NYPD targeted Shiites
\n(Albany Times Union © 02/03/2012)
NEW YORK — The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtain");
document.write("ed secret police document.\n\nThe document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how, when lo...\n
3-MINUTE MOVIE GUIDE: Capsule film reviews and videos
\n(Batavia Daily News © 02/03/2012)
Capsule reviews of films playing in area theaters (click links\nfor full reviews):\n \n \n\nOpening");
document.write("\nToday\n \n\n\nBig\nMiracle\n\nIf a movie is cheesy and knows it's cheesy -- if it embraces the\nsoft, gooey texture and pungent aroma of its own fromage -- does\nthat make it any more palatable as a meal? That is the question to\nponder while watching this rousing, feel-good, family-friend...\n
Restoration work scheduled
\n(Buffalo News © 02/0");
document.write("3/2012)
Motor Island, a six-acre island in the upper Niagara River off Grand Island, will undergo a $1 million shoreline and habitat restoration effort beginning this year. \n\nThe New York Power Authority announced Wednesday that it was awarding a $1.07 million contract to LDC Construction Co. of Grand Island for the project. \n\nOver the years, the island has sustained erosion from harsh currents, strong wi...\n
Aquilex Successfully Completes Financial Restructuring
\n(International Business Times © 02/03/2012)
Aquilex Holdings LLC (???Aquilex??? or the ???Company???) today announced that it has successfully completed a consensual financial restructuring with holders of its first-lien debt, second-lien debt and 11???% senior notes due 2016. As a result of a debt-for-equity exchange and an $80 million equity investment, Aquilex has reduced its debt by over $300 million. The Company is now majority owned b...\n
BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. Announces Pricing of Public Offering of 8,000,000 Common Units
\n(International Business Times © 02/03/2012)
BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. (the ???Partnership???) (NASDAQ:BBEP) announced today the pricing of its public offering of 8,000,000 common units representing limited partner interests at a price to th");
document.write("e public of $18.80 per unit. The Partnership has granted to the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,200,000 common units from the Partnership. The offering is expected to c...\n
Assembly committees say Indian Point nuclear plan can be shut down
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/03/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Two As");
document.write("sembly committees have concluded the Indian Point nuclear power plant could be closed without overburdening ratepayers or threatening reliability standards.The preliminary findings of the Energy and Corporations, Authorities and Commissions committees stem from a joint Jan. 12 hearing on plans for potential closing of the nuclear facility.The Indian Point nuclear power plant...\n
Document shows NYPD eyed Shiites based on religion
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/03/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how, when...\n
LETTER: Obama ups the ante on hydrofracking
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/03/2012)
Dear Editor:President Obama’s State of the Union speech contained distressing news for Hudson Valley residents who oppose hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas from shale rock, and who also advocate reduced greenhouse gas emissions to limit climate change.“Over the last three ");
document.write("years,” he said, “we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas explora...\n
Regulators deny exemptions sought by Entergy
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 02/03/2012)
Associated PressWHITE PLAINS — Federal regulators said Wednesday that they have denied most of the fire-safety exemptions sought by the ");
document.write("owner of the Indian Point nuclear plants near New York City.The state attorney general called the rulings \"a major victory for the safety of millions of New Yorkers.\"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it turned down 42 of the 50 exemptions requested thre...\n
Steve Israel: Filmmaker's arrest at Capitol Hill fracking hearing just plain wrong
\n<");
document.write("b>(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 02/03/2012)
No matter how you feel about gas drilling, you have to feel it was wrong to ban Pennsylvania filmmaker Josh Fox from a congressional hearing on the controversial natural gas extraction method of hydraulic fracturing, or \"fracking.\"Fox, who made the Oscar-nominated documentary \"Gasland\" — which drilling supporters liken to anti-fracking propaganda — was placed in handcuffs and removed f...\n
NYPD is not blind to the threat to New York of terrorism from Iran
\n(New York Daily News © 02/03/2012)
A newly surfaced internal memo provides a beauty of a look inside the NYPD?s anti-terror intelligence unit. Never mind Al Qaeda; the topic is securing us from attacks sponsored by Iran?s mad mullahs.\n\n\n\n\n Make no mistake: The threat is real. U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Congress on Wednesday that Iran is beefing up support for inter");
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NYPD memo: Spy on Shiite Muslims
\n(New York Daily News © 02/03/2012)
Worried about an Iranian terrorist threat to New York, the NYPD recommended spying on worshippers in the city?s Shiite mosques, according to a secret 2006 report published Thursday.\n\n\n\n\n Even though the Intelligence Divis");
document.write("ion memo noted that the majority of Iranians in New York are Christian, Jewish or Zoroastrian, the report listed a score of Shiite mosques and Islamic centers in the city, Connect...\n
A Shameful Attack on Free Speech by a Group Claiming to Speak for Coal-Dependent Workers
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
If you disagree with the views of a prominent climate scientist, one approach might be to attend his forthcoming lecture at his home campus, Pennsylvania State University, and engage in civil debate when he’s done. \n\r\n\r\nAnother would be to mount a faceless Facebook campaign beginning with this catchy phrase: \n\r\n\r\nDid you know that Penn State is having Michael Mann – the professor behin...\n
Oil Hovers Above $96 Ahead of Key US Jobs Report
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices hovered above $96 a barrel Friday in Asia as traders awaited a key jobs report for evidence about the strength of the U.S. economy. \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was up 13 cents at $96.49 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The co");
document.write("ntract fell $1.25 to settle at $96.36 on Thursday. ...\n
Senate Panel Approves Potentially Toughest Penalty Yet Against Iran?s Wallet
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
The Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved a new regimen of anti-Iran sanctions on Thursd");
document.write("ay that would for the first time threaten to punish the global financial telecommunications network that nearly all banks rely on to conduct their daily business. \n\nThe legislation’s banking provision, aimed at forcing the telecommunications network to expel Iranian banks that have already ...\n
U.S. Plays Down Warning By Israeli Over Iran?s Missiles
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/03/2012) (Registration Required)\n
JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official said Thursday that the missile testing site near Tehran that was destroyed in a huge explosion three months ago was developing missiles with a range of about 6,000 miles that could reach the United States. \n\nThe assertion went far beyond what rocket experts have established about Iran’s missile capabilities, and American officials questioned...\n
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document.write("Powerful savings \"? for now
\n(Plattsburgh Press-Republican © 02/03/2012)
MALONE — Lower electricity rates for National Grid business and residential customers will mean temporary savings on bills this year.\n\nBut the power company plans to ask the State Public Service Commission for a rate increase that would start in 2013.\n\nUntil then, homeowners could save $6 a month on their bill, small");
document.write(" businesses about $7, mid-sized industries about $8,300 and large-scale powe...\n
Mini-reviews and content ratings for movies
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 02/03/2012)
NEW THIS WEEK\n\nAlbert Nobbs? (R, some sexuality, brief nudity, language) Glenn Close shows an obvious love for the title character, a woman living as a man in 19th-centur");
document.write("y Dublin. But Rodrigo Garcia?s film never quite finds itself, despite the Oscar-nominated performances of Close and Janet McTeer, a painter also living as a man. Roadside Attractions. 113 minutes. Playing at Upstate Films,Tinker S...\n
DHSES Commissioner Welcomes NRC Decision to Reject Indian Point Fire Safety Exemption Requests
\n(Read Media Ne");
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ALBANY, NY (02/02/2012)(readMedia)-- Jerome M. Hauer, Commissioner of the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES), today welcomed the decision by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), which acknowledged New York State's concerns about fire safety at the Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, NY and denied fire safety exemptions requested by Entergy Nucl...\n
GLOBAL MARKETS-U.S. data boost equities, dollar
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/03/2012)
NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Stocks surged and the dollar rose against the yen on Friday as news of a jump in U.S. job creation fueled hopes for recovery in the world's largest economy, while uncertainty over a Greek debt restructuring deal helped keep the euro little changed. The January U.S. jobs report propelled the Nasdaq stock index to an 11-year high, with European stocks closing at their hig...\n
UPDATE 6-Brent extends gains on U.S. jobs data, Iran
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/03/2012)
* Iran's Khamenei warns against oil embargo * Increase in U.S. nonfarm payrolls lifts prices * Greece negotiations strike note of caution (Adds U.S. jobs data, comment, updates prices) By Zaida Espana LONDON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Brent crude extended gains ab");
document.write("ove $113 on Friday after data showed the U.S. economy created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January, spurring hopes this could stim...\n
Muslims and their allies seethe over NYPD secret report, demand Kelly's resignation
\n(Staten Island Advance © 02/03/2012)
Associated PressThe Al Mahdi Foundation in Brooklyn has been ");
document.write("a target of NYPD surveillance and was mentioned in secret document whose existence was revealed by The Associated Press.\n\n\nSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A Staten Island interfaith leader is in agreement with a coalition of more than 40 groups calling for the immediate resignation of NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly and both internal and external...\n
Document: NYPD eyed Mu");
document.write("slims due to religion
\n(WABC TV 7 New York © 02/03/2012)
NEW YORK -- \nThe New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. \n\n\n The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how, when loo...\n
Appellate court upholds dismissal of Galloo Island wind farm challenge
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 02/03/2012)
An appellate court has unanimously upheld a state Supreme Court judge’s dismissal of the town of Henderson’s legal challenge to a proposed wind farm on Galloo Island in the town of Hounsfield.\n\nIn a decision entered Tuesday, the state Appellate Division, Fourth Department, affirmed Judge Joseph D. McGuire’s Aug");
document.write("ust 2010 ruling that, among other things, determined that the Henderson T...\n
Earth Watch: Atlantic sturgeon could alter fate of Tappan Zee Bridge, Indian Point
\n(White Plains Journal News © 02/03/2012)
When was the last time a fish affected your electric bill or daily commute?\r\n\r\nWith the addition of the Atlantic sturgeon to the ");
document.write("endangered species list Tuesday, that?s just what could happen. Or what some in the environmental community and elsewhere hope.\r\n\r\nThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association?s endangered list includes nearly 2,000 different species and the decades-old congressional...\n
First Energy gets boost from closing coal plants
\n(WNYT NBC 13 Albany");
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(AP) NEW YORK - Instead of complaining about clean air rules, maybe utilities should cheer them. \r\n\r\nSometimes, the rules lead to big gains. \r\n\r\nFirst Energy, a utility based in Ohio, got such a boost Thursday, a week after the company announced it would close six coal-fired plants, blaming new federal rules aimed at slowing emissions of mercury and other toxins. \r\n\r\nWithout these plants,...\n
Nuclear Agency Requires Fire Safety Upgrades at Indian Point
\n(WWTI (ABC) Channel 50 (Watertown) © 02/03/2012)
ALBANY, New York, February 2, 2012 (ENS) - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission sided with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Wednesday, rejecting Entergy's request for exemptions from critical fire safety requirements at the Indian Point nuclear power plant.\n\nThe attorney general filed a petition with the federal agency last year over Indian Point's continued failure to comply ");
document.write("with federal ...\n
Indian Point fire rules affirmed
\n(Albany Times Union © 02/02/2012)
WHITE PLAINS — Federal regulators said Wednesday they have denied most of the fire-safety exemptions sought by the owner of the Indian Point nuclear plants near New York City.\n\nThe state attorney general called the rulings \"a major victory ");
document.write("for the safety of millions of New Yorkers.\"\n\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it turned down 42 of the 50 exemptions requested three years ago by En...\n
NRC denies most exemptions sought for NY reactors
\n(Auburn Citizen © 02/02/2012)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - Federal regulators said Wednesday they\nhave denied most of the fir");
document.write("e-safety exemptions sought by the owner\nof the Indian Point nuclear plants near New York City.\n \n \n \n \n\nThe state attorney general called the rulings \"a major victory\nfor the safety of millions of New Yorkers.\"\n \n \n \n \n\nThe Nucl...\n
Gas industry money tilts the debate on drilling
\n(Buffalo News © 02/02/2012)
Officials in Albany will soon decide whether to authorize horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a controversial gas drilling process. While citizens have written thousands of letters to the governor and the Department of Environmental Conservation protesting the health and environmental risks associated with fracking, the gas industry has been busy writing checks to Albany decision-makers. \n\nA new repo...\n
Landowners fight eminent domain in Pa. gas field
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 02/02/2012)
MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press\n \nLAPORTE, Pa. (AP) ? A pipeline operator assured federal regulators it would minimize using eminent domain against private landowners if given approval to lay a 39-mile natural gas pipeline in northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains. \n\nYet the company was readying condemnation papers against dozens of landowners even as the Federal Ene");
document.write("rgy Regulator...\n
David F. Sherman: Rejection of Keystone Pipeline Hurts Nation Hungry for Jobs
\n(East Aurora Advertiser © 02/02/2012)
One would think that a project designed to improve our nation's energy independence would be eagerly embraced in an election year.\n\nOne would think that a project that would create thousands of job");
document.write("s would be eagerly embraced in an election year.\n\nOne would think that a project that would create real momentum for the economy would be eagerly embraced in an election year.\n\nNot so in the view of Pres...\n
Oil hovers below $98 amid mixed US demand signs
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 02/02/2012)
Oil prices hovered below $98 a barrel ");
document.write("Thursday in Asia amid\nmixed signs about the strength of U.S. crude demand.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was down 1 cent at $97.60 a\nbarrel at midday Singapore time in electronic trading on the New\nYork Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 87 cents to settle at\n$97.61 on Wednesday.\n\n \n\nBrent crude was steady at $111.56 a barrel on the ICE Futures\nEx...\n
Rejection of Keystone XL pipeline hurts nation hungry for jobs
\n(Hamburg Sun © 02/02/2012)
One would think that a project designed to improve our nation?s energy independence would be eagerly embraced in an election year. One would think that a project that would create thousands of jobs would be eagerly embraced in an election year. One would think that a project that would create real momentum for the economy would be eagerly embraced in an election year.\n\nNot so in the view of Pres...\n
American Energy Development Corp. Announces Sale of the First 1,000 Barrels of Oil From Brown #2-12 Well in Michigan
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Energy Development Corp. (OTCBB:AEDC) hereafter \"AED,\" is pleased to announce the sale of the first 1,000 barrels of oil produced from the Brown #2-12 well with construction of production");
document.write(" facilities in the final stages. With estimated ultimate recovery of 650,000 barrels of oil from the structure, the first 1,000 barrels produced yielded minimal ...\n
Boyden Executive Outlook Projects Some Areas of Uptick in Executive Hiring in 2012
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
Despite an uneven global environment, ");
document.write("executive hiring remains steady in sectors with predictable growth and where leadership gaps exist, according to the quarterly Boyden Executive Outlook, released today by Boyden Global Executive Search. ???Companies are facing challenging markets and are prepared to hire leaders who can effectively steer them through the ???new normal???,??? said Trina Gordon,...\n
ECS and BUE to Launch powerCONNECT Partnership Program
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
Award-winning Energy Curtailment Specialists (ECS) and BidURenergy, Inc. (BUE) have come together to create powerCONNECT, a referral-based program designed for service providers, consultants or others that wish to offer energy procurement or demand response services to their clients. Through this program, the powerCONNECT partner will earn additional revenue when they refer a customer, business as...\n
EOG Resources to Present at Upcoming Energy Conference
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
HOUSTON, Feb. 2, 2012 ??/PRNewswire/ --??EOG Resources, Inc. (NYSE: EOG) (EOG)??is scheduled to present on Thursday, February 9, 2012, at 10:35 a.m. Mountain time at the Credit Suisse Energy Summit.?? Mark G. Papa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, will present on behalf of EOG.?? A repl");
document.write("ay will be available until March 9, 2012. A live webcast of the presentation, as well as the accompanying sl...\n
PetroQuest Energy, Inc. Invites You To Join Its 2011 Year-End and Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference Call
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
LAFAYETTE, La., Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --??In conjunction with Pe");
document.write("troQuest Energy's (NYSE: PQ) release of its 2011 year-end and fourth quarter financial results, you are invited to listen to its conference call with management that will be broadcast live over the Internet on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time.?? The Company will release its results before the market opens on Fe...\n
Watchman Prequels Anger Creat");
document.write("or Alan Moore
\n(International Business Times © 02/02/2012)
DC Entertainment has angered the creator of the groundbreaking Watchman graphic novel Alan Moore by announcing it will release a series of prequels without him. Set in an alternative version of 20th-century America, the Watchmen series follows a group of crime-fighting vigilantes during the cold-war, as they wrestle with personal issues and struggle to stop a seemingly inevitable nuclear war. It b...\n
Assembly committees say Indian Point can be shut down
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/02/2012)
ALBANY ? Two Assembly committees have concluded the Indian Point nuclear power plant could be closed without overburdening ratepayers or threatening reliability standards.The preliminary findings of the Energy and Corporations, Authorities and Commissions committees stem from a joint Jan. 12 hearing on plans for potential closing of the nu");
document.write("clear facility.The Indian Point nuclear power plant is abou...\n
LETTER: Obama ups the ante on environment
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/02/2012)
Dear Editor:President Obama’s State of the Union speech contained distressing news for Hudson Valley residents who oppose hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to extract natural gas from");
document.write(" shale rock, and who also advocate reduced greenhouse gas emissions to limit climate change.“Over the last three years,” he said, “we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas explora...\n
NYPD document: Gather intel info at Shiite mosques
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 02/02/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The");
document.write(" New York Police Department recommended increasing surveillance of thousands of Shiite Muslims and their mosques, based solely on their religion, as a way to sweep the Northeast for signs of Iranian terrorists, according to interviews and a newly obtained secret police document. The document offers a rare glimpse into the thinking of NYPD intelligence officers and how, when...\n
New York Times-Style Journalism
\n(NYC Independent Media Center © 02/02/2012)
by Like other major media scoundrels, New York Times writers, op-ed commentators and editorials fail the test. They're biased, shameless and irresponsible, especially on issues of war and peace. Times tradition dates from 1896 when Ochs-Sulzberger family members took control. Thereafter, it's played the lead print role distorting, censoring, and suppressing truth and full disclosure. Its shameful ...\n
Powerful savings ? for now
\n(Plattsburgh Press-Republican © 02/02/2012)
MALONE — Lower electricity rates for National Grid business and residential customers will mean temporary savings on bills this year.\n\nBut the power company plans to ask the State Public Service Commission for a rate increase that would start in 2013.\n\nUntil then, homeowners could save $6 a month on their bill, small busi");
document.write("nesses about $7, mid-sized industries about $8,300 and large-scale powe...\n
NRC denies most exemptions sought for Indian Point
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 02/02/2012)
WHITE PLAINS ? Federal regulators have denied most of the fire-safety exemptions sought by the owner of two nuclear power plants near New York City.\n\nThe Nuclear Regula");
document.write("tory Commission said Wednesday it turned down 42 of the 50 exemptions requested by Entergy Nuclear for the Indian Point plants in Buchanan.\n\nThe eight exemptions will allow Indian Point to substitute manual actions by operators for ...\n
Brent rises toward $112 on Iran, promising economic data
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/02/2012)
Factory");
document.write(" activity rose in the United States, China and Germany -- world's three manufacturing superpowers -- in January, raising hopes the global economy will not be dragged down by the euro zone debt crisis and pushing up Asian shares as well as the euro. ICE Brent crude for March rose 33 cents to $111.89 a barrel by 0407 GMT and U.S. crude was at $97.58, down 3 cents. \"We've got a bullish bias an...\n
REFILE-UPDATE 1-Billionaire Cline's coal co files for IPO
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/02/2012)
Feb 2 (Reuters) - Coal miner Foresight Energy Partners L.P., owned by billionaire Christopher Cline, filed with U.S. regulators to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering of its common units. In the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it intends to use the proceeds to make a distribution to Foresight Reserves, which owns the firm's general partn...\n
U.S. gasoline heads for \"epic summer\"-Citi's Kleinman
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/02/2012)
\"U.S. gasoline looks fantastic - it is heading for an epic summer,\" said Kleinman, speaking at the ETF Securities Investment Conference in London on Thursday. \"Structurally it will be very supportive for the entire oil market.\" He said going long gasoline futures and short U.S. crude lo");
document.write("oked like one of the best trades right now. Kleinman said Citi has liked summer gasoline since November 2011 due ...\n
UPDATE 1-Brent rises toward $112 on Iran, promising economic data
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/02/2012)
SINGAPORE, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Brent crude rose toward $112 a barrel on Thursday, extending gains for a third day on pe");
document.write("rsistent worries over supply from Iran, while upbeat global manufacturing data also boosted appetite for riskier assets. Factory activity rose in the United States, China and Germany -- the world's three manufacturing superpowers -- in January, raising hopes the global economy will ...\n
UPDATE 2-Cameron International Q4 beats, sees weak Q1
\n(R");
document.write("euters Africa © 02/02/2012)
Feb 2 (Reuters) - U.S. oilfield equipment and services company Cameron International Corp posted a quarterly profit that beat analysts' estimates for the third straight quarter on higher orders, but forecast first-quarter earnings below market expectations. For the first quarter, the company expects adjusted earnings of 50 cents per share 55 cents per share. Analysts, on an average, are expecting ...\n
UPDATE 4-Patriot Coal idles one more mine as demand dips
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/02/2012)
Feb 2 (Reuters) - Patriot Coal Corp, which has cut back on production of steel-making coal due to a weak export market, will now idle a thermal coal complex as its power-producing customers switch to cheaper natural gas. The company's shares, which had lost 73 percent of their value in the last one year till Wednesday, rose as much as 13 percent to $8.75 on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchang");
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Forcible touching incident at Wal-Mart and new medical center to open: Oswego Neighbors Today
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 02/02/2012)
View full size12/1/09 file photo - Eric R. Gessner\n\n\nOswego man charged with forcible touching\n\n\nA Palladium Times article says that Eric R. Gessner, 21, of Oswego, was arrested Saturday and c");
document.write("harged with forcible touching the sexual or other intimate parts of another person, a class A misdemeanor.\n\n\nAt 10 p.m. Jan. 14 at Oswego Wal-Mart, “A female stated she had been touched inappropriately ...\n
Natural gas prices climb on lower supplies
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 02/02/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) — Natural gas pri");
document.write("ces are climbing after the government said the nation's supplies fell more than analysts expected last week.\n\n\nThe Energy Information Administration said Thursday that U.S. gas supplies dropped by 132 billion cubic feet. The storage level of 2.97 trillion cubic feet remains well above five-year levels for this time of year, however.\n\n\nNatural gas futures rose 7...\n
US defense secretary: Combat role in Afghanistan will end next year
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 02/02/2012)
View full sizeRahmat Gul / APAn heavy machine gun sits on top of a military vehicle during a routine patrol in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The process of taking over security from over the 130,000-strong NATO-led ISAF forces by Afghan troops should be completed by the end of 2014 when Afghanistan will take over the full leadership of its own security dutie...\n
Windfall
\n(Village Voice © 02/02/2012)
People living close to these 40-story monstrosities have lost millions in home equity due to the noise, health impacts and loss of view shed. If this were not true, why would Denmark, home to the largest turbine manufacturer Vestas, make it law that homeowners be compensate by developers for loss-of-value: http://www.ens.dk/en-us/supply/renewa");
document.write("ble-energy/windpower/onshore-wind-power/loss-of-value-t...\n
NRC Denies Most Exemptions Sought For Indian Point Nuclear Reactors
\n(WCBS TV 2 New York © 02/02/2012)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Federal regulators said Wednesday they have denied most of the fire-safety exemptions sought by the owner of the Indian Point ");
document.write("nuclear plants.\n\n\nThe state attorney general called the rulings “a major victory for the safety of millions of New Yorkers.”\n\n\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it turned down 42 of the 50 exemptions requested thre...\n
Feds: Indian Point must revamp fire systems
\n(White Plains Journal News © 02/02/2012)
BUCHANAN &");
document.write("#8212; Indian Point must upgrade its automatic fire prevention systems to help workers respond more quickly to a blaze at the nuclear power plant, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.\n\nMore sprinkler systems, physical barriers and detection equipment are necessary to ensure that fighting fires doesn?t rely on just plant workers, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said ? but there was no im...\n
In brief: Indian Point, state agree on domes; Yonkers woman, 89, struck by vehicle; more
\n(White Plains Journal News © 02/02/2012)
Indian Point, state agree on domes\n\nBUCHANAN — Indian Point?s owner and state officials now agree that the concrete containment domes housing two working nuclear reactors in Buchanan are safe and can be properly maintained should the plant receive a 20-year license extension.\n\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission said plant owner Entergy Nuclear provided information to address the state?s conce...\n
Upgrade ordered
\n(White Plains Journal News © 02/02/2012)
BUCHANAN — Indian Point must upgrade its automatic fire prevention systems to help workers respond more quickly to a blaze at the nuclear power plant, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.\n\nMore sprinkler systems, physical barriers and detection equipment are necessary t");
document.write("o ensure that fighting fires doesn?t rely on just plant workers, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said ? but there was no im...\n
NYPA approves contract with Massena company to undertake aquatic habitat improvement work
\n(WWTI (ABC) Channel 50 (Watertown) © 02/02/2012)
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Talking Points on Iran");
document.write(", the US and Israel
\n(Albany Times Union © 02/01/2012)
Sensible Thinkers should be able to learn!, from Tom Tomorrow's "The Modern World"\n\n\nLately there have been many calls for increased sanctions against Iran, which would gravely affect the people of Iran and the world economy. ?There has also been escalating rhetoric threatening a possible military attack on Iran by either the United States or Israel. During the past month, 7 women fr...\n
Grand Island co. low bidder for NYPA restoration work
\n(Buffalo Business First © 02/01/2012)
LDC Construction Co. has been retained by the New York Power Authority to undertake shoreline restoration and habitat work on Motor Island.\n\n\nThe contract with the Grand Island company is valued at $1.07 million, NYPA said, representing the low bid on the project.\n\n\nMotor Island, a six-acre site, sits in the Niagara River just south of Grand I");
document.write("sland. It is managed as a wildlife preserve by the stat...\n
Cuomo goes out on a limb by pushing ?Buffalo Billion?
