They manage a large portion of our country's fertile land base, and they are caretakers of our valuable natural resources and diverse ecosystems.

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The best-known among them include the oligarchs, the cadre of men who walked off with Russia's valuable natural resources and state-owned enterprises, often amid murky, corrupt and even violent privatizations.

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At the same time, Africa will need to assess its relationship with China very carefully, with the ultimate aim of protecting valuable natural resources from exploitation while holding China accountable for its actions on the continent.

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Some of the proposed the legislation around carbon pricing proceeds from the idea that companies do not pay the full cost of consuming valuable natural resources that also pollute the environment, and instead pass substantial costs to taxpayers.

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Customers will now have the ability to conduct missions, 24x7, through all weather conditions, across most of the planet to help solve some of the world's critical problems such as global climate change, ocean acidification, fisheries management, hurricane prediction, tsunami warning and exploration for valuable natural resources.

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If President Obama is remotely serious about saving lives in Congo, then fracturing Rwanda's ability to directly or indirectly harbor warlords, support militia gangs, militarize or ethnicize the wars in Congo for control of Congo's easily appropriable but highly valuable natural resources, is critical -- however politically disgruntling it may be to some in the State Department.

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In addition, the Canadian economy, the world's 10th biggest, is endowed with natural resources increasingly valuable in this century--like potash and uranium.

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