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Socapalm au Cameroun, l’épine du groupe Bolloré

Spoliation, pollution et « climat de terreur » : l'édifiante enquàªte associative sur la plantation de palmiers. Après les enquàªtes journalistiques, un collectif d'associations dévoile trois ans d'enquàªte sur la Socapalm, la plus importante plantation de palmiers du Cameroun. Une…

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Mobilisation autour des mines de la RDC

Les mines de la République démocratique du Congo ont été une fois de plus au centre d’un colloque international organisé, du 1er au 3 décembre 2010 au Musée royal de Tervuren à  Bruxelles, sous le thème : « La quàªte…

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Retailers Fight to Escape ‘Conflict Minerals’ Law

Top U.S. retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. are battling to limit a new federal law that could force them to report whether their store-brand goods contain minerals from war-torn Central Africa. The requirement, part of the Dodd-Frank…

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Lufthansa to launch commercial bio-fuel flights

Lufthansa will launch the world’s first scheduled commercial passenger flights using bio-fuel in the first half of 2011. An A321 using IAE engines will fly between Hamburg and Frankfurt using a 50-50 bio-fuel/conventional fuel blend. The daily flights will begin…

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Drug Firms Say They’ll Take Closer Look at the Docs They Pay

Several of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies said they plan to tighten screening of physicians who promote their drugs after ProPublica reported last month that more than 250 of them had been sanctioned for misconduct. Eli Lilly and Co. said…

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Shareholders approve BEE Deals

Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields) (JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) today held its AGM and a subsequent general meeting to vote on the black economic empowerment transactions, detailed in a statement on 5 August 2010. All the resolutions listed in…

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Potatoes could boost water supplies

New technology for extracting water from potatoes is being trialled by food giants PepsiCo, which owns the crisp manufacturer Walkers. They are perfecting a process to capture water released from the potatoes as they are cooked into crisps before using…

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