\n(Buffalo News © 02/01/2012)
ALBANY ? The Cuomo administration?s plans to make the Buffalo area a $1 billion test case for economic development is expected to take some twists and turns in the coming months as the 2012");
document.write(" state budget is debated and legislators from other regions ask a simple question: What about us? \n\nBut lawmakers from Western New York do not believe the full $1 billion commitment will be finalized this year?a...\n
Lifes a fiesta for Gronk, day by day
\n(Buffalo News © 02/01/2012)
INDIANAPOLIS -- The first thing you noticed, as Ro");
document.write("b Gronkowski walked across the field toward his personal media station, was that his cap was on backwards. Then, as his lower body came into view, you saw that he no longer had a walking boot on his lower left leg.\n\n\nYou could sense the optimism rising in the hearts of New England fans as Gronkowski settled into his seat in Lucas Oil Field for his ...\n
Lifes a fie");
document.write("sta for Pats Gronkowski, day by day
\n(Buffalo News © 02/01/2012)
INDIANAPOLIS -- The first thing you noticed, as Rob Gronkowski walked across the field toward his personal media station, was that his cap was on backwards. Then, as his lower body came into view, you saw that he no longer had a walking boot on his lower left leg.\n\n\nYou could sense the optimism rising in the hearts of New England fans as Gronkowski settled into his seat in Lucas Oil Field for his ...\n
Oil prices steady as demand falls in US
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 02/01/2012)
Oil prices are flat Wednesday following economic reports that\nshowed U.S. factories are cranking into a higher gear while energy\ndemand remains weak.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude slipped 8 cents to $98.40 per barrel in New\nYork. Brent crude rose $1.02 to $112 a barrel in London.\n\n \n\nPrices wavered after reports showed that energy demand remains\nweak in the ");
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Controversial Video Sparks Outrage at NYPD
\n(Gotham Gazette © 02/01/2012)
Photo by William Alatriste Commissioner Raymond Kelly honors officers.\n\nMuslim organizations last week called for the resignation of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and NYPD spokesman Paul Browne, the ");
document.write("creation of a police oversight body and the retraining of 1,500 officers. \n\nMany Muslims reacted with worry and outrage to news reports that Kelly voluntarily participated in an interview for The T...\n
American Financial Group, Inc. Announces 2011 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
\n(International Business Times © 02/01/2012)
Am");
document.write("erican Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: AFG)(NASDAQ: AFG) today reported net earnings attributable to shareholders of $109 million ($1.10 per share) for the 2011 fourth quarter, compared to $133 million ($1.23 per share) for the 2010 fourth quarter. Book value per share, excluding appropriated retained earnings and unrealized gains (losses) on fixed maturities, increased by $1.14 to $40.23 per share...\n
Historic Levels of Energy Consumer Shopping Highlights the National Energy Marketers Association Fifteenth Anniversary
\n(International Business Times © 02/01/2012)
The National Energy Marketers Association (NEM) met in executive session last week at SCRA headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina, marking the Association???s 15th year of service. ???Congratulations to our members for creating what has become one of the nation???s fastest growing new industries, while at the same time helping NEM continue to support the effo");
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Strathmore Announces Strategic Investment by Korea Electric Power Corp. & Phased US $40 Million Joint Venture Development of the Gas Hills, Wyoming
\n(International Business Times © 02/01/2012)
KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/31/12 -- STRATHMORE MINERALS CORP. (\"Strathmore\" or");
document.write(" \"the Company\") (TSX: STM)(OTCQX: STHJF) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic Definitive Agreement (\"the Agreement\") with Korea Electric Power Corporation (\"KEPCO\"), whereby KEPCO will subscribe for common shares of Strathmore, with the proceeds to be used for the development o...\n
Updated: Landowners fight gas firm over Pa. pipeline plan
\n(Ithaca Journal © 02/01/2012)
LAPORTE, Pa. -- A pipeline operator assured federal regulators it would minimize using eminent domain against private landowners if given approval to lay a 39-mile natural gas pipeline in northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains.\n\nYet the company was readying condemnation papers against dozens of landowners even as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was considering its application ...\n
Today in History: Wednesday, February 1
\n(Little Falls Evening Times © 02/01/2012)
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2012. There are 334 days left in the year.\n\n\n\nToday’s Highlight in History\n\n\n On Feb. 1, 1862, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.\n\n\n\nOn this date\n\n\nIn 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of th");
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Environmentalists say IP disaster could spell catastrophe for drinking water
\n(Mid Hudson News © 02/01/2012)
PEEKSKILL – Representatives from environmental advocacy groups came together in a waterfront park on the Hudson River near Peekskill Tuesday to present the findings of a new study that examin");
document.write("ed the potentially catastrophic effects that a disaster at Indian Point could have on the region’s drinking water.\n \n\nThe new report from Environment New York states that over 11 million ...\n
My View: Contrary to Ruffalo's contention, fracking is safe
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 02/01/2012)
I would like to con");
document.write("gratulate Mark Ruffalo on being named our \"Most Celebrated Local Person of the Year\" and say that his written response to the award published in the Times Herald-Record was most enlightening. It is clear that Ruffalo is fond of our area and that he feels strongly about looking out for our collective interests, although it very well may be that those interests are not entirely th...\n
Richard Cohen: The GOP is brain-dead
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 02/01/2012)
On Saturday night, at precisely 9:19 and 30 seconds, my iPhone, my iPad, my computer and, for all I know, my toaster were informed that Herman Cain had endorsed Newt Gingrich. The ping-ping of the devices suggested that something momentous had happened — alerts from both The Washington Post and The New York Times — but in fact it was just additional evidence that the Republican Party h...\n
?Before Watchmen,? prequels to 'Watchmen' comic books, in the works
\n(New York Daily News © 02/01/2012)
Pow!\n\n\n\n\n DC Entertainment shocked comic book fans Wednesday with the announcement that it's launching seven prequel series to writer Alan Moore and artist David Gibbons' 1986-87 series "Watchmen," considered by many the greatest comic book series of all time.\n\n\n\n\n ?It?s our");
document.write(" responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,? DC Entertainment co-publish...\n
Booming Production Pushes Natural Gas Price Down
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
NEW YORK (AP) — The price of natural gas dropped back near a");
document.write(" 10-year low Wednesday after Exxon Mobil and other energy companies declined to cut production. \n\nExxon, America's biggest natural gas producer, has led a push by major industry players into U.S. gas drilling over the past few years that has boosted production to the highest levels ever. Supplies in storage are well above ave...\n
New York's Solar Balance Sh");
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\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York TimesSolar panels atop the roof of the New York Power Authority in White Plains.\r\n\r\n\r\nDespite uncertainties in the solar energy market, New York officials should support the ?steady and measured growth? of solar power in the state as part of a balanced renewable energy strategy, a new report recommends.\n\r\n\r\nThe report, by the New York State Energy Research and Develop...\n
Oil Hovers Below $99 After US Crude Supply Jump
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 02/01/2012) (Registration Required)\n
SINGAPORE (AP) — Oil prices hovered below $99 a barrel Wednesday in Asia as investors eyed a jump in U.S. crude inventories and signs of sluggish economic growth. \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was up 15 cents at $98.63 a barrel");
document.write(" at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 30 cents to settle at $98.48 on Tuesday. ...\n
Amphenol electricity source to be topic
\n(Oneonta Daily Star © 02/01/2012)
An upcoming public hearing is a necessary step to keep Amphenol Corp. in the village of Sidney, sev");
document.write("eral people said Tuesday. \n\nThe hearing at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, will come at the start of the regular Sidney village board meeting. It concerns a resolution to grant a franchise to the Delaware County Electric Cooperative to build, operate and maintain an electrical distribution plant and provide ...\n
NYISO Offers Market Training Opportunities
RENSSELAER, NY (01/31/2012)(readMedia)-- The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) will offer two opportunities in March for individuals to learn more about New York's competitive wholesale electricity markets and power system operations.\n\n\nOn Thursday, March 1, 2012, the NYISO will offer an introductory Market Overview Course. Recommended for those with less than a year of energy industry ...\n
UPDATE 1-Warm winter creates winners and losers in U.S. economy
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/01/2012)
Jan 31 (Reuters) - Halfway through what might turn out to be the second mildest U.S. winter on record, major parts of the nation's economy are feeling the impact, for better or worse. Apparel sales have been dented, ski slopes are emptier, and there has probably been a modest impact on economic figures for everything from payroll numbers to housing starts. But lower energy pr");
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UPDATE 10-Brent crude up as China, Iran outweigh US stockbuild
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/01/2012)
* Coming up: U.S. weekly jobless claims, Thursday (Updates with closing prices, additional analyst comment) NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Brent crude rose on Wednesday as upbeat Chinese manufacturing data and conc");
document.write("erns about the standoff between Iran and the West outweighed data showing a large build in U.S. oil inventories. U.S. crude turned negative after data from the U.S. Energy Information Admin...\n
UPDATE 11-Brent crude up as China, Iran outweigh US stockbuild
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/01/2012)
NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Brent crude rose");
document.write(" on Wednesday as upbeat Chinese manufacturing data and concerns about the standoff between Iran and the West outweighed data showing a large build in U.S. oil inventories. U.S. crude turned negative after data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showed inventories shot up 4 million barrels last week, including a steep 1.5-million-barrel incre...\n
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document.write("E 7-Oil rises to $112 on China data, Iran tension
\n(Reuters Africa © 02/01/2012)
LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Oil rose above $112 a barrel on Wednesday as firm Chinese economic data and tension between Iran and the West lent support, although a larger-than-expected rise in U.S. crude stocks limited gains. U.S. crude oil inventories rose by a more-than-forecast 4.18 million barrels last week, according to the Energy Information Administration report released at 1530 GMT. Gasoline ...\n
Higher oil prices lift Exxon's 4Q profit
\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 02/01/2012)
NEW YORK — \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n Exxon Mobil had a simple formula for success last quarter: It sold oil at higher prices.\n\n\n\n\n Everything else was a struggle for the largest U.S. oil company. Production fell, its refineries suffered from high costs and falling fue");
document.write("l demand, and it made less money on chemicals. Even its big investmen...\n
California Nuclear plant shuts down reactor as precaution
\n(WAMC Albany FM 90.3 © 02/01/2012)
By Steve Gorman\n\nLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of two reactors at the San Onofre nuclear power station in Southern California was shut down on Tuesday after a small l");
document.write("eak was detected in a steam generator tube, but the incident posed no risk to the public or plant workers, the facility operator said.\n\nThe reactor unit, which normally provides 1,100 megawatts of electricity, was shut down at about 5:3...\n
NRC raises risk of earthquakes; Indian Point must update safety plan
\n(White Plains Journal News © ");
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BUCHANAN — Indian Point and other nuclear plants must update their ability to withstand an earthquake after a federal study released Tuesday showed an ?increased likelihood? of ground movement in the central and eastern United States.\n\n?This is more about seismic activity in those areas than it is site-specific,? said Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which spo...\n
Warm winter creates winners and losers in U.S. economy
\n(WXXI PBS News © 02/01/2012)
By Edward McAllister and Jeanine Prezioso\n\n(Reuters) - Halfway through what might turn out to be the second mildest U.S. winter on record, major parts of the nation's economy are feeling the impact, for better or worse.\n\nApparel sales have been dented, ski slopes are emptier, and there has probably been a modest impact on economic figures for everything from payroll numbers to housing starts.\n\nBut...\n
President talks up fracking benefits
\n(Albany Legislative Gazette © 01/31/2012)
On a note sure to create a stir among New Yorkers, President Barack Obama expressed support for hydraulic fracturing, or \"hydrofracking,\" in his third State of the Union Address. In addition to directing his administration to open more than 75 percent of the nation's p");
document.write("otential oil and gas resources, President Obama called for the utilization of a natural gas supply that, according to Obama, \"can l...\n
NY nuke plant, others get new info for quake study
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/31/2012)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) ? The owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plants in New York says it probably won'");
document.write("t have to make any major changes to comply with new earthquake information.Federal regulators on Tuesday released a new study of seismic hazards in the central and eastern United States. Nuclear plants in the area are being ordered to use the new information to update their earthquake prep...\n
Oil prices dip below $99 a barrel
\n(Albany Times U");
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NEW YORK — Oil prices ended lower Monday on concerns that the U.S. economy could slow, and investors' worries eased about supply disruptions in the Persian Gulf.\n\nBenchmark crude fell by 78 cents to finish at $98.78 per barrel in New York on Monday. Brent crude, which is used to price foreign oils that are imported by U.S. refineries, lost 71 cents to end at $110.75 per barrel in London.\n\nTh...\n
NY drops 1 argument against nuke relicensing
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/31/2012)
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) - New York state has withdrawn one of\nits arguments against the relicensing of the Indian Point nuclear\npower plants.\n \n \n \n \n\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the state has settled a\nclaim related to the structural integrity of the plants'\ncontainment buildings.\n \n \n \n \n\nThe claim had exp...\n
New program encourages home-energy upgrades, with repayment on utility bill
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/31/2012)
A new state program will allow homeowners to make their homes more energy efficient and pay off the cost on their utility bills.\n\nThe \"on-bill recovery\" program, rolled out Monday in Binghamton, will allow single-family ho");
document.write("meowners, apartment complexes with one to four units, businesses and nonprofits to make energy improvements and repay the cost as part of their monthly utility bill.\n\n\"The state ...\n
Oil above $99 in Asia on Europe's austerity move
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/31/2012)
Oil rose above $99 a barrel Tuesday in Asia in sync with gains");
document.write("\nin regional equity markets after Europe took measures to battle its\ndebt crisis.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up $1 at $99.78 a\nbarrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New\nYork Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 78 cents to finish at\n$98.78 on Monday.\n\n \n\nEuropean leaders agreed Monday on a ...\n
Landowners fight gas fi");
document.write("rm over Pa. pipeline plan
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/31/2012)
LAPORTE, Pa. -- A pipeline operator assured federal regulators it would minimize using eminent domain against private landowners if given approval to lay a 39-mile natural gas pipeline in northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains.\n\nYet the company was readying condemnation papers against dozens of landowners even as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was considering its application ...\n
Iran Praises Nuclear Talks With Team From U.N.
