Deal for North Sea Cleanup
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By Mitchell Freedman, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 7--A $1.5-million settlement has been reached by 29 businesses and government entities with the New York State attorney general's office over the cost of cleanup at the old North Sea landfill in Southampton Town.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 15 (IPS) - 'Fish, pay and go'. These three words  have long been used by green and anti-poverty activists to  describe a raft of agreements, signed since 1979, under which  European Union vessels scoop up as much fish as they can find  from the waters of about 20 poor countries in the wider world.  Little, if any, heed has been paid to the damage inflicted on  marine ecology or to people living in coastal communities.
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Fishermen&#39;s leaders gave a welcome yesterday to a deal which will keep open crucial British cod fishing grounds which had been facing closure.
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Because of tight regulations enacted by the European Union in 1994, proper waste disposal  has become prohibitively expensive. Enter the black-market trash brokers, who have taken to "port hopping" - moving toxic rubbish along the line of least resistance to underregulated areas in Africa or Asia.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement on rough targets aimed at getting some of the worldâs biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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The nation's biggest oil refiner agreed yesterday to spend more than $525 million to clean up nine plants scattered across the country, effectively removing 47,000 tons of harmful pollution from the air each year.
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Signatories to the Barcelona Convention, an international agreement to protect the sea, agree to ban development within 100 meters of the coastline.
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c49800)  has announced the addition of Protecting the Marine Environment From  Land-Based Sources of Pollution to their offering.
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EU officials table a compromise to cut cod catches by 25% but allow boats to spend longer at sea.
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By JAY FITZGERALD  State environmental regulators have given a tentative thumbs up to another proposed offshore LNG unloading buoy off of Gloucester, after squeezing about $23.5 million in concessions to offset any damage to the fishing industry.
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More details emerge on British-Irish proposals to deal with the demand for visible decommissioning.
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Description: Royal Dutch/Shell agrees to pay more than $150 million to settle fraud charges in the United States and Britain. The company was accused of overstating its proven oil and gas reserves by more than 20 percent.
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Support services firm Serco Group   SRP.L is preparing a consortium to bid for state-owned   clean-up firm British Nuclear Group, the object of a takeover   offer from U.S. firm Fluor FLR.N, the Mail on Sunday   newspaper said.
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Proposals for ship-to-ship oil transfers in the Firth of Forth are pulled by the area's harbour authority.
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Business & money: Violent storms in the North Sea helped push global oil prices to new highs of just under $100 per barrel.
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Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
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CALGARY (CP) - Oil giant EnCana Corp. is selling its British North Sea operations to Nexen Inc. for $2.1 billion US and wants to dispose of its businesses in Ecuador and the Gulf of Mexico as well to focus on North America.