TURBINES ON THE WATER A BAD IDEA
Chatham Daily News Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:22 PM PDT
Sir:The recent announcement issued by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment for proposed wind turbine farms in the Great Lakes is deeply disturbing and an example on how far we will go in destroying ourselves in the name of green energy; in this case, electricity and job creation.[...] |
Chavez Orders Extended Holiday to Save Electricity Amid Crisis
Bloomberg Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:08 PM PDT
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez decreed three extra days off in the week before Easter to save electricity and water amid an energy crisis that is threatening to collapse the power grid. |
Green Jobs May Surge 44% Within Five Years, U.K. Lawmakers Say
BusinessWeek Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:05 PM PDT
Britain may employ 44 percent more people in “green jobs†by 2015 working on renewable power, carbon capture and storage and efforts to make homes and businesses more energy-efficient, a panel of lawmakers said. |
Colin Blakemore: how the human brain got bigger by accident and not through evolution
Guardian Unlimited Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:03 PM PDT
Oxford neurobiologist Colin Blakemore tells Robin McKie why he thinks a mutation in the human brain 200,000 years ago suddenly made us a super-intelligent species According to Woody Allen, it is his second favourite organ and it absorbs more than 25% of the energy that our bodies generate. But why? For what purposes did the human brain evolve and why does it take so much of our physiological ... |
Maple Energy Seeks U.S. Partners to Develop Gas Find (Update1)
Bloomberg Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:59 PM PDT
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Maple Energy Plc , a crude and natural-gas producer with operations in Peru, plans to meet with U.S. producers to line up a partner to develop its Peruvian shale gas discovery, General Manager Guillermo Ferreyros said. |
Frozen Four back at Xcel in 2011; will U be?
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:48 PM PDT
The Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul will be the site of the Frozen Four for the second time next year. Fans of the Gophers, who have missed advancing to the NCAA tournament the past two seasons, can only hope history repeats itself. |
California Landmark, the Queen Mary, Goes Dark for Earth Hour
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:43 PM PDT
The Long Beach skyline will look drastically different as the city's iconic landmark, the Queen Mary, shuts off her lights from 8:30-9:30 p.m. in collaboration with Earth Hour, an international event sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund bringing awareness to climate change and energy conservation. |
Wealthy landowners make millions in the wind rush
Times Online Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:36 PM PDT
SOME of Britain’s richest landowners are set to earn millions by building wind farms to exploit the lucrative system of subsidies for generating renewable energy. |
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