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Iran said Tuesday that a team of United Nations nuclear inspectors visiting since the weekend had concluded “constructive and positive” talks with Iranian officials, with further discussions planned at an unspecified date. \n\nThe Iranian appraisal of the talks, reported by ");
document.write("the semiofficial Fars News Agency, said nothing about what was discussed or seen by the inspectors from the ...\n
Landowners Fight Eminent Domain in Pa. Gas Field
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
LAPORTE, Pa. (AP) — When federal regulators approved a 39-mile natu");
document.write("ral gas pipeline through northern Pennsylvania's pristine Endless Mountains, they cited the operator's assurances that it would make sparing use of eminent domain as it negotiated with more than 150 property owners along the pipeline's route. \n\nYet a few days after winning approval for its $250 million MARC 1 pipeline ...\n
Quakes and U.S. Reactors: An Anal");
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\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/31/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesWorkers inspecting the reactor containment building at the North Anna nuclear plant in Mineral, Va., after a quake last summer. The temblor proved stronger than the plant was designed to withstand, causing minor cosmetic damage and unhooking the plant from the electric grid.\r\n\r\n\r\nWith the release of a computer model of all known geologic faults east of Denver,...\n
Indian Point, others get new info for quake study
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/31/2012)
WHITE PLAINS ? The owner of the Indian Point nuclear power plants in New York says it probably won't have to make any major changes to comply with new earthquake information.\n\nFederal regulators on Tuesday released a new study of seismic hazards in the central and eastern United States. Nuclear pl");
document.write("ants in the area are being ordered to use the new information to update their earthquake preparedness....\n
Landowners fight eminent domain in Pennsylvania gas pipeline
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/31/2012)
View full sizeJimmy May / AP Photon this photo taken Wednesday, Lisa Richlin stands in front of her home along Route 220 nea");
document.write("r Laporte, Pa. Richlin is in court with Central New York Oil and Gas Company LLC on trying to get them to move a proposed entrance road for building the MARC 1 pipeline from a couple hundred yards north of her home to a site a couple hundred yards south of her home. \n\n\nLAPORT...\n
What's going on: US intelligence officials call Iran a greater threat than al-Qaida<");
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\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/31/2012)
View full sizeVahid Salemi / APAn Iranian demonstrator holds a poster to support Iran's nuclear activities as he waits for delegates of the International Atomic Energy Organization to arrive Sunday at Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, Iran. On Tuesday, U.S intelligence officials called Iran a greater threat than al-Qaida.\n\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Top U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday asserted...\n
NYS Drops One Argument against Indian Point Relicensing
\n(WAMC Albany FM 90.3 © 01/31/2012)
New York State has withdrawn one of its arguments against the re-licensing of the Indian Point nuclear power plants. WAMC's Dave Lucas reports...\n \nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the state has settled a claim related to the structural integrity of the plants' containment buildings.\n\nThe claim had expressed doubts about whether the buildings would rema");
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Report: Indian Point Threatens Drinking Water
\n(WAMC Albany FM 90.3 © 01/31/2012)
A new study by an environmental advocacy group says the drinking water for more than 11.3 million people could be at risk of radioactive contamination from a leak or accident at the Indian Point Nuclear Fa");
document.write("cility. Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Dave Lucas has details.\n\nAccording to the new report, \"Too Close to Home: Nuclear Power and the Threat to Drinking Water,\" the drinking water intakes for 11.3 m...\n
Gillibrand confident Congress can be productive
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/31/2012)
Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand s");
document.write("ees plenty of room for bipartisan support ? and compromise ? in the perpetually deadlocked Congress. In an interview Monday with the Editorial Board, she said she expects passage of the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge, or STOCK Act, which she?s co-sponsored. The legislation would ban members of Congress, their families and staff from insider trading...\n
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document.write("xxon Reports $9.4 Billion Profit
\n(WPTZ NBC 5 Plattsburgh © 01/31/2012)
Reuters\nNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Exxon reported a 2% rise in fourth-quarter earnings Tuesday as higher oil prices offset declining production volumes.\n\nThe largest U.S. oil company also defended its focus on natural gas, which is part of its plan to develop unconventional energy sources in the United States.\n\nPrices for natural gas have remained in a deep slump, falling more than 25% in the fourth q...\n
Democrats playing a dangerous game
\n(Buffalo News © 01/30/2012)
WASHINGTON L The dues of millions of union members, intuitively those of New York members, are being poured into the Florida Republican presidential primary in a move of surpassing cynicism. \n\nCoordinating with the National Democratic Committee and the Obama re-election campaign, the unions are campaigning to make Newt Gingrich the winner there Tuesday, ");
document.write("and the front-runner for the GOP nomination....\n
Granicus Announces Record Growth in FY 2011
\n(International Business Times © 01/30/2012)
Granicus, the award-winning cloud platform provider for government transparency, efficiency and citizen engagement, today announced record growth across many areas of its business in FY 2011 in");
document.write("cluding sales, revenue, products and customers: Sales Growth - 2011 sales performance has increased by 90% over 2010 Revenue Growth - 2011 revenues have increased by 30% over 2010 Agenda Management Growth - ...\n
Makhteshim Agan Announces New Executive Appointments
\n(International Business Times © 01/30/2012)
Dr. Chen Lichtenstein");
document.write(" Named Deputy CEO; Dr. Eli Abramov Named SVP Global Resources; Ms. Rony Patishi-Chillim Named SVP Global Corporate Communications TEL-AVIV, Israel, January 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Makhteshim Agan Group (\"MAI\"), the world leader in branded off-patent crop protection solutions, today announced three new senior appointments which will support the Company in fully utilizing t...\n
Jonathan Idema, Con Man and Afghan Bounty Hunter, Dies at 55
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Jonathan K. Idema, a convicted con man who gained notoriety in post-invasion Afghanistan as a swaggering hunter of terrorists, then ignominy when he was imprisoned for taking Afghans hostage and torturing them, died Jan. 21 at his home in Bacalar, Mexico. He was 55. \n\nPenny Alesi, a former girlfriend, said the cause was AIDS. A State Department spokesman confirmed the death. ");
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Oil Below $99 in Asia on Greece Debt Concern
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/30/2012) (Registration Required)\n
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Oil fell below $99 a barrel Monday in Asia amid fresh concerns that Europe may refuse to grant Greece a fresh bailout. \n\nBenchmark");
document.write(" crude for March delivery was down 59 cents at $98.97 a barrel at late afternoon Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 14 cents to finish at $99.56 on Friday. \n\nVi...\n
Clean cars gaining speed in CNY
\n(News 10 Now © 01/30/2012)
There's a push for Americans to live gr");
document.write("een lifestyles and become independent of foreign oil. That means switching from gasoline powered cars. But is that trend picking up speed in Central New York? YNN's Erin Clarke takes a look.\n\n \n \n\n\n\nCENTRAL NEW YORK -- Remember the days when gas was under three dollars a gallon?\nIf your car runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), electricity, or some ...\n
CEE POWER-Czech Cal '13 hits month high during cold spell
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/30/2012)
* Temperatures below seasonal averages * Wind generation forecast to fall * Front month gains more than 5 pct PRAGUE, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The key long-term Czech power contract hit a one-month high on Monday, boosted by rising prices for fuels and a cold spell that also supported the prompt, traders said. Cal '13 baseload rose nearly 1 percent to 50.65 euros ($66.51) per megawatt hour on the Prague...\n
Hydrofracking gets a higher profile, still has high stakes
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/30/2012)
President Obama?s prolonged paean to hydraulic fracturing during his State of the Union address last week has raised the profile of the gas-extracting method, but that should not in turn lower the bar for New York state regulators determining what parameters to place on the industry.\n\nThe presid");
document.write("ent talked up the potential benefits of natural-gas drilling: Some 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade...\n
Euro, rich-poor gap proved key issues at Davos
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/29/2012)
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) ? Europe's crippling debt crisis dominated the world's foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for");
document.write(" the first time the growing inequality between the planet's haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to the Arab Spring uprisings, the Occupy movement and other protests around the globe.The mood at the end of the five-day meeting in Davos was sombe...\n
Good things to do this week
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/29/2012)
Pop");
document.write("ular music\n\nShaker High School alumna Kim Nazarian is coming back to school. Nazarian, an established jazz vocalist and founding member of the Grammy Award-winning jazz vocal ensemble New York Voices, will perform with her group at her alma mater this week. The show is part of a two-date showcase for NYV that will bring them to Voorheesville's Clayton A. Bouton High School on Friday night. The ...\n
County could see familiar face in state Senate in 2013
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/29/2012)
If\nredistricting maps released Thursday are approved, a familiar face\nwill once again represent Cayuga County.\n \n \n \n \nThe 51st Senate District currently represented by state Sen. James\nSeward would extend into the county ? one of nine counties in the\nproposed district ? and include the towns of Locke, Moravia, Niles,\nOwasco, Sempronius and Summerhill.?\n ...\n
Inhabitat's Week in Green: glowing green sea, an equinox house and energy-efficient skyscrapers
\n(Engadget © 01/29/2012)
Each week our friends at recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Tidal energy made waves around the world this week as Inhabitat reported that Verdant Power was awarded the first");
document.write(" license for an East River power project in NYC, while across the pond the UK announced plans for a gigantic 27 gigawatt Marine Energy Park and a new Se...\n
Cuomo: Sell upstate power downstate
\n(Lockport Union Sun and Journal © 01/29/2012)
Antiquated power lines and towers that are more than 35 years old are keeping upstate power");
document.write(" from downstate customers, according to state leaders.\n\n\n\n Coal-burning plants like AES in Somerset, which are running at less than capacity and facing closure, don’t have a way to get through to customers in need who are looking elsewhere for electricity.\n\n\n\n Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing for investmen...\n
Letters to the editor for Sunday, January 29, 2012<");
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\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/29/2012)
Thanks to President Obama for restating his commitment to renewable energy in the State of the Union address. That will help the environment and provide much-needed jobs.But he also praised \"shale gas,\" produced by hydrofracking, though he didn't use this word. He called it a domestic, cheaper energy source that will save us from foreign oil and gas. At the same time, he promised to protect Americ...\n
Steve Israel: Future of NY fracking seems to be faltering
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/29/2012)
What once seemed inevitable — hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in New York state in general and Sullivan County in particular — now seems much less certain.Here's why: Geologists, industry insiders and at least one top industry official continue to insist that most, if not all, of the gas in the Marcellus shale beneath Sul");
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Corrections: January 29
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/29/2012) (Registration Required)\n
METROPOLITAN \n\nAn article in some editions last Sunday about an exhibition of Patti Smith’s photography at the Wadsworth Atheneum Mu");
document.write("seum of Art, in Hartford, Conn., misstated the cause of death for Ms. Smith’s husband, Fred Smith. It was heart failure, not cancer. The article also referred imprecisely to Ms. Smith’s life in the 1980s. While “she lived through the beg...\n
New Report by Agency Lowers Estimates of Natural Gas in U.S.
\n(New York Times (State");
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WASHINGTON — Just how much natural gas is trapped underground in the United States? \n\nThe difficulty and uncertainty in predicting natural gas resources was underscored last week when the Energy Information Administration released a report containing sharply lower estimates. \n\nThe agency estimated that there are 482 trillion cubic feet of shale gas in the United States, down fr...\n
Slow Responses Cloud a Window Into Washington
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/29/2012) (Registration Required)\n
WASHINGTON — Is a FOIA delayed a FOIA denied? \n\n“FOIA” is the Freedom of Information Act, under which federal agencies are supposed to promptly release documents requested by the public. In the dialect of Washington, it can be a noun or a verb. But the FOIA process is se");
document.write("ldom prompt. \n\nOn Jan. 4, The New York Times received a final response from the Defense Departmen...\n
Sunday Dialogue: Bird Flu Experiments
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/29/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Research into the bird flu virus has set off an impassioned scientific debate over its ");
document.write("risks and benefits. Here is a sampling. \n\nTo the Editor: \n\nRe “Bird Flu Scientists Agree to Delay Virus Research” (news article, Jan. 21): \n\nThere is great debate in the scientific and public health community about what should be done regarding recent experiments in which scient...\n
Generators are vital backup
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Normally busy neighborhoods were quiet on Oct. 30, the day after the snow leaf blizzard that attacked the Hudson Valley. Only the ever-present hum of houses with generators running could be heard over the glaring silence of the lack of television noise and other electronics and appliances.\n\nWe all sat bundled up in our homes, praying for the lights to turn on, adding another log to the fire and tr...\n
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\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/29/2012)
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AP News in Brief at 11:58 p.m. EST
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/29/2012)
Romney runs attack ads against Gingrich, who says he's in the race until the GOP convention\n\n\nPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — On the weekend before the pivotal Florida primary, Newt Gingrich vowed Saturday to stay in the race for the Republican presidential nominatio");
document.write("n until the national convention this summer even if he loses Tuesday's vote. Front-runner Mitt Romney poured on the criticism of hi...\n
CCC Natural Gas Scholarship
\n(WETM NBC 18 Elmira © 01/29/2012)
The following is a news release:\n\nCorning, N.Y. - Corning Community College's Energy Workforce Education and Training project was aw");
document.write("arded $21,000 by New York State Department of Labor to support up to 34 long-term unemployed workers in the Southern Tier seeking to enroll in the College's Natural Gas Training program. This program is ideal for individuals that enjoy working as part of a team, appre...\n
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
\n(Albany Times Union");
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NEW YORK (AP) ? A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.The word is \"fracking\" ? as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock.It's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union speech ? even as he prai...\n
Maziarz, Hawley support 'fracking?
\n(Batavia Daily News © 01/28/2012)
CHILDS ? State Sen. George Maziarz sees hydro-fracking as a key\nto lifting the upstate economy out of the doldrums.\n \n \n\nMaziarz, a Newfane Republican, is chairman of Senate Energy and\nTelecommunications Committee. He has seen how ?fracking? has\ncreated thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania and brought millions of\ndollars in rural communities in sore need of an economic\nrevival.\n ...\n
Guest Viewpoint: Numbers tell different tale about water, gas drilling
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/28/2012)
In a Jan. 18 Guest Viewpoint (\"Don't let gas drillers steal our water\"), Bernard S. Levy stated two main concerns: depletion of our water supply and the sale of gas to the highest bidder, not for the benefit of the people of Broome Cou");
document.write("nty.\n\nI agree that water is a critical resource. Much water is publicly owned, but the water in my pond is mine, not ours. From National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi...\n
Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Announces Investigation of Walter Energy, Inc.
\n(International Business Times © 01/28/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --??Faruqi ");
document.write("& Faruqi, LLP, a leading national securities law firm, is investigating potential securities fraud at Walter Energy, Inc. (\"Walter\" or the \"Company\") (NYSE: WLT).?? ?? The investigation focuses on whether the Company and its executives violated federal securities laws by failing to disclose that: ??(1) Walter's business was suffering from \"squeeze\" e...\n
AP Inter");
document.write("view: Roubini warns of tough times ahead
\n(Long Island Press © 01/28/2012)
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed “Dr. Doom” for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade.\nRoubini, widely acknowledged to have predicted the crash of 2008, sees tough times ahead for the global economy and is warning that without major polic...\n
Is Spent Nuclear Fuel Really Waste?
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/28/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Peter Wynn Thompson for The New York TimesA pool of spent nuclear fuel at the LaSalle County Generating Station in LaSalle, Ill.\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen the Blue Ribbon Commission on America?s Nuclear Future was established two years ago, after the Obama administration killed a proposed repository");
document.write(" for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, one of the items on its agenda was to determine whether spent nucle...\n
Kelly Says Anti-Muslim Film Shouldn?t Have Been Screened
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/28/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said Friday that &l");
document.write("dquo;The Third Jihad,” a film depicting many American Muslim leaders as extremists, “should not have been shown” to New York City officers. \n\nThe film was played on a loop for officers during 2010 in a waiting area outside a counterterrorism training course, Mr. Kelly said. He placed responsibility for the decision to...\n
Mayor Defends Ke");
document.write("lly, but Says Anti-Muslim Film Caused Damage
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Bebeto Matthews/Associated PressCouncilman Jumaane D. Williams, center, with members of the Muslim-American Civil Liberties Coalition, called for further investigation into a video shown to police officers that depicted Muslims as extremists.\n\r\n\r\nAs his administration faces a firestorm over a video shown to hundreds of police officers that depicted Muslims as extremists, Mayor Michael R. Bloomber...\n
New York's Fracking Deliberations Inch Along
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/28/2012) (Registration Required)\n
In yet another sign that New York has slowed efforts to green-light fracking of natural gas, officials at the state Department of Environmental Conservation canceled a meeting of a drilling advisory panel th");
document.write("is week for a second time.\n\r\n\r\nOfficials said they were delaying the meeting, which had been scheduled for Thursday, because the department’s staff was concentrating on sorting through m...\n
Racing Up (and Down) the Performance Index
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/28/2012) (Registration Required)\n
From Environmental Performance Indexes of 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012; Chart by The New York Times As the Yale-Columbia rankings of national environmental performance have evolved, some countries have moved rapidly upward (or downward, in the case of the United States).\r\n\r\n\r\nWatching the rankings of countries by environmental performance over the last six years has been an occasion for admiration, ming...\n
Rugged Bear to reappear
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/28/2012)
Rugged Bear, the popular children's clothing brand whose storefront in Pittsford closed last spring, is returning to Rochester as a product to be sold in local department stores.\n\nTRB Acquisitions LLC of New York City, which bought the rights to Rugged Bear ");
document.write("after the company liquidated, is relaunching the brand for the fall and will be back in stores in July. So far, the stores that will carry the...\n
Pulse of The People: Not the world?s police
\n(Troy Record © 01/28/2012)
Are American politicians out of sync with the public when it comes to foreign policy? There is considerable reas");
document.write("on to believe so.Throughout the scramble for the GOP presidential nomination, the major candidates have certainly been rabidly nationalistic. In a major foreign policy address on Oct. 7, 2011, Mitt Romney proclaimed that “the 21st century can and must be an American Century.”...\n
Reaping The Benefits Before Drilling Begins
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Updated Jan 27, 2012 at 11:30 PM EST\n \n \n\nNew York State has its finger on the pause button for natural gas production.\n \n\nBut some local families aren't having to wait for the green light to team up with gas companies across the Twin Tiers to get the best deal.\n \n \n\nL...\n
Expert who foresaw '08 crash warns of tough decade
\n(WKBW MSNBC Buffalo © 01/28/2012)
DAVOS, Switzerland — Economist Nouriel Roubini, nicknamed \"Dr. Doom\" for his gloomy predictions in the run-up to the financial meltdown four years ago, says the fallout from that crisis could last the rest of this decade.\n \n \n\nRoubini, widely acknowledged to have predicted the crash of 2008, sees tough times ahead for the global economy and is warning that without major polic");
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Hotel tax may need room for longer stay
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/27/2012)
ALBANY — With the fate of the downtown convention center mired in uncertainty, county lawmakers must decide this year whether to renew a hotel tax that has been funding the state authority charged with building it with more than $1 million ");
document.write("a year. \n\nBut Albany County's stake in the tax is greater than just whether the controversial project ever gets built. \n\nSince the tax on hotel stays was ...\n
Initial public offerings scheduled to debut next week
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/27/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The following is a list of initial public offerings planned for the");
document.write(" coming week. Sources include Renaissance Capital, Greenwich, CT (www.renaissancecapital.com) and SEC filings.Week of Jan. 30AVG Technologies N.V. - Amsterdam, Netherlands, 8 million ordinary shares, priced $16 to $18, managed by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs. Proposed NYSE symbol AVG. Business: Pro...\n
Oil hovers near $100 amid Iran tensions
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/27/2012)
BANGKOK (AP) ? Crude prices were steady Friday amid a weaker U.S. dollar and expectations that Europe will be able to find oil elsewhere if Iran makes good on its threat to immediately halt exports to the region.Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 12 cents at $99.59 a barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 30 cents...\n
3-MINUTE MOVIES: Capsule film reviews and videos
\n(Batavia Daily News © 01/27/2012)
Capsule reviews of films playing in area theaters (click links\nfor full reviews):\n \n \n\nOpening\nToday\n \n\n\nAlbert\nNobbs\n\nThe role of Albert Nobbs is one that's been near to Glenn\nClose's heart for a while. She first played it 30 years ago\noff-Broadway and reprises it now in a project she's been working\nfor some time to bring to the screen. Her dedicat");
document.write("ion is obvious in\nwatchi...\n
?Fracking? support by Obama roils N.Y. debate
\n(Buffalo News © 01/27/2012)
WASHINGTON ? President Obama on Thursday doubled down on his sudden support of hydraulic fracturing as a key to the nation?s energy future, a move that has thrilled supporters of ?fracking? ? and baffled environmentalists ? in ");
document.write("New York. \n\n?We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly a hundred years,? Obama said in a speech in Las Vegas. ?Developing it could power our cars, our hom...\n
Letter: Face it: Your energy doesn't come free
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/27/2012)
I have a couple of questions for all the anti-gas drilling folks out t");
document.write("here.\n\nHow do you heat your home on a cold night? Do you have electricity? They can't possibly be coming from natural gas. Or is it OK to use it as long as it is not produced in your backyard?\n\nMaybe it comes from a coal-powered plant. Is it OK to produce coal and have thousands of miners suffer from black lung and other related...\n
Alliant Energy Corporation : ");
document.write(" YEAR-END 2011 EARNINGS RELEASE AND CONFERENCE CALL
\n(International Business Times © 01/27/2012)
- Alliant Energy Corporation (NYSE: LNT) has scheduled its fourth quarter and annual 2011 earnings release for Friday, February 10th, before the stock market opens. ??A conference call to review the fourth quarter and year-end results is scheduled for the same day at 9:00 a.m. CT. ?? Alliant Energy will webcast the event live at www.alliantenergy.com/investors. The call is open to the public and w...\n
\n(International Business Times © 01/27/2012)
MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced fourth quarter and full-year 2011 results as follows: 4Q11 sales were up 8% to $9.5 billion versus $8.7 billion in");
document.write(" 4Q10 7% organic growth reflects continued strength in most end markets and the contribution of new product launches and geographic expansion 4Q11 proforma earnings (excluding the impact of pensi...\n
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP Files Class Action Suit against Walter Energy, Inc.
