Those tours were on a 1.5-mile section in a 2, 000-acre park called the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, and the permits sold out in a matter of hours, denying large numbers of river lovers a legal chance to ply the waters.

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The more populous states of Queensland and New South Wales (NSW) comprise four-fifths of the basin's area.

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It lies in the Great Basin, an area where the earth's crust is thin and cracked, so it has great potential as a producer of geothermal power.

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Moreover, the fiscal, monetary and macroeconomic effects will be significant as the Levant Basin, the area of the Leviathan and other fields, emerges as a source of energy exports.

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Their journeys eventually led them to the Sheenjek River basin the area that would one day form the heart of the ANWR.

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And because of its location in a basin, pollution in the Los Angeles area caused by diesel exhaust, barges, locomotives and other sources tends to stay put, says Janice Nolen, assistant vice president with National Policy and Advocacy for the American Lung Association.

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Some of the biggest employers in the area include MDU Resources Group, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Cloverdale Foods, Sanford Health, St.

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There are only a few restaurants in the Big Sky base area and just one at Moonlight Basin: Others require a 15-minute drive or longer.

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It covers an area roughly half the size of France within the Upper Paraguay River Basin, extending over the border into Paraguay and Bolivia.

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