EXCLUSIVE MINING has disturbed a whopping 220,000 hectares of Queensland land, yet just 550ha or 0.25 per cent has been properly rehabilitated. Government data shows just 18,000ha, eight per cent, of the 220,000ha total has been “progressively rehabilitated”. For scale, the proposed Adani mega-mine is expected to disturb 28,000ha that will need to be rehabilitated…
Russell Findlay Gregory Kings creditors include pension funds, investment funds and family trustsJULIAN ANDREWS A lawyer who was at the centre of a fraud investigation into his collapsed global finance company has become Scotlands biggest bankrupt with personal debts of about £120 million. Gregory King, 49, was declared bankrupt by a Gibraltar court last summer…
EXCLUSIVE MINING has disturbed a whopping 220,000 hectares of Queensland land, yet just 550ha or 0.25 per cent has been properly rehabilitated. Government data shows just 18,000ha, eight per cent, of the 220,000ha total has been “progressively rehabilitated”. For scale, the proposed Adani mega-mine is expected to disturb 28,000ha that will need to be rehabilitated…
By Jonathan Stempel and Carolyn Cohn U.S. charges 10 in alleged global stock fraud involving a Picasso NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday unveiled criminal charges against 10 defendants, including London-based brokerage Beaufort Securities Ltd, over their alleged roles in a more than $50 million stock fraud and a laundering…
Buy Photo Around 70% of college students, including many at Marquette University, take out loans to pay for school.(Photo: Michael Sears / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo The numbers alone are staggering. Around 70% of college students take out loans to pay for school. The average loan amount per borrower is more than $30,000. About 10% of…
EXCLUSIVE MINING has disturbed a whopping 220,000 hectares of Queensland land, yet just 550ha or 0.25 per cent has been properly rehabilitated. Government data shows just 18,000ha, eight per cent, of the 220,000ha total has been “progressively rehabilitated”. For scale, the proposed Adani mega-mine is expected to disturb 28,000ha that will need to be rehabilitated…
On March 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson signed a law granting U.S. citizenship to the residents of Puerto Rico. But 101 years later, the federal government, by abandoning the island in the wake of a crippling debt crisis and an even more devastating hurricane, is treating Puerto Ricans like citizens in name only. Washingtons failure…
EXCLUSIVE MINING has disturbed a whopping 220,000 hectares of Queensland land, yet just 550ha or 0.25 per cent has been properly rehabilitated. Government data shows just 18,000ha, eight per cent, of the 220,000ha total has been “progressively rehabilitated”. For scale, the proposed Adani mega-mine is expected to disturb 28,000ha that will need to be rehabilitated…
Builders are being urged not to take on more than they can manage as Hawke’s Bay’s building boom continues apace, after the collapse of one of the region’s major building names. Latest statistics show resource consent was granted for 42 new homes in Hawke’s Bay in January, eight more than the same month last year.…
ROHNERT PARK, Calif., March 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The benefits of having a college degree, not the least of which include increased earnings potential for college graduates, have been well-documented. First-generation students may be especially excited to see increased earnings in their future and to experience that social mobility. However, because of the high costs…