\n(International Business Times © 01/27/2012)
R");
document.write("obbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP (???Robbins Geller???) (http://www.rgrdlaw.com/cases/walterenergy/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Walter Energy, Inc. (???Walter??? or the ???Company???) (NYSE: WLT) between April 20, 2011 and September 21, 2011, inclusive...\n
Southwest Securities Managing Director Mark Grant to Appear on \"Tim Connolly???s Winning Strategies\" on Friday, 1/27 at 12 PM CT
\n(International Business Times © 01/27/2012)
--(PR.com)-- Mark Grant, Managing Director of SWS Group, will appear live on Tim Connolly???s Winning Strategies (www.winningstrategies.net) on Friday, January 27 at 12:00 p.m. CT. Listen live on www.winningstrategies.net CRN Digital Talk Radio Network on CRN 4, broadcast by affiliate stations listed at www.crntalk.com. Winning Strategies is sponsored");
document.write(" by Corporate Strategies, LLC, a First Data ins...\n
E-opinions: The best of the political blogs
\n(New York Daily News © 01/27/2012)
Bing West on Iraq\n\n\nBy slaughtering Shiites for the \"crime\" of heresy, the terrorists erected a wall of distrust that separated neighborhoods, causing the Shiites to band together out of fear. Every ");
document.write("neighborhood then had punks and toughs who grabbed power by claiming to be the guardians. Ethnic cleansing followed as the Sunni middle class elected or were forced to flee, with Shiite poor occupying ...\n
Reaping a Bonus From Cap-and-Trade
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/27/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Criticism of cap-and-trade programs often centers on the costs they impose on electric power companies and their consumers. But as I report in Friday’s Times, New York and other Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states that are trying out such a system have found that those costs can be offset by energy efficiency measures paid for by the cap-and-trade program itself.\n\r\n\r\nA study by the Boston ...\n
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/27/2012)
NEW YORK ? Stocks were mostly lower Friday after the government reported the U.S. economy grew at a slower pace than economists had expected in the fourth quarter.\n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average fell 59 points, or 0.5 percent, to 12,676 in the first hour of trading. The S&P 500 index fell 2 points to 1,317. The Nasdaq composite edged up 6 to 2,811.\n\nThe Commerce Department said the economy grew...\n
Hydrofracking: Three views; U.S. debt impact, by the numbers
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/27/2012)
\"I don't think that the shale gas revolution will be halted by environmental concerns. I would say that the environmentalists' concerns are warnings, and I believe that the companies involved in this business are well aware of the risks associated with this t");
document.write("ype of activity. This always happens with the arrival of any new technology. The opportunities it opens up as well as the potential risks hav...\n
What's going on: Costa offers survivors $14,460 for ruined Italy cruise
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/27/2012)
View full sizePier Paolo Cito / AP PhotoThe cruise ship Costa Concordia li");
document.write("es on its side off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Wednesday.\n\n\nFrom the Associated Press:\n\n\nROME (AP) -- Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain...\n
Local officials explore strategies");
document.write(" for NYPA relicensing review
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/27/2012)
MASSENA — There’s one more year before the 10th anniversary of the New York Power Authority’s St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project 2003 relicensing agreement.\n\nIn that time, local officials plan to prepare and develop a strategy to revisit the agreement with NYPA.\n\nThe 2003 relicensing agreement provided benefits to the host communities surrounding the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project. With...\n
Alyce Christine Lafferty (1933 - 2012)
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/27/2012)
Lafferty, Alyce Christine\n\nAlyce Lafferty, a crackerjack typist, feline and Frank Sinatra aficionado, and devout smoker who lived an obscure yet content life in her quintessential suburban nuclear family, died peacefully at home on Jan. 24. She was 78.\n\nThe youngest daughter to William Klinger, who ran a successful hardware store in Philadelp");
document.write("hia, a major supplier to Schmidt's brewery, was original...\n
CSM: How Iran could thump superior US military
\n(WIVT MSNBC Binghamton © 01/27/2012)
ISTANBUL — Tehran has stepped up its bellicose warnings of conflict in the Persian Gulf as potentially crippling new European Union and American sanctions have been approved ");
document.write("on Iran's oil exports and central bank. \n \n \n\nThe US defied the warning of a top Iranian general this week and sent the USS Abraham Lincoln ? flanked by British and French warships ? through the Strait of Horm...\n
NYT: Israel senses bluffing in Iran's retaliation threats
\n(WIVT MSNBC Binghamton © 01/27/2012)
JERUSALEM ");
document.write("— Israeli intelligence estimates, backed by academic studies, have cast doubt on the widespread assumption that a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would set off a catastrophic set of events like a regional conflagration, widespread acts of terrorism and sky-high oil prices.\n \n \n\n \n\n\nThe estimates, which have been largely adopted by the country?s most seni...\n
Better to put ORDA in charge of Belleayre
\n(Adirondack Daily Enterprise © 01/26/2012)
For the most part, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to shift Belleayre Mountain Ski Center from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to the Olympic Regional Development Authority makes sense. Running ski areas is part of ORDA's core mission and something it does well. For the DEC, it's a side job.\n\nNow, running ski areas probably shouldn't be one of the state's core missions, either, and...\n
Are Schneiderman, Obama at odds over fracking? (updated)
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/26/2012)
Although Attorney General Eric Schneiderman applauded from the expensive seats live at the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he won’t talk about his views on President Barack Obama’s pro-hydraulic fracturing initiative unveiled mid-speech.\n\n\n“We will decline t");
document.write("o comment,” said Schneiderman spokeswoman Jennifer Givner.\n\n\nUpdate: Givner subsequently decided to comme...\n
Calendar: What's happening this week
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/26/2012)
MUSIC\n\nCLASSICAL\n\n• Albany Pro Musica: \"Lux Aeterna,\" Cathedral of All Saints, 62 S. Swan St., Albany When: 3 p.m. Sunday Cost: Premium se");
document.write("ats, $35; regular seats, $10 Contact: 346-6204 or http://www.albanypromusica.org Notes: For chorus and string orchestra, the piece is composer Morten Lauridsen's first large-scale work.\n\n• Brett Grigsby, Zankel Music Center, 815 N. Broadway, Saratoga S...\n
Drillers get lift from Obama's talk
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/26/2012)
Fed's low interest rate pledge boosts markets
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/26/2012)
LONDON (AP) ? World stock markets rose on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve pledged to keep interest rates low until late 2014 to nurture the country's stubbornly slow economic recovery.The Fed cut rates to near zero in December 2008 during the financial crisis, and has held them there ever since. The announcement that it expected rates to remain low was a sign that the Fed expects the econo...\n
Pro-frackers praise Obama on natural gas drilling
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/26/2012)
The pro-hydrofracking Independent Oil & Gas Association was heartened by President Barack Obama’s enthusiastic embrace of the controversial technique in last night’s State of the Union.\n\n\nObama discussed natural gas drilling as part of ?an all-out, all-of-the-above s");
document.write("trategy that develops every available source of American energy ? a strategy that?s cleaner, cheaper, and full of ne...\n
Drilling supporters hail Obama's State of Union comments
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/26/2012)
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to support natural gas drilling on federal lands is being");
document.write(" hailed by supporters of hydraulic fracturing in New York.\n\nObama's comments in Tuesday's State of the Union speech \"should send a message to all the folks back home that even the president has vetted this and we need to move forward together;\" Republican Rep. Tom Reed of Corning said.\n\nIn his ...\n
Push for ban on natural gas drilling advances in Vestal
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/26/2012)
VESTAL -- After sweeping through the outer limits of New York's Marcellus Shale area, the movement to implement local bans on natural gas drilling is beginning to target the state's potential sweet spot: the Southern Tier.\n\nA nascent push to prevent drilling in the 52.5-square-mile Town of Vestal through local legislation has put town politicians on notice and angered landowners, heightening tensi...\n
Ukraine to continue increasing domestic production of energy
\n(Brama Gateway to Ukraine © 01/26/2012)
Ukraine will continue to work to increase its own production of energy, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has said in an interview for a joint project by The New York Times News Service & Syndicate and Segodnya Multimedia - an anthology entitled \"Ukraine and the World 2012. Global Agenda.\" According to the presidential press service, in particul");
document.write("ar, Yanukovych said that Ukraine reached the larg...\n
Ukraine will work to boost domestic energy production, says president
\n(Brama Gateway to Ukraine © 01/26/2012)
KIEV, Jan. 24 ??? Ukraine will continue to work to increase domestic production of energy resources, President Viktor Yanukovych said in an exclusive interview for th");
document.write("e joint project of The New York Times News Service & Syndicate and Segodnya Multimedia - \"Ukraine and the World in 2012. Global Agenda.\" According to the president, Ukraine started producing large volumes of domestic gas in 2011, and ...\n
Federal grant paves way for marina work
\n(Buffalo News © 01/26/2012)
NORTH TONAWANDA -- A fe");
document.write("deral grant will contribute nearly $700,000 toward the rebuilding of an old marina, which will take place as a shuttered yacht club is refurbished into a new, public waterfront restaurant where boaters can pull in for a meal.\n\n\n"This is very good news for people who have been looking for things to do along our riverfront," Mayor Robert Ortt said today. "We hop...\n
Lets look in the mirror, Cuomo says
\n(Buffalo News © 01/26/2012)
Buffalo and Western New York merit extra attention in the new state budget, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday, and the help will come in the form of $1 billion in economic-development assistance to stimulate job creation.\n\n\nThat extra attention also includes a promise for state efforts to keep the Buffalo Bills in Ralph Wilson Stadium, even though Cuomo warns that no "blank check" is a...\n
Students envision the future
\n(Buffalo News © 01/26/2012)
If you could build a city of the future what would you put in it? Last Saturday, I got a chance to see what the future might look like at the Future Cities Competition, which was held at Mount St. Mary Academy. \n\nThis year?s theme was ?Fuel Your Future.? Students in sixth through eighth grade create a futuristic city, choose an energy source and desi");
document.write("gn a way to generate electric power for their ci...\n
Waterfront restaurant given boost
\n(Buffalo News © 01/26/2012)
NORTH TONAWANDA ? A federal grant will contribute nearly $700,000 toward the rebuilding of an old marina, which will take place as a shuttered yacht club is refurbished into a new, public waterfront restaurant where");
document.write(" boaters can pull in for a meal. \n\n?This is very good news for people who have been looking for things to do along our riverfront,? said Mayor Robert Ortt. ?We hope to be able to do som...\n
President Obama speaks on support of natural gas drilling
\n(Capital News 9 Albany © 01/26/2012)
Developing alternative sources of energy was ");
document.write("a talking point in President Obama's State of the Union address. He might not have said the word \"hydrofracking,\" but as our Megan Cruz reports, it's clear what side of this controversial issue he's on.\n\n \n \n\n\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C. -- \"Oil isn't enough,\" said President Barack Obama. \"We need an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops ever...\n
Jorge");
document.write(" Posada: 17 seasons, 5 titles and 1 team
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/26/2012)
RONALD BLUM, AP Sports Writer\n \nNEW YORK (AP) ? Jorge Posada was watching television when he saw speculation on which teams were interested in signing him as a free agent. \n\n\"They put my face on different uniforms,\" he said. \"And it didn't look good.\" \n\nHe began a Yankee and ended as a Yankee, spending his entire career in pinstripes. \n\nFlanked by his wife and children, with five World Se...\n
Feds say natural gas production to soar by 2035
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/26/2012)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The Energy Information Administration predicts U.S. natural gas production will nearly triple by 2035.\n\nA report released Monday says the 5 trillion cubic feet produced in 2010 accounted for 23 percent of total dry gas production. By 2035, production could hit 13.6 trillion cubic feet and account for 49 per");
document.write("cent.\n\nThe report predicts the U.S. will be a gas exporter by 2021...\n
Residents Can Bring Rechargeable Batteries to Retail Stores for Disposal
\n(Fulton Daily News © 01/26/2012)
FULTON – Oswego County residents can now return rechargeable batteries to a retail store that sells the same product, under a new state law that to");
document.write("ok effect in December.\n\n\nFrank Visser, Oswego County Solid Waste Director, said the law covers many types of rechargeable batteries, including nickel cadmium, sealed lead, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride and any other dry cell rechargeable batte...\n
Oil above $100 as Fed vows to keep key rate low
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/26/2012)
Oil rose above $100 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the U.S.\nFederal Reserve said it would keep interest rates at record lows at\nleast until 2014 to help jump-start the world's biggest\neconomy.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was up 71 cents at $100.11 a\nbarrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York\nMercantile Exchange. The contract rose by 45 cents to finish at\n$99.40...\n
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/26/2012)
Oil rose to near $100 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the U.S.\nFederal Reserve said it would keep interest rates at record lows at\nleast until 2014 to help jump-start the world's biggest\neconomy.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was up 43 cents at $99.83 a\nbarrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the\nNew York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose by 45 cents to\nfinish ...\n
Oil price climbs above $100 a barrel
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/26/2012)
The price of oil is higher after new reports on jobs and\nmanufacturing show a steadily improving U.S. economy that will need\nmore oil and gas.\n\n \n\nBenchmark oil on Thursday rose $1.10 to $100.50 per barrel in\nNew York. Brent crude rose $1.13 to $110.94 in London.\n\n \n\nThe Commerce Depa");
document.write("rtment said orders for long-lasting, durable\ngoods rose in December, and a private survey showed a range of\neconomi...\n
Universal Bioenergy Planning for Shareholder Conference Call on Move to NASDAQ
\n(International Business Times © 01/26/2012)
IRVINE, Calif., Jan. 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Bioenergy Inc., (OTCMarkets");
document.write(":UBRG), a publicly traded independent diversified energy company,??announced??today that it is planning to conduct a live??conference call with its shareholders to discuss its potential plans to up-list to NASDAQ??and recent business developments.?? The company recently announced??that its executives??completed ...\n
DEC fines driller for polluting stream
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/26/2012)
ALBANY (AP) -- New York environmental regulators are seeking $187,500 in fines against a gas-drilling company in Pennsylvania for polluting a stream in Allegany State Park.\n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation says Tuesday it has filed an administrative complaint against U.S. Energy Development Corp. The agency says that storm water runoff from U.S. Energy's roads and well pads in P...\n
Grant to aid heating aid program
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/26/2012)
The Southern Tier Chapter of the American Red has received a $10,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the charitable arm of Dominion, to help keep residents in the Southern Tier warm this winter.\n\nThe grant will be used to support ProjectSHARE, which is administered by the Red Cross in partnership with NYSEG. The program provides assistance towards heat and utility bills for elderly, disabled o...\n<");
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NY takes action against Pa. driller over pollution
\n(Jamestown Post Journal © 01/26/2012)
MARY ESCH, Associated press\n \nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Environmental regulators said Tuesday they are seeking $187,500 in fines against a natural gas drilling company for polluting a trout stream in New York's Allegany State Park while drilling i");
document.write("n Pennsylvania. \n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation said it has filed an administrative complaint against U.S. Energy Development Corp. all...\n
No energy industry backing for the word 'fracking'
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/26/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguis");
document.write("tic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is \"fracking\" - as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industry to free oil and gas from rock. It's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union speech - even as ...\n
NYC Police Chief Apologizes f");
document.write("or Movie Interview
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/26/2012) (Registration Required)\n
NEW YORK (AP) — New York's police commissioner apologized Wednesday for appearing in a documentary movie about terrorism that Muslim groups have criticized as inflammatory, and said his department acted wrongly when it later showed the film to counterterrorism trainees. \n\nA spokesman for Raymond Kelly had previously denied the commissioner had any participation in the making of the \"T...\n
CORRECTED-S.Korea-Market Factors to watch Jan 27
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/26/2012)
(Corrects LG company referenced in press report) SEOUL, Jan 27 - Following is a list of events in South Korea as well as news stories and press reports which may influence financial markets. (Reuters News welcomes your feedback and for any queries, please contact the Seoul newsroom at +822 3704 ");
document.write("5640 or via email profits for the fourth quarter. Around 0000 GMT at kr.rtrs@gmail.com) >Civic groups to...\n
Obama's green tint signals shift to campaign mode
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/26/2012)
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Not long before his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama ventured to a place he'd never bee");
document.write("n in three well-traveled years as president: the Environmental Protection Agency. For a Democrat who won the White House with strong green credentials, Obama has kept his environmental policies well below the radar for much of his presidency. The trip to the ...\n
UPDATE 2-Lower customer spending hurts Carbo Ceramics Q4
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Jan 26 (Reuters) - Oilfield services provider Carbo Ceramics Inc posted fourth-quarter results that missed analysts' estimates as customers cut spending on weak natural gas prices, sending the company's shares down 16 percent before the bell. Carbo, whose customers include Schlumberger Ltd and Halliburton Co, is the largest manufacturer of ceramic proppants used to hold wells open after hydraulic ...\n
Hydrofracking gets a boost in President Obama's speech
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/26/2012)
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama's decision to support natural gas drilling on federal lands is being hailed by supporters of hydraulic fracturing in New York.\r\n\r\nObama's comments in Tuesday's State of the Union speech \"should send a message to all the folks back home that even the president has vetted this and we need to move forward together,\" said Republican Rep. Tom Reed of Corning.\r\n\r\nIn h...");
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No energy industry backing for the word fracking
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/26/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines.\n\n\nThe word is \"fracking\" — as in hydraulic fracturing, a technique long used by the oil and gas industr");
document.write("y to free oil and gas from rock.\n\n\nIt's not in the dictionary, the industry hates it, and President Barack Obama didn't use it in his State of the Union speech...\n
What's in a name? A lot, says natural gas industry, when you're talking about fracking
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/26/2012)
View full sizeMike Groll / APGillie Waddi");
document.write("ngton, of Enfield, N.Y., raises a fist during rally against hydraulic fracturing at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. President Barack Obama didn't use the f- word during his recent State of the Union speech. That's because the word has become a lightning rod.\n\n\nNEW YORK (AP) — A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and poli...\n
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\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 01/26/2012)
UTICA — \n \n \n \n\n\n\n Scott Brockway and his wife moved from Utica to Ilion in 1983.\n\n\n\n\n One of the main reasons: municipal electricity, which means cheaper rates and more money for other things.\n\n\n\n\n His January electric bill was $24.51, though he does not heat his two-story, seven-room house with electricity.\n\n\n\n\n “I honestly don’t know how people ...\n
U.S. Department of Energy Lowers Marcellus Gas Reserves Estimate
\n(WAMC Albany FM 90.3 © 01/26/2012)
The U.S. Energy Department has cut its estimate for natural gas reserves in the Marcellus shale. WAMC's Dave Lucas has details...\n\nThe Marcellus Shale is a rock formation stretching across the U.S. Northeast, including Pennsylvania and New York.\n \nIn a preview of its Energy Outlook for 201");
document.write("2, the DOE reduced its estimate of recoverable natural gas in the Marcellus from 410 trillion cubic feet to 1...\n
Gas Industry In New York Heartened By Obama's Comments
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/26/2012)
The Independent Oil and Gas Association of New York said it was pleased by President Obama’s comments in the State");
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New York hydrofracking supporters hail Obama's speech, hope for end to Marcellus");
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\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/26/2012)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama?s decision to support natural-gas drilling on federal lands is being hailed by supporters of hydraulic fracturing in New York.\n\nObama?s comments in Tuesday?s State of the Union speech ?should send a message to all the folks back home that even the president has vetted this and we need to move forward together,? said Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning.\n\nIn his speech...\n
Fracking Factions React To President's Natural Gas Remarks
\n(WICZ FOX 40 Binghamton © 01/26/2012)
1/25/2012 (Updated 11:29:15 PM)There is quick and intense reaction to President Obama's statement about gas drilling--\n\nIn his State of the Union address Tuesday night, he endorsed an energy source that has ignited waves of controversy across New York State, and in the Southern Tier:\n\nThe president said the nation's own energy");
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Makers Defend \"Jihad\" Movie Used in NYPD Training
\n(WNBC TV 4 New York © 01/26/2012)
The makers of a documentary on radical Islam are defending their work after Mayor Michael Bloomberg criticized the showing of it where police officers were gathered.\n ");
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Makers Defend Islam Movie Criticized by NYC Mayor
\n(WNYW Fox 5 New York © 01/26/2012)
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document.write(" The filmmakers behind a documentary on radical Islam whose showing was criticized by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are defending their work. \n\nThe Clarion Fund said Wednesday its movie, \"The Third Jihad,\" accurately describes the Muslim terrorist threat. \n\nMuslim groups say it paints them as terrorists and encourages Americans to distrust them. \n\nBloomberg on Tuesday said New Yo...\n
Environmental regulators seek fines against natural gas drilling company
\n(WSTM NBC3 Syracuse © 01/26/2012)
ALBANY (AP) -- Environmental regulators said Tuesday they are seeking $187,500 in fines against a natural gas drilling company for polluting a trout stream in New York's?Allegany State Park?while drilling in Pennsylvania.\n\nThe state?Department of Environmental Conservation?said it has filed an administrative complaint against?U.S. Energy Development Corp.?alleging that storm water runoff from its ...\n
Obama backs fracking, vows safe drilling
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/25/2012)
President Barack Obama on Tuesday pushed drilling for natural gas in shale rock and called for an \"all-out\" U.S. effort to develop cleaner energy sources that will help boost the economy.\n\nHydraulic fracturing, which injects a mix of water, sand and chemicals underground to free gas");
document.write(" trapped in rock, could create more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade, Obama said in his State of the Union ...\n
S&P ends with a rare loss
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/25/2012)
NEW YORK — Investors on Wall Street fretted Tuesday that a deal to keep Greece from triggering a financial crisis might fall apart, and a slew");
document.write(" of corporate earnings reports at home didn't make them feel much better.\n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average closed down 33.07 points at 12,676.75. \n\nThe Standard & Poor's 500 ended in the red for only the third time this year, losing 1.35 points to clo...\n
Posada: 17 seasons, five titles, one team
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/25/2012)
N");
document.write("EW YORK ? Jorge Posada was watching television when he saw\nspeculation on which teams were interested in signing him as a free\nagent.\n \n \n \n \n\n?They put my face on different uniforms,? he said. ?And it didn?t\nlook good.?\n \n \n \n \n\nHe began a Yankee and ended as a Yankee, spending his entire career\nin pinstripes.\n ...\n
Chesapeake to cut natural gas production
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/25/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) - Faced with decade-low natural gas prices that have made some drilling operations unprofitable, Chesapeake Energy Corp. says it will drastically cut drilling and production of the fuel in the U.S.\n\nChesapeake, the nation's second largest natural gas producer, said Monday that it plans to cut its current daily production by 8 percent. Over a year, that means the company would produce...\n
DEC fines Amherst company for tainted storm water runoff
\n(Buffalo News © 01/25/2012)
U. S. Energy Development Corp., an Amherst natural gas drilling company, is facing $187,500 in fines from the state Department of Environmental Conservation for causing Yeager Brook in Cattaraugus County to become cloudy with sediment from drilling sites that washed into the st");
document.write("ream during rainstorms late last year and earlier this month.\n\n\nThe DEC, in a complaint filed Tuesday, said its officers f...\n
DEC seeks fines for water quality violations in Allegany State Park stream
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/25/2012)
ALBANY - The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) filed an administrative complain");
document.write("t seeking an order requiring U.S. Energy Development Corporation to pay $187,500 for water quality violations associated with Pennsylvania drilling activities that affected Yeager Brook in Cattaraugus County, the agency announced today. DEC is also requiring that U.S. Energy install appropriate stormwat...\n
