amazon suspects product vendors of seeking to gain a advantage by manipulating reviews including bing mid-level amazon employees to remove negative reviews of their wares the going rate for deletion of a bad review is said to be three hundred dollars with a five dollar deletion minimum sounds like an organized racket to me amazon stock was down on the news perhaps a company might now consider responding to critics of wages and workplace safety practices if only to boost employee morale enough to plug some of those leaks. and two big stories we touched on last week are still moving markets from opposite ends of our quickly warming world and asia typhoon is dispersing across the south china sea having killed at least sixty nine people in the philippines many of those deaths occurred in a landslide that hit an illegal gold mine. camp in the village of the u. cab on the main island of luzon the mayor of the closest town says forty to fifty miners and their families were shelterin
exxon mobil british petroleum and tow tal. and for more on oil and energy we re turn to our friend rocky horner of simpler trading who joins us from beautiful and sunny fort lauderdale not like that all over thanks for being with us as always and we are seeing these energy companies like shell and others moving to reduce emissions methane and in this case i d like to think that it s in order to save the planet shift on global warming but there s got to be more than just public relations to it is that their miserable business case to be made here. great to see you thanks for having me back the business case for reducing methane i m with you on that one you know i raise and i m a skeptic on one hand i believe these companies are really just trying to parrot themselves they re trying to keep from the a.p.i. and these companies are saying look we regulate ourselves the interior department of interior the. e.p.a. you don t have to step in but the funny thing is on the flip side is
prevent further loss of life never too late to close the barn door once the horse is out i suppose and in the us latest count in that formerly hurricane florence has taken the lives of twenty three people and left over half a million homes without power most of those homes rely on duke energy which said it has already reached or restored service to millions of homes but reconnecting everyone could take weeks. and royal dutch shell is the latest in the large energy sector oil oil companies to announce that they will work to abide by methane emissions reductions targets in addition to carbon dioxide methane is one of the key culprits associated with global warming today s announcement says that shell will limit emissions to point two percent of their total oil and gas production by twenty twenty five methane in particular is a significant part of natural gas and it frequently escapes into the air from the energy infrastructure such as wells pipes storage tanks and processing pl
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