Virginia’s Hopefuls Spar on Energy
Three Democrats in the running for the June gubernatorial nomination in the
commonwealth of Virginia took widely varying stances on whether to follow
up on the recent federal lift on the offshore drilling ban.
An April debate had the three would-be nominees doing some finger-pointing.
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Michigan Pins Hopes on a Green-Collar Economy
As the state with the highest unemployment rate in the nation, Michigan stands
on the brink of disaster. In the wake of the failures of Chrysler and General
Motors, the state is seeking new economic streams, and some policymakers
believe they have an answer in alternative energy.
At the Mackinac Policy Conference in late May, discussion focused on strategies
for creating a battery supply chain and courting wind and solar manufacturers.
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New Bitumen Project Announced
ExxonMobil’s Canada subsidiary, Imperial Oil, announced on May 25 that it will
proceed with a $7.1 billion project to mine bitumen from the Kearl Lake project
in northeastern Alberta. The Calgary-based company said that its board approved
construction at Kearl that is scheduled to be completed 2012. The site could
yield some 300,000 barrels of crude per day once additional phases of the
project are completed. ...
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Paint It White?
“As a weapon against global warming, it sounds so simple and low-tech that
it could not possibly work,” said Times Online science editor Mark Henderson.
“But the idea of using millions of buckets of whitewash to avert climate
catastrophe has won the backing of one of the world’s most influential scientists.”
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Holiday Drivers Increase
This year’s Memorial Day weekend saw Americans taking to the road in greater
numbers than last year – though not much greater. Buoyed by gas prices nearly
40 percent lower than last summer’s peak of $4 per gallon – not to mention
some tempting hotel bargains from the struggling hospitality industry – the
result is a net increase of 1.5 percent more drivers this year compared to
Memorial Day weekend 2008, according to a spokesperson for the American Automobile
Association. U.S. drivers paid an estimated $3.7 billion over the long weekend,
compared to $6 billion in 2008.
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