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United Kingdom: EDF confirms it wants 40-year contracts to build nuclear plants
2013-02-19 21:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Electricity firm EDF has confirmed it wants the UK government to sign 40-year contracts to support building new nuclear reactors in Britain as the national energy regulator warned prices are likely to rise higher than expected. The French-owned company is in talks with ministers over "contracts for difference" funding, under which the government guarantees generators will be paid a minimum price for electricity from new nuclear plants: if the market price falls lower than this "strike price"...
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Net Farm Income Reaches 40-Year High
2013-02-15 20:37:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC USDA has forecasted that the 2013 net farm income will be $128.2 billion, the highest since 1973, according to USDAs 2013 farm income forecast. read more