Energy

EAST LONGMEADOW - A small tax relief measure and the stretch energy code will be on the warrant for the special Town Meeting Sept. 27. The Board of Selectmen voted Tuesday to once again place the stretch energy code on the warrant. The code was not approved during the regular Town Meeting on May 24.

Integrated power company Energy World Corporation has returned to profitability but its current liabilities have more than doubled.

JX Energy: Plan To Hike September Crude Throughput 1% On Year

HARRISONBURG - The Houston-based energy company that wants to drill for natural gas in Rockingham County has backed off, at least for the time being, in the face of what executives termed "local resistance."

The Energy Trust of Oregon is holding the 2010 Fridge RecyclingChallenge in Corvallis and Albany throughout September .

I've written lately that economists are the high priests of Progress. I don't subscribe to the doctrine of Progress, which is a faith-based view of our future. Apparently, for most people all of the time, the alternative is simply unthinkable. The truth is that we had wars 4,000 years ago, and we have wars now. The large majority of human beings were poor and disenfranchised 4,000 years ago, and the large majority still are today.

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The Energy Ministry plans to set up a relations office, in light of growing protests against energy projects.

Consumers Energy is introducing a new bill format in September that customers will find easier to understand and more informative than the previous format. Â Improved information flow on the bill will help customers use energy more efficiently and save money on their energy costs.

Increased demand for energy supplies and the need for regulatory compliance by mining companies are driving the water and wastewater treatment equipment market in South Africa.

Beach Energy Ltd has posted an 87 per cent fall in net profit, but asserts it is well placed for growth.

Infigen Energy, the Australian wind power producer, has received interest in its U.S. assets, Managing Director Miles George said on a media conference call today. While the company is willing to consider the proposals, it currently has no plans to sell the assets, he said.

JSW Energy Ltd. was rated “underweight” in new coverage at Morgan Stanley, which cited “slow” capacity growth and its exposure to imported coal.

Sydney, Australia, Aug 30, 2010 - (ABN Newswire) - Drillsearch Energy Limited (ASX:DLS) (PINK:DRLLF) announces today that Circumpacific Energy Corporation (CVE:CER) has entered into an arrangement agreement to be acquired by Western Petroleum Commodities Inc.Circumpacific Energy Corporation (TSXV:

like most modern people, self-described progressives are also accustomed to technological fixes for nearly every problem and challenge, and the very possibility that some breakthrough technology or solution isn’t just around the corner is scarcely fathomable

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Government has gaze-tted the Energy Regulatory Authority Bill, which seeks to establish a one stop regu-latory body to manage the energy sector.

Hallmarks of a modern economy and of European energy sector reform include promoting market competition through unbundling of services controlled by monopoly energy providers and enacting transparent regulation where this is not possible or desired.

Energy drinks...not just for punks anymore!

Dubai, August 29, 2010 - Audi Middle East reports that all 39 of its available model and engine variants now feature energy recuperation as a standard in the Middle East. The Audi energy recovery system, which uses kinetic energy during deceleration, increases efficiency, particularly in urban traffic and saves fuel - up to three percent, depending on the driving cycle.

A year ago this week, Ford cut a big tentative deal to sell its abandoned Wixom assembly plant to two renewable-energy companies, in a $725-million industrial conversion that promised to create 4,300 new jobs. Problem is, it's still a tentative deal.

Warwick — Heralded as the program that would kick-start a wave of energy-efficiency jobs, as well as propel the movement toward clean, renewable energy, the Property Assessed Clean Energy program has all but ground to a halt, due to opposition from...