Environmental groups rally for NY ban on fracking");
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\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/25/2012)
MARY ESCH, Associated Press\n \nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Health and environmental groups rallied at the Capitol on Monday to call for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells, saying no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination. \n\n\"Fracking is the most important environmental issue this state has faced in the past 100 years,\" Sen. Tony Avella...\n
Bloomberg blasts use of movie during NYPD training
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/25/2012)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that New York police used\n\"terrible judgment\" in showing counterterrorism trainees a\ndocumentary-style film that says Muslim extremists are masquerading\nas moderates to destroy America from within.\n\n \n\nBloomberg said police have stopped showing officers \"The Third\nJihad,\" a 72-minute movie that has been branded inflammatory by\nsome Musli");
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Oil rises above $99 as Iran boycott expands
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/25/2012)
Oil prices pushed above $99 a barrel Wednesday, a day after\nAustralia announced it was joining a boycott by Western nations\nagainst Iran, the world's No. 3 oil exporter, over a suspected\nnuclear weapons program.\n\n \n\nBenc");
document.write("hmark crude for March delivery was up 20 cents to $99.15 per\nbarrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York\nMercantile Exchange. The contract fell 63 cents to ...\n
IHS CERA Chairman: Ukraine Bears a Potential to Produce 70 Billion Cubic Meters of Gas Annually
\n(International Business Times © 01/25/2012)
/PRNe");
document.write("wswire/ -- Ukraine is capable of producing 60-70 billion cubic meters of gas, stated Daniel Yergin, Executive Vice President,??IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. (IHS CERA)????Chairman. The international energy expert, however, pointed out that the country would be able to triple its gas production only if it manages to create a favorable investment climate. \"The economic potentia...\n
Verian Celebrates Banner Year - Will be One to Watch in 2012
\n(International Business Times © 01/25/2012)
For Verian, a leading provider of purchasing and invoice processing software, 2011 was an especially successful year. With new state-of-the-art headquarters, several product releases, a rapidly-expanding portfolio of new clients, and a steady stream of glowing reviews from marquis analysts, it was an exceptionally successful year for Verian. Below is a month-by-month overview of significant news, ...\n
Guest Viewpoint: Don't let gas drillers steal our water
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/25/2012)
Many people believe natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale will bring great profits to those who lease their mineral rights to the drillers and be a great boon to the economy. Perhaps. However, it is only by the abuse, misuse and the diminishment of the water");
document.write(" supply that the drillers make enormous profits. I have two main concerns: the depletion of some of our water supply, and the fear that ...\n
Jeanette Gladstone
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/25/2012)
Gladstone, Jeanette\n\nIthaca: Jeanette Gladstone, almost 91, died at her home in Ithaca, NY on January 22, 2012. Jeanette is survived by her ");
document.write("daughter, Andi Gladstone (Yvonne Fisher); her son-in-law, Art Ellison; her grandson, Jeremy Ellison-Gladstone (Samantha Gross); her granddaughter, Anna Bates (Brian Bates); and her great-grandson, Camden Arthur Bates. Jeanette is predeceased by her beloved dau...\n
Letter: 'Home rule' makes no sense for drilling
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State Sen. Jim Seward is sponsoring a \"home rule\" bill that allows municipalities to ban energy development within their boundaries. While \"home rule\" carries emotional overtones of a redcoats- versus-patriots confrontation, it isn't quite like that.\n\nGas and oil drilling has occurred in New York since the 19th century, but chaos reigned in the 1970s when municipalities created a patchwork of loca...\n
Wind Farm possible off Rockaways if Gov. Cuomo acts quickly, say politicians
\n(New York Daily News © 01/25/2012)
Clean power could come to New York City in the form of a wind farm off the coast of the Rockaways - if the governor acts fast.\n\nThe $2 billion- 4 billion project would generate hundreds, if not thousands, of new jobs and up to 700 megawatts of power, utility officials said.\n\nElected officials are concerned that developers will build wind farms elsewhere if New York doesn't issue a request for prop");
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Impasse Over Greece Sends S.&P. Down
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/25/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Stocks were mixed on Tuesday as European finance ministers and Greek bondholders were at a stalemate over how to resolve that nation’s debt crisis. \n\n“It’s all about t");
document.write("he negotiations of Greek debt,” Mike Ryan, the New York-based chief investment strategist at UBS Wealth Management Americas, said in a telephone interview. “There’s concern that, if it spill...\n
Oil Hovers Near $99 as Iran Boycott Expands
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/25/2012) (Registratio");
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BANGKOK (AP) — Oil prices hovered near $99 a barrel Wednesday, a day after Australia announced it was joining a boycott by Western nations against Iran, the world's No. 3 oil exporter, over a suspected nuclear weapons program. \n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was down 6 cents to $98.89 per barrel in the late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile E...\n
Opinion: Winery owners go \"Back to the Future\"
\n(Penn Yan Chronicle Express © 01/25/2012)
Penn Yan, N.Y. — \n \n \n \n\n\n\n Three decades ago the U.S. government was looking to locate a nuclear waste repository on Italy Hill. Residents formed Citizens Against Nuclear Waste to oppose it.\n\n\n\n\n As with hydrofracking today, we gathered evidence and learned the technology was unsafe to people and nature. Some citizens thought we were naïve or radical. &#...\n
New U.N. showdown with Russia over Syria looms
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
\"The U.N. Security Council must support the Arab League's courageous decisions which are trying to end the repression and violence in Syria and find a solution to the political crisis,\" French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said. The Security Council");
document.write(" could vote as early as next week on a new draft resolution, which delegates from Britain and France are crafting in consultation with Qata...\n
UN chief Ban: Tone down rhetoric in Iran dispute
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday appealed to all sides in");
document.write(" the dispute over Iran's nuclear program to reduce tensions and urged Tehran not to follow through on threats to close a key shipping lane. As Western states tighten sanctions on Iran and its enemies wage an apparent covert war against an Iranian nuclear program that the West suspects is inte...\n
UPDATE 1-Obama backs shale gas drilling, but offers little new
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
* Administration to set up wind and solar zones (Adds details from speech, comment from trade group) WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged support for the U.S. shale gas boom, but said government must focus on safe development of the energy resource. In his State of the Union address, Obama called for government to develop a roadmap for responsible shale...\n
UPDATE 1-US natgas spikes 5 pct, extending rebound on output cuts
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
* More output cuts drive front-month futures up for fourth day * Moderate weather forecasts into early Feb limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures rallied on Wednesday, extending the previous session's rebound from a 10-year low as more producers signaled moves to curb record output. Con");
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UPDATE 2-Obama backs shale gas drilling, but offers little new
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
* Administration to set up wind and solar zones (Adds details from speech, comment from trade group) WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged support for the U");
document.write(".S. shale gas boom, but said government must focus on safe development of the energy resource. In his State of the Union address, Obama called for government to develop a roadmap for responsible shale...\n
UPDATE 2-US natgas ends up 7 pct in fourth straight gain
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
* More output cuts drive front-month f");
document.write("utures up for fourth day * Biggest four-day futures gain in three months * Moderate weather forecasts into early Feb limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures ended sharply higher on Wednesday, their fourth straight gain, rebounding further from the 10-year low hit th...\n
UPDATE 3-Japan's first trade deficit since 1980 raises debt doubts
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
TOKYO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Japan first annual trade deficit in more than 30 years calls into question how much longer the country can rely on exports to help finance a huge public debt without having to turn to fickle foreign investors. The aftermath of the March earthquake raised fuel import costs while slowing global growth and the yen's strength hit exports, data released on Wednesday showed, sw...\n
WRAPUP 3-Gulf monitors leave Syria, League seeks UN support
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/25/2012)
DAMASCUS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Observers from Gulf Arab states left Syria on Wednesday after their governments said they were \"certain the bloodshed and killing of innocents would continue\", and the Arab League pursued U.N. support for a plan to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule. But their colleague");
document.write("s in Damascus pledged to pursue the League's monitoring mission, now extended until Feb. 23, to ver...\n
Crude price rises on Iran threat to stop oil sales
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/25/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices are rising after Iran lawmakers threatened to halt oil sales to Europe\n\n\nBenchmark crude on Wednesday ro");
document.write("se 36 cents to $99.31 per barrel in New York. Brent crude rose 34 cents to $110.37 per barrel in London.\n\n\nThe latest threat from Iran follows a European Union decision to enforce an oil embargo against Iran starting this summer because of Iran's secretive nuclea...\n
President Obama: The American dream is in peril, so fast action is needed
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View full sizeSaul Loeb / APPresident Barack Obama (center) delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday while Vice President Joe Biden (left) and House Speaker John Boehner listen.\n\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the American dream under siege, President Barack Obama called Tuesday night for a flurry of help for a hurting middle class and higher taxes on mi...\n
Massena mayor accuses BDC director of partisan politics
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/25/2012)
MASSENA — Mayor James F. Hidy accused economic development specialist Jason A. Clark of partisan politics at Tuesday night’s Business Development Corp. for a Greater Massena meeting.\n\nThe rift between Mr. Hidy and Mr. Clark has existed for the duration of the former’s term as mayor. Mr. Hidy has criticized Mr. Clark, the BDC’s executive director, for his time ");
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Japan's first trade deficit since 1980
\n(WBFO Buffalo FM 88.7 © 01/25/2012)
By Kaori Kaneko and Tetsushi Kajimoto\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan first annual trade deficit in more than 30 years calls into question how much longer the country can rely on exports to help finance a huge public debt without having to");
document.write(" turn to fickle foreign investors.\n\nThe aftermath of the March earthquake raised fuel import costs while slowing global growth and the yen's strength hit exports, data ...\n
Japan's first trade deficit since 1980 raises debt doubts
\n(WBFO Buffalo FM 88.7 © 01/25/2012)
By Kaori Kaneko and Tetsushi Kajimoto\n\nTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan ");
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17 Seasons, 5 Titles, 1");
document.write(" Team: Jorge Posada 'Forever' A Yankee
\n(WCBS TV 2 New York © 01/25/2012)
NEW YORK (WFAN/AP) ? Jorge Posada was watching television when he saw speculation on which teams were interested in signing him as a free agent.\n\n\n“They put my face on different uniforms,” he said. “And it didn’t look good.”\n\n\nHe began a Yankee and ended as a Yankee, spending his entire career in pinstripes.\n\n\nFlanked by his wife and children, with five World Series t...\n
Energy Plays Key Role In Obama Speech
\n(WPTZ NBC 5 Plattsburgh © 01/25/2012)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- For the third year in a row energy played a central role in President Obama's State of the Union address, with the president leaning hard this year on the twin themes of increased domestic oil and gas production and the need to invest more in renewable sources.\n\n\"Right now, American oil production is the highest that");
document.write(" it's been in eight years,\" said Obama. \"Not only that -- l...\n
State of the Union: Obama Opens Public Land and Waters to Energy Industry
\n(WWTI (ABC) Channel 50 (Watertown) © 01/25/2012)
WASHINGTON, DC, January 24, 2012 (ENS) - President Barack Obama used his State of the Union address tonight to announce the opening of domesti");
document.write("c energy development both on public lands and at sea.\n\nThe President directed his administration \"to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources,\" a policy that will have an enormous impact on the marine environment of the Unite...\n
DEC: Driller pollutes stream
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/24/2012)
ALBA");
document.write("NY — The state wants to fine a Buffalo-area natural gas drilling company $187,500 for polluting a trout creek in the state's largest park. \n\nThe alleged problem: runoff from roads surrounding the firm's hydrofracking wells across the border in Pennsylvania.\n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation moved Tuesday to fine U.S. Energy, of suburban Amherst, saying the company had r...\n
European stocks drop amid worries over Greek deal
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/24/2012)
PARIS (AP) ? European leaders' hard line in negotiations with Greek bondholders drove stock markets lower on Tuesday as investors worried that a deal necessary to cut Athens' mountain of debt might fall through.After 10 hours of talks on Monday, the finance ministers of the countries that use the euro announced that Greece would pay less than 4 percent interest on the new bonds creditors will get ...\n
Mixed results for stocks
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK — The S&P 500 index eked out a tiny gain Monday while traders kept an eye on talks in Europe to cut Greece's crushing debt load and prevent a global financial crisis. Other indexes ended slightly lower.\n\nThe S&P added 0.62 of a point to close at 1,316 on Monday. The broad market measure has now ");
document.write("closed higher on 12 of 14 days this year.\n\nEuropean stocks and the euro rose after the co...\n
New York voiding gas credits
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/24/2012)
ALBANY — The state is essentially shredding a fifth of the air pollution credits offered for sale due to a lack of buyers during a three-year-old multistate program to");
document.write(" combat global warming.\n\nNew York, along with five other states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, is withdrawing unsold credits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative that allow power plants to emit carbon dioxid...\n
Groups rally for ban on fracking
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/24/2012)
ALBANY ? Health and environmental g");
document.write("roups rallied at the Capitol\non Monday to call for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of\nnatural gas wells, saying no amount of regulation can adequately\nsafeguard water supplies from contamination.\n \n \n \n \n\n?Fracking is the most important environmental issue this state\nhas faced in the past 100 years,? Sen. Tony Ave...\n
Homage of the Week! and other Guy With a Remote awards
\n(Batavia Daily News © 01/24/2012)
After five schedule-shifting, always-on-the-bubble seasons,\nloyal viewers of NBC's action-spy-comedy \"Chuck\" have come to trust\ncreators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak.\n \n \n\nWith only two more episodes remaining -- they air back-to-back\nbeginning 8 p.m. Friday in a series-ending event -- we're not about\nto give up that trust.\n \n\n\nOne thing that trust has taught us is that w...\n
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document.write("A TARGET=\"_new\" HREF=\"http://mediatracking.com/npcapp/bounce.aspx/publisher/35125/246/UHVibGlzaGVyIFVzZXI~/757956901\">Grant to aid heating aid program
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/24/2012)
The Southern Tier Chapter of the American Red has received a $10,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the charitable arm of Dominion, to help keep residents in the Southern Tier warm this winter.\n\nThe grant will be used to support ProjectSHARE, which is administered by the Red Cross in partnership with NYSEG. Th");
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Environmental groups demand fracking ban at Albany rally
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Albany, N.Y. — \n \n \n\n\n\n Health and environmental groups rallied at the Capitol on Monday to call for a legislative ban on hydraul");
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Jorge Posada: 17 seasons, 5 titles and 1 team
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NY takes action against Pa. driller over pollution
\n(Finger Lakes Times © 01/24/2012)
New York environmental regulators are seeking $187,500 in fines\nagainst a gas-drilling company in Pennsylvania for polluting a\nstream in Allegany State Park.\n \n \n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation says Tuesday\nit has filed an administrative complaint against U.S. Energy\nDevelopment Corp. The agency says that storm water runoff from U.S.\nEnergy's roads and well pa...\n
Greece, earnings worries send S&P to rare loss
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/24/2012)
Investors on Wall Street fretted Tuesday that a deal to keep\nGreece from triggering a financial crisis might fall apart, and a\nslew of corporate earnings reports at home didn't make them feel\nmuch better.\n\n \n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average closed down 33 points at\n12,676. It has ris");
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Natural gas price rebounds from 10-year low
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Natural gas prices are rebounding from 10-year lows as producers\ncut back and colder weather forces homeowners to turn up the\nhea");
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Oil near $100 as Middle East tension simmers
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Oil inched toward $100 a barrel after Iran again threatened to\nblock shipments of crude from the Persian Gulf in the wake of the\nEuropean Union's widely expected decision to embargo imports of\nIranian oil.\n\n \n\nBenchmark oil for March delivery was up 9 cents at $99.67 a\nbarrel at mid morning Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New\nYork Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.25 to settle at...\n
Generation Opportunity: Young Americans and the State of the Union - We Expect a Change of Course, Not More Rhetoric
\n(International Business Times © 01/24/2012)
Generation Opportunity today said that while young Americans are being courted and encouraged by the White House to listen to the State of the Union address this evening and to pose questions to administration officials through social media, young adults and their friends will actually be listening more closely for what represents eit");
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State of the Union - Young Americans Expect a Change of Course, Not More Rhetoric Says Generation Opportunity
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Only Thirty-One Percent Approve of the President's Handling of Youth Unemployment WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2012");
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DEC fines driller for polluting stream
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ALBANY (AP) -- New York environmental regulators are seeking $187,500 in fines against a gas-drilling company in Pennsylvania for polluting a stream in Allegany State Park.\n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation says Tuesday it has filed an administrative complaint against U.S. Energy Development Corp. The agency says that storm water runoff from U.S. Energy's roads and well pads in P...\n
Feds say natural gas production to soar by 2035
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/24/2012)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The Energy Information Administration predicts U.S. natural gas production will nearly triple by 2035.\n\nA report released Monday says the 5 trillion cubic feet produced in 2010 accounted for 23 percent of total dry gas production. By 2035, production could hit 13.6 trillion cubic feet and account for 49 percent.\n\nThe report predicts the U.S. will be a gas exporter by 2021...\n
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2012. There are 342 days left in the year.\n\n\n\nToday’s Highlight in History\n\n\n On Jan. 24, 1942, the Roberts Commission, which had looked into America’s lack of preparedness for Imperial Japan’s ");
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Warm winter mixes things up in retail world
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK — Out of a relatively balmy winter have sprung some economic surprises. Peo");
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Deutsche Bank Revs Up World's Highest Roof-Mounted");
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\n(New York City Biz © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK - With construction now completed, Deutsche Bank has unveiled the world's highest roof-mounted solar array at its 50-story Americas headquarters in Manhattan. It's estimated the project will reduce carbon emissions by 100 metric tons per year.\n\nDeutsche Bank is the sole occupant of the 745-foot skyscraper at 60 Wall St. The 122.4kW solar photovoltaic system is positioned 737 feet from the...\n
Mean politics is better than clean politics to prepare nation's future leaders
\n(New York Daily News © 01/24/2012)
Dirt works.\n\n\n\n\n Ask Newt Gingrich in Iowa. Ask Mitt Romney in South Carolina.\n\n\n\n\n Good. Because the dirtier the politics, the better prepared our candidates will be for the down and dirty business of being President of the United States. If you can't suffer the smut merchants of American electoral politics, how in the name of ");
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Wannabe Rockefeller tried to sell blood-stained rug for cash after two landlords went missing, witness testifies
\n(New York Daily News © 01/24/2012)
LOS ANGELES ? The wannabe Rockefeller charged in a cold-case California murder tried to hawk a blood-staine");
document.write("d rug for cash shortly after his two landlords went missing in 1985, a witness testified Monday.\n\n\n\n\n Robert Brown, 85, told a Los Angeles County judge that German national Christian Gerhartsreiter was posing as Chris Chichester in the mid-1980s when he showed up at his door with various item...\n
Beyond Hype, a Closer Look at New York's Choice on Shale Gas");
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More than 40,000 comments have been submitted to New York State aimed at shaping how Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo deals with the huge natural gas resource locked in the state’s portion of sprawling geological formations known as the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale.\n\r\n\r\nThe comments are not publicly viewable at this point. (You can submit a Freedom of Information Law request for an eventual CD, I was...\n
Coach, Verizon, Peabody Energy Are Big Movers
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: \n\nNYSE \n\nCoach Inc., up $3.73 at $67.97 \n\nStrong holiday sales of luxury handbags helped the leather ");
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Flat Finish as Investors Await Greek Debt Deal
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Markets ended flat on Monday as few deve");
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Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesStaff members at a shelter for girls doing paperwork by candlelight in Port-au-Prince.\n\r\n\r\nHaiti’s president says he aims to double the number of rural households with electricity within two years by offering people loans to buy solar kits that can charge cellphones or computers. The $40 million program also calls for installing streetlights in the countryside ...\n
Arab League Arrogance
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by On December 26, Arab League observers began monitoring Syrian cities. They'll remain another month, despite calls to remove them. Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia's state-controlled media, reported Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal saying: \"My country will withdraw its monitors because the");
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Stocks slightly lower on Greek talks worries
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK ? Stocks fell in the United States and Europe today as investors worried that a deal to cut Greece's national debt and hold o");
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As Massachusetts Enters the Heart of Winter, National Grid Requests Reduction in Natural Gas R");
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Natural Gas Customers Could See Seasonal Costs Decline By Approximately 10 Percent\n * by National Grid US\n \n \n window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n FB.init({status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true});\n };\n (function() {\n var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;\n e.src = document.location.protocol +\n '//connect.fa...\n
DEC Seeks Fines of $187,500 from U.S. Energy for Water Quality Violations in Allegany State Park Stream
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COLUMN-Bad statistics on the clean economy: John Kemp
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In an editorial previewing President Barack Obama's State of the Union, White House energy and climate change adviser Heather Zichal highlighted the D");
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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times - Jan 24
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UPDATE 1-Kinder Morgan, Arch Coal sign coal throughput deal
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/24/2012)
Jan 24 (Reuters) - Kinder Morgan Energy Parters said it will invest about $140 million to expand its coal handling facilities along the Gulf Coast and the company signed a long-term throughput deal with Arch Coal to help expand these export facilities. Arch Coal and Kinder Morgan are in final talks to include, in the throughput deal, port space for coal shipments at Kinder Morgan-owned facilities ...\n
UPDATE 1-US natgas futures edge higher for third day
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(Adds prices, quote, details, changes byline) * Front-month futures climb for third day * Chesapeake output cut stirs buying off Monday's 10-yr low * Moderate weather forecasts into early Feb limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment By Joseph Silha NEW YORK,");
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UPDATE 2-US natgas futures end higher, third straight gain
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(Adds closing prices, quote, details) * Front-month futures end higher for third day * Chesapeake output cut stirs buyi");
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UPDATE 6-Oil choppy, slips on euro zone debt concerns
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* Coming up: API oil data 4:30 EST Tuesday (Recasts, updates prices, market activity, changes byline, moves dateline from previous LONDON) NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Tuesday on revived concerns about the debt problems of Greece, the wider euro zone and their effect on the global economy, even as tensions between Iran and the West helped limit losses. Europe's policymakers are ...\n
