Tweet Via NPR‘s All Things Considered, from correspondent Richard Harris, Feds Delay Decision On Pipeline Project The State Department is delaying a decision for at least a year on whether to approve the Keystone pipeline. The $7 billion pipeline would carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, through the U.S. to Gulf of [...]
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Via TheStandard.Net, By Loretta Park (Standard-Examiner Davis Bureau), (click here for article) South Davis Metro Fire Agency Deputy Chief Jeff Bassett said the explosion occurred because a pipe carrying hydrogen and diesel overfilled and sent some of the product onto the ground, where it pooled. It found an ignition source, a furnace, which caused the [...]
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“All this matters because economists thought, wrote, and prescribed as if nature did not.” J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun. “Global Warming is nonsense. Greenhouse gases mean growth, far as I can see. The Earth is one big resource, to exploit and consume, for the grand old party.” L. J. Furman, Sunbathing In [...]
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