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Drumbeat: December 23, 2009
16 hours ago ago from The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future
NYC urges ban on shale gas drilling in watershed NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City urged New York state on Wednesday to ban natural gas drilling in its watershed, adding unprecedented support to critics who consider the chemicals used to mine for shale gas as poisonous to drinking water. The biggest city in the United States joined environmentalists and small-town neighbors of drilling operations in trying to hinder the exploitation of one ...
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11 hours ago ago from Gold Speculator
Source: Interviewed by Karen Roche, Publisher, The Energy Report 12/23/2009 Cheap and attractive, especially in contrast to high-priced oil, natural gas holds some appeal for Stansberry & Associates Investment Research founder Porter Stansberry. He's not exactly a hearty bull about it because the supply glut will keep prices depressed. But on the other hand, he definitely likes the looks of natural gas in emerging markets. As for oil, ...
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10 hours ago ago from The Green Bay 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Green Bay, WI
Building a house is certainly not an easy task. A huge amount of money, resource and time is involved in building a house. With rising cost of living and price of goods, things have become all the more difficult for an average citizen. A basic necessity like shelter has become a dream for many. However, constructing a house that is cost effective is not a difficult task. It is indeed not difficult to build affordable green homes. These homes ...
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19 hours ago ago from refuge west
DECEMBER 23, 2009 By JIM CARLTON, Wall Street Journal The green building movement is targeting a goal once thought virtually unattainable: zero net energy use. While the trend is nascent, dozens of "net zero" and "near net zero" developments -- projects designed to use only about as much power from the public grid as they can save or produce on their own -- have sprung up across the U.S. over the past five years. In Greenfield, Mass., ...
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Regina Hopper: Natural Gas: A Made-in-America Opportunity
13 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
U.S. leaders are returning from Copenhagen with fresh global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They're also heading home for the holidays preparing for an election year when jobs and the economy will be issue #1 at kitchen tables across America. As our nation looks to establish its bona fides on clean energy, while putting Americans back to work, one often overlooked domestic resource stands abundantly ready--right here and ...
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12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
The sun set at 4:22pm at latitude 47.3. It will set about a minute later tomorrow. The days are finally getting longer again. We also turned the corner on the Great Recession; at least the leading indicators look that way. That is little reassurance to the 20% of the workforce that is unemployed or underemployed as we close the year. Federal stimulus spending saved a reported 640,329 jobs with 250,000 of them in education--nearly all in ...
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