UPDATE 7-Oil slips on revived euro zone debt concern
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Tuesday in choppy trading on revived concerns about the euro zone region's debt problems and their potential to slow the global economy, even as tensions between Iran and the West helped limit losses. Europe's policymakers are struggling to come up with a plan to prevent a Greek default, which would harm the global economy and depress demand for ener..");
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UPDATE 9-Oil slips on revived euro zone debt concern
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NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Tuesday on revived concerns about the euro zone's debt problems and their potential to slow the global economy, but tensions between Iran and the West helped limit losses. Europe's policymakers ar");
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Wall St rests after rally; bellwether earnings ahead
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The S&P 500 is up nearly 5 percent so far this year as an improving U.S. economy has b");
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Obama to discuss jobs, energy
WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union address tonight to promote the importance of job training and American manufacturing and energy policies that create jobs and lower costs.\n\nHe'll link them in his address to a joint session of Congress, and then in visits this week to the presidential battleground states of Michigan, Iowa, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado, under the t...\n
How an embargo of Iranian oil could affect markets
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. and Europe are trying to stop Iran, the world's third-biggest oil exporter, from selling crude. Iran's response is to threaten to disrupt shipments from the entire Middle East.\n\n\nYet oil prices have hardly budged. They're at $98.95, up just 12 cents since the start of year.\n\n\nJust a year ago, uprisings in far less important oil-producing ");
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New York takes action against Pennsylvania natural gas driller over water pollution
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/24/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York environmental regulators are seeking $187,500 in fines against a gas-drilling company in Pennsylvania for polluting a stream in Allegany St");
document.write("ate Park. \n\n\nThe state Department of Environmental Conservation says Tuesday it has filed an administrative complaint against U.S. Energy Development Corp. The agency says that storm water runoff from U.S. Energy’s roa...\n
Oswego Neighbors Today: Fulton's Jay Wornick, who lost 200 pounds in 10 months, offers advice for working out at a gym<");
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View full sizeJohn Berry / The Post-Standard, 2011Jay Wornick, of Fulton, lost 200 pounds in 10 months by changing his diet and exercise.\n\n\nJay Wornick, of Fulton, lost 200 pounds in 10 months on a bet with his wife. \n\n\nAfter his story appeared in The Post-Standard and on syracuse.com last November, Wornick wound up on \"Good Morning America\" and Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show on Fox. He's con...\n
State of Disunion: Obama and GOP to portray two different Americas
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/24/2012)
The Associated Press \nPRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA speaks at a campaign event Thursday in New York City. Politics is sure to play a role in tonight's State of the Union Address. \n \n \n \nIn his second State of the Union address last year, President Barack Obama called on Americans to rise above partisanship. Tonight, Obama is expected to draw a sharp distinction betwe");
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Dominion helps Southern Tier
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From the Red Cross:\n\nThe Southern Tier Chapter of the American Red Cross announced today that it has received a $10,000 grant from the Dominion Foundation, the charitable arm of Dominion, to help keep reside");
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Chesapeake Energy to Slow Production
\n(WETM NBC 18 Elmira © 01/24/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) - Faced with decade-low natural gas prices that");
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ALBANY — Health and environmental groups calling for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells have rallied in Albany.\r\n\r\nThey say no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination.\r\n\r\nAbout 600 people registered to lobby lawmakers today on various bills related to the technology known as ?fracking.? Many are pushing a bill that would ban...\n
Shutdown proves IP's high standards
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/24/2012)
Re ?Indian Point shutdown reignites nuke battle,? Jan. 15 article:\n\nShutdowns are not warning signs for a larger looming disaster. Based on what was reported in the news, Indian Point was running for more than 250-plus days without incident. In this case, Riverkeeper?s call to shut down Indian Point is like criticizing An");
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Chesapeake to Cut Production
\n(WICZ FOX 40 Binghamton © 01/24/2012)
1/23/2012 (Updated 11:21:38 PM)As the debate over the financial benefits verses the environmental costs of hydrofacking continues in New York State,\n\n--there comes word that t");
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Albany Regulator: Driller in PA Muddied NY Waters
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Regulators are seeki");
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Campaign donations come from new and old sources
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/23/2012)
State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long never knew Henry Sanders, but he welcomes the $542,710 Sanders bequeathed to the Conservative Party of New York State. The payout made him the biggest donor in the past six months to any campaign account in the state. It was in just one lump sum, according to campaign records.\n\n\"It was a very nice surprise to the party,\" Long said. \n\nIn his will, Sand...\n
Greek debt hopes shore up markets despite delay
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/23/2012)
LONDON (AP) ? Hopes that Greece will reach a deal with private creditors on lowering its debt ? despite a delay in talks between Athens and banks' representatives ? supported European markets on Monday and sent the euro up to three-week highs above $1.30.The deal being thrashed out would see private cred");
document.write("itors swapping their old Greek bonds for ones with a 50 percent lower face value. The new bonds...\n
The Buzz: Social media speak, loudly
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/23/2012)
Last Wednesday was a great day for Jim Hendler, a well-known computer science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who is known for his work studying");
document.write(" the Internet.\n\nThat was the day that Wikipedia, Google and many other websites protested new online piracy laws being pitched in Congress that some say would limit free speech and encourage censorship. Those protests have had a cooling effe...\n
Chesapeake to cut natural gas production
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NEW YORK (AP) - Faced with decade-low natural gas prices that have made some drilling operations unprofitable, Chesapeake Energy Corp. says it will drastically cut drilling and production of the fuel in the U.S.\n\nChesapeake, the nation's second largest natural gas producer, said Monday that it plans to cut production 8 percent. That means the company would produce the same or slightly less natural...\n
US stocks edge up as Greece negotiates to cut debt
\n(Corning Leader © 01/23/2012)
NEW YORK — \n \n \n\n\n\n U.S. stocks are opening slightly higher, following a rise in European markets on hopes that Greece will reach a deal with private creditors on lowering its debt.\n\n\n\n The Dow Jones industrial average is up 5 points to 12,728 early Monday. The S&P 500 index is up 2 points to 1,317. The Nasdaq composite is up 4 points to 2,791.\n\n\n\n Creditors are in neg...\n
Oil up as EU embargoes Iran oil; natural gas soars
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/23/2012)
Oil prices climbed near $100 per barrel as Iran again threatened\nto block shipments of crude from the Persian Gulf. The latest\nthreat follows a widely expected decision by the European Union to\nembargo imports of Iranian oil.\n\n \n\nMonday also featured a sharp turnaround in natu");
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Deutsche Bank Completes Roof-Mounted Solar Project at Americas??? Headquarters
\n(International Business Times © 01/23/2012)
Deutsche Bank today announced the completion and operation of a 122.4 kW solar ");
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Energy Transfer Partners Announces the ");
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\n(International Business Times © 01/23/2012)
Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (NYSE: ETP) today announced the reference yield and the total consideration for each series of notes subject to its previously announced Maximum Tender Offer, whereby ETP is offering to purchase, under certain conditions, its 9.700% Senior Notes due 2019, 9.000% Senior Notes due 2019, 8.500% Senior Notes due 2014 and 6.000% Senior Notes due 2013. The Maximum Tender O...\n
\n(International Business Times © 01/23/2012)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Jan. 23, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) will present at Cowen and Company's 33rd annual Aerospace/Defense Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 7 in New York. The presentation by HII President and Chief Executive Off");
document.write("icer Michael Petters and Chief Financial Officer Barbara Niland will begin at 8:55 a.m. EST and will be webcast on www.huntingtoningalls.com...\n
Trust in Government Suffers a Severe Breakdown Across the Globe
\n(International Business Times © 01/23/2012)
Credibility of Governmental Officials and CEOs Experience Biggest Drops Ever,");
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UANI Applauds EU for Adopting Oil Emb");
document.write("argo on Iran
\n(International Business Times © 01/23/2012)
On Monday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) President, Ambassador Mark D. Wallace, issued the following statement regarding the European Union???s adoption of an embargo on Iranian oil imports, a measure UANI publicly called for throughout 2011. The EU has taken a significant step in the international effort to isolate the Iranian regime. By barring imports of Iranian oil, the EU stands to cut o...\n
Pipeline rejection could pressure Obama to discuss energy in speech
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/23/2012)
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama prepares for his State of the Union address Tuesday night, Congress remains gridlocked over his rejection of a controversial oil pipeline and GOP efforts to roll back federal regulations.\n\nThe 112th Congress finished 2011 with no significant energy legislation signed into law, according to ");
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EU raises stakes with Iran oil embargo
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/23/2012)
BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union and Iran raised the stakes Monday in their test of wills over the Islamic republic's nuclear program, with the bloc banning the purchase of Ira");
document.write("nian oil and Iran threatening to retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's crude is transported. The escalating confrontation is fraught with risks - of rising energy prices, glob...\n
Environmental Groups Rally for NY Ban on Fracking
\n(Long Island Press © 01/23/2012)
People take part in a ral");
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Environmental groups seek New York state ban on fracking
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/23/2012)
ALBANY (AP) – Health and environmental groups rallied at the Capitol on Monday to call for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells, saying no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination. “Fracking is the most important environmental issue this state has faced in the past 100 years,” Sen. Tony Avella, sponsor of a bill to ...\n
Hydrofracking's Troubling Impact on Western Pennsylvania
\n(New York City Biz © 01/23/2012)
By Roberta Brandes Gratz\n\nIs natural gas the clean energy source it has been successfully marketed to be?\n\nMy judgment? No. It may burn more cleanly than other fossil fuels.\n\nBut the process to create the wells and then to transport the gas - even before and after the actual hydrof");
document.write("racking process - is so destructive of the natural and built environment that it is a wonder anyone can call it clean....\n
Bowing to Critics and Market Forces, RIM?s Co-Chiefs Step Aside
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OTTAWA — Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis");
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Oil Fal");
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BANGKOK (AP) — Oil fell below $98 a barrel Monday in Asia as the crude market waited for the outcome of Greece's negotiations with creditors on a deal to cut the face value of its debt by half. \n\n\n\n\nBenchmark crude for March delivery was down 35 cents at $97.98 a barrel at early afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $2.21 t...\n
Oil Price Up as Iran Threatens to Block Shipments
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NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices climbed near $100 per barrel Monday as Iran again threatened to block shipments of crude from the Persian Gulf. \n\n\n\n\nNatural gas prices also rose more than 7 percent a");
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Stocks Calm as Traders Await Euro Action
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Markets were supported on Monday by investor hopes that Greece will eventually reach a deal with private creditors on lowering its debt. \n\n\n\n\nGreece’s private creditors are being asked to accept longer maturities and lower interest rates on new bonds swapped for their existing ones. \n\n\n\n\nThe major Wall Street stock indexes were slightly lower in afternoon trading. The Standard ...\n
Strange Bedfellows in the Conflict with Iran
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Charles Platiau/ReutersRudy Giuliani and Mariam Rajavi in Paris on Friday\r\n\r\nFacebook\nTwitter\nLinkedin\nShare\r\n\r\nShare\nClose\nReddit\nTumblr\nDigg\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nE-mail\r\n\r\nPrint\r\n\r\n\r\nPARIS — As the European Union prepared to consider tough new sanctions against Iran on Monday, a group of eminent Americans was cozying up here to an exiled Iranian opposition group that the");
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Movies
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OPENING\n\n \n\nALBERT NOBBS\n\nRodrigo Garcia directed this drama, set in nineteenth-century Ireland, about a woman (Glenn Close) who pretends to be a man in order to preserve her independence. Co-starring Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Opening ");
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NPR and PBS Anti-Iranian Propaganda
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by Both National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting serve corporate and imperial interests. They're called public");
document.write(" to conceal their agenda. Critics ridicule NPR as National Pentagon or Petroleum Radio for good reason. It's true as well for PBS. Calling it Propaganda Public Broadcasting more accurately explains its mandate. Listeners and viewers lose out. Those supporting both monetarily are cheat...\n
Matt Doheny discusses concerns, issues with New York 23rd District
\n(Oneida Daily Dispatch © 01/23/2012)
ONEIDA ? With only 296 days until the 2012 general election, Republican Congressional Candidate Matt Doheny made a stop in Oneida Saturday to talk with voters about the issues and the reasons why he says he?s the best representative for the 23rd Congressional District.Doheny was defeated by Democrat Bill Owens in the 2010 election for the seat but will attempt again to regain the historically Repu...\n
Health, environmental groups call for hydraulic fracturing ban
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/23/2012)
ALBANY ? Health and environmental groups calling for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells have rallied in Albany.\n\nThey say no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination.\n\nAbout 600 people registered to lobby lawmakers Monday on various bills related to the technology known as \"fracking.\" Many are ");
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Stocks end mixed as Greece negotiates to cut debt
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NEW YORK ? The S&P 500 index eked out a tiny gain Monday while traders kept an eye on talks in Europe to cut Greece's crushing debt load and prevent a global financial crisis. Other indexes ended sligh");
document.write("tly lower.\n\nThe S&P added 0.62 of a point to close at 1,316 on Monday. The broad market measure has now closed higher on 12 of 14 days this year.\n\nEuropean stocks and the euro rose after the continen...\n
600+ New Yorkers Rally in State Capitol to Voice Concerns about Fracking
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UPDATE 1-US natgas futures rebound from 10-yr low on output cuts
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(Adds prices, quote, details) * Chesapeake production cuts boost futures after new 10-year low * Moderate forecasts into early February still limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Signs that U.S. natural gas producers were feeling the pinch of low prices and may finally cut back on production helped drive futures up nearly 10...\n
UPDATE 10-Oil up on EU deal to ban Iran crude, weaker dollar
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* EU agrees to ban on importing Iranian oil * Iranian MP reiterates threat to close Strait of Hormuz * Euro zone finance ministers seek deal on Greek debt * Coming up: API oil stocks data 4:30 p.m. EST Tuesday (Recasts, updates prices, adds detail) By Robert Gibbons NEW YORK, Jan ");
document.write("23 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Monday after the European Union agreed to ban imports of Iranian crude from July 1, e...\n
UPDATE 2-Platinum Energy cuts IPO size, sees price at $9-$11/shr
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Jan 23 (Reuters) - Oilfield services provider Platinum Energy Solutions Inc expects its initial public offering");
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UPDATE 2-US natgas futures end up near 8 pct on output cuts<");
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(Adds prices, quote, details) * Chesapeake production cuts boost futures after new 10-year low * Moderate forecasts into early February still limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Signs that U.S. natural gas producers were feeling the pinch of low prices and may finally cut back on production helped drive futures up nearly 10...\n
UPDATE 3-US natgas futures end up near 8 pct on record trade
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(Recasts, updates prices, market activity, adds volume record, background) * Futures volume hits record high * Chesapeake output cuts boost futures after they hit 10-yr low * Moderate weather forecasts into early Feb still limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures ended sharply higher ");
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US STOCKS-Wall St rests after rally; bellwether earnings ahead
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(Updates with Texas Instruments earnings, trading volume) * Apple among a slew of major tech earnings this week * Euro-zone chiefs to discuss Greek debt swap * Dow off 0.1 pct, S&P up 0.1 pct, Nasdaq down 0.1 pct");
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WRAPUP 2-Dirt cheap natgas prices force drillers to turn down taps
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NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Energy companies that have watched U.S. natural gas prices sink to 10-year lows are cutting production and slowing drilling, but it may not be enough to stem a price collapse that has squeezed their profits for months. New technologies have helped U.S. drillers unlock decades of supply from shale gas deposits. Surging output has pressured prices during one of the milde...\n
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document.write("WRAPUP 5-Iran slams EU oil embargo, warns could hit U.S.
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* Iranian politician repeats threat to close Gulf shipping lane (Updates with Obama statement, U.S. sanction on Iranian bank, remark by U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) TEHRAN/BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Iran accused Europeans on Monday of waging \"psychological warfare\" after the EU banned imports of");
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Rally in Albany pushes for ban on fracking
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ALBANY — Health and environmental groups rallied at the Capitol on Monday to call for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural ga");
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Environmental groups rally in Albany for New York ban on fracking
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View full sizeMike Groll / APPeople take part in a rally at the Legislative Office Building in Albany on Monday against hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, of Marcellus shale to release natural gas. About 600 people registered to lobby lawmakers Monday on various bills related to the technology known as \"fracking,\" many pushing a bill that would ban the practice.\n\n\nALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — He...\n
Ex-CIA man accused of leaking classified info
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/23/2012)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — An ex-CIA officer who helped track down and capture a top al-Qaida figure was charged Monday with disclosing classified secrets, including the role of one of his associates on that covert mission, in the latest of a series of prosecutions by the Obama administration against suspected leakers.\n\n\nJohn Kiriakou, 47, of Arlington, is charged with violating the Intelligence...\n
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US stocks mixed as Greece negotiates to cut debt
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are swinging between small gains and losses in midday trading Monday. European stock indexes and the euro rose on hopes that Greece will reach a deal with private creditors on lowering its debt. The euro neared its hig");
document.write("hest level against the dollar this year.\n\n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average is down 49 points to 12,670 as of 12:15 p.m. Eastern time. Procter & Gamb...\n
Mumiy Troll Transforms Cold War-Era 'Vladivostok' Into Futuristic Pop-Rock Album
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- David Ellefson And Pocketlabworks Bring The Rock Shop To Ipad");
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Environmental groups ra");
document.write("lly for NY 'fracking' bills
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Numerous health and environmental groups are calling for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells, saying no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination.Hundreds of people from around the state traveled to Albany on Monday to hold a rally and lobby state lawmakers for various bills related to the practice known as \"frack...\n
Apache to pay $2.8 billion for Anadarko basin acreage
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(Reuters) - Oil and gas producer Apache Corp will buy privately held Cordillera Energy Partners III in a cash-and-stock deal worth $2.85 billion, part of a plan to expand its holdings of energy-rich reserves in the Midwestern United States.\n\nThe deal will double Apache's acreage in the energy-rich Anadarko basin, a shale formation in western ");
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Wall Street stalls at open after big run
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By Edward Krudy\n\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed in early trading on Monday after equities posted their best week in a month as the euro zone debt crisis and the economy showed ");
document.write("signs of stabilizing.\n\nGermany and France pressed for a rapid deal between Greece and its private creditors and said they remained committed to a new bailout that is needed by March to avert a default. Euro ...\n
Gillibrand, Schumer Unveil Sanctions Bill Against Syria
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(WKBW release) -- New York S");
document.write("enators Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Charles E. Schumer announced in a news release Sunday that they would be introducing the Syrian Human Rights Accountability Act to impose sanctions of the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad in the face of a violent and bloody crackdown the government has executed on opposition protesters in the country.\n \n \n\nThe bill, set to be ...\n
Health and environmental groups call for ban on fracking
\n(WTVH CBS5 Syracuse © 01/23/2012)
ALBANY (AP) -- Numerous health and environmental groups are calling for a legislative ban on hydraulic fracturing of natural gas wells, saying no amount of regulation can adequately safeguard water supplies from contamination.\n\nHundreds of people from around the state traveled to Albany on Monday to hold a rally and lobby state lawmakers for various bills related to the practice known as \"fracking...\n
Catskill citizens flood tiny post office with anti-fracking letters
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From left, Carolyn Duke, Jill Wiener, Ann Finneran, Laurie McFadden, Roy Tedatt and Bruce Ferguson, before sending thousands of anti-hydrofracking letters to the DEC, at the Callicoon Center Post Office. Photo by Dana Duke. The Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy delivered more ");
document.write("than 10,000 letters to the Department of Environmental Conservation in opposition to hydraulic fracturing in New York last ...\n
Green playbook unveiled for 2012 session
\n(Albany Legislative Gazette © 01/22/2012)
From left, Dan Hendrick, David Gahl, William Cooke and Roger Downs during the introduction for a new 2012 environmental");
document.write(" policy agenda. Photo by Andrew Carden. A coalition of 15 environmental organizations released its \"2012 Green Playbook\" last Thursday, which calls for a ten-point plan of \"winning plays\" including a push for stricter regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a bigger investment in sol...\n
Legislature passes Iran sanctions
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment facility in Fordo, Iran. The Iran Divestment Act of 2012 will prevent companies in New York from supporting Iran???s energy sector. Photo by AP. As expected, the Legislature passed the Iran Divestment Act of 2012 during the Senate and Assembly sessions on Jan. 9. Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sh...\n
Social media speak, loudly
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/22/2012)
Last Wednesday was a great day for Jim Hendler, a well-known computer science professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who is known for his work studying the Internet.\n\nThat was the day that Wikipedia, Google and many other websites protested new online piracy laws being pitched in Congress that some say would limit free speech and encourage censorship. Those protests have had a cooling effe...\n
Greenway funding deadline set
\n(Buffalo News © 01/22/2012)
The deadline for submitting projects to be considered for the next round of funding by the Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee has been set for Friday. \n\nThe applications will be presented at a public meeting of the standing committee at 4:30 p. m. Feb. 22 in the Marcy Casino o");
document.write("n Hoyt Lake in Delaware Park. \n\nThe committee has approved 19 projects so far, committing more than $...\n
Guest Viewpoint: Objective science on gas drilling is available
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/22/2012)
With the comment period for the draft Marcellus Shale SGEIS behind us, it is a good time to reflect on the next phase of publ");
document.write("ic discussion of energy development and use in upstate New York.\n\nNo matter what happens with the Marcellus, debates about energy will not be over. If shale gas drilling is permitted, we will have no choice but to work together — both those who have been for and those w...\n
Heating oil prices spike, but should you convert?
