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As Californias Drought Deepens, a Sense of Dread Grows
2014-01-17 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Cattle ranchers have had to sell portions of their herd for lack of water. Sacramento and other municipalities have imposed severe water restrictions. Wildfires broke out this week in forests that are usually too wet to ignite. Ski resorts that normally open in December are still closed; at one here in the Sierra Nevada that is open, a bear wandered onto a slope full of skiers last week, apparently not hibernating because of the balmy weather. On Friday, Gov. Jerry Brown made it official: California...
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Inside California's $25 billion plot to save its water supply
2014-01-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Behind many of the shiny fruits and vegetables in the produce aisle, there's a decidedly ominous backstory: California, supplier of much of our domestic produce, is just one earthquake away from drying up. The problem is that most of the state's agricultural water, as well as drinking water for large parts of Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, San Diego, and other major metropolitan areas, comes from a vast estuary northeast of the San Francisco Bay. It's an estuary that's about to collapse. The Sacramento-San...
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Is California's Monterey Shale a major oil resource or over-hyped?
2013-12-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EnergyWire: In the fight over hydraulic fracturing in California, opponents of the drilling process frequently argue that restrictions are needed because of the potential for a massive oil boom in the state. There could be rapid expansion, they warn, if oil companies find a way to extract petroleum trapped in the state's Monterey Shale formation. Now a report says that the hype over the Monterey Shale may be overblown. An analysis funded by the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) and Physicians, Scientists...
Californias Discovery Science Center Selects Energy Storage for Southern California Edison Project
2013-11-14 17:00:00| Transmission & Distribution World
GE Energy Storage will participate in a load-shifting project at Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana, California. read more
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REC Solar Expands to Californias Inland Empire
2013-11-13 21:57:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
REC Solar will open its 11th office in California to meet the growing demand for solar in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. read more
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