Sunday, March 30, 2014

Of Budgets, Values and Visions

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Anti-Fracking Activist Wins Round Against Major Driller in PA

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Beware the Surveillance Reform Trojan Horse: What's Not in the New NSA Laws?

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How a Government Computer Glitch Forced Thousands of Families To Go Hungry

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New GOP Bid To Limit Voting in Swing States

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Der Spiegel: NSA Put Germany's Angela Merkel on List of 122 Targeted Leaders

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A Legacy of Pain and Pride: The Profound Effects of War on the 2.6 Million Who Have Served

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Of Budgets, Values and Visions

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Truthout: A government budget expresses a deep vision accompanied by a corresponding scheme of ethical values. In America today, three visions rooted in different views about human nature and the good society offer distinct slants on budget priorities: the conservative, the liberal and the progressive.

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Suffragettes No More - The Long Struggle for Women's Equality

Ellen Dannin, Truthout: Honoring women's history in March each year is a bad joke as long as those who struggled for women's equality are called "suffragettes" - the name the enemies of women's rights used to belittle their struggle.

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Racializing Lung Function

Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout: Lundy Braun's Breathing Race into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer from Plantation to Genetics traces the peculiar history of how 19th century research on lung capacity laid the foundation for a "scientific" framing of racial difference in lung - and other - capacities.

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The Republican Plan To Invalidate Scientific Research

Kevin Mathews, Care2: Republicans are funding and generating alternative research that backs up their own claims. More than a dozen conservative senators are currently calling for an end to disclosure rules so that biased scientific studies can be presented as fact.

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NAFTA at 20: "A Vehicle To Increase Profits at the Expense of Democracy"

Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: On Thursday, the AFL-CIO released a new report, "NAFTA at 20." The report makes the point that, "On the whole, NAFTA-style agreements have proved to be primarily a vehicle to increase corporate profits at the expense of workers, consumers, farmers, communities, the environment and even democracy itself."

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Truthout Interviews Featuring Sheila D. Collins on Drought and Social Conflict

Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: The drought in the West threatens that region's economic viability and the US food supply. A regional water policy could draw on the prescient 19th century recommendations of John Wesley Powell or those of Franklin Delano Roosevelt some 60 years later.

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Drugmakers Agree to US Ban on Livestock Antibiotics

Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service: Pharmaceutical companies have overwhelmingly agreed to new US government guidelines aimed at decreasing the use of antibiotics in the raising of livestock, new data shows.

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Chile Derails "Monsanto Law" That Would Privatize Seeds

Asha DuMonthier, New America Media: This month, rural women, indigenous communities, and farmers in Chile found themselves on the winning end of a long-fought battle against a bill that had come to be known by many in the country as simply the "Monsanto Law."

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Meet the Plush GMO Mascot, Frank N. Foode

Rebekah Wilce, PR Watch: Frank N. Foode is "your friendly neighborhood genetically modified organism," who helps "make the science of biotechnology fun and approachable." This ear of corn sprouted eyes, white hair, and spectacles. The "cutest corn plush" is the mascot of Biology Fortified, Inc.

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Changing Israel From Without

Dennis J. Bernstein, Consortium News: For decades, one-sided support for Israel distorted US perceptions and policies in the Middle East. Only recently has the pro-Zionist narrative faced significant challenge, including protests against the abuse of Palestinians from Israeli dissidents like Ilan Pappe, who spoke with Dennis J. Bernstein.

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Venezuela: When Some of the Most Important News Comes in the Form of Corrections

Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research: It says something about overall media coverage of a subject when some of the most important news appears in the form of corrections. On February 26, The New York Times corrected a false statement in a news report that had incorrectly referred to Globovision as "[t]he only television station that regularly broadcast voices critical of the government."

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Maunica Sthanki discusses Obama's not-so-humane "humane" deportation policy; Addi Svarogic criticizes American media's depiction of the Greek economic crisis; Dennis Trainor asks where we go after capitalism; Jennifer Pacanowski describes how the Iraq war is far from over for veterans and Iraqi civilians; David Swanson runs down the upcoming season of activist activity; David Krieger considers the Air Force nuclear launch cheating scandal - in poetry; the Woodchip Gazette questions why the CIA's theft of documents from an oversight committee isn't "Watergate II"; and more.

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Retaliation Against Detainees at Texas Detention Facility, Hunger Strikes Continue

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Congress Uses Ukraine as "Shock Doctrine" Excuse To Expand Dangerous and Polluting Gas (LNG) Exports

Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: As Naomi Klein has taught us, for every geopolitical shock, there are those who use it to their advantage. That is true of the fossil fuel industry, which is now claiming the Ukraine political standoff requires rapid expansion of perilous liquid natural gas shipments.

