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Los Angeles Halts Using Electricity From Coal Plants
2013-03-20 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Los Angeles will become the biggest U.S. city to abandon coal-fueled electricity after the taxpayer- owned utility said it will support renewable sources, boost energy efficiency and build a new natural-gas fired plant. The citys Department of Water and Power, the nations largest municipal-owned utility, will phase out the electricity it imports from the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona and Intermountain Power in Utah, according to a statement yesterday. The two coal plants provide 39 percent...
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Japan: Power Blackout Halts Cooling at Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-03-18 23:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: A power blackout occurred today at Japan`s damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, knocking out the system that cools four pools of water holding spent fuel rods. Operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, said the blackout took place just before 7 pm Monday. The affected system is used to cool three pools containing about 2,100 spent fuel rods from the plant`s number 1, 3, and 4 reactors, which suffered core meltdowns in the week following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that...
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Windows RT takes a hit as Samsung halts European sales of Ativ Tab tablets
2013-03-07 13:47:34| InfoWorld: Top News
Windows RT, Microsoft's first tablet-focused operating system, is not proving to be a hit in Europe. Actually, demand on the old continent is so weak that Samsung will reportedly stop sales of its Windows RT tablet in Germany.
Saudi petrochemical giant Sabic halts plans to build $5.3 billion methanol complex in Trinidad
2013-03-03 20:55:24| Chemicals - Topix.net
SPAIN, Trinidad - Petrochemical giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp. says it is halting plans to develop a $5.3 billion methanol complex in the energy-rich Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Shell halts 2013 drilling plans in Alaska's Arctic seas
2013-02-28 10:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Royal Dutch Shell will not drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic seas this year, the company said Wednesday in a widely expected decision that follows a series of high-profile setbacks in 2012. Both critics and supporters of Shell's controversial Arctic offshore foray welcomed its decision to give up on drilling there for 2013 while the company tries to get its drill ships ready and answers to U.S. investigators. Michael LeVine, senior Pacific counsel for environmental group Oceana in Juneau, Alaska,...
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