Category Archives: Energy
U.S. Oil Drillers Keep Pressure on OPEC With Record Shale Output
Oil output from major U.S. shale plays is poised to reach a fresh record next month, further complicating OPEC’s efforts to support prices. The gain is being led by the oil-rich Permian basin of Texas and New Mexico, where production has … Continue reading
Keene New Hampshire’s Got Gas And It Makes Them Uncomfortable
The company runs a plant that pumps a propane-air mixture direct by pipe to businesses and residents downtown, as well as to some big box stores in a shopping center about a 10-minute drive away. Eventually, the company wants to … Continue reading
Antrim Wind Farm proposal headed to State Supreme Court
The state’s highest court will hear arguments involving a proposed wind farm in the town of Antrim. It’s the latest development in a years-long battle for the Antrim Wind project, which has been under development since 2009. (…) The groups … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Energy, Environment, Local NH Politics
Tagged Antrim, State Supreme Court, Wind Farm
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Department of Energy recommends permit for Northern Pass
A U.S. Department of Energy report is recommending that the Northern Pass project receive a presidential permit — a key approval for the transmission project to proceed. “DOE’s proposed action and agency preferred alternative is to issue a presidential permit … Continue reading
IBEW reaches Northern Pass labor agreement
The Boston-based International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’ Second District has reached an agreement with Eversource and the contractors chosen to build the 192-mile Northern Pass transmission project In a press release, the IBEW said that the project labor agreement with … Continue reading
More Radioactive Waste Rolling through New Hampshire?
EXETER, N.H. – Environmental groups have a warning for the nation’s leaders: Haste will make more waste. A House vote could come soon on legislation known as the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017. The bill would mean building … Continue reading
New Hampshire Shuts Down Renewables Rebate Programs ‘Until Further Notice’
Citing budget constraints and an influx of waitlisted applications, New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) recently announced the temporary closure of the state’s Residential Solar and Wind Rebate Program and Commercial and Industrial Solar Rebate Program. | More… |NA Windpower.com
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry
A report by the EIA indicated that coal exports—for both steam coal, used for power generation, and metallurgical coal, used for refining steel—have increased by 58 percent from Q1 of 2016 to Q1 of 2017. The majority of the increase was in … Continue reading
More NH Mayors Commit to Meaningless Paris Agreement Gesture
So will their towns be burning more coal or writing checks to Turkey and the UN? Today, the Conservation League and the New Hampshire chapter of the Sierra Club will host a roundtable featuring New Hampshire mayors or their representatives who … Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg Finally Figured Out Why Trump Won; Hint: It Wasn’t Russia
So what do you do when you’ve become completely disconnected from the ‘foreign’ world that all of middle America calls ‘reality’ and have no idea why you just got massively blindsided by a national election that you thought was a … Continue reading
Posted in Economy/Economics, Energy, Jobs/Unemployment
Tagged Energy, Mark Zuckerberg, North Dakota, oil, The Real World, Williston
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