Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category

Reeling BP looks to resume Colorado drilling.

David O Williams from The Colorado Independent says BP may in the coming months have to look to its lucrative natural gas fields in southwestern Colorado to recoup the massive financial hit it’s taking in the wake of the worst oil spill in American history.
According to Williams a BP America spokeswoman this week told the [...]

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The “golden egg” as a natural resource: Toward a normative theory of growth management

Here is the Abstract from an article published in Society & Natural Resources, Volume 8, Issue 1 January 1995 , pages 49 – 56. The author is Paul D. Gottlieb.
“Growth management is the branch of urban planning concerned with the timing and sequencing of land development and the policies designed to mitigate the more [...]

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Will Germany kill its energy golden goose?

An interesting artcile was posted recently on a Reuters blog where they tell us that Germany is understandably proud of its renewable energy sector — wind and solar power supply more than 15 percent of the country’s electricity. Its  Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has fuelled its rapid growth over the past decade and been copied by [...]

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