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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: Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, Energy, Elections, Alternative Energy
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Protesters mourn 'death of desert'
Staff WriterOCOTILLO — Protesters in grim reaper costumes stood silently holding signs early Saturday as 18-wheelers carrying wind turbine materials made hairpin turns off of Interstate 8 on their way to the construction site of a roughly $600 million wind...Tags: Renewable Energy, Activism, Energy, Interior Policy, Environmental Issues
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Siemens laying off nearly half of its Hutchinson workforce
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsEmployees at the Siemens plant in Hutchinson learned Tuesday nearly half of them will lose their jobs. “Certainly this is not only a blow to the Hutchinson community, but to the region and to the state of Kansas,” said Hutchinson City Manager...Tags: Executive Branch, Jerry Moran, Renewable Energy, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment
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Money back possibility through bonds
jnatalie-lees@aberdeennews.comFarmers who lost $2.6 million when the Anderson Seed plant in Redfield closed earlier this year are a step closer to getting back a small sum of money. Chris Nelson, South Dakota Public Utilities Commission chairman, said at a meeting in Aberdeen on...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Companies and Corporations, Renewable Energy, Washington, DC, Environmental Issues
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Coal still a burning issue in Will County
As local activists honored Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week for brokering a deal that scuttled two coal-fired power plants in Chicago, three women gathered around a dining room table in suburban Will County couldn't help but feel left out. For nearly two...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Renewable Energy, Electricity Production and Distribution, Pilsen, Alternative Energy
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Obama blocks Chinese company's purchase of 4 Oregon wind farms
Los Angeles TimesPresident Obama stepped in to nullify the acquisition of four Oregon wind farms by a Chinese-owned company, citing “credible evidence” that the company “might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United...Tags: Renewable Energy, Companies and Corporations, Elections, China, Farms
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Dog survived not one, but two bullets
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsTitan the dog is recovering from surgery to remove a second bullet. "The picture is very clear," Titan's owner, Summer Magyar says. "As well-trained as he is, it seems like somebody didn't want him anymore, and for some reason they felt the only way...Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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Grand Forks wind blade maker lays off 300
A Grand Forks, N.D., maker of wind turbine blades is laying off more than 300 workers, citing a slowdown in wind energy development and the uncertain future of a federal tax break that is important to the industry. Aberdeen's Molded Fiber Glass...Tags: Renewable Energy, Companies and Corporations, Layoffs and Downsizing, Job Layoffs, Unemployment
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Decades of federal dollars helped fuel fracking gas boom
PITTSBURGH (AP) — It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand. "The free...
Tags: Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, Companies and Corporations, Elections, American Enterprise Institute
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Siemens not alone among struggling wind power companies
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsSiemens isn't the only wind energy company worried about the future. The company just laid off nearly half its workforce and we learn it's not alone. Other Kansas companies face uncertainty. “The wind energy business has grown seriously in Kansas....Tags: Executive Branch, Renewable Energy, Companies and Corporations, Startups, Energy
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Old Crum Village: A Somerset County Ghost Town
Daily American Staff WriterCRUM— Its remnants can be found along the twisted gravel roads — paths, really — in the wooded hills between Cairnbrook and Ogletown. Hunting cabins, a cemetery and some crumbling foundations are all that remain of the village, a...Tags: Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Renewable Energy, Companies and Corporations, Book, Arts and Culture
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Blades made overseas
I read the American News every morning, even though I live in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. I noticed the layoffs of people making the wind turbine blades in Aberdeen. It makes me wonder because we have ships coming in from foreign countries to the...Tags: Brownsville, Renewable Energy, Labor Markets, Environmental Issues, Solar Energy
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