Saturday, October 25, 2014

24 Oct - water and energy




RSS returns for water and environment

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GreenBiz.com (blog)
The city of Burlington (population 42,000) gets 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources. The Burlington Electric Department is the state's largest municipal utility. Wind, hydro and biomass provide most of the city's electricity, plus ...

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The Guardian
The clean energy industry and Labor have immediately rejected the Abbott government's opening gambit in negotiations to find a bipartisan agreement on the future of the renewable energy target. The plan would protect household solar installers but, ...
Gulf Business News
Saudi Arabia-based power and water project developer ACWA Power is seeking to secure or arranging finance for $15 billion worth of projects, nearly half of which are in renewable energy, its chief executive said. The company, which plans to list its ...
Bacon's Rebellion
For all the hew and cry over renewable energy sources and the “War on Coal,” it is extremely interesting to see just how much progress Virginia has made with renewable energy. The answer: hardly any to none. A moment of clarity came when I was perusing ...
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Human Habitat

Four States Homepage
The Four State area has many creeks that keep our region looking beautiful. Improper management of the creeks can be detrimental to the environment. In tonight's Schaer Science, we visit Missouri Southern State University to learn the importance of ...
Sequim Gazette
Officials with the Department of Ecology continue to move forward with water management projects within the Dungeness River watershed. Using the $2 million of dedicated funds from the capital budget that the department received in July 2013 to support ...
Nature.com
Of course, all researchers dream of continuous funding, but long-term ecological studies are a special case. They are often disproportionately successful in terms of new discoveries because researchers know their system or study species extremely well ...
Bothell/Kenmore Reporter
Bothell-based HaloSource, Inc., the company that develops and manufactures HaloKlear water clarification products for the construction, mining and industrial applications, has announced that it has received the Washington State Department of Ecology's ...
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Water Power

Los Angeles Times
The Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District declared a water supply emergency Wednesday amid record-low levels. The agency, which supplies retailers that serve several San Gabriel Valley cities, said levels will continue to drop if this ...
Wall Street Journal
Traditional solutions—diverting more water from rivers, building new reservoirs or drilling additional groundwater wells—are no longer ways to substantially increase the water supply. In a new report for The Hamilton Project at the Brookings ...
KTVU San Francisco
The warning was issued after evidence of E coli., based on water samples, was found in a water main leading to approximately 300 homes on Lisbon Drive, Lisbon Court, Madrid Drive and Madrid Court, Sydney Drive and Sydney Court and Rowley Drive in ...
Press Herald
“All in all, this is just a sad day for the people of Fryeburg,” said Nisha Swinton, a statewide organizer for Food & Water Watch, an advocacy group that has worked with residents and opponents of the contract. She said the deal gives up a valuable ...
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