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Head of New York's tax-free initiative says program will address ...
2013-10-23 14:06:28| Footwear - Topix.net
The banking executive chosen to oversee Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tax-free business recruitment initiative said Tuesday the program will create jobs, boost the state's economy and improve the state's competitive position.
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United States: The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
2013-10-21 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost estimates for nuclear power. The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour. The Royal Academy of Engineering confidently predicted 2.3p. The British government announced that in 2020 the price would be between 3 and 4p. The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible. It falls a penny short of the...
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The shale-gas boom wont do much for climate change. But it will make us a bit richer.
2013-10-21 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The shale-gas boom in the United States won't do much to cut U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions or tackle global warming. That's because, in addition to killing off coal-fired plants, cheap gas will also edge out cleaner energy sources like wind, solar, and nuclear. On the other hand, the glut of natural gas from fracking will make the country a bit wealthier and clean up other air pollutants in the decades ahead. Those are the conclusions of a big new report from Stanford's Energy Modeling Forum,...
Saving old pulp mill icons on Bellingham waterfront will be costly
2013-10-15 06:00:10| Paper - Topix.net
Turning old equipment from the Georgia-Pacific Corp. mill into monuments to waterfront industrial history won't be cheap, City Council members learned Monday, Oct. 14. Tara Sundin, city economic development manager, told council members that it would likely cost between $1.1 million and $2.7 million to stabilize two big tan ceramic tanks, and to ... (more)
Debate emerges over whether shale oil boom will bust
2013-10-15 04:24:46| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Despite projections from folks in the field that the multibillion-dollar shale oil industry can make the U.S. the world's top oil producer by 2020, there are still some who say those wells could run dry.
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