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The Postal Service finished 2003 with a $3.9 <a href=https://www.stanley-cups.de>stanley cup billion surplus, which will help keep postal rates where they are until 2006, postal officials said Tuesday.The bottom line was $300 million better than had been expected for the 2003 fiscal year, which ended in September. Nearly all of th
stanley cup e surplus was used to reduce the agency s outstanding debt.The results will enable the Postal Service to help keep the commitment to hold the current rates stable through 2006, Postmaster General John Potter told the agency s board of governors. Chief financial officer Richard Strasser said the results were achieved despite a decline in first-class mail and noted that the Postal Service had been able to make significant savings through a reduction in staff and other cost-cutting. Recognizing early in the fiscal year the delayed economic recovery and its negative impact on mail volume, our managers adjusted resources
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BOSTON AP 鈥?Environmentalists are again taking aim at the company that proposed the Keystone XL pipeline 鈥?this time for another of its projects they fear would send hundreds of supertankers laden with crude oil down the Atlantic coast to refineries in Texas and Louisiana.TransCanada is behind the Energy East Pipeline project, a 4,600-kilometer pipeline, or nearly 3,000 miles, that would carry crude oil from tar sands in Western Canada to the East Coast, where it would then be shipped to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast. When completed, the project would carry 1.1-million barrels of crude oil every day from Alberta and Saskatchewan to refineries in Eastern Canada.Plans call for converting a natural gas line for part of the route and then building a new pipeline in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Eastern Ontario, Qu茅bec and New Brunswick to connect to the existing pipeline.The Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Cl <a href=https://www.asicsgel.de>asics gel ub and other environmental groups are concerned about potential spills of tar sands diluted bitumen along the route in Canada that goes over thousands of rivers, streams and lakes. They also warned a spill along the East Coast could prove devastating to communities th
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af1 eleasing a report , Tar Sands in the Atlantic Ocean: Transcanada s Proposed Energy East Pipeline, that lays out their case against the proj
