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Anadarko up, BP down; energy stocks mixed

By | Published: February 8, 2012
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. led gains among big oil producers on Tuesday, but shares of natural gas and oil service specialists fell back. Read the original post by Toronto News.Net
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Gasoline prices up 1.6 cents a gallon

By | Published: February 7, 2012
After staying stable last week, pump prices are on the rise again in western Pennsylvania. The average price of regular, self-serve unleaded gasoline was $3.528 a gallon in western Pennsylvania, AAA East Central reported Tuesday. That’s up 1.6 cents a gallon from a week ago. But it’s also 36 cents above [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Kasich calls for balance on shale drilling in State of the State

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Gov. John Kasich repeated his call for a balance between developing Ohio’s shale gas resources and protecting the environment during his State of the State address Tuesday. While stopping short of providing specifics on how to do that, Kasich said, “We can’t degrade the environment at the same time we’re (developing) [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Salem Girl Makes Art To Help Kids With Cancer

By | Published: February 7, 2012
BOSTON (CBS) – A young girl is turning trash into treasure and in the process helping kids with cancer. Katie Bresnahan from Salem takes the lids from discarded medications and makes wishing flowers. Nurses have started getting a hold of these flowers and they are catching on. She gets $5 for each flower [...] Read the original post by [...]
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BPA offers to pay wind producers for oversupply

By | Published: February 7, 2012
In a bid to move toward a policy solution for last spring’s wind-vs.-water controversy, the Bonneville Power Administration offered Tuesday to pay Northwest wind power generators when wind farm shutdowns are required during high river flows. The proposal, a result of ongoing talks between members of the wind energy industry and [...] Read the original post by [...]
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ESCO Technologies profit falls 52 percent in Q1

By | Published: February 7, 2012
ESCO Technologies Inc. officials said today that the company’s profit was $5.2 million on sales of $152.9 million for its fiscal first quarter, down 51.8 percent from a profit of $10.8 million on sales of $159.9 million during the same quarter a year earlier. Chairman and CEO Vic Richey said one [...] Read the original post by [...]
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BP reports high Q4 profit

By | Published: February 7, 2012
BP Plc. (NYSE: BP) released its fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday, reporting a profit of $7.69 billion. In the fourth quarter of 2010, the London-based oil giant, which has its U.S. headquarters in Houston, reported a profit of $5.57 billion. The company said its profit includes pre-tax credits of $4.1 billion related to the [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Energy giant Halliburton to hang up BlackBerrys, switch to Apple

By | Published: February 7, 2012
In another blow to troubled Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion, energy drilling giant Halliburton Co. Read the original post by Penticton Herald
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Most Colorado Congress members back wind tax-break extension

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Six of Colorado’s seven U.S. House of Representatives members and both of its U.S. senators have signed a letter calling for the extension of the federal wind production tax credit, or “PTC,” that the renewable energy industry considers critical, as part of the payroll tax extension. Signing the letter in support [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Southcross adding capacity to ship more Eagle Ford shale gas

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Southcross Energy will expand its new natural gas processing and fractionation complex in Refugio County, Texas in order to better serve producers in the Eagle Ford Shale area. Once the expansion is completed, Dallas-based Southcross will have the capacity to process 335 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Police say father attacked Susan Powell’s sons with hatchet before fire

By | Published: February 7, 2012
While Judy and Chuck Cox were readying their grandchildren for a court-ordered visit with their father on Sunday – a visit that both boys were uncharacteristically fighting – authorities say their father… Canadian Natural Resources Limited will be powering down operations at its Horizon oilsands facility north of Fort McMurray [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Brightergy gets $1.1 million Clayton solar contract

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Brightergy, a Missouri solar development and finance firm, received a $1.1 million contract from the city of Clayton to install a 105.6 kW solar array at the Clayton police station. The project, which was awarded through a competitive bid process, will power the parking garage and offset a portion of the [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Renewable energy a $2B industry in Arizona; employment impacts 16K

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Solar industry job figures have always been tough to find, but a new study released Tuesday by Elliot D. Pollack and Associates pegs the state’s nascent industry as providing about $2 billion to the economy and touching about 16,000 jobs. The study, to be discussed at the Renewable Economic Summit and [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Halliburton: More iPhones, fewer on-site fracking workers

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) recently said it is transferring its employee phone service from Research in Motion Ltd.’s (NYSE: RIMM) BlackBerry to Apple Inc.’s (NYSE: APPL) iPhone. The New York Times reports that Houston-based Halliburton, an oil and gas equipment services company, said Feb. 7 that it is switching 4,500 of [...] Read the original post by [...]
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Deep cuts for Temple, Penn State in Corbett’s proposed Pa. budget

By | Published: February 7, 2012
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett rolled out on Tuesday a proposed $27.14 billion state budget that keeps the basic education funding level but steeply cuts higher education spending and continues to fulfill Corbett’s no-new-taxes pledge. The $27.14 billion budget is down one tenth of one percent from the $27.16 billion budget that [...] Read the original post by [...]
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