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FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Four Questions For Brandi Colander - Offshore Wind Wire

Fri, 13 May 2011 14:38:16 GMT+00:00

FRIDAY INTERVIEW: Four Questions For Brandi Colander
Offshore Wind Wire
Brandi Colander: Cape Wind is a unique effort that has dedicated roughly a decade to advancing what has long been expected to be America's first utility-scale offshore wind farm. In that time, they've educated our nation on domestic offshore wind ...

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Lennard E. Springer - Jamestown Post Journal
Thu, 12 May 2011 05:34:30 GMT+00:00

Lennard E. Springer
Jamestown Post Journal
Len, together with his wife owned and operated a dairy farm (The Little Ponderosa) in South Dayton until 1985. He was a host at Onoville Marina from 1993 until1997. He was a lifetime member of Randolph Veterans of Foreign War Post 6533, the American ...


College Football 2011: Power Ranking the 50 Best Games on Paper - Bleacher Report
Thu, 12 May 2011 04:15:35 GMT+00:00

Bleacher Report

College Football 2011: Power Ranking the 50 Best Games on Paper
Bleacher Report
Everyone is expecting LSU to be a championship contender this year, while few seem to pay much attention to the prospects of West Virginia, perhaps because the Mountaineers play in the woebegone Big East. Nonetheless, West Virginia, with quarterback ...

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Green business can mean greenbacks for Virginia companies - Richmond Times Dispatch
Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:02:15 GMT+00:00

Green business can mean greenbacks for Virginia companies
Richmond Times Dispatch
It runs four hydroelectric stations producing more than 2400 megawatts of electricity, and Dominion Resources is interested in potentially developing an offshore wind farm in addition to its wind-based generation in West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois. ...


Pressure mounts to repeal Virginia's 30-year ban on uranium mining - Spot.Us
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:26:36 GMT+00:00

Pressure mounts to repeal Virginia's 30-year ban on uranium mining
Spot.Us
Virginia Uranium values the site at up to $10 billion and says the estimated 120 million pounds of uranium could fuel US nuclear plants for two years. The company says it stands to gross $140 million a year in revenue and promises to hire more than 300 ...

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US tornadoes force shutdown of two nuclear reactors in Virginia - The Guardian
Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:19:48 GMT+00:00

The Guardian

US tornadoes force shutdown of two nuclear reactors in Virginia
The Guardian
Dominion Virginia Power said the two reactors shut down automatically when a tornado cut off power to the plant. A backup diesel generator kicked in to cool the fuel. The regulator said no radiation was released and staff were working to restore ...
At least 35 dead in 6 states after storm's rampageSalon

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Cape Wind Project Wins Construction Approval - NPR
Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:38:21 GMT+00:00

Cape Wind Project Wins Construction Approval
NPR
A 130-turbine wind farm proposed by Massachusetts' Cape Wind Associates has won construction approval from the Interior Department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement. Cape Wind's CEO Jim Gordon discusses when construction ...

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Is Energy Storage Ready for Prime Time? - energybiz
Fri, 13 May 2011 01:22:41 GMT+00:00

energybiz

Is Energy Storage Ready for Prime Time?
energybiz
Meanwhile, AES is also deploying a 32-megawatt storage project as part of a wind farm in West Virginia. According to the Electric Power Research Institute, the total US energy storage market could grow as big as 14 giga-watts of capacity. ...


Recession Busters: Wines $13 and under - Washington Post
Tue, 03 May 2011 23:11:50 GMT+00:00

Recession Busters: Wines $13 and under
Washington Post
Available in Maryland at the Bottle Shop in Potomac, and Gilly's Craft Beer & Fine Wine and King Farm Wine and Beer in Rockville; on the list at Clyde's locations in Chevy Chase, Columbia, Tower Oaks. Available in Virginia at Unwined in Alexandria and ...


It'll Take a Mom to Save Mother Earth - Huffington Post (blog)
Thu, 05 May 2011 16:50:37 GMT+00:00

It'll Take a Mom to Save Mother Earth
Huffington Post (blog)
Elli Sparks does not look like the kind of person who strikes fear in the hearts of fossil fuel lobbyists. But woe be to they who underestimate this diminutive mother of two from Richmond, Virginia. Given a hundred Ellies, I have no doubt that the ...