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Last updated at 7:16 AM on May 21, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)
"...MONTREAL Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. says its San Andrs battery energy storage facility in northern Chile has started operations..."
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"...The group asked the court to specify what obligations signatories of the maritime treaty have in relation to the effects of climate change caused by human activity, and to protecting the marine environment from ocean warming and sea level rise..."
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"...The PCs are being represented in today's byelection by Marco MacLeod, who runs a small custom lumber mill on his family farm..."
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"...The province offers some tips which include scanning the water and shoreline for algae, avoiding contact with blooms and not drinking freshwater when swimming or enjoying lakes..."
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"...Some residents in Fall River were briefly evacuated after Mounties responded to a threat over the weekend..."
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"...Diluent also makes the otherwise fairly inert bitumen highly explosive. Natural gas, which we often think of as the serious risk in this regard, is only explosive in atmospheric concentrations between five per cent and 15 per cent: at less than five per cent, there is not enough gas; at more than 15, there is not enough oxygen. But dilbit can explode in concentrations from 0..."
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"...Meanwhile, higher gasoline prices moderated the deceleration..."
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"...Pakistan recorded its wettest April since 1961, with more than double the usual monthly rainfall, according to the national weather center. Last month's heavy rains killed scores of people while destroyed property and farmland, experts say the country witnessed heavier rains because of climate change..."
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"...In this episode of Hub Dialogues, Jack Mintz, a distinguished senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and president's fellow at the University of Calgary, discusses his recent Macdonald-Laurier Institute paper (co-authored with Philip Cross), “Canadas resource sector: Protecting the Golden Goose,” which documents the economic importance of Canada's natural resource sector..."
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"...The Shi family is on the leading edge of a solar boom in China, which has long dominated global solar manufacturing but didn't always install a lot of it at home. That's changing as the government focuses on the urgency of cutting its worst-in-the-world greenhouse gas emissions at the same time it grows its green economy. China wants one-fifth of its power to come from renewables by 2025, and it's offered a wide range of subsidies to local governments and businesses..."
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"...The weather warning for severe thunderstorms has been lifted in Simcoe Muskoka..."
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"...Environment Canada meteorologists are monitoring an area of severe thunderstorms that could generate strong wind gusts and nickel-to-toonie-size hail..."
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"...Environment and Climate Change Canada issued the funnel cloud advisory around 10 a. m. on Monday..."
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"...The RM placed the advisory after a power outage Saturday led to the failure of pumps at the Gimli Water Treatment Plant..."
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"...As a business group warns of dire economic consequences if provinces enact basic livable wages, a company already doing so argues there are positives to paying workers more..."
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"...Chestermere, AB Rocky View County (RVC) has announced the start of its summer weed spraying program, a critical measure to protect the regions native plants, agricultural lands, and wildlife habitats from invasive species. This initiative is part of a strategic three-year rotation focusing on Division 3, 4, and 7 this season. This crucial initiative helps protect our native flora, agricultural lands, and precious wildlife habitats from the threat of invasive species, RVC stated in a release on social media..."
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"...Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are building a $23 million Renewable Energy Hub to learn how to integrate solar, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs), and hydrogen production..."
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"...Jon Stika is a writer, agronomist, and former soil health instructor with the USDAs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)..."
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"...Longtime listeners know that Sea Change Radio is not a debate format – we do not generally provide a platform for climate change deniers or other purveyors of disinformation..."
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"...India is nearly half-way through a six-week election period, and the government there is making sure it stays in the citizens' good graces..."
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Recent peer-reviewed papers relevant to the latest news and opinion.
"...Considering this scenario, in this paper, we propose a scheduled-based node deployment algorithm using Firefly Optimization (FA) to offer a circumstance where we have a group of target points that satisfy p-coverage and sensor nodes that satisfy q-connectivity, with subject to the selection of the optimal number of a sensor node that has the highest energy and minimum distance..."
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"...The study suggested formal and informal approach to political education as well as provision of employment opportunities to harness the drive and energy of youths in order to achieve credible election in Nigeria..."
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"...Findings showed that the positive deployment of information communication technology (ICT), will address electoral violence, the exorbitant cost of administering elections, thereby leading to the emergence of credible leaders that will facilitate socio-economic development in Africa and reduce endemic corruption and other criminal activities..."
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"...In the 2021 election, parties across the political spectrum were overtly critical towards China?s human rights record, foreign policy, policy towards Taiwan, and especially China?s territorial posture in the East China Sea..."
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"...This chapter explains reasons behind the United National Movement?s defeat in the 2012 parliamentary elections: Georgia?s relations with Russia, a difficulty of staying in power beyond two consecutive terms, the personality of the leader of the opposition, Georgia?s social contract of 2004?2012, a prison abuse scandal and the tragedy of a drowned toddler, the Georgian Dream?s economic, geopolitical and democratic promise..."
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"...The quantitative analysis is based on data from representative election statistics and includes voter turnout and various socio-economic indicators..."
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"...However, as against the resource model?s basic assumption, that higher levels of socioeconomic status and education are strongly linked to higher voter turnout, voter apathy in Nigeria is higher among public/civil servants and the elites, while people in the lower level of socioeconomic status and education turn out more to vote on election days..."
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"...However, there is no feasible solution to determine these parameters to lessen the energy consumption of resource-limited spider-web-inspired WSNs..."
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