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One Meeellion Dollars!

Feb 09, 04 at 9:00 am.
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by Grist Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org.Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget Iraq's first environment ministry, facing a host of daunting ecological problems and a list of 35 priority projects that would cost more than $200 million, has been allotted a 2004 budget of ... $1 million. A report from the United Nations Environment Program presents a litany of environmental challenges facing the war-ravaged country: rivers polluted by crude-oil leaks; widespread cholera, malaria, typhoid, and diarrhea due to contaminated water; post-war looting of hazardous materials from government, industrial, and scientific facilities; and depleted uranium from weapons used by U.S. forces in the war, to name but a few. The ministry is seeking international support and attempting to establish a department that would coordinate with other fledgling agencies on environmental problems. Related Links: Dear Old Spice Man, will using your product make me, um, less manly? How a river went from diversity to dumpsite Seven reasons BP would like to forget last weekend... ...
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Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost

Feb 04, 04 at 9:00 am.
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by Grist Reprinted by permission from Grist. For more environmental news, humor, and inspiration, visit www.grist.org. Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a stable, long-term source of black gold, China has begun jostling with other global energy consumers -- notably the U.S., Japan, and Europe -- to find oil in more out-of-the-way locations. Recent months have seen Chinese President Hu Jintao visit the African nations of Gabon and Algeria, not exactly high-profile diplomatic allies, but lucrative sources for oil contracts. China's ballooning energy demands are helping to fuel an oil boom in West Africa. Related Links: Beekeepers add buzz to Japanese urban jungle Of course population is still a problem Seven reasons BP would like to forget last weekend... ...
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