4. Water and River Protection: Hickenlooper likes to talk about water conservation (one of his campaign TV ads was on this topic), but he has taken strong stances in support of nearly every proposed river-draining scheme in the state.
We believe these disclosures were manifestly in the public interest, helping to expose the industrial scale on which Luxembourg has sanctioned aggressive tax-avoidance schemes, draining huge sums from public coffers beyond its borders.
In an open letter to prosecutors in the Grand Duchy, critics of the decision to prosecute Deltour argued that the leak had been "manifestly in the public interest, helping to expose the industrial scale on which Luxembourg has sanctioned aggressive tax avoidance schemes, draining huge sums from public coffers beyond its borders".
Corruption in Nigeria's state-run fuel subsidy scheme drained $6.8bn from the country's coffers over a three-year period, a parliamentary report said on Thursday.
The crannog was regarded as too fragile to preserve rather than excavate after nearby engineering works for the road scheme drained water from the site.
The government says electricity rationing will end this month, but in recent days southern Brazil, which has most of the country's population and industry, has suffered its worst power cuts in years.The government introduced rationing last May, after a prolonged drought had almost drained the hydro-electric schemes that provide more than 90% of the country's power.
The "Atlantropa" scheme proposed to form land bridges between Africa and Europe by damming and partially draining the Mediterranean, allowing millions of Europeans to find a new life in what would become the southern zone of a Eurafrican supercontinent.
And memories linger of the draining fight between the team's owners and the trustee for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
Someone, somewhere, is using the souls of the dear departed for dark schemes, and meanwhile, those conjurers who have the will to stop it find their own powers suddenly draining away.
