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Hawaii’s Only Coal-fired Power Plant May Switch to Biomass
– by Duane Shimgawa, August 28, 2014, Pacific Business News The only coal-fired power plant in Hawaii, which is the single largest generating plant on Oahu, is under financial stress because there is no financial reserve, according to the Hawaiian Electric Co.’s new energy plan released this week. Hawaiian Electric is also asking AES Hawaiito convert some of…
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Amid Oil and Gas Boom, Colorado Continues Role as Earthquake Lab
– by Kevin Simpson, August 31, 2014, The Denver Post From the living room chair where he sat reading around half past 9 on a May evening, Ron Baker heard the boom and felt his century-old Greeley farmhouse shudder, sending a menagerie of plastic horses toppling from a bedroom shelf. He stepped out the back…
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Marcellus Shale Drillers Under-Reported Waste
– by Anya Litvak and Maxwell Radwin, August 31, 2014, The Post-Gazette EQT Corp. told the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that it sent 21 tons of drill cuttings from its Marcellus Shale wells to area landfills in 2013. But landfills in southwestern Pennsylvania told a different story. Six facilities in this part of the state reported receiving nearly 95,000…
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