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Governor asks EQT official to serve on Public Utility Commission

2015-05-20 02:25:42| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

Andrew Place , the downtown Pittsburgh-based company's corporate director for energy and environmental policy, is to succeed James Cawley , whose term expired in March. Cawley remains as a commissioner on a temporary basis.

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Why did New York ban fracking? The official report is now public

2015-05-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

InsideClimate: New York issued its long-awaited environmental assessment of fracking Wednesday detailing a wide range of health and climate concerns that underpinned Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision last December to impose a statewide ban on the practice. High-volume hydraulic fracturing "raises new, significant, adverse impacts not studied" in the state's last major analysis of oil and gas development in 1992, the 2,000-page report concludes. The negative effects that fracking could bring to the state include:...

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UN Clmate Official Pans Idea of Arctic Drilling in Subtle Slap at Obama Admin

2015-05-14 14:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: The United Nations top climate official took a subtle poke at the Obama administration on Wednesday over its decision to conditionally allow oil exploration off Alaskas coast, suggesting that the Arctics oil and gas should stay underground. Despite the tentative green light given to Shell Gulf of Mexico earlier this week, both the environment and Shells stockholders would be best served if such projects are shelved, said Christiana Figueres, the executive director of the U.N. Framework Convention...

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MediaTek makes it official: New Helio X20 packs 10 cores, three CPU clusters

2015-05-12 21:13:55| Extremetech

MediaTek has taken the lid off its new Helio X20 SoC and the chip is unabashedly aimed at the high-end of the market -- but MediaTek is going to have to do some substantial back-end work to make its deca-core darling work effectively in shipping hardware.

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