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As the weather gets cold, an old debate is heating up again: oil vs. gas.\n\n\nBy far the two most common home heating options in the New York area, the industries behind them have waged a relentless battle for years over which is best, which is safest, which is cleanest and, of course, which is most affordable.\n\n\nHome heating oil and natural gas have been comparable in price for years, but oil has b...\n
How fracking lies triumphed
\n(New York Daily News © 01/22/2012)
Amid the ongoing battle in New York and elsewhere over hydraulic fracturing, one thing has become clear: The pro-drilling side is losing the public relations fight.\n\n\n\n\n Any fair-minded analysis of fracking would conclude that the process is having a positive effect on the U.S. economy. Thanks to fracturing, drillers are extracting vast quantities of natural gas and oil from shale deposits.\n\n\n\n\n B...\n
As Price of Oil Soars, Users Shiver and Cross Their Fingers
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NORTH BROOKFIELD, Mass. — When David Harris built his 2,000-square-foot hilltop home nine years ago, he wanted to put in natural gas, but the utility wouldn’t run a line to his house. ");
document.write("Like many people here, he was stuck using heating oil. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nMr. Harris added a wood stove to help cut costs and now uses only about one-third of the oil the house would otherwise need. But that ...\n
Confronting Iran in a Year of Elections
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WASHINGTON \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nA DEMOCRATIC president running in a bitterly disputed presidential race faces a fateful national security decision: whether to approve an airstrike to thwart an adversary bent on becoming a nuclear-weapons state. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nConservative hawks deride the president as weak. In the West Wing, advisers debate the risks: a strike could lead to open conflict, but doing noth...\n
France's Hollande Bids to Lock in Campaign Lead
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LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The Socialist candidate for France's presidency is attempting to consolidate his front-runner status on Sunday with the most high profile appearance of his campaign so far. \n\n\n\n\nObservers say Francois Hollande, a bespectacled 57-year-old career politician, needs to inject a dose of dynamism into his campaign with the afternoo");
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Gingrich Has Kind Words for Rivals and Venom for 'Elites'
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Newt Gingrich, whose campaign was twice left for dead and came back to win a landslide victory in South Carolina, ");
document.write("used his victory speech Saturday night before a raucous crowd of hundreds to attack the “elites in New York and Washington,” whom he identified as President Obama and the news media. \n\n\nIn a scene far different than the somber election night gatherin...\n
Clean cars gaining speed in CNY
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When Soldiers Return: Part Two
\n(News 10 Now © 01/22/2012)
For many of our veterans, returning from war leaves them feeling lost and unsure about their future. Many are unemployed. But hundreds of them have founds jobs in the controversial gas drilling industry across northern Pennsylvania. In part two of her series, When Soldiers Return, our Lara Greenberg tells us why our vets appear to be a great fit for work with hydrofracking crews.\n\n \n \n\n\n...\n
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document.write("Hundreds of union members gather to protest outside hirings by Norampac
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NIAGARA FALLS — \n More than 300 union members and local trades workers gathered near a Niagara Falls manufacturing site on Saturday to voice concerns about the hiring practices of a Canadian firm that is receiving state incentives to build a new plant off Packard Road.\n\n\n\n The pro-unio");
document.write("n rally, organized by leaders of the Niagara County Building Trades, took aim at the owners of Norampac, a Q...\n
Earth Talk: Gas initiative is a model for how states can cut emissions
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/22/2012)
I understand that some Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. states have banded together to reduce their own gree");
document.write("nhouse gas emissions. Can you enlighten?\n\n? Bo Clifford, Cary, N.C. \n\nGiven the lack of federal action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., several East Coast states joined together in 2008 to form the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, committing to a market-based system to cap ...\n
AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EST
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Presidential contest shifts to Florida after Gingrich SC victory scrambles race\n\n\nTAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A suddenly scrambled Republican presidential contest now shifts to Florida, a day after Newt Gingrich stopped Mitt Romney's sprint to the GOP nomination by scoring a convincing victory in South Carolina.\n\n\nThe air of inevitability that surrounded Romney's candidacy just days ago is gone, at l...\n
Pace University Names New Provost
\n(Westchester.com © 01/22/2012)
New York, NY - Pace University President Stephen J. Friedman has announced that Uday Sukhatme, Sc.D., Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University ??? Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a distinguished physicist, will assume the role of provost of Pace, effective May 21, 2012. ???I am delighted that Uday Sukhatme is joining the talented Pace team in this very i...\n
Landowners Get Lease Checks
\n(WICZ FOX 40 Binghamton © 01/22/2012)
1/21/2012 (Updated 10:46:16 PM)When Christy Everitt signed a lease with Talisman energy about three years ago, she received $500 per acre up front, and the company promised to send the other, much larger check when gas drilling permits were issued or by January 2012.\n\nEveritt just ");
document.write("received that check.\n\n\"We received the other check on Friday, yesterday, and some of the other folks in the group got ...\n
State of the Village Report, part 3 of 3
\n(Adirondack Daily Enterprise © 01/21/2012)
In the first two segments of this three-part series, we outlined our accomplishments and unresolved issues in 2011, and the");
document.write(" challenges facing us in 2012. We respectfully submit the following agenda for the coming year and stand ready to be judged by it 12 months from now. This is not the end-all and be-all plan, but it is a good-faith commitment to our constituents. We invite your comment and dial...\n
Today in History: Saturday, January 21
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Today is Saturday, Jan. 21, the 21st day of 2012. There are 345 days left in the year.\n\n\n\nToday’s Highlight in History\n\n\n On Jan. 21, 1908, New York City’s Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting women from smoking in public. (Although the measure was vetoed two weeks later by Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., at least one woman, Katie Mulcahey, was arrested and spent a night in...\n
First Round: Entergy 1, Vermont 0
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Associated PressThe Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, on the banks of the Connecticut River in Vernon, Vt.\r\n\r\n\r\nAs I wrote in Friday’s New York Times, the first round in federal court has gone to Entergy, the electrical power production company that does not want to shut down its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. The state of Vermont has been seeking to close th");
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To-Do List: Let?s, Let?s Stay Together
\n(New Yorker © 01/21/2012)
To know: The Department of Justice shut down the popular service Megaupload and filed criminal charges against seven people connected with the company ? France is considering withdrawal from Afghanistan after four of its ");
document.write("troops there were killed ? The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is in Israel to discuss Iran?s nuclear program ? Deadlock at a meeting in Geneva means that ?leap seconds? wil...\n
Facts contradict comments opposing nuclear power
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/21/2012)
To the Editor: \n\n\nWas the picture of the tsunami-damaged Fu");
document.write("kushima Daiichi nuclear reactor meant to bolster the arguments in the Jan. 6 anti-nuclear commentary by Rick Olanoff? Did it mean to imply that a “killer” tidal wave from Lake Ontario and the Hudson River someday may cripple the nuclear power plants in New York state? I hope not, because it will not happen! Nevertheless, the ma...\n
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\n(Albany Times Union © 01/20/2012)
___Europe exhales after another good weekFRANKFURT, Germany (AP) ? Europe has taken a step back from the brink.Three weeks into the year, borrowing rates for debt-saddled countries have fallen to more manageable levels. Auctions of government debt have gone better, a sign of increased investor confidence.And while it may have been an embarrassment, especially to France, a sweeping downgrade of nin...\n
Cornell scientists split over shale gas
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/20/2012)
ALBANY — Two groups of scientists at Cornell University are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is better or worse than coal when it comes to global climate change.\n\nIt's a significant question because proponents of shale gas development using the controversial practice of high-volume hydraulic fracturing argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning \"bridge fuel\" fr");
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With crude around $100 US gas prices stay high
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/20/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) ? The price of oil lingered around $100 a barrel this week, helping to keep retail gasoline prices at their highest levels ever for this time of year.Crude has ranged from about $98 per barrel to around $102 per");
document.write(" barrel this week. On Friday benchmark oil fell $2.21 to end at $98.33 per barrel in New York. The national average for gasoline was $3.38 per gallon Friday. Pump prices peak...\n
Dueling Cornell studies over natural gas climate impact
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/20/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Two groups of scientists at Cornell\nUniversi");
document.write("ty are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is\nbetter or worse than coal when it comes to global climate\nchange.\n \n \n \n \n\n\nIt's a significant question because proponents of shale gas\ndevelopment using the controversial practice of high-volume\nhydraulic fracturing argue that natural gas is...\n
3-MINUTE MOVIE GUIDE: Ca");
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\n(Batavia Daily News © 01/20/2012)
Capsule reviews of films playing in area theaters (click links\nfor full reviews):\n \n \n\nOpening\nToday\n \n\n\nHaywire\n\nA straight-up action picture may sound unusual coming from\nSteven Soderbergh, but as he's repeatedly demonstrated throughout\nhis career, he's keen to experiment with every genre imaginable.\nAnd if you look closely here, you'll find it reveals glimmers of\nsome o...\n
Indian Point 2 back up and running
\n(Capital News 9 Albany © 01/20/2012)
BUCHANAN, N.Y. -- After an eight-day shutdown, a major energy producer for New York City and Westchester County is back in service. \n\nIndian Point 2 nuclear reactor was shut down to repair a pump that supplies cooling water. The plant was shut down on January 10th to replace a seal inside a pump.\n\nEntergy officials said the pump normally leaks about tw");
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NYPA: We helped mitigate Irene's impact
\n(Capital News 9 Albany © 01/20/2012)
Months after losing everything to devastating flooding, many people in Schoharie County are still questioning whether the Gilboa Dam or the New York Power Authority made the flooding worse. The Power Au");
document.write("thority held an informational meeting Thursday night to clear up some of those questions. Our Megan Cruz was there.\n\n \n \n\n\n\nSCHOHARIE COUNTY, N.Y. -- \"People have standing questions, like ...\n
You shouldn't have missed this news
\n(Crains New York Business © 01/20/2012)
A story in The Wall Street Journal headlined “");
document.write(";Shale-gas boom spurs race” (Dec. 27) detailed how West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio were vying for a chemical plant that Royal Dutch Shell will build in the region to take advantage of plentiful and relatively inexpensive natural gas produced by fracking. West Virginia's legislature assembled in special session in December to pass a bill...\n
Hinchey mak");
document.write("es retirement announcement
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/20/2012)
KINGSTON -- Speaking before a crowd of friends, colleagues and supporters, longtime congressman Maurice Hinchey announced he would not seek re-election to another term in the U.S. House of Representatives.\n\n\"I know, in my heart of hearts, it's the right time to move on,\" Hinchey said.\n\nThe 10-term congressman held a news conference at the historic Senate House on Thursday, where about 200 people p...\n
Giuliani praises former NYC emergency chief
\n(Finger Lakes Times © 01/20/2012)
Former New York City emergency management chief Richard J.\nSheirer was a low-key, calming presence as he helped guide the city\nthrough the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, his boss, former\nmayor Rudy Giuliani, said Friday.\n \n \n\n\"A more egotistical type of OEM director would have made it much\nmore difficult,\" Giuliani said. \"He w");
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Oil hovers above $100 as gasoline stocks cap rise
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/20/2012)
Oil hovered above $100 a barrel Friday in Asia as signs of\neconomic improvement in the U.S. and Europe were tempered by a rise\nin gasoline stocks, which suggests weaker demand for crude.\n\n");
document.write(" \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up 28 cents at $100.67\na barrel at late afternoon Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading\non the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 20 cents to\nfinish at ...\n
Oil steady above $100 as gasoline stocks cap rise
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/20/2012)
Oil held steady above $100");
document.write(" a barrel Friday in Asia as signs of\neconomic improvement in the U.S. and Europe were tempered by a rise\nin gasoline stocks, which suggests weaker demand for crude.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up 11 cents at $100.50\na barrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the\nNew York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 20 cents to finish\nat $100...\n
(XLF) Stock Market News for January 20, 2012 ??? Market News
\n(International Business Times © 01/20/2012)
Strong corporate earnings results and a positive jobless claims report helped carry the markets forward on Thursday. On an otherwise lackluster day, the S&P 500 touched a five-month high as investors awaited results from Google. However, post the closing bells, Google???s results were big a disappointment. Benchmarks continued to hover around five-month high levels and the Dow Jones Industrial Ave...\n
Alliant Energy Chairman and CEO William D. Harvey Announces Retirement
\n(International Business Times © 01/20/2012)
Board of Directors names Patricia L. Kampling successor MADISON, Wis., Jan. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --??Alliant Energy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William D. Harvey announced his intent to retire from the company effective March 31, 2012. Harvey has");
document.write(" spent 25 years with Alliant Energy, and its predecessor WPL Holdings, and has served as Chairman and CEO for the last six years, leading the tr...\n
Chevron Appeals Illegitimate Ruling in Ecuador
\n(International Business Times © 01/20/2012)
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) today announced that it has filed an appeal seeking review ");
document.write("by Ecuador???s National Court of Justice of the adverse appellate judgment issued against the company in early 2012 by a panel of three temporary judges in the environmental lawsuit in Ecuador. Chevron???s appeal, called a petition for cassation, details multiple legal grounds for reversal of the January appe...\n
Obama's Singing Gets Raves From 'American Idol' Co");
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\n(MTV © 01/20/2012)
'AI' associate music director Michael Orland tells MTV News in an exclusive that prez's pipes would get him to Hollywood Week. By Jim Cantiello President Barack Obama at the Apollo Theater on Thursday Photo: Shahar Azran/WireImage This week, \"American Idol\" kicked off its 11th season, and it appears even President Obama is getting into the spirit. On Thursday night at a fundrais...\n
Crooning And Pooling: More On Obama NYC
\n(New York Daily News © 01/20/2012)
Proving that some cliches (in this case, "saving the best for last") are born of reality, here's the viral video of President Obama tunefully offering the opening bars of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" (get the election-year message?) last night at his Apollo Theater fundraiser. Since I was one of the White House pool reporters for the evening, I'm als");
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End Game: The New York (Regional) Giants?!?
\n(New York Daily News © 01/20/2012)
Good evening...\n\n\nThe New York Regional Giants? That’s how Mayor Bloomberg, of all people, described Big Blue on Friday — ahead of their Sunday showdown with the San Francisco 49ers. Bloomberg committed the heresy while respon");
document.write("ding on a radio interview to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s button-pushing insistence that the Giants hold any Super Bowl parade on their side of the Huds...\n
Gas drops below $2.50 per gallon for the first time in 2 months
\n(New York Daily News © 01/20/2012)
The average retail price for gasoline dipped below $2.50 a gallo");
document.write("n for the first time in two months Monday as swelling oil supplies and slumping demand overshadowed even a fire at a major U.S. refinery.\n\nFriday's fire at a Tesoro refinery in Los Angeles, which processes roughly 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day into gasoline, jet fuel and other products, will likely lead to some higher pump prices...\n
Jan. 20, 1981 | Iran Rel");
document.write("eases American Hostages as Reagan Takes Office
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/20/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Department of Defense\r\r\n\r\n Freed American hostages disembark from a plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Jan. 27, 1981, one week after being released.\r\n\r\nHistoric Headlines\nLearn about key events in history and their connections to today.\r\n\r\n * Go to related On This Day page ?\n\r\n * Go to related post from our partner, findingDulcinea ?\n\r\n * See all Historic Headlines ?\r\n\r\r\n\r\n\r\nO...\n
Dueling studies over natural gas climate impact
\n(Norwich Evening Sun © 01/20/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Two groups of scientists at Cornell University are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is better or worse than coal when it comes to global climate change. \n\nIt?s a significant question because proponents of shale gas development using ");
document.write("the controversial practice of high-volume hydraulic fracturing argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning ?bridge fuel? from the age of...\n
Hinchey announces he's done: 'Right time to move on'
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/20/2012)
KINGSTON — Speaking before a crowd of friends, colleagues and supporters, longtime U.S. Rep. ");
document.write("Maurice Hinchey announced he would not seek re-election to another term in the House of Representatives.\n\n?I know, in my heart of hearts, it?s the right time to move on,? Hinchey said.\n\nThe 10-term congressman held a news conference Thursday at the historic Senate House, where about 200 people pack...\n
Nuclear reactor at Indian Point back in service
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/20/2012)
BUCHANAN, Westchester County ? A nuclear reactor at Indian Point is back in service after an eight-day shutdown to repair a pump that was leaking slightly radioactive water.\n\nPlant owner Entergy Nuclear says the reactor in Buchanan went back online Wednesday.\n\nIndian Point 2 was shut down Jan. 10 to replace a seal inside a pump.\n\nEntergy officials say the pump normally leaks about 2 gallons a min...\n
U.S. lawmakers moving to tighten screws on Iran
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/20/2012)
Lawmakers want to move quickly to constrict the funding that Western nations suspect Iran is using to develop nuclear weapons. The sanctions, still in draft form, would follow legislation passed in December and seek to capitalize on moves by the European Union toward an Iranian oil embargo and sanctions against Iran's central bank. Details may be unveiled in the Senate Banking Committe");
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UPDATE 2-US natgas prices bounce slightly after 8 straight losses
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/20/2012)
(Recasts to reflect price recovery; adds details) * Front-month futures bounce on short covering after new 10-year low * Mild forecasts into February continue to limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on");
document.write(" sentiment * Coming up: Baker Hughes rig data, CFTC trade data Friday By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures took a breather on Friday, trading up sligh...\n
UPDATE 8-Oil falls on economic, demand concerns
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/20/2012)
* Major powers to state terms for Iran talks, pressures oil * Ch");
document.write("ina manufacturing sector seen sluggish in January * Coming up: CFTC trader positions data at 3:30 p.m. EST (Updates prices and WTI/Brent premium) By Robert Gibbons NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Friday, pressured by economic uncertainty ahead of a possible debt deal in Greece, concerns about China's sluggish manufactu...\n
UPDATE 9-Oil falls on ec");
document.write("onomic, demand concerns
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/20/2012)
* Major powers to state terms for Iran talks, pressures oil * China manufacturing sector seen sluggish in January * Coming up: CFTC trader positions data at 3:30 p.m. EST (Updates prices and WTI/Brent premium) By Robert Gibbons NEW YORK, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Friday, pressured by economic uncertainty ahead of a possible debt deal in Greece, concerns about China's sluggish manufactu...\n
Schlumberger posts profit jump
\n(WBFO Buffalo FM 88.7 © 01/20/2012)
By Matt Daily and Braden Reddall\n\n(Reuters) - Oilfield services leader Schlumberger reported a higher-than-expected rise in fourth-quarter earnings and remained cautiously optimistic about 2012 despite the potential for Europe's debt crisis to hurt economic growth and oil demand.\n\nSchlumberger shares rose as much as 4 percent to their highest level in six weeks, eve");
document.write("n though Chief Executive Office...\n
Pace University Names New Provost
\n(Westchester.com © 01/20/2012)
New York, NY - Pace University President Stephen J. Friedman has announced that Uday Sukhatme, Sc.D., Executive Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Faculties at Indiana University ? Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and a distin");
document.write("guished physicist, will assume the role of provost of Pace, effective May 21, 2012.\n\n\n\n?I am delighted that Uday Sukhatme is joining the talented Pace team in this very im...\n
10-term House member Maurice Hinchey, environmental champion, tells supporters hell retire
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/20/2012)
KINGSTON -- Speaking b");
document.write("efore a crowd of friends, colleagues and supporters, longtime U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey announced he would not seek re-election to another term in the House of Representatives.\n\n?I know, in my heart of hearts, it?s the right time to move on,? Hinchey said.\n\nThe 10-term congressman held a news conference Thursday at the historic Senate House, where about 200 people packed in t...\n
Editorial: Public has its say on fracking
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/20/2012)
How New York comes down on hydraulic fracturing ? the controversial method for drilling for natural gas ? is one of the great environmental and economic questions of the day; the inquiry is relevant from one end of the state to the other, in some cases for different reasons. Credit prolific, letter-writing New Yorkers for giving policymakers plenty to consider as the state?s course is set in the m...\n
Indian Point 2 reactor goes back online; pump seal that caused shutdown will be tested
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/20/2012)
BUCHANAN — The degraded water pump seal that caused the eight-day shutdown of the Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant will be tested to determine what led to its erosion now that the plant has returned to service.\n\nThe plant was brought back online Wednesd");
document.write("ay night. It was shut down Jan. 10 because of the seal problem.\n\nThe repairs, which were overseen by inspectors from the Nuclear Regulator...\n
Public has its say on fracking
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/20/2012)
How New York comes down on hydraulic fracturing ? the controversial method for drilling for natural gas ? is one o");
document.write("f the great environmental and economic questions of the day; the inquiry is relevant from one end of the state to the other, in some cases for different reasons. Credit prolific, letter-writing New Yorkers for giving policymakers plenty to consider as the state?s course is set in the m...\n
OJ prices surge on worries over Brazilian imports
\n(W");
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UNDATED (AP) -- Orange juice futures surged Friday on concerns that federal regulators might restrict imports from Brazil.\n\nOrange juice for March delivery rose 10 cents, the maximum amount allowed in daily trading, to close at $2.1065 per pound. The price is near a record high.\n\nTraders are worried that juice imports from Brazil could be halted if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finds trace...\n
Conservationist named top Cuomo adviser
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/19/2012)
ALBANY -- The head of a New York City-based environmental organization has been tapped as the top environmental adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.\r\n\r\nRobert Hallman, chairman of the New York League of Conservation Voters, started Tuesday as Cuomo''s deputy secretary to the environment, the governor''s press office said.\r\n\r\nThe post, which dates back to the mid");
document.write("-1980s when Gov. Mario Cuomo, the governor'...\n
Donald F. Molino
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/19/2012)
Molino, Donald F. NISKAYUNA Donald F. Molino, PhD, 83, of Glen Eddy Drive died Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at Ellis Hospital. Dr. Molino was born in Paterson, N.J. to the late Frank and Elsie Candelone Molino and had lived in Niskayu");
document.write("na since 1963. He was a 1948 graduate of MIT receiving a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. He received a master's degree in 1950 and a doctorate in 1959 in chem...\n
Iran: New Strategy Available
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/19/2012)
The last thing we need right now is another US war. Just when the US has largely left Iraq an");
document.write("d is pursuing peace negotiations in Afghanistan, so that finally we might focus our resources on problems at home, it seems insane to be courting another war, this time with Iran. There is an alternative strategy!\n\n\nFirst, the risks the US is currently? taking: Election season tensions are high in Iran, Is...\n
Is downtown convention center in doubt?