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Eugene Robinson | Tilting at Windbags: The GOP Pines for the Cold War Era

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Obama: Forget Russian Gas, Just Frack Europe

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How a Toxic Leak Made One Town the Subjects of a Live Human Experiment

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Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land: The Consequences of Climate Change

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BP Doubles Initial Size Estimate of Lake Michigan Oil Spill

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Judge Rules Goldman Sachs Must Face Lawsuit Over Mortgage Securities

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80 Percent of US Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment, Survey Finds

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Retaliation Measures Taken at Texas Detention Facility as Detainees Resume Hunger Strike in Tacoma

Candice Bernd, Truthout: Detainees' family members claim Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have retaliated against hunger strikers at a private detention center in Conroe, Texas, as detainees at a similar facility in Tacoma, Washington, resume their hunger strike this week.

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Do Humans Have a Madness Gene That Will Ensure the End of the Planet as We Know It?

Mark Karlin, Truthout: Journalist Elizabeth Kolbert explores in detail the likely extinction of a massive number of species - because of the destructive practices of humans - in the book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.

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Sarah Jaffe | Teachers' Strikes, Catching Fire

Sarah Jaffe, In These Times: The so-called "age of austerity" has seen teachers' unions and other public-sector employees accept cut after cut. Yet in spite of that, teachers are beginning to win some battles - by winning over hearts and minds in the communities they serve.

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A Revolution Unraveled: Abdullah al-Arian on Egypt After Morsi

Paul Gottinger, Truthout: Abdullah al-Arian is an assistant professor of history at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar. His research includes Islamic social movements, globalization and the Muslim world and US policy toward the Middle East. Paul Gottinger speaks with him about the political situation in Egypt and Gaza.

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Anatomy of a Kleptocracy: State Capture in Tunisia

Yasmine Ryan, Truthout: There is a logical relationship between kleptomania and revolution. When the ruling elite's desire to rule is mostly motivated by the pursuit of its own economic interests and citizens are neglected, at a certain point, people get fed up. This happened with Tunisia's 2010-11 uprising.

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Why Are So Many Migrants Here in the First Place?

Henia Belalia, Waging Nonviolence: As the migrant justice movement gets away from the divisive notion of "who deserves to stay," we must also tackle the question of why people are migrating in the first place. The stories we tell must expose the neoliberal policies and practices.

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Targeted by Firebombing, Legislation, and Now Vandalism, Montana Abortion Provider Shutters Clinic

Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!: A Montana medical office that provided abortions has been forced to close after a vandal broke or slashed practically every object and surface inside. The accused vandal, Zachary Klundt, is the son of a former board member of an anti-choice group. The hosts speak with All Families Healthcare owner Susan Cahill.

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The Last Link Between America's Plutocratic Past and Present Has Left Us

Sam Pizzigati, OtherWords: One obituary describes Bunny Mellon as "the last standing true American aristocrat." Bunny's life actually holds a deeper historical significance. At her passing, she represented the last link between America's original plutocrats and our contemporary plutocrats, the crew that gave us the Great Recession.

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California Report: Don't Spend New Education Money on Campus Police

Susan Ferriss, The Center for Public Integrity: A policy brief released this month urges California school districts to reject beefing up campus police forces and security when they start receiving substantial funding aimed at improving education for needy kids.

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On Climate Impasse: Appetite and Substitutes

Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers: The prospect of deep ocean industrialization forces us to think about varieties of "new frontiers." To satisfy the promise of progress, nation states are continuously looking for substitutes. But progress is intimately connected to climate impasse.

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The Iraq War's Real Legacy

Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Though President Obama attempted to justify Iraq's invasion, Iraqi civilians and Iraq war veterans share their stories on the lasting environmental, social, and health effects of the US occupation still being felt today.

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Sheppard Air Force Base: Uncounted Costs of Privatizing Government Services

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Climate Change Already Felt "on All Continents and Across the Oceans," IPCC Finds

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Corporate Tax Cuts: Profiteers Thrive as Local Budgets Dive

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Newt Gingrich Says Wealthy Donors Like Sheldon Adelson Have Too Much Influence

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Drone Technology Way Ahead of FAA as It Tries To Set Rules for Use

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NSA Chief Keith Alexander Avoids Snowden in Retirement Speech

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GOP Candidate With Ties to White Supremacy "Didn't Think Things All the Way Through," Drops Out

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The 10 Weirdest Things the Christian Right Thinks Will Turn Your Kids Gay

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Sheppard Air Force Base: Uncounted Costs of Privatizing Government Services

Ellen Dannin, Truthout: Presidents Clinton and Bush avidly supported the privatization of public services, including the privatization of military base functions - even when there was no credible evidence that the private sector cost less or delivered superior quality.

