Austin City Limits Bag Ban Consideration is Music to the Ears of T.C.E. PRWeb via Yahoo! News Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:38 PM PDT Thanks in part to the activism and education efforts of The Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE), the City of Austin has scheduled a Town Hall forum on October 24th, 2011, at 6 PM at Austin Energy located at 721 Barton Springs Rd. One of the major topics on the agenda is the banning of single use bags. In early 2011, Brownsville, Texas was the first city in Texas to pass a plastic and paper ... | Solar power is beginning to go mainstream Boston Globe Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:03 PM PDT Solar energy may finally get its day in the sun. The high costs that for years made it impractical as a mainstream source of energy are plummeting. Real estate companies are racing to install solar panels on office buildings. Utilities are erecting large solar panel "farms" near big cities and in desolate deserts. And creative financing plans are making solar ... | Germany Sets Aside $130B for Renewable Energy World Headlines Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:03 PM PDT German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on May 30 that Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy and Europe's biggest, would shutter all of its 17 nuclear power plants between 2015 and 2022, an extraordinary commitment, given that the plants currently produce about 28 percent of the country's electricity. | SANDERS: Boom: Welcome to shale gas revolution The Washington Times Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:52 PM PDT ANALYSIS/OPINION: While the Obama administration has been busy lining the pockets of its campaign contributors with solar-power handouts, an energy revolution is taking place that even the Washington Luddites and federal Gosplanners can't buck. American technology, borrowing offshore deep-water drilling techniques, has started exploiting huge deposits of natural gas buried ... | Canada warns EU on oil sands ranking plan Reuters UK Focus via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:21 PM PDT * EU proposing to rank oil sands as highly polluting fuel * Canadian letter says will defend interests * Part of broader industry push to change EU energy plan TORONTO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Canada warned ... | Western Wind Energy Valuation Update wallstreet:online AG Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:16 PM PDT VANCOUVER, October 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture) Symbol: "WND" OTCQX Symbol: "WNDEF" Issued and Outstanding: 59,780,539 Western Wind Energy Corp. (OTCQX "WNDEF"), wishes to report the following project and ⦠| Pipeline headquarters to locate in Covington St. Tammany News Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:10 PM PDT Kinder Morgan Energy Partners-Valero pipeline headquarters will be locating in the city of Covington, announced Covington Mayor Mike Cooper at the Covington city council meeting Tuesday night. | | |
|
No comments:
Post a Comment