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30 Nov 09

The United States is a World Leader in Humanitarian Mine Action

  • having provided more than $1.5 billion since 1993 to mitigate the threat from landmines and explosive remnants of war in nearly 50 countries.
  • U.S. involvement in humanitarian demining began in 1988 in Afghanistan
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02 Nov 09

The Associated Press: As US looks for exit in Afghanistan, China digs in

  • At a former al-Qaida stronghold southeast of the Afghan capital, a state-owned Chinese company is at work on a $3 billion mine project to tap one of the world's largest unexploited copper reserves, a potential financial boon for an impoverished country mired in war.
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02 Oct 09

Misleading ‘energy sprawl’ study pollutes climate debate. In fact, clean energy protects our land while dirty energy destroys it. « Climate Progress

  • In fact, modern wind turbines are so tall that they take up very, very little land — allowing virtually all of the surrounding  land to be used for other purposes, including farming.
  • “the habitat impact of the Mount Storm Wind Farm in the first image [below left] is assumed to be 25% greater than the impact of the 12,000 acre Hobet mountaintop removal mine in the second image (images are taken from the same altitude and perspective; the bright connect-the-dots feature in the windfarm image is the actual area disturbed
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