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Thomas Paine

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

10 March - FB


Vatican Makes Money Laundering List Of U.S. State Department
 
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, March 8 (Reuters) - The Vatican has for the first time appeared on the U.S. State Department's list of money-laundering centres but the tiny city-state is not rated as a high-risk country.
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Phil Schneider 1 of 7 DULCE ALIEN CONFRONTATION
 
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Phil Schneider, one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys , US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base.was f...
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Phil Schneider 6 of 7 DULCE ALIEN CONFRONTATION
 
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Phil Schneider, one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys , US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base.was f...
 
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Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west.
China suspected of Facebook attack on Nato's supreme allied commander
 
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Beijing cyber-spies accused of using fake social networking accounts in bid to steal military secrets from the west
 
Uganda is full of untapped oil & minerals. Of course he's bad but what about all the thousands of innocent people killed in the middle east? 6 million people have died in the Congo in 10 years, what about them? This is a government propaganda driven documentary. Ask yourself, why all of a sudden?
Kony? What about America's war criminals?
 
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On March 5, the Kony 2012 video was posted on YouTube. Four days after its implantation by the group Invisible Children, the documentary has gone viral and h...
 
Kony dead 5 years ago! Uganda has the most OIL of any country.
Kony 2012 Video is Misleading
 
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Uganda's outrage over the Kony 2012 Video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/9131469/Joseph-Kony-2012-growing-outrage-in
 
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OIL FOUND IN UGANDA = TIME FOR US TROOPS TO DEPLOY TO UGANDA
 
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OIL FOUND IN UGANDA = TIME FOR US TROOPS TO DEPLOY TO UGANDA US TROOPS DEPLOY TO UGANDA OIL FIND ALERTS AMERICA TO LARGE CORPORATE PROFITS FOR UNITED STATES ...
 
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Occupy Atlanta is looking for support on their petition on a bill in the GA State Senate that would restrict the rights of free speech for Georgia's citizens. Please sign and share! There are 50 states - if this passes, only 49 to go. Thanks to Effie John for sharing!
This GA bill would make Martin Luther King, Jr. ashamed
 
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I just signed a petition to The Georgia State House, The Georgia State Senate, and Governor Nathan Deal: We urge all Georgia lawmakers to oppose SB 469. This bill restricts the free speech rights of Georgians. It burdens small businesses by forcing them to issue additional notices to their emplo...
 
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Following is a lineup of oil sands industry collaborations: Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance - Founded: February 2012 - Members: BP Canada Energy Co., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., Cenovus Energy Inc., ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp., Devon Canada Corp., Imperial Oil Ltd., Nexen Inc., Shell Canada Energy, Statoil Canada Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc., Teck Resources Ltd., Total E&P Canada Ltd. Together, the members represent 80% of oil sands production.
Oil sands co - op ventures
 
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Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) announced that with respect to the pending acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary Plains Midstream Canada ULC of BP Plc's (BP, BP.L) Canadian natural gas liquids or NGL business, the final regulatory closing condition under the Share Purchase Agreement has been satisfied.
Plains All American Gets Regulatory Approval For BP's Canadian NGL Acquisition
 
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Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (PAA) announced that with respect to the pending acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary Plains Midstream Canada ULC of BP Plc's (BP, BP.
 
Minister must use emergency powers to save Maui’s dolphins | Scoop News
 
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Forest & Bird today urged Primary Industries Minister David Carter to step in and use his emergency powers to halt the slide of Maui’s dolphins towards extinction.
 
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Katie Gavenus, "Children of the Spills" director, was just two years old when the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Alaska, and it caused anxiety throughout her childhood. So the BP oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico brought back too many bad memories.
Valdez woman educates children on impact of BP spill
 
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Katie Gavenus, "Children of the Spills" director, was just two years old when the massive Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Alaska, and it caused anxiety throughout her childhood.
 
 
 
Web Extra: Michael DeGruy on disaster underwater in the Gulf
 
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Filmmaker and Oceanographer Michael DeGruy spoke with Piers Morgan last night about the situation underwater in the Gulf of Mexico one year after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. DeGruy says the coral near the well head is stressed and dying. He doesn't think the damage is done.
 
