Opit's LinkFest!: 31 August

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Mills' buyer involved NH renewable energy project

WLBZ-TV

BERLIN, New Hampshire (NEWS CENTER) -- It was 2006 when the Fraser Paper Mill in Berlin, New Hampshire shut down putting 250 people out of work. The once thriving paper town was devastated. It's a story that also played out in Millinocket in 2008 when ...

Japan Creates Major Feed-In Tariff for Renewable Energy

SustainableBusiness.com

By Paul Gipe In a major breakthrough for the feed-in tariff movement worldwide, Japan's upper chamber has approved a new law implementing a feed-in tariff policy for renewable energy. The law, which goes into effect next July, sets a target of 30000 MW ...

Competition brewing among states over renewable energy exports

Las Vegas Sun

By Karoun Demirjian (contact) If Nevada wants to be the global “epicenter of renewable energy,” as Gov. Brian Sandoval put it on Tuesday, it's going to have some competition with its neighbors. While Sandoval, California Gov. ...

Gevo Announces Webcast of Upcoming Analyst and Investor Day on September 8, 2011

MarketWatch (press release)

Gevo is converting existing ethanol plants into biorefineries to make renewable building block products for the chemical and fuel industries. The Company plans to convert renewable raw materials into isobutanol and renewable hydrocarbons that can be ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Ecology issues county penalties totaling $25600

Lynden Tribune

OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Ecology issued $25600 in penalties of $1000 or more for violations in Whatcom County in the first six months of 2011. Statewide, the tally was $519957. A $14000 penalty on the Darigold Inc. milk drying plant at ...

Department of Ecology authority is upheld for shoreline rules

Issaquah Press

The decision came just before the state Department of Ecology approved the Sammamish shoreline regulations, or shoreline master program. Meanwhile, Issaquah is updating a 20-year-old shoreline master program. The efforts establish shoreline rules in ...

Cuts viewed as a threat to ecology

Tbo.com

By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune Environmentalists across Florida are livid about budget cutbacks for the five water management districts, and they predict that the cuts will result in an inevitable decline in the quality of the state's ecology. ...

Sabey, Dell Earn Approvals for Generators in Quincy

Data Center Knowledge

The Washington Department of Ecology issued an air quality permit to Sabey on Aug. 26 for its Intergate.Quincy project. The approval comes three weeks after the state issued a similar permit to Dell that clears the way for the computer company to ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Man, trying to drain water, pulled into manhole

ABC News

Police say the victim was taken into the sewer pipe and, with the water inside moving rapidly, carried to the city's sewer plant two miles away where his body was recovered. "We know the conditions when he was actually sucked into the pipe were extreme ...

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' recap: Water, water everywhere

Los Angeles Times

(Once you tap into all these water metaphors, it's hard to stop the flow!) In a tense conversation between Joe Gorga and wife Melissa, we learned the disturbing news that Giudice was deluging (see?) his brother-in-law with angry, abusive texts, ...

GreenHunter Water Awarded New Contract

MarketWatch (press release)

GRAPEVINE, Texas, Aug 31, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- GreenHunter Water, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. /quotes/zigman/495610 GRH +3.28% , announced today that it has secured an order to deploy a next-generation above ground ...

East Point boil water order continues

Atlanta Journal Constitution

By David Ibata East Point residents were still being advised to boil their tap water Wednesday after a water main broke along Headland Drive west of Ben Hill Road. The East Point Water and Sewer Department said affected households include those along ...

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