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* Merger would create chemicals giant with $100 bln in
annual revs

CALGARY, Alberta/NEW YORK, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Pipeline
sabotage by environmental activists that shook the North
American energy industry this week had its roots in a 2013
protest off Massachusetts, when two men in a 32-foot lobster
boat blocked a 40,000-ton coal shipment to a power station.

(Fri, 14 Oct 2016) The recovery, or recycling, of paper and paperboard has increased from 34% of supply in 1990 to 67% of supply in 2015. Most of this recovered paper is consumed in the United States, but some is exported. Based on data from the American Forest and Paper Association, domestic consumption of recovered paper at U.S. mills increased to 31 million tons in 2015, while net recovered paper exports increased to 21 million tons.

BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A senior Chinese official who
worked in anti-corruption departments for almost 20 years has
been jailed for life for graft, state news agency Xinhua said on
Friday.

BEIJING, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Chinese state-owned chemical
companies Sinochem Group and ChemChina are in discussions about
a possible merger to create a chemicals, fertiliser and oil
company with almost $100 billion annual revenue, three sources
familiar with the matter said.

* But doubts over planned OPEC-led cuts still weigh on crude

(Recasts on higher prices, adds comment)

* Analysts doubt a planned OPEC-led cut will rebalance
markets

DHAKA/BEIJING Oct 14 (Reuters) - China is set to sign off on
loans worth over $24 billion to Bangladesh during President Xi
Jinping's visit on Friday, Dhaka's biggest foreign credit line
to date that will help it build power plants, a seaport and
railways.

Oct 13 (Reuters) - Singer Neil Young, actor Mark Ruffalo and
other celebrities on Thursday joined in calling for charges to
be dropped against a documentary maker arrested while filming
protesters who shut down oil pipelines from Canada to the United
States, saying that she was acting as a journalist.

DHAKA/BEIJING Oct 14 (Reuters) - China is set to sign off on
loans worth over $24 billion to Bangladesh during President Xi
Jinping's visit on Friday, Dhaka's biggest foreign credit line
to date that will help it build power plants, a seaport and
railways.

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