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Caithness power plant $1.49B cost was kept secret
mark.harrington@newsday.comIn four years of public hearings, legislative sessions, courtroom battles and media reports, one element of the Caithness power plant in Yaphank remained secret: its cost. But with disclosure of the $1.49-billion price tag ($1,493,410,934 to be exact)...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Long Island, Collective Contract, Wage Contract Issues, Contracts
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A123 Systems Seeks $1.8 Billion Federal Loan For EV Battery Factories in U.S.
Edmunds.comBy John ODell, Senior Editor Advanced automotive battery developer A123 Systems has plunged into the government funding pool with an application for $1.84 billion in loans to help build several lithium-ion battery plants in the U.S. The 7-year-old company... -
Top Ten Tech Treasures
MotorTrend MagazineWhat might have been the biggest tech headline of the year "Technology Investment Saves Auto Industry" didn't quite happen. The Senate shot down the House's $15 billion compromise plan to loan the money that Congress originally appropriated in Section 136... -
As Toyota delays new Prius plant, will exec bonuses be next next to go?
BusinessWeek.comAs expected, Toyota is delaying the opening of a new Prius plant in Mississippi, highlighting that even gas sippers aren't immune to collapsing auto sales. The plant, near Tupelo, was originally going to make Highlander SUVs from late 2009. Then, as... -
Coal ash sludge ponds in use at some Illinois power plants
Tribune reporterMore than a dozen Illinois power plants store toxic coal ash in sludge ponds similar to the one that burst and spread contaminated muck over 300 acres of eastern Tennessee last month, according to a Tribune review of federal records. The sludge dumps,...Tags: Litigation and Regulation, Tennessee Valley Authority, Electricity Production and Distribution, Ameren Corporation, Dynegy Incorporated
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FutureGen coal plant in Mattoon may be revived
Tribune reportersWASHINGTON—The massive economic stimulus bill taking shape in Congress could include a controversial billion-dollar boost for Illinois: the resurrection of an experimental coal power plant in Mattoon. Members of the Illinois delegation are...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Government, Heads of State, State Budgets, Bigfoot
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Iowa slaughterhouse seeks to sell embattled plant
Associated Press WriterThe list of bidders for the Agriprocessors kosher slaughterhouse remains a secret, but on Wednesday a few more details spilled out about potential buyers of the plant now seeking bankruptcy protection. Joseph Sarachek, the Chapter 11 Operating Trustee...Tags: Iowa, Theft, Labor Legislation, Fraud, Prosecution
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Crist's energy policy for Florida is made of pixie dust
Sentinel ColumnistIn 2001, Dick Cheney met with the dark lords of fossil fuel to concoct an energy policy. In 2006, Charlie Crist met the enlightened greenies of global warming to concoct an energy policy. I don't know which is worse. One relies on dirty dead...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Nuclear Power, State Budgets, Dick Cheney, Charlie Crist
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Companies Put Survival, Workers Ahead Of Competition
As he watched news reports of the fire that destroyed Bruce Johnston's Sunshine Laundry on the first Friday in October in Hartford, Jim Reiner remembered a flood. Reiner thought of the storm that spawned Connecticut's famous 1979 tornado, which also...Tags: Mayflower Voyage, Connecticut, Employees, Employers, Prospect
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Ind. mayor opposes plasma arc waste plant
The mayor of Anderson, Ind., says he opposes construction of a plant that would vaporize pharmaceutical and electronics waste. Mayor Kris Ockomon told opponents of the plant Tuesday night that the more he looked into the project, the less he liked it....Tags: Northbrook, Indianapolis, Regional Authority
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Granholm facing pressure to stop new coal plants
Associated Press WriterRetired second-grade teacher Jean Veselenak drove four hours to tell state regulators what she fears would happen if a new coal-fired power plant is built in her community along Lake Huron in northern Michigan. She believes the environment would be...Tags: Executive Branch, Electricity Production and Distribution, Government, Dynegy Incorporated, Dining and Drinking
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Energy nominee leaves Durbin hopeful on FutureGen
Associated Press WriterMembers of Illinois' congressional delegation left a meeting Wednesday with President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for energy secretary encouraged that an experimental coal-fired power plant once planned for Illinois could be revived. Sen. Dick Durbin...Tags: Electricity Production and Distribution, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Government, Steven Chu, Coal
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