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/19/2012)
ALBANY — The downtown convention center is in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget. But is it in his heart?\n\nCuomo's proposed 2012-13 budget includes the reappropriation of a pool of money to fund early work on the massive downtown exposition space — the bare minimum to keep the project alive — but his budget czar said there's no guarantee the money will be spent, and Cuomo himself said he...\n
Experts: Gas drilling won't start in N.Y. in 2012
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/19/2012)
JOHNSON CITY -- Area experts on natural gas drilling agree: New York's swath of the Marcellus Shale isn't likely to be tapped in 2012.\n\nPanelists on both sides of the issue discussed the future of natural gas drilling in the Southern Tier at a roundtable discussion hosted by Press & Sun-Bulletin on Thursday at the Gannett Central N.Y. Production Facility.\n\n\"It doesn't l");
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Blenheim-Gilboa power project meeting held
\n(Capital News 9 Albany © 01/19/2012)
They've lost everything: Homes, family heirlooms, businesses. Now, they're looking for answers. And they're looking to the New York Power Authority to give them. Our Mega Cruz was at the meeting and has details.\n\n ");
document.write(" \n \n\n\n\nSCHOHARIE COUNTY, N.Y. -- Only months after losing everything to flooding, many people in Schoharie County believe the Gilboa or the New York Power Authority Dam had some...\n
NYPA meeting on power project
\n(Capital News 9 Albany © 01/19/2012)
SCHOHARIE COUNTY, N.Y. -- The New York Power Authority is holding a meeting");
document.write(" in Schoharie to inform the public about its Blenheim-Gilboa power project. NYPA officials want to go over some of the features of their Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power project. This project shouldn't be confused with the state-owned Gilboa dam farther upstream. \n\nNYPA also plans to discuss its response to Tropical ...\n
Letter: Gas rules must rely on fact");
document.write("s, not opinion
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/19/2012)
The Jan. 10 article \"Cornell studies diverge on drilling impact\" demonstrates one more reason why we should do our homework before ruling out developing shale gas as the fuel of the future.\n\nSafely developing our natural resources in New York has the potential to transform our economy and energy security. Yet critics are attempting to create a culture of skepticism that embraces fear over facts. ...\n
Oil above $101 on hopes IMF to curb Europe crisis
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/19/2012)
Oil rose above $101 a barrel Thursday in Asia after the IMF\npromised to raise lending to mitigate a worsening financial crisis\nin Europe. Stronger U.S. economic data also gave oil a lift.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up 88 cents at $101.47\na barrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the\nNew York Mercantile Exchange. ");
document.write("The contract fell 12 cents to end at\n$100.59 on...\n
Oil price drifts lower, stays above $100 a barrel
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/19/2012)
The price of benchmark U.S. oil ended a little lower on Thursday\nfollowing a series of reports that pointed to an improving U.S.\neconomy.\n\n \n\nJobless claims fell, consumer prices were steady ");
document.write("and the dismal\nhome construction market showed more signs of life at the end of\n2011.\n\n \n\nA stronger economy means demand for energy products should\nimprove. However analysts say oil prices will continue to sw...\n
Bion Releases Operational Update
\n(International Business Times © 01/19/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --");
document.write(" Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB/QB: BNET) released an operational update today. The Kreider Farms system Grand Opening was held on July 21, 2011, while the system was still in the early operational shakedown phase. Comprehensive sampling and testing began in September.?? The latest round of sampling demonstrates overall nitrogen management and ...\n
Copano Announces Closing of Equity Offering, Including Full Exercise of Underwriters' Option to Purchase Additional Common Units
\n(International Business Times © 01/19/2012)
HOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Copano Energy, L.L.C. (NASDAQ: CPNO) today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering of 5,750,000 common units, including 750,000 common units issued pursuant to the underwriters' exercise in full of their option to purchase additional common units, at a public offering price of $34.03 per unit.?? Copano intends to use the app");
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S&P Indices Announces Change to U.S. Index
\n(International Business Times © 01/19/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --??Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE: CLD) will replace Tekelec (NASD: TKLC) in the S&P SmallCap 600 index after the close of trading on Thursday, January 26. Tekelec is being acquired by a consor");
document.write("tium led by Siris Capital Group LLC in a deal expected to be completed on or about that date pending final approvals. Cloud Peak Energy produces coal. Headquartered in Gil...\n
Seven Arts Pictures CEO Peter Hoffman to Appear on \"Tim Connolly's Winning Strategies\" on Friday, 1/20 at 12:00 p.m. CT
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HOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --??Peter M. Hoffman, CEO and Founder of Seven Arts Pictures (NASDAQ: SAPX), will appear live on Tim Connolly's Winning Strategies (www.winningstrategies.net) on Friday, January 20 at 12:00 p.m. CT. ??Tim and Co-Host, Marilyn Cohen will interview Peter about the Company's strategic plans for 2012.?? Listen live on www.winningstrategies.net CRN Digital Talk Radio...\n
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document.write("font style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;\">Letter: Maximize our energy capabilities first
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/19/2012)
The New York state Department of Environmental Conservation has, for some time now, been working on the regulations for hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from the shale beneath us. The reason given for fracking is the need for new and more energy sources to run our infrastructure, such as our electrical power- generating plants.\n\nA recent article talked about the AES electrical power-gen...\n
Rep. Hinchey retiring after 10 terms in House
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/19/2012)
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Hurley Democrat who has served in the House since 1993, will not seek re-election this fall, his office announced on Wednesday.Hinchey, who has been battling cancer, will formally announce his decision at 1 p.m. today at the Senate House State Histor");
document.write("ic Site in Uptown Kingston.Hinchey, 73, was elected to a 10th two-year term in the House in November 2010. He was diagnos...\n
Retiring Hinchey proud of legacy
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/19/2012)
HURLEY — While the rumors swirled like the cold January wind that blew outside the door of his home, Rep. Maurice Hinch");
document.write("ey sat quietly in a plush chair in his airy living room composing his thoughts and his words for Thursday's formal announcement.After nearly 20 years on the job, Hinchey, 73, will announce his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives.A visitor traveled to Hinchey's ...\n
New York does its part to keep nuclear weapons out of Iran's hands
");
document.write("\n(New York Daily News © 01/19/2012)
When it comes to containing the dire threat of a nuclear Iran, the civilized world can afford to spare no effort.\n\n\n\n\n With the Legislature?s unanimous passage of the Iran Divestment Act of 2012 ? and Gov. Cuomo?s speedy signature ? the State of New York has played its necessary part.\n\n\n\n\n The act, co-sponsored by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, bars state a...\n
Indian Point nuclear reactor back online after eight days
\n(New York Post © 01/19/2012)
BUCHANAN — A nuclear reactor in New York City’s suburbs is back in service after an eight-day shutdown to repair a pump that was leaking slightly radioactive water. \n\nPlant owner Entergy Nuclear says the reactor in Buchanan went back online Wednesday. \n\nIndian Point 2 was shut down Jan. 10 to replace a seal inside a pump. \n\nEntergy officials say the pump normally leaks ab");
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US Natural Gas Supplies Shrank Last Week
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/19/2012) (Registration Required)\n
NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's natural gas supplies fell last week, the government said Thursday. \n\n\n\n\nThe Energy Department's Energy Information Administration sa");
document.write("id in its weekly report that natural gas in storage shrank by 87 billion cubic feet to 3.290 trillion cubic feet for the week ended Jan. 13. \n\n\n\n\nAnalysts expected a drop of 88 billion to 92 billion cubic feet, accordin...\n
Local laborers to protest Norampac work
\n(Niagara Gazette © 01/19/2012)
NIAGARA FALLS — \n A st");
document.write("ate-subsidized project in the city of Niagara Falls is continuing to draw the ire of local labor leaders.\n\n\n\n About 250 members from the Niagara County building trades have organized a demonstration for Saturday to call attention to what they describe as a lack of commitment to local labor on the part of Norampac, a Canadian firm that is receiving $142 million in subsid...\n
APA weighs 'adverse impact'
\n(Plattsburgh Press-Republican © 01/19/2012)
RAY BROOK — Commissioners at the Adirondack Park Agency aired their interpretations of a core clause of the APA Act Thursday.\n\nAnd a permit decision on the Adirondack Club and Resort review moved one day closer.\n\nInside the APA Act ? the statute that commissioners uphold ? is the passage referring to \"undue adverse impact.\"\n\n\"The project must not have an undue adverse impact upon the natural...\n
Wood-pellet system gets top marks
\n(Plattsburgh Press-Republican © 01/19/2012)
MALONE — Using wood pellets instead of fuel oil as its primary heating source has saved Malone Middle School between $8,000 and $11,000 so far this winter.\n\nSince the system went online Nov. 27, 2011, the school has spent $3,700 on wood pellets at $185 a ton, compared to 3,800 to 5,000 gallons of fuel oil at $3 a gallon,");
document.write(" said David Brooks, superintendent of buildings and grounds for the Malo...\n
Asian firefighters see no racism in the FDNY - Queens Chronicle: Queenswide
\n(Queens Chronicle © 01/19/2012)
There has been plenty of pressure on the city over the last\nseveral years to diversify the ranks of the FDNY, with a black\nfirefighter group fili");
document.write("ng a lawsuit and an Hispanic organization\nalso calling for diversity. But one group has remained silent ?\nAsians.\n\n\nIronically, they make up the smallest percentage of all minority\ngroups in the department, but the reason they have not been more\nvocal abo...\n
Meeks talks jobs, trade, the economy and more - Queens Chronicle: Eastern/Southeast Queens News
\n(Queens Chronicle © 01/19/2012)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Jamaica), clad in a grey suit and purple\ntie, sat back in a chair in his district office on Tuesday to meet\nwith members of the media and take the opportunity to tout his\naccomplishments of the last year and set priorities for the\nfuture.\n\n\nHe also officially announced that he will be seeking re-election\nthis year and hinted at whom he might support in the run for Queens\nBoro...\n
FACTBOX-Legal status of shale gas in key countries
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/19/2012)
In the United States, where the technology is most widely used, it could flip the country from a net importer of natural gas to a net exporter. But shale gas extraction requires large amounts of water and chemicals, and environmental concerns have led some governments to ban its use or put moratoriums in place. Below is an alphabetical list of key countries with shale gas reserves an");
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Natural gas hits 10-yr lows on weather, inventories
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/19/2012)
(Adds cash prices, updates throughout) * Front month sinks to lowest mark since March 2002 * Milder weather again on tap for next week, late month * U.S. crude futures rise in early trade * Coming Up: EIA gas, oil data Thursday B");
document.write("y Eileen Houlihan NEW YORK, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures plunged to 10-year lows on Thursday, as record production and mild weather extended seven straight ...\n
UPDATE 1-Natural gas prices hit new 10-yr low on stocks data
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/19/2012)
* Front-month futures lowest since February 2002 after EIA * Mi");
document.write("ld forecasts into early February continue to pressure prices * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment * Coming up: Baker Hughes rig data, CFTC trade data Friday By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures prices fell to a 10-year low early Thursday after a government report showed weekly usage slig...\n
UPDATE 3-US natural gas");
document.write(" exports to push prices higher-EIA
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/19/2012)
* Natural gas producers seek government permission for exports * Energy Department will consider impact of exports on prices * EIA says costs could rise 3-9 pct per yr by 2035 with added exports * Department also awaiting report on impact of exports on jobs (Adds comment from industrial users' group, analyst comments, and details from report.) By Ayesha Rascoe and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, Jan 1...\n
Cornell scientists argue over natural gas vs. coal in climate change
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/19/2012)
ALBANY ? Two groups of scientists at Cornell University are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is better or worse than coal when it comes to global climate change. \n \nIt?s a significant question because proponents of shale gas development using the controversial practice of high-volume hydraulic frac");
document.write("turing argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning ?bridge fuel? from the age of coal to a...\n
Rep. Maurice Hinchey announces retirement; Hinchey's wife charged with second DWI in eight months
\n(Saratoga Springs Saratogian © 01/19/2012)
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Hurley Democrat who has served in the House since 1993, will not ");
document.write("seek re-election this fall, his office announced on Wednesday. On the eve of his retirement press conference, Hinchey's wife was charged with her second DWI in just eight months in Albany.Hinchey, 73, who has been battling cancer, will announced his decision today in Kingston.Hinchey was elected to a 10th...\n
Nuclear reactor in NYC suburbs back in service<");
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\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/19/2012)
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) — The Indian Point 2 nuclear reactor north of New York City is back in service after an eight-day shutdown to repair a pump that supplies cooling water to the reactor.\n\n\nPlant owner Entergy Nuclear said the reactor in Buchanan, N.Y. went back on line Wednesday.\n\n\nIndian Point 2 was shut down Jan. 10 to replace a seal inside a pump.\n\n\nEntergy officials said the pump normal...\n
Two groups of Cornell University scientists disagree on impact of hydrofracking on climate change
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/19/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two groups of scientists at Cornell University are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is better or worse than coal when it comes to global climate change. \n\n\nIt’s a significant question because proponents of shale gas development using the controversial practice of high-volume h");
document.write("ydraulic fracturing argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning “bridge...\n
Norwood looks to improve community bandshell
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/19/2012)
By MATTHEW BULTMAN\n\nJOHNSON NEWSPAPERS\n\nNORWOOD — Village officials are looking for a little help as they work to revamp a social centerpiece.\n\nThe Board of Trus");
document.write("tees unanimously approved Tuesday the submission of a grant request for $15,000 to $20,000 that would be used in security and cosmetic improvements to the bandshell on the village green.\n\nThe small pavilion is in need of a facelift, o...\n
Waddington officials to appraise property for possible sale
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/19/2012)
WADDINGTON — The Town Council agreed to have appraised approximately 170 acres of town property with hopes of determining a value for potential sale at a special meeting Tuesday.\n\nThe meeting was held to answer questions raised by residents who have expressed interest in purchasing River Road property adjacent to their homes.\n\nTown Supervisor Mark Scott said the town owns approximately 170 ac...\n
\n(WBFO Buffalo FM 88.7 © 01/19/2012)
By Deepa Seetharaman and Chang-Ran Kim\n\nDETROIT/TOKYO (Reuters) - General Motors Co regained its title as the world's top-selling automaker from Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp in 2011, but the U.S. company faces a challenge to stay on top this year as Toyota rebuilds its disaster-struck business.\n\nGM, bouncing back from bankruptcy only less than three years ago, said on Thursday it had sold 9.02...\n
Indian Point 2 plant back online
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/19/2012)
BUCHANAN — The Indian Point 2 nuclear power plant was returned to service Wednesday night following a week-long shutdown, said officials with Entergy, the plant?s owners.\n\nThe eight-day shutdown was caused by a failed water pump at about 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 10.\n\nBefore the ");
document.write("shutdown, the plant had been running for 230 days. Its last shutdown was to repair a transformer outside the containment z...\n
Schumer: Mass transit is great, but don't slow new Tappan Zee Bridge
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/19/2012)
The new Tappan Zee Bridge should include mass transit but construction should not be delayed ");
document.write("waiting for plans to be incorporated into the design, Sen. Charles Schumer said.\n\nThe new $5.2 billion bridge has been fast-tracked by the federal government. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo?s budget proposal for this year includes $5 billion for the bridge.\n\nRight now, there are no plans for a mass transit componen...\n
Tapping the Hudson a ridiculous idea
The idea that Hudson River water could be our drinking water in the near future is ludicrous at best, disgusting and dangerous at worst!\n\nI am a resident of Piermont and familiar with the Sparkill Creek, which is deemed the most polluted in New York state, with waste being dumped into the creek. This creek empties into the Hudson River!\n\nThe proposed desalination plant in Haverstraw would be acros...\n
Indian Point Reactor Back On Line
\n(WNYW Fox 5 New York © 01/19/2012)
BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP) ? A nuclear reactor in New York City's suburbs is back in service after an eight-day shutdown to repair a pump that was leaking slightly radioactive water.\n\n\nPlant owner Entergy Nuclear says the reactor in Buchanan went back online Wednesday.\n\n\nIndian Point 2 was shut down Jan. 10 to replace a seal inside a pump.\n\n\nEntergy officials say the pump normally leaks about 2 gallo");
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Cornell University studies duel over hydrofracking climate impact
\n(WSTM NBC3 Syracuse © 01/19/2012)
(AP) -- Two groups of scientists at Cornell University are dueling over whether natural gas from shale is better or worse than coal when it comes to global climate change.\n\nIt's a significant question because proponents o");
document.write("f shale gas development using the controversial practice of high-volume hydraulic fracturing argue that natural gas is a cleaner-burning \"bridge fuel\" from the age of coal to an e...\n
DEC: No timetable on fracking review
\n(Albany Business Review © 01/18/2012)
NY regulators have begun the process of sifting through thousands of co");
document.write("mments on hydrofracking.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n David Bertola Buffalo Business First Reporter - Business First\n \n Email\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nAs the New York sta...\n
Ball on fracking: This is why p");
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\n(Albany Times Union © 01/18/2012)
Republican Sen. Greg Ball was joined by IDC members David Carlucci and David Valesky on Wednesday afternoon at a press conference to introduce a moratorium on hydrofracking in New York through June 1, 2013. The moratorium is likely DOA due to opposition from Ball’s fellow Senate Republicans, who so far sound more than satisfied to let the Department of Environmental Conservation move ahead ...\n
Conservation head named Cuomo's top environmental adviser
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/18/2012)
ALBANY — The head of a New York City-based environmental organization has been tapped as the top environmental adviser to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.\n\nRobert Hallman, chairman of the New York League of Conservation Voters, started Tuesday as Cuomo's deputy secretary to the environment, according to the governor's press office.\n\nThat post, ");
document.write("which dates back to the mid-1980s when Cuomo's father, Mario, ...\n
Cuomo hires an environmental advisor
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/18/2012)
Over a year after taking office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has hired Robert Hallman to serve as deputy secretary for the environment, our Brian Nearing reports. Environmental issues had been the purvi");
document.write("ew of Tom Congdon, who was deputy secretary for energy and environment. He’s been on the second floor since the previous administration.\n\n\nRobert Hallman, chairman of the New York League of Conservation...\n
Details of Cuomo's budget proposal
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/18/2012)
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget proposal for the 2012");
document.write("-13 fiscal year:\n\nLOCAL EFFECTS\n\nMajor elements: Cuomo proposes keeping state local aid payments, known as AIM money, flat at this year's levels, meaning $12.6 million for Albany, $12.2 million for Troy and $11.2 million for Schenectady.\n\nHe also proposes a change that would, in three years, cap the county share of costs for the Medicaid health care ...\n
Mixed si");
document.write("gnals on the future of the Albany convention center
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/18/2012)
As I reported below, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed 2012-13 budget includes the re-appropriation of $75 million for the Albany convention center — a kitty of money created under former Gov. George Pataki and of which there’s about $63 million remaining.\n\n\nGavin Donohue, chairman of the Albany Convention Center Authority, welcomed the news, saying the re-appropriation allows the aut...\n
Economist to speak on fracking
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/18/2012)
BINGHAMTON — New York Residents Against Drilling is sponsoring a visit from economist Deborah Rogers, who will speak about her research into the economic forces behind hydrofracking and shale gas exploration from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Tabernacle United Methodist Church, 83 Main St.\n\nThe free event is co-sponsored by S");
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Guest Viewpoint: Don't let gas drillers steal our water
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/18/2012)
Many people believe natural-gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale will bring great profits to those who lease their mineral rights to the drillers and");
document.write(" be a great boon to the economy. Perhaps. However, it is only by the abuse, misuse and the diminishment of the water supply that the drillers make enormous profits. I have two main concerns: the depletion of some of our water supply, and the fear that ...\n
Ex-EC public works' chief has new post
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Sentz\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nThe former commissioner of the Erie County Department of Public Works has moved into the private sector.\n\n\nGerard Sentz has joined T.Y. Lin International and was named as associate vice president/unit manager in the firm?s Buffalo office.\n\n\n?Jerry will be instrumental in further expanding our Buffalo presence and will play a key role in our latest project with th...\n
Park, activity center to get solar-powered lights
\n(Buffalo News © 01/18/2012)
TOWN OF NIAGARA ? A contract to install solar-powered street lighting along the roads and parking lots at Veterans Memorial Park and the senior youth activity center was awarded Tuesday by the Town Board. \n\nThe board approved the $230,010 contract with O?Connell Electric, a Lancaster company with a solar technology division in Rochester. \n\nThe pact needs to be reviewed by the town attorney and eng...\n
Mayor Dolce taking wait and see approach on N.Y. budget
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/18/2012)
City of Dunkirk Mayor Anthony J. Dolce was pleased with what Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in his budget message. Dolce is however, taking a wait-and-see approach to how it all plays out.\n\nWith three union contracts to be negotiated, a new pension tier proposed by Cuomo could save the c");
document.write("ity money in the long run. Dolce was asked how much that might save taxpayers in the city.\n\n\"I'd have to run the numbers...\n
Major oil refinery to close in US Virgin Islands
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/18/2012)
One of the world's largest oil refineries will close next month,\nthe company announced Wednesday, stunning nearly 2,000");
document.write(" workers and\nthreatening to upend the reeling economy of the U.S. Virgin\nIslands.\n\n \n\nIndustry analysts said the closure is unlikely to have a major\neffect on the global oil market, but Gov. John de Jongh described\nthe loss of the territory's largest private employer as \"a complet...\n
Oil prices lower on concerns about global demand
\n(Glens F");
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Oil prices finished slightly lower on Wednesday, as concerns\nabout Europe's debt crisis and weaker global demand offset fresh\nsigns of an improving U.S. economy.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude fell 12 cents to end at $100.59 per barrel in\nNew York. It rose as high as $102.06 per barrel earlier in the day.\nBrent crude fell 87 cents to finish at $110.66 per barrel in\nLondon.\n\n \n\nTwo developments pointed to sig...\n
Oil rises above $101 on positive China, US data
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/18/2012)
Oil advanced above $101 a barrel Wednesday in Asia, buoyed by\npositive economic data from the world's top two crude consumers,\nChina and the U.S.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up 62 cents at $101.33\na barrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the\nNew York Mercantile Exchange. The contract jumped $2.01 to finish\nat $100.71 on Tuesday.\n\n \n\nChina, the world's secon");
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Guest Viewpoint: Objective science on gas drilling is available
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/18/2012)
With the comment period for the draft Marcellus Shale SGEIS behind us, it is a good time to reflect on the next phase of public discussion of energy development and use in upstate New York.\n\nNo matter what happens with the Marcel");
document.write("lus, debates about energy will not be over. If shale gas drilling is permitted, we will have no choice but to work together — both those who have been for and those w...\n
James McConkey at 90
\n(Ithaca Times © 01/18/2012)
There is ecstasy in paying close attention.\n \n \n\nAnne Lamott\n \n\n\nI have wanted t");
document.write("o write about James McConkey for some time.\n\nI first became aware of James McConkey?s work in the summer of\n1987.\n\nI was working as a storyboard artist on the movie Two Moon\nJunction for the writer-director Zalman King in L.A.I left the\nmovie to return to Marvel Productions to work on an animat...\n
Ovid and Interlaken: The Year in Review
\n(It");
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January\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\nSouth Seneca music teacher Ray Zajac had hoped to raise a few\ndollars for St. Jude?s Children?s Hospital through the sale of a\nholiday album he produced. Pressing 100 copies of ?Holiday Vibes,?\nZajac exceeded his own expectations and raised nearly $600.\n\n??? ?People have been giving me $20 and saying ?Put the rest toward\nSt. Jude?s,?? Zajac said. ?So I was able ...\n
Rep. Hinchey retiring (updated)
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/18/2012)
U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Hurley Democrat who has served in the House since 1993, will not seek re-election this fall, his office announced on Wednesday.Hinchey, who has been battling cancer, will formally announce his decision at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Senate House State Historic Site in Uptown Kingston.Hinchey, 73, was elected to a 10th two-year term in the House in November 2010. He was diag...\n
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DEC Proposes Ground-Breaking Power Sector Regulations
\n(Long Island Press © 01/18/2012)
Under draft regulations developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation new or expanding electric generating facilities in New York would be required to evaluate the potential disproportionate impacts on nearby environmental justi");
document.write("ce communities, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. The proposed regulations are the first in the country to require an environmental j...\n
Contractor admits trying to export tech to Iran
\n(New York Post © 01/18/2012)
A New York contractor pleaded guilty today to trying to export restricted technology from the United St");
document.write("ates to Iran.\n\nRichard Phillips, 53, admitted in Brooklyn federal court that he violated the ban on exporting high-tech goods to Iran, which are regulated by the US government to prevent Tehran from using them for military purposes.\n\nPhillips, 53, who lives in The Bronx, tried to ship what he bel...\n
As Iran Tightens Scientists? Security, Russia Opposes New Sanct");
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\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/18/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Russia signaled renewed aversion to tighter sanctions on Iran on Wednesday and Israel said a decision on a possible attack was “very far off” as European powers prepared to escalate the conflict with Tehran over its nuclear intentions. \n\n\n\n\nThe comments came a day after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered extra security for scientists following the drive-by assassination of a ...\n
Decision to Attack Iran Is ?Far Off,? Israel Says
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/18/2012) (Registration Required)\n
JERUSALEM — Israel moved to calm the increasingly tense discourse over Iran’s nuclear program on Wednesday, with the Israeli defense minister asserting that any decision on a possible pre-emptive military strike on Iranian targets ");
document.write("was “very far off.” \n\n\n\n\nThe assertion by Defense Minister Ehud Barak was at least the third indication from the Israeli government in the...\n
The Pros and Cons of Obama's Reorganization Plan
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/18/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Bruce Bartlett held sen");
document.write("ior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of the forthcoming book ?The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform ? Why We Need It and What It Will Take.?\n\r\n\r\nOn Friday, President Obama announced plans to consolidate a number of federal agencies related to business and trad...\n
Gas flaring drawing attention to Pennsylvania town
\n(News 10 Now © 01/18/2012)
An interesting sight is drawing attention to a Pennsylvania town, not too far from the New York border. YNN's Erin Clarke joined us to explain what it is that's causing such a stir.\n\n \n \n\n\n\nLIBERTY, Pa. -- It?s a topic of conversation around town.\n\n