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Showing posts with label UNESCO World Heritage Site. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNESCO World Heritage Site. Show all posts
17 August 2009

Route around park shorter

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Contrary to claims by project supporters going around the province’s second UNESCO World Heritage site at Gros Morne would produce a shorter...
15 August 2009

A mid-summer night’s gambol

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“Love”, as Shakespeare put it, “looks not with the eyes, but with the mind and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” Of all the politi...
29 July 2009

The Wookey Hole Witch

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Wookey Hole Caves, near the village of Wookey, Somerset held a competition recently for the post of witch at the local tourist attraction. ...
26 July 2009

Tourism industry association caves on Gros Morne hydro towers

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The province’s hospitality industry now supports the provincial government’s plans for Gros Morne national park, expressing their belief tha...
04 July 2009

Gros Morne international status threatened

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Gros Morne national park could lose its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site if NALCOR Energy, the provincial government’s oil, gas ...
13 June 2009

Global oil round-up

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Some randomly selected articles from around the world on the current state of the oil industry. 1.  Omani oil revenues in the first four ...
25 February 2009

“The most serious threat to Gros Morne”

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A report prepared as part of the 1987 application process to declare Gros Morne a World Heritage site labelled proposed transmission lines t...

Gros Morne controversy hits the Globe

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Only a couple of weeks ago the tinfoil hat brigade was crowing because one of their cherished delusions made it to the Globe. Then the Pre...
23 February 2009

Williams backs hydro lines through UNESCO World Heritage Site; protests mount on line

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Danny Williams sees no problem. “When park officials look at what the trade-off happens to be for the benefits we get at the end of d...