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Cape Wind Scrambling to Meet Deadline to Qualify for $780 Million Taxpayer Gift
2013-12-28 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Energy Collective: Cape Wind is the leading offshore wind energy project in the United States. In 2001, more than 12 years ago, Jim Gordon, the project founder, started the process of promoting his vision of a building a 430 MWe (peak capacity) field of 130 massive (rotor diameter 110 m, hub height 80 m, nacelle weight 100 tons) turbines. Gordon chose his location, a shallow water area in Nantucket Sound off of the coast of Cape Cod, because it was one of the best available areas in US waters for a wind installation....
Some call taxpayer $14 billion to crop insurers money laundering
2013-09-16 17:49:38| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Greenberg's Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. is one of 18 companies approved to get federal cash for insuring farmers against loss of crops or income.
Taxpayer $14B to crop insurers some call money laundering
2013-09-11 03:36:40| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Former American International Group Inc. chief Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has a new business partner: the U.S. taxpayer.
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HS2 'could cost taxpayer 80bn'
2013-08-18 06:41:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The HS2 high-speed rail project could cost taxpayers more than 80bn, almost double the current estimated cost, says a free-market think tank.
Senate Bill Would Reduce Taxpayer Subsidies for CEO Pay
2013-08-02 21:37:18| Beverages - Topix.net
A bill introduced late yesterday by Senators Richard Blumenthal and Jack Reed would close a loophole that currently serves as a taxpayer subsidy for excessive CEO pay.