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How a 12-Year-Old Homeless Girl Helped More Than 400 Children Find Safer Shelter

Crystal Shepeard, Care2: The idea of having to navigate cockroaches, mice, no heat and sexual predators before you even leave for school is not something any child should go through. Yet, this is the daily life for hundreds of children living in two shelters in New York City and Brooklyn. But 12-year-old Dasani helped change that.

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The Debate: Independence or Partisanship

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: The debate about the relationship that people who are working for progressive change should have with the Democratic Party is taking center stage. Is this a chance to put a genuinely progressive agenda on the party platform?

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Retrieving a Moral Comportment in an Age of Violence and Bullying

Fred Guerin, Truthout: In a recent report on the issue, the Canadian government expressed the desire to address cyber-bullying through criminal code reform. It would be more effective to retrieve a more potent sense of moral accountability in our ongoing relations with one another.

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Paul Krugman | A Panicked Press Turns Economics Into a Morality Play

Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The ever-changing reasons for a never-changing interest rate policy suggest that we aren't really talking about policy analysis. Instead we're talking about some mix of class interest and desire to see economics as a morality play.

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Turning the Tide: Inside a Texas City's Struggle To Stop Deportations

Andrew Willis Garces, Waging Nonviolence: Carmen Zuvieta's husband, Roman, was deported February 19, 2013, a few months after he had been booked for a non-immigration offense at the Travis County jail. The day he was deported, Zuvieta became an activist. Activists in Austin, Texas are struggling for immigration reform.

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Executions on the Upswing Globally

Samuel Oakford, Inter Press Service: The number of recorded executions carried out worldwide rose 14 percent last year, as anti-terrorism measures in Iraq and hardline drug polices in Iran accounted for more than half of all reported government-sanctioned killings in 2013.

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A Tortured Twist on Ethics

Yosef Brody, OtherWords: What will be done about doctors who helped create US torture programs and participated in their implementation? What does it mean for our society to allow health professionals who have been involved with torture to subsequently practice with impunity?

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Reviewing The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism

Robert Jensen, Texas Observer: The failure of Dean Starkman's The Watchdog That Didn't Bark: The Financial Crisis and the Disappearance of Investigative Journalism - and of mainstream journalism more generally - is hidden in plain sight in the title's metaphor. Starkman explains why journalists often aren't alert watchdogs, but he can't see why limiting the profession to the role of a barking dog is a dead end.

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Brown Is the New Black

John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus: The far right is expected to do well in the upcoming European Parliament elections in late May. The influence that the far right has right now on the interim government in Kiev is indeed worrisome. What hasn't received much attention, however, is the influence of the far right in Russia itself. It makes Ukrainian fascism look like child's play.

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Stuck in the Bluff: The Controversy of Needle Exchange Programs

Jim Burress, The National Radio Project: Countless lives have been saved by providing IV drug users with clean needles. But even now, with hundreds of programs across the US and throughout the world, some states still view distributing needles as illegal.

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Friday, March 28, 2014

Developers Invest Billions In Oklahoma; Firm Unveils Global Wind Market Roundup

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A Global Wind Market Roundup Of 2013 And Beyond
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Navigant Research has released its annual BTM World Market Update report covering the wind power industry. The study reveals a 20% global drop in new wind capacity in 2013, a shakeup in the top 10 turbine makers, technology trends, and operations and maintenance (O&M) highlights. In addition, the research firm [read more]
Wind Sector Has Invested Billions Of Dollars In Oklahoma
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
The wind energy industry in Oklahoma has invested more than $6 billion in wind farm construction and contributed more than $1 billion to the production of goods and services in the state, according to a new study commissioned by The Wind Coalition Oklahoma office. "Wind energy is no longer 'alternative' [read more]
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WTO Calls On China To End Restrictions On Rare Earth Exports
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has ruled that China has unfairly restricted its export of rare earth elements. Rare earth metals, such as neodymium, are used in permanent-magnet direct-drive generators in wind turbines. According to the United Steelworkers (USW) union, China produces more than 95% of all rare earths, which [read more]
PG&E Surpasses 20% Renewable Energy Milestone
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
California-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) says it delivered 22.5% of its power from eligible renewable resources in 2013 and is on track to meet the state's 33% by 2020 renewable portfolio standard. PG&E says this marks the first time that its renewable energy deliveries - including solar, wind, [read more]
TradeWind Signs Two Oklahoma Power Contracts Totaling 234 MW
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
TradeWind Energy Inc. has entered into 20-year power purchase agreements (PPAs) with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) for two Oklahoma wind farms totaling 234 MW. TradeWind is developing the 136 MW Mustang Run project in Osage County and the 98 MW Breckinridge project near Enid. According to the company, [read more]

