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TWU Celebrates
Oct 12, 2016Truck drivers are celebrating a major win over industry lobby group NatRoad in its bid to pay them less by seeking an exemption from rules in NSW setting minimum pay rates. The rules have been in place for over 30 years, bringing ...
Tags: TWU, NSW, celebration
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New Chairman For Industry Lobby Group BFC
Mar 21, 2016After four years, Paul von der Heyde is stepping down as chairman of the British Furniture Confederation (BFC), the furniture industry's Government lobbying body. The new chairman is Jonathan Hindle, group managing director of KI (Krueger ...
Tags: BFC, KI EMEA, Industry Lobby Group
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A Link Between Fracking and Illness in Food Animals
Jul 10, 2013Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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Sri Lanka Raised Import Duty on Vehicles
Dec 13, 2012Sri Lanka, one of the key export destinations for Indian auto manufacturers, has raised import duty on vehicles, making companies jittery just as the government looks to take up the matter. Sri Lanka has increased import duty on ...
Tags: Sri Lanka, auto market, India, car industry
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Australian Roofs Now Have a Solar Power Generating Capacity Equivalent
Dec 12, 2012Australian roofs now have a solar power generating capacity equivalent to half the Snowy Hydro scheme as consumers react to soaring power prices and sinking prices for photovoltaic(PV)panels. First solar farm opens in WA Some 858,000 ...
Tags: Australian, PV, China, solar, energy
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Non-Profit Industry Lobby Group The Green Grid Includes Datacentre Users,Policy Makers
Nov 21, 2012The European Commission(EC)and datacentre industry consortium The Green Grid are collaborating on policies to improve efficiency in datacentres. Non-profit industry lobby group The Green Grid includes datacentre users,policy ...
Tags: Datacentre group, EC, datacentres, green measures
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Energy and Food Independence,May Be at Odds with Each Other
Jul 10, 2012Cattle on the Schilke Ranch in northwestern North Dakota, located on Bakken Shale. Photo: Jacki Schilke In a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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New Zealand's Sawn Timber Exports to China Have Been 'hammered'
Dec 2, 2011New Zealand's sawn timber exports to China have been 'hammered', while raw log shipments surged in the wake of Beijing's efforts to cool the economy. This is amid increased sales by rival forestry nations such as Canada, according to the ...
Tags: market view, sawn timber, log