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Pipeline project put on hold
A $3-billion gas pipeline project that would link Gulf Coast refineries to Atlanta has been put on hold, a victim of the recession and declining gasoline use. Colonial Pipeline says it will continue to seek permits along the 460 mile project.
January 10, 2010
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Shovels ready for nation’s first clean coal plant
Thanks to a boost from the stimulus bill, Duke Energy is about to start construction soon on our nation’s first environmentally-friendly clean coal plant. Environmentalists hate coal, because of the carbon dioxide it releases into the atmosphere. But it provides about half of our electricity and even more in China and the developing world. If […]
January 10, 2010
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Pulling the plug on California’s solar extension cord
Arizona is awash in solar energy. But when Edison International proposed to string 230 miles of transmission lines from Arizona’s solar collectors to neighboring California, homeowners in Arizona balked. They didn’t want the transmission towers in their backyards and now the $774 million project is at a standstill. The case raises some thorny issues. In Washington there’s […]
January 10, 2010
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