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24 July 2010

Traffic Drivers, July 19-23

  1. There is a green hill (not so far away)
  2. Telly web design sucks, kills RSS feed to popular content
  3. Drill baby drill:  Dunderdale rebuffs Quebec concerns about border, offshore oil spills
  4. Government website still POS
  5. Scientists find new sea creatures near deep water oil exploration sites
  6. New 500 MW intertie for NS and NB
  7. The Irish Miracle
  8. Forever blowing bubbles
  9. Fragile economy – the Public Sector
  10. Semrau guilty on one count, not guilty on others

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