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According to Asper, there were three groups that had a vested interest in the final value of the amount of oil spilling out into the gulf. The companies (like BP and Halliburton) that had been drilling the well wanted the number to be small. The media, which can attract eyeballs through drama, wanted the number to be large. Scientists, in general, just wanted the actual number.
Why open science failed after the gulf oil spill
 
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Scientists descended on the Gulf of Mexico to study the spread and aftermath of the oil spill there. What they found, however, were competing agendas and a tough media environment.
 
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“Your image started out long before Macondo,” said Quenton Dokken, president and chief executive officer of the Gulf of Mexico Foundation Inc. He referred to the April 2010 blowout of the deepwater Macondo well off Louisiana, which resulted in 11 deaths and a massive oil spill. “You are a part of the whole of vested interests in the gulf. You are not the whole,” Dokken said. “Industry is only as strong as its weakest player.”
IADC/SPE: Industry working to build public's trust - Oil & Gas Journal
 
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The oil and gas industry needs to expand its efforts to build the public’s trust, which has been a problem since the industry’s earliest days, panelists told a closing plenary session during the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference & Exhibition in San Diego on Mar. 8.
 
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A significant part of the company’s financial problems stem from huge cost over-runs and associated write-offs on its contract with BP for two newly designed Arctic drilling units that were supposed to replace two existing rigs owned by other drilling contractors in BP-operated units on Alaska’s North Slope. Those two older rigs are no longer drilling in BP fields and although pieces of the two new Parker rigs have been delivered to the North Slope, BP said the units were incomplete.
Parker CEO resigns; default with BP on Alaska rigs unresolved - March 11, 2012 - Petroleum News
 
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Parker Drilling Co. said March 6 that its President and CEO David Mannon was leaving March 9 to pursue other interests. Mannon joined Parker in 2004 as senior vice president and chief operating officer, before becoming president in 2007 and CEO in 2009. The Houston-based drilling contractor posted a...
 
 
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The article said Chu inserted himself into the BP oil spill disaster and repeatedly took “command … ordering company officials to take steps they might not have taken on their own” though he had “no training in geology, seismology or oil well technology.” According to scientific calculations made by American Thinker’s Bruce Thompson, “BP’s top kill probably would have succeeded” and the “hole would have been plugged” long before it was — had Chu not intervened.
Susan Stamper-Brown: Energy Secretary Chu needs to resign
 
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President Barack Obama is right. America must pursue an 'all-of-the-above' strategy to take control of our energy future. We should build the Keystone Pipeline, drill in Alaska, manufacture energy-efficient vehicles and call for the resignation of U.S.
 
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“Our worst fears have proven true,” Smith said of the seep. “We have a chronic leak scenario caused by the Macondo well, and it is time for the feds and BP to come clean and tell the American public the truth. Unless/until the government and BP explain in a verifiable manner what the source of this oil is, in my opinion any thoughts of settlement are way premature.”
Did BP Cause Damage to the Gulf Sea Floor? Ever-Larger Natural Oil Seeps from the Giant Macondo Re..
 
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Nmerous scientists have speculated that the blowout and subsequent clumsy attempts by BP to plug the well could have created new seeps, and made pre-existing natural seeps bigger.
Magnitude 4.8 - CUBA REGION
 
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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards
 
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Eight scientists at Heriot-Watt University are leading a pan-European project to create a robot that can operate on its own to inspect, repair and maintain oil wells on the sea bed.
Robot that recognises failure is in pipeline - Edinburgh Evening News - Scotsman.com
 
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A TEAM of city scientists are working to create a £2 million robot intelligent enough to know when it has failed.
 
 
 
 
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‎"We sampled in places where not as much oil had gone, and the plants all looked perfectly healthy. And so a quick look at that marsh might lead you to believe that everything was fine. But in fact, the insects and spiders and crabs were strongly suppressed. So the first conclusion that we came to was that oil can have a big effect on the marsh food web, even if the plants are fine."
Two Years Later, Study Examines Recovered Area From Oil Spill Damage
 
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Two years after the accident, the BP oil spill continues to affect insects that thrive on coastal salt marshes. A University of Houston biologist examines the results from this ecosystem.
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In the BP oil spill case, a key component of the proposed class-action settlement between private plaintiffs and BP is a $2.3 billion set-aside for seafood claims, the only part of the settlement that's capped. That's what BP is willing to pay to compensate commercial fishing vessel owners, captains and deckhands, as well as oyster leaseholders and harvesters.
In BP oil spill case, court names mediator in $2.3 billion seafood claims settlement
 
