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County closer to selling methane
Feb 08 - Messenger-Inquirer, Ky. - Daviess Fiscal Court moved a step closer Tuesday to being able to sell methane gas from the West Daviess County Landfill and turn the waste gas into electricity. More...
Alpha announces layoffs in Ky. and W. Va.
Feb 7 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Cris Ritchie The Hazard Herald, Ky. - Another coal company is reducing its workforce in Eastern Kentucky. More...
Lima Energy seeks permit extension
Feb 8 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Tom Harrison The Lima News, Ohio - The company attempting to build a clean energy plant at the site of the former Lima Locomotive Works has filed for an extension on a state siting permit that expires today. More...
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Strip mining plan reduced
Feb 7 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Joy Campbell Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. - Western Kentucky Minerals has withdrawn four parcels from its rezoning application for strip mining in the Pleasant Ridge community, reducing the proposal for its initial request to about 385 acres. More...
Proposed Utah mine expansion reflects politics of coal
Feb 7 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kate Linthicum Los Angeles Times - REPORTING FROM PANGUITCH, Utah -- It was the simple beauty of the sagebrush hills and the first-rate fishing that drew Vince Salvato here 15 years ago. More...
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Officials Return From Western Gas Fields ‘Invigorated’

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Biomass Densification

Blogger Photo By Salman Zafar -   In a typical biomass pre-processing facility, feedstock arrives at the plant in chops or bales. The bales are cut more...

USAGAPP.com USA Green jobs now.Org Secures bids for smart grid inspections 2012 summer. Green Electr

Blogger Photo By Ron Vogt - USAGAPP.com USA Green jobs now.Org Secures bids for smart grid inspections 2012 summer. Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 million) USAGAPP.com more...

Commissioners visit New Mexico for natural gas conference The Daily Review

By Da Roberts -   TOWANDA - While Bradford County has experienced extensive gas drilling for a few years, what will it be like more...

Disruption – Where Art Thou? Notes from Distributech

Blogger Photo By Martin Rosenberg - There is all the glitter – the gleaming transmission widgets, the towering consultants’ tents. Tons of wall-to-wall eye candy for more...
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Shale Gas -- Friend or Foe

By Richard Goodwin
Since I reside in Palm Beach County, FL, I pay attention to my local electricity rates, provided by Florida Power & Light [FPL] -- a regulated utility. Recently, FPL lowered its rates by about 2% more...
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Trillion Dollar Opportunities

By Jim Hartung
During the last decade, technologies have been developed and demonstrated at scale to economically produce natural gas from shale rock formations. As a result, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that the US has about more...
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Natural Gas...A Game Changer?

By Sam Mutasem
There is certainly an abundance of advocates for renewable energy; Wind, Solar, and Nuclear, which I support as an important part of the power supply portfolio. At the same time we have a shortage of more...
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Prevention and Control Module for Spontaneous Combustion of Coal at Coal Yards

By S. Deepak Kumar
Spontaneous combustion of coal is a common concern within the coal stockyard of thermal power plants due to the direct effect that energy losses have on financial performance. As coal is the primary fuel for more...
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The Oil Price Closely Observed

By Ferdinand E. Banks
When recently asked why the (West Texas Intermediate) oil price at the end of June (2011) had declined from 112 dollars per barrel (=$112/b) to almost 90$/b in a fairly short time, I informed some more...
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