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Blown away by the attacks on wind-power subsidy
To hear business leaders and political candidates talk, proper industrial policy comprises only three elements: a fair tax system, a level playing field and "certainty." So why is it that all three are about to be thrown out the window as a sop to oil,...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Environmental Issues, Energy, Taxation, Solar Energy
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Voters get to decide whether large projects get state grants
At its root, Referred Law 14 is a question of whether voters want to earmark, for a special purpose, 22 percent of the many millions of dollars that they and others pay in contractor excise taxes on projects from handyman repairs and home remodeling, to...Tags: Laws, Executive Branch, Environmental Issues, Judges, Solar Energy
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Letters to the editor
How the federal debt would look in terms of a household Editor: The information below cuts thru political hype and helps put things into perspective. Let's remove eight zeros from the federal figures and pretend it's a household budget: U.S. Tax...
Tags: Credit and Debt, Federal Reserve, Parties and Movements, Government Debt, Taxation
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Massive turbines rise in Ocotillo
Staff WriterFor Don Quixote, windmills were monstrous giants, some with arms nearly two leagues long. But for El Centro resident Efren Ramos, windmills such as the 112 being built west of here, are the source of income that pay for his daughter’s wedding....Tags: Alternative Energy, Laws, Environmental Issues, Trials, Engineering
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Harnessing offshore wind power could fuel jobs in Hampton Roads
Harnessing wind power off the mid-Atlantic coast could generate more than 70,000 jobs in the region over 10 years, according to an industry study released last week at a trade conference in Virginia Beach. And Hampton Roads with its shipbuilding...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Hampton Roads
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Wind energy town hall set in Virginia Beach
A Virginia Beach gathering of offshore wind advocates and national industry leaders is coming to a close with a town hall meeting on the green energy. The meeting Thursday night will include a representative from the Offshore Wind Development...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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Tuscarora school officials consider installing a wind turbine
waynesboro@herald-mail.comTuscarora School District officials are looking to the sky as they try to expand learning opportunities for middle- and high-schoolers. The district is exploring funding opportunities to install a wind turbine on the school campus. Engineering plans soon...Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Engineering, Science and Technology, Technology
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Two new Kansas wind farms now operating
Kansas' largest electric utility says new wind farms in central and southwest Kansas are now producing power for its customers. Westar Energy has agreements with the developers of the wind farms to buy up to 369 megawatts of electricity from them....
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Westar Energy Incorporated, Duke Energy Corporation, Solar Energy
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Funding for wind energy incentive
Nothing puts a spoonful of dread in your morning coffee like this news: 90 jobs lost at the Molded Fiber Glass. Jobs lost from the local economy usually means people lost, which means more jobs lost as the customer base shrinks. Type "vicious circle"...Tags: Alternative Energy, Credit and Debt, Environmental Issues, Google Inc., Taxation
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Colebrook Wind Farm Opponents Lose, In a Flawed System
The Hartford CourantOpponents of the planned wind farms in Colebrook have lost their case in state Superior Court, as a judge said their claims that the six turbines, as tall as a 40-story building, would not unduly hurt the environment or harm the neighbors. The two...Tags: West Hartford, Alternative Energy, Environmental Issues, Judges, Mountains
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Fracking opposition goes too far
Recently, my colleague from Montgomery County, Del. Heather Mizeur, took to the pages of this newspaper to proclaim her intentions to introduce a ban on hydraulic fracturing ("No studies? No fracking," Sept. 13). Her motivation is simple: Because the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Maryland General Assembly, Headaches, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Energy proposal raises debate over costs, jobs
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A proposal to require that Michigan utilities steadily boost their use of renewable energy sources over the next dozen years is stirring a whirlwind of competing claims about costs, jobs and spinoff issues that could...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Environmental Issues, Bill Schuette, Consumers, Energy
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Oct 3, 2012
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Oct 2, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Oct 1, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
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