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Senvion Nets 67.65 MW Turbine Order In Scotland
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, has received a 67.65 MW order from Scottish energy firm SSE. Under the contract, Senvion will supply 33 Senvion MM82 wind turbines to SSE's new Strathy North Wind Farm, located near the village of Strathy in Sutherland, Scotland. The turbines [read more]
Boulder Wind Power Expands Generator, Power Conversion Portfolio
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Boulder Wind Power (BWP), a Colorado-based developer of permanent-magnet generators and full power converter technology for utility-scale wind turbines, has expanded its product portfolio for onshore and offshore applications. Originally focused on developing and testing core technology for direct-drive turbines, BWP says it now offers solutions for geared turbines in [read more]
Natural Power Helps 1.1 GW Offshore Wind Farm Win Approval
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Renewable energy consultancy Natural Power says it has provided consent support for the 1.1 GW Moray offshore wind farm. The project, located off the Caithness coast in Scotland, recently received approval in the Crown Estate's Round 3 process. Renewables Ltd., a joint venture between EDP Renewables and Repsol Nuevas Energias [read more]

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Kansas House Slaps Down Effort To Repeal Renewables Mandate
on 27 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Although the Kansas Senate had approved a bill to repeal the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) on Tuesday, the state House of Representatives later rejected the proposed legislation in a 77-42 vote on Wednesday. The RPS requires the state's utilities to source 20% of their electricity from renewable energy resources [read more]
Cape Wind Offshore Project Receives More European Backing
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Cape Wind and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. (BTMU) have added France-based Natixis and Netherlands-based Rabobank to serve as lead arrangers for the 468 MW Cape Wind project, which is being developed off the coast of Massachusetts. Natixis and Rabobank will work with BTMU to structure and arrange the [read more]
Deepwater Wind Vies For LIPA Power Purchase Agreement
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
In response to a Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) request for proposals for new sources of renewable energy, developer Deepwater Wind is submitting an offer to supply Long Island with more than 200 MW from its Deepwater ONE project - an offshore wind farm planned approximately 30 miles east of [read more]

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SSE Backs Away From Offshore Wind; Industry Demands Policy Certainty
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
U.K.-based energy company SSE is stepping back from its offshore wind investments, a move that industry stakeholders say signals the need for policy certainty. SSE has revealed plans to reduce its stake in the approved 750 MW Beatrice offshore wind project from 75% to no more than 50%. Furthermore, the [read more]
RES Taps Nordex For Two Wind Farms In The U.K.
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Nordex SE has been awarded two wind contracts totaling 25 MW in the U.K. by returning customer RES. Located in North West Norfolk, the 15 MW Jack's Lane Wind Farm will have six N90/2500 turbines. The 10 MW Woolley Hill Wind Warm, located in Huntingdonshire, will feature four N100/2500 turbines. [read more]
Senvion To Install 6.2M152 Prototype Offshore Wind Turbine
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Senvion SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group, has started work in Germany to install the prototype of its new 6.2M152 offshore wind turbine. The company is building access routes to the Langen-Neuenwalde location, 20 km north of Bremerhaven, and the 6.15 MW turbine is scheduled to begin [read more]
Gamesa Signs 49.3 MW Contract With CGN Wind Energy In China
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Gamesa has entered a 49.3 MW supply contract with Chinese company CGN Wind Energy for the Chengdingsha wind farm, being built in Shandong province. The scope of the agreement calls for the installation and commissioning of 25 G97-2.0 MW class III wind turbines, which Gamesa says it designed specifically for [read more]
Study: California Could Cash In On Wyoming Wind Power
on 26 Mar 2014 by NAW Staff
Californians would benefit and save money - up to $1 billion in annual generation costs - if a new direct-current transmission line connected the California grid to Wyoming's high-capacity wind energy resources, according to an economic analysis produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Commissioned by the Wyoming Infrastructure [read more]

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