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Sky's the limit: offshore workers lose home comforts as oil price pinches pockets

2015-06-10 01:00:00| Offshore Technology

North Sea operator Talisman Sinopec Energy has cancelled its Sky subscription and removed the service from its offshore operations in a move it says will save 600,000 a year. With a low oil price weighing heavy on companies' costs, Adam Leach looks

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Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woe

2015-06-09 17:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: High in the Rocky Mountains, snowmelt fills a stream that trickles down into Ohio Creek and then onward toward the Upper Gunnison River. From there, it tumbles through the chasms of the Black Canyon, joining the Colorado River, filling the giant Lake Powell reservoir, and, one day, flowing to Los Angeles. But before the water gets more than a few miles off the mountain, much of this stream is diverted into dirt ditches used by ranchers along the Ohio Creek Valley. Standing astride one of those...

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Squirrel blamed after 45,000 customers lose power in San Francisco bay area

2015-06-09 16:39:07| Energy - Topix.net

A squirrel knocked out power for some 45,000 energy customers in the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, according to officials and the local Contra Costa Times newspaper. Pacific Gas and Electric Company said on its Twitter account that service had been restored for virtually all those affected by the outage about 10:15 p.m. local time, but it did not provide a cause for the disruption.

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Austin Energy substation fails; thousands lose power

2015-05-30 22:53:39| Energy - Topix.net

Austin Energy says more than 5,600 hundred people have lost power in north Austin after a failure at their Tech Ridge substation along Howard Lane, just east of I-35. The outage began at 12:22 p.m., and mostly affects people east between I-35 on the west, Dessau Road on the east, Parmer Lane on the south, and Wells Branch Parkway on the north.

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