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Negotiations involve commercial fishing vessel owners, captains and deckhands, as well as oyster leaseholders and harvesters
 
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Under the federal Clean Water Act, a finding of gross negligence would nearly quadruple the maximum fine per barrel spilled, from $1,100 to $4,300. The government has estimated almost 5 million barrels — 210 million gallons — gushed into the Gulf before the well was capped nearly three months after the blowout.
‘Gross negligence' in spill would raise fines and burden of proof
 
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HOUSTON â As BP and others involved in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill negotiate possible settlements ahead of a now-delayed trial, billions of dollars in fines and damages could ride on the legal issue of whether BP and other companies acted with gross negligence. Legal experts say the go...
 
 
 
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“Alaska is only part of it,” Mr. Voser said. “I am still puzzled that with Canada in the north, with oil sands and Keystone, plus the gas revolution in the United States, plus the Gulf of Mexico successes in exploration, with Alaska coming, the United States is sitting on so many energy resources.” “I can’t see why there is not more drive,” he said. “It’s puzzling, frustrating. Any other country in the world would jump on this.”
For a Shell Executive, Much Head-Scratching
 
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The oil company's chief executive expresses bewilderment over debate on the Keystone XL pipeline project and controversy over fracking.
 
Proposed Enbridge pipeline threatens humpback whales: DFO
 
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The proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline threatens critical habitat of humpback whales off the coast of British Columbia, says newly released internal federal documents from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
 
 
 
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Unfortunately, government is showing itself to be dysfunctional. After noting that President Barack Obama recently “has recognized the transformative development of natural gas” while Energy Secretary Steven Chu “has stated that natural gas recovery methods are environmentally sound,” Tillerson went on to swipe at America’s schizophrenic mess of competing agencies and regulations. “Dysfunctional regulation is holding back the U.S. economy,” said Tillerson, and is increasingly being used as “a tool of opponents of development to find 1,000 ways to say no.”
Exxon's Tillerson Lambasts Dysfunctional Regulation For Hindering Energy Growth - Forbes
 
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‎'Government is most effective when it works as research catalyst not venture capitalist.'
 
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Tim Mackey’s guest column on the Keystone XL pipeline (March 3) trots out the disproved claim that pipeline construction will create “tens of thousands” of jobs. According to the Cornell University Global Labor Institute, leading supporters of the pipeline have not made clear how they determined their estimate of 20,000 direct jobs. By contrast, the U.S. State Department’s study puts the number of direct jobs at no more than 6,000.
Keystone jobs claim disproved | INFORUM | Fargo, ND
 
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Tim Mackey’s guest column on the Keystone XL pipeline (March 3) trots out the disproved claim that pipeline construction will create “tens of thousands” of jobs. According to the Cornell University Global Labor Institute, leading supporters of the pipeline have not made clear how they determined the...
 
Keystone XL Contract Reveals More Evidence Of Conflict Of Interest
 
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WASHINGTON -- The contract assigning a third-party company to investigate the environmental impacts of the Keystone XL project adds to questions about the impartiality of the study, after the document was shown to be a binding contract between the outside company and the company building the pipelin...
 
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There is a common theme among the Republican candidates that even though drilling permits are now back to pre-Gulf Coast oil spill levels, even more drilling will lead to lower prices. Even the candidate who bills himself as an expert on "how business really works" suggests that faster expansion of drilling in the most promising zones for U.S. production — namely, coastal, deep sea, and Arctic areas — will lead to lower prices.
 
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Melissa Harris-Perry, host of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC and professor of political science at Tulane University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the dangers inherent in natural gas fracking and tar sands oil spills and the complicated politics that pit the economic benefits against the environment.
Republican energy lust blind to environment risks
 
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Video on msnbc.com: Melissa Harris-Perry, host of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC and professor of political science at Tulane University, talks with Rachel Maddow about the dangers inherent in natural gas fracking and tar sands oil spills and the complicated politics that pit the economic benefits ...
 
Reproductive problems, death in animals exposed to fracking | ECN: Electronic Component News
 
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A new report has found dozens of cases of illness, death and reproductive issues in cows, horses, goats, llamas, chickens, dogs, cats, fish and other wildlife, and humans.
 
