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Alberta information commissioner to investigate Kearl tailings leak notifications
EDMONTON — Alberta's information commissioner has started an investigation into how the province's energy regulator notified the public about tailings pond releases at Imperial Oil's Kearl mine.
Mar 22, 2023 5:20 PM
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Manitoba government expects spring flooding but not a threat to community defences
WINNIPEG — Manitoba's annual battle against spring flooding may not be too onerous this year, provincial flood forecasters said Wednesday.
Mar 22, 2023 5:06 PM
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Explosion, fire injure 1 at Houston-area chemical plant
PASADENA, Texas (AP) — An explosion and fire erupted Wednesday at a chemical plant in suburban Houston, injuring one person. Officials were still investigating what caused the blast at 12:11 p.m. at the plant in the city of Pasadena.
Mar 22, 2023 4:47 PM
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Oil exec held for 5 years in Venezuela sues Citgo for $100M
HOUSTON (AP) — One of the Citgo oil executives who was held for nearly five years in Venezuela has sued his company for $100 million, alleging it conspired in his detention and then abandoned him and his family as he wasted away in horrific prison co
Mar 22, 2023 4:44 PM
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Don't assume U.S. minds are made up about Safe Third Country treaty: Canada's envoy
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration is not dismissing out of hand the idea of renegotiating the bilateral 2004 treaty that governs the flow of asylum seekers across its northern border, says Canada's ambassador to the U.S.
Mar 22, 2023 3:26 PM
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Nevada to add gas plant as drought tests US West power grids
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Utility regulators in Nevada gave the state’s largest power provider clearance to start work on a $333 million project to build a natural gas plant in the state for the first time in nearly 15 years, signaling yet another consequence
Mar 22, 2023 2:55 PM
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UN chief urges 'game-changing' commitments on clean water
UNITED NATION (AP) — The United Nations chief urged the first world conference on water in over 45 years on Wednesday to address the “21st century emergency” that is wasting the world’s most important resource and has left billions of people without
Mar 22, 2023 1:33 PM
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A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
Mar 22, 2023 1:30 PM
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A quarter of world population lacks safe drinking water: UN
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A report issued on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lacks access to basic sanitation. The U.N.
Mar 22, 2023 1:23 PM
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Officials: 8 dolphins dead after stranding in New Jersey
SEA ISLE CITY, N.J. (AP) — Eight dolphins have died after they became stranded on a beach in New Jersey, marine animal welfare officials said.
Mar 22, 2023 1:08 PM
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