State Senators Oil Bill Would Put NCs Coastal Tourism and Fishing Jobs at Risk
PitchEngine Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:43 PM PDT
Chapel Hill, N.C.North Carolina Republican senators today moved to put North Carolinas coast at risk to oil spills on the one-year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster despite the harm witnessed to life in and around the Gulf of Mexico, said the Southern Environmental Law Center. The bill S709 would redirect efforts away from alternative energy and force the states governor and... |
Zatlers speaks in favor of nuclear power
Baltic Times Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:36 PM PDT
RIGA - Twenty-five years after he was sent to Chernobyl in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the experience remains etched in the memory of Latvian President Valdis Zatlers, reports AFP. But the physician-turned-politician still backs atomic energy, and is unfazed by the crisis over Japan’s earthquake and tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant, saying it is crucial to ... |
RPI wins $1.5 million nuclear safety grant
Albany Times Union Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:36 PM PDT
TROY -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has won a $1.5 million grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration for a nuclear safety research program and lab. The money will come from the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Criticality Safety Program, which is managed by NNSA. RPI Professor Yaron Danon will lead the new program, which will study how to make more accurate predictions of ... |
Oil settles above $111 per barrel on Wednesday
Albany Times Union Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:35 PM PDT
Oil settled above $111 per barrel Wednesday as the dollar weakened and the government reported an unexpected drop in U.S. crude supplies. The Energy Information Administration reported that U.S. oil supplies unexpectedly shrank by 2.3 million barrels last week. |
International Leaders Visit the Chornobyl Site in Ukraine
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:35 PM PDT
Today, the Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych together with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Director of International Atomic Energy Agency , Yukiya Amano visited Chornobyl nuclear power plant and examined the exact model of its 4th reactor in its current state. |
CEO Updates ERHC Energy Shareholders
citybizlist Houston Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:34 PM PDT
HOUSTON, TX -- ERHC Energy Inc. (OTCBB: ERHE), a publicly traded American company with oil and gas a... |
Where 2.0 Announcements - 4/20/11
All Points Blog Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:34 PM PDT
Foursquare Everywhere, announced earlier this year, puts Foursquare content on Bing Maps. It's now available. And, CEO Dennis Crowley said the company will put some energy into using people's future location rather than their current one in future features per GigaOM. Fwix updated its... Continue reading |
Light at Winter and Maumee to be out Thursday evening
The Daily Telegram Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:32 PM PDT
Consumers Energy will be working in the intersection of Winter and Maumee streets on Thursday, April 21, beginning around 7 p.m. The traffic signal in this intersection will be temporarily turned off so the crews can complete their work. |
Propel Energy Corp.: News Release
CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:28 PM PDT
CALGARY, ALBERTA-- - Propel Energy Corp. announced today that its Board of Directors has called an annual and special meeting of shareholders to be held in Calgary, Alberta on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. |
Brown: energy status quo "not acceptable"
Boston Globe Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:23 PM PDT
With gas prices soaring and families preparing to fill their tanks for summer vacations, Senator Scott Brown plans to introduce bipartisan legislation in coming weeks intended to decrease gas use, increase efficiency and require energy audits of federal projects. |
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