ODNR Says ‘Fracking’ Caused Youngstown Earthquakes
 
fox8.comThe Ohio Department of Natural Resources announced new rules on Friday for the transporting and disposal of wastewater from oil and gas drilling pumped into a Youngstown injection well.
 
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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA) announced today that with respect to the pending acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary Plains Midstream Canada ULC of BP’s Canadian natural gas liquids (NGL) business, the final regulatory closing condition under the Share Purchase Agreement has been satisfied. Subject to satisfaction of other customary closing conditions, the acquisition is anticipated to close early in the second quarter of 2012.
Plains All American Pipeline Clears Final Regulatory Closing Condition for Acquisition of BP's Canad
 
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Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA) announced today that with respect to the pending acquisition by its wholly owned subsidiary Plains Mids
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After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, tons of debris was swept into the Pacific. Much of it is buoyant enough to float on the surface and can be moved around by small scale currents and large scale circulation patterns, such as the North Pacific Gyre. The gyre, bounded by the Kuroshio Current on the west, California Current on the east, and Equatorial Cur...See More
Debris from Japan Tsunami Travels Across the Pacific
 
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After the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, tons of debris was swept into the Pacific. Much of it is buoyant enough to f...
 
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Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell urged the head of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today to step up programs to analyze the potential danger of debris from last year’s Japanese tsunami to Washington’s coastal economy.
One Year after Tsunami, Cantwell Pushes NOAA to Track Tsunami Debris
 
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Washington D.C. - U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell urged the head of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration...
 
 
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The orders require U.S. nuclear plants to install or improve venting systems to limit core damage in a serious accident and to install sophisticated equipment to monitor water levels in pools of spent nuclear fuel.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission orders changes at US nuke plants in response to Japan crisis
 
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WASHINGTON — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered major safety changes for U.S. nuclear power plants Friday, two days before the one-year anniversary of the nuclear crisis in Japan.
 
 
Letter: Not that foolish
 
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Dianne Rhodes, Naples: Every four years, the American people are treated like idiots by candidates for the presidency.
 
 
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Gasoline prices follow the price of oil. They lag behind a bit when the price of oil rises and they lag behind a bit more when it falls. But as you can see above, they can still fall very fast, as they did in the last half of 2008. So what drives oil prices? The key is to realize that the oil market is a world market. This has some amazing consequences...
US Gas & Oil Prices and Price History
 
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Gasoline prices follow the price of oil. They lag behind a bit when the price of oil rises and they lag behind a bit more when it falls. But as you can see above, they can still fall very fast, as they did in the last half of 2008.
 
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“Virtually all the big challenges we face are rooted in how we extract and use energy,” Kennedy pointed out. Disasters such as the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and the BP oil spill are consequences of relying on risky energy sources. The war in Iraq, health issues from exposure to toxic emissions, and trade deficits can all be traced to reliance on fossil fuels.
KENNEDY CALLS FOR SHIFT FROM “FUEL FROM HELL” TO “PATRIOTIC FUELS FROM HEAVEN” | East County Magazi
 
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Nations that have led way in cutting carbon emissions have seen strong economic growth, RFK Jr. reveals at Forging a Sustainable Future Conference
 
Professor Drives Coast to Coast on Almost No Gasoline
 
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It turns out that Cliff Ricketts, the Tennessee agriculture professor who tried to drive across the country on 10 gallons of gasoline, overestimated. He’s completed his trip, from Tybee Island, Ga. to Long Beach, Calif., on just over two gallons of gas. “Everything went...
 
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An M6.3-class solar flare — a mid-range eruption — spewed from the surface of the sun at 10:53 p.m. ET Thursday, according to an alert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center.
Sun sends another cosmic burst in our direction
 
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The sun is continuing its active streak this week, firing off another solar flare late Thursday from the same region that produced this week's strong solar storm.
 
PM - 09/03/2012: Japanese whale hunt abandoned for second year
 
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Japanese whalers have abandoned their annual hunt for the second year running with less than a third of their target quota The season was disrupted by Sea Shepherd activists and Paul Watson from the
 
 
Sand erosion cramps nesting of olive ridley sea turtles - Story - Environment/Sci - 3 News
 
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The number of endangered olive ridley sea turtles nesting on the beaches of India's eastern Orissa state has more than halved after a severe space crunch triggered by sand erosion.
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