N.Hydro confirms lost Greenland project to Alcoa
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Norwegian industrial group Norsk Hydro   acknowledged on Wednesday it had lost out to U.S.  rival Alcoa  to build a large aluminum smelter and  related hydropower capacity in Greenland.
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Shares of Alcan Inc. rose after reports of possible takeover offers from Norsk Hydro ASA and Rio Tinto Group raised expectations of a bidding war with Alcoa Inc. for the Canadian aluminum producer.
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Coeur d&#39;Alene Mines Corp. has conceded defeat in its hostile takeover bid of Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. of British Columbia. Chairman Dennis Wheeler said the company would allow an offer for outstanding stock
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A NASA-led research team has returned from Greenland after an annual three-week mission to check the health of its glaciers and ice sheet. About 82 percent of Greenland is made up of a giant ice sheet.
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PITTSBURGH, July 12 -- Alcoa withdrew its $28 billion offer to buy Canadian aluminum rival Alcan on Thursday after being outbid by mining giant Rio Tinto.
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Finnish energy concerns announced Friday a $680-million-US deal to buy hydroelectricity from Norway's E-CO Vannkraft during the next 15 years.
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By JAIME ESPANTALEON  OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian cruise ship that ran aground on a remote Antarctic island leaked 130 to 200 gallons of diesel oil in the fragile environment, the Norwegian Polar Institute said Friday.
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PARIS, Nov 13 (IPS) - The cancellation of a gold mining contract in  French Guiana has placed the spotlight on another project that is  continuing in Guatemala, at disastrous cost to local people and  the environment.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Jun. 21--The Energy Department awarded EnergySolutions a $98.4 million  contract Wednesday to begin removing 16 million tons of uranium tailings and  contaminated soil from the banks of the Colorado River near Moab.   But Rep.
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CALGARY - EnCana Corp. is selling its North Sea operations for $2.1 billion US in cash to another Canadian company, Nexen Inc. The UK subsidiary of EnCana has a stake in three oilfields, plus interests in
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The sprawling fish processing plant that once dominated the downtown waterfront of this Arctic town is gone, with workers racing in the Polar darkness to build its replacement, a sparkling new cultural center.
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Nevtah Capital Management (PINKSHEETS: NTAH) and its joint venture partner, Black Sands Energy, have signed an agreement to acquire a key leasehold property within the richest portion of the Sunnyside Deposit in the Utah Oil Sands.
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CACOUNA, Que. (CP) - TransCanada Corp. and Petro-Canada have agreed to develop a liquefied natural gas facility in Quebec that will cost $660 million to build.
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WASHINGTON - An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, N.M., the department disclosed Thursday.    The Energy Department said that an "accounting discrepancy" involving three copies of a "controlled removable electronic media" - or CREM - was found at the regional office as part of the nationwide inventory of such devices...
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WASHINGTON -- An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department&#39;s regional office in Albuquerque, NM, the department disclosed Thursday.
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Alcoa Inc. is restarting its Jamalco alumina refinery in Jamaica after the plant escaped serious damage from Hurricane Ivan. But Alcoa said damage elsewhere in the country was leading it to declare force majeure on supply contracts.
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A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared &#151; and scientists want to know why.