The Panama Canal’s other conflict: Water security for the population and the global economy
Two-thirds of the Panama Canal watershed’s freshwater goes to operate the locks. The country plans to build another reservoir ...
Panama A Brief History Of The Panama Canal
The US took over a bankrupt French project, backed an independence movement, and paid a $25 million ransom to get the marvel ...
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Ottawa implores court not to answer Chignecto Isthmus question
Weighing in on the authority over the Chignecto Isthmus is a waste of the Nova Scotia Appeal Court's "valuable time," federal lawyers argued Tuesday as they urged the province's highest court to ...
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Southend Suez wheelie bins audit begun ahead of big shake-up
Suez is conducting an audit to verify which households are eligible for the upcoming rollout of wheelie bins as part of improvements to waste collection services. This audit will confirm ...
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Nova Scotia Court of Appeal to hear arguments in Chignecto Isthmus funding dispute
The provinces maintain that Ottawa should pay for the entire cost of upgrading the isthmus, currently estimated at $650 million. To date, the federal government has agreed to pay $325 million ...
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Court considers Isthmus of Chignecto infrastructure funding question
In July 2023, the Nova Scotia government filed notice with the court concerning the constitutional responsibility for infrastructure that protects the interprovincial transportation, trade and ...
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As it happened: FDJ-Suez and SD Worx-Protime rivalry continues at Strade Bianche Women 2025
Here’s how it works. This race is bursting at the seams with talent. The likes of Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime), Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), Kasia ...
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LADY BRASSEY'S LAST VOYAGE
Look at the chart showing the track of the yacht Sunbeam as it turns and zig-zags from Portsmouth to the Isthmus of Suez, then goes down the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. View Full Article in ...
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The Largest Harbor in Ancient Greece Is Centuries Older Than We Thought
The port was built on an isthmus, a narrow neck of land with sea on either side such as where the Panama and Suez canals are built, where it served as a nexus between the Ionian and Aegean seas ...
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The Challenges of Democracy — tyranny of the majority
Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world As the first five weeks of the second Trump presidency have unfolded, it has been hard to put a label on the events in ...
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The Suez Canal.
It is this same vague, indefinable fear that makes her now oppose the French project of a canal across the isthmus of Suez -- a work so imperatively demanded in the present advanced state of ...
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She refused to pay her "unjust" $100 fine On This Day in History The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of Suez and was built ...