop farm outside Prince Rupert, British Columbia presents the biggest challenge Enbridge Inc may face in its bid to connect Canada’s oil sands to ...
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The Canadian government followed through on last month's budget promise to streamline environmental reviews of resource projects with a plan for "responsible resource development." Announced Tuesday by Natural Resources Minister Joe ...
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IDG News Service - The Russian version of Wikipedia went black on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that could become the basis for Internet censorship. Wikipedia's protest is backed by other large Russian online businesses such as the ...
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Maplecroft principal Latin America analyst James Lockhart-Smith told BNamericas that Anglo American is unlikely to seek compensation from the Venezuelan government following the expiration of the concessions and permits for its Loma de ...
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Lawyers for Megaupload filed another motion on Wednesday asking a federal court to dismiss its criminal case, continuing its argument that the company can't be served a summons since it was headquartered outside the U.S. Megaupload wants ...
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If members of the U.S. military and their families have seen major changes in their lives because of the Internet and related technologies, then they should expect even more upheaval, a group of tech experts said Thursday. The Internet ...
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Australia's High Court on Tuesday began hearing Google's appeal of a ruling that it sold misleading advertisements that allowed companies to purchase keywords containing competitor's names. The case was brought by the Australian ...
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The Home Office is to decide by 16 October whether to block the extradition to the US of self-confessed hacker Gary McKinnon on the grounds of poor health. The timetable has been set after the High Court intervened in July to end a ...
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The International Code Council(ICC)yesterday approved a proposal that mandates,among other things,how fire-rated glazing products are to be marked. The proposal is the result of research by ICC's Code Technology Committee(CTC)on the ...
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