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Kleinefeldmaus. It's a two way street. Much of Western Europe is indeed dependent on Russian natural gas, but so is the Russian economy entirely dependent upon the sale of that same gas. Even during the worst phases of the cold war, gas continued to flow. The oil-and-gas sector accounted for 16% of GDP, and 52% of federal budget revenues (2012, probably more today). It is uncertain if Russia today could withstand a sudden decrease in revenue if the old Soviet Union couldn't.
Supertroll
Things are getting interesting - Maybe Theresa should have chased the shale option a little faster - just say'n Vlad- there eill be consequences
Kleinefeldmaus
Sainsbury’s bans "Easter" - ‘Easter eggs’ now ‘Chocolate eggs’
A member of the supermarket’s social media team shot back, asserting that Sainsbury’s feels the term “Chocolate eggs” better describes “such products”, along with “their ingredients and contents”.
“So why do you only sell them at Easter?” demanded one. “Surely a secular egg is for life not just blatant commercial exploitation.”
“They’re Easter Eggs. That’s it. Not chocolate eggs. Easter eggs. What was the rationale that drove this decision to change their name?”
Curiously, they do describe their ‘Chocolate eggs’ as ‘Easter eggs’ on their website, and claim other items in their product line do use the word ‘Easter’.
I haven't shopped in Sainsbury’s for years, another reason not to.
Pcar
Killer whales like rest of dolphins are not nice and kill for fun
but summat new scientists monitoring a Mother and son saw them go up to another pod where a mother had a new born calf and they picked off the calf Times
then while the mother held the pod off the son drowned the calf.
The mother and son danced away tossing its body between them
One of the adults from the pod had bite marks from the MALE
stewgreen
Impartial BBC ?
Then why’s R4's Jonathan Dimbleby signature on a POLITICAL letter in the Times ?
from CPRE campaigning for plastic bottle tax
Dimbers is an obvious political Green.
stewgreen
Re-Khan's divestment
A commenter says "He should fix London's unsustainable demographic change first"
Seems like Sadiq Khan is the Reverse-Midas Man
#disinivestment is playing political games with people's pensions
and NOT giving them the CHOICE
#LawOfUnintendedConsequencies
We stop corps doing bad things using laws governed by a democratic system
So we don't need Local Labour pollies tinkering
Indeed they have a poor record of picking winners
..wasting LOCAL taxpayers money
Khan is playing a POLITICAL game with peoples pensions #bad
Do politicians like Sadiq Khan have a good record at picking winners ?
Would you trust him to decide your pension scheme ?
3 days ago Shell put out it's big growth plan
Developing world will need gas/oil are London corps not going to provide it ?
Times : Shell to fuel profits growth with 10,000 petrol stations
stewgreen
SG. Didn't see the programme: she who must be obeyed took great exception to the presenters and their willingness to race with each other or demonstrate their inabilities.
I would imagine that most rusty rivers are natural, but they can be exacerbated by mining. Acidic streams (especially those originating in bogs) can leach iron and other metals upstream. When these waters are neutralized by passing across limestones, the metals are thrown out as 'rusts'. Mine wastes can cause this problem to become much worse exposing the rivers to more metals.
HTH
Supertroll
From Hone's website:
"If you live in Ireland with the lowest light levels in the world, you can typically replace up to 80% of your existing fuel with Daylight. If you live further south than France, you can replace up to 100% of that heating OR cooling load with Daylight as fuel."
Note the weasel words - "up to...".