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Shell says Kulluk left Dutch Harbor to avoid taxes
A Royal Dutch Shell official testified Saturday that tax avoidance was the main reason for having the Kulluk oil drilling rig leave Dutch Harbor in December — 10 days before its grounding off a remote Alaska island. "Our preference for the timing was to be gone before the end of ...
Grenada signs up for program to reduce power bills
A small, rural community on the island of Grenada is being targeted in an international pilot program to help reduce power bills and save energy. The roughly 400 residents of the impoverished village of Telescope will receive energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for the bulbs they are currently using. Grenada ...
Feds won't prosecute wind farm for condor deaths
A Southern California wind farm has been assured by federal authorities that they won't prosecute if the company's whirring turbine blades kill any endangered California condors. The wind farm operated by Alta Windpower Development in the Tehachapi Mountains has been granted a right of way by the U.S. Bureau of ...
Lawmakers round the turn and come down the stretch
Nevada lawmakers are rounding the final turn and heading down the backstretch of the final full week of the 2013 session. But there's still plenty of jockeying going on as lawmakers and lobbyists jostle and maneuver in a mad dash toward the June 3 finish line. Here are five things ...
Finding new tools for tracing fracking impacts
Sherlock Holmes used a magnifying glass to trace a fingerprint to its source. Andrew Barron favors miniscule rust particles, millions of gallons of water and a magnet. Researchers in the Rice University chemistry professor's laboratory have developed nanoparticles that will flow with the fluid used to hydraulically fracture oil and ...
Activists angry over coal mine reclamation process
Activists upset with the pace of reclamation at an eastern Illinois coal mine are pressing the Department of Natural Resources to block the site's owner from extending its reclamation permit for another five years. The Murdock Mine hasn't operated for 25 years, and law requires the site be returned to ...
THE OIL EXTREMISTS
c.2013 New York Times News Service The federal Energy Information Administration reported in March that at some point this year — maybe in the fall, maybe next month, maybe tomorrow — United States crude oil production will surpass imports for the first time since 1995. This is an important milestone. ...
Record-setting Md. sailor sets sights on science
So, how do you top setting a record as the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the Americas? Work small and smart — again. But this time, Matt Rutherford will have company. Rutherford, who set foot on land in Annapolis last April after 309 days alone on a 27-foot sailboat, has ...
TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
TURBINE PLANS UNNERVE FANS OF CONDORS IN CALIFORNIA
c.2013 New York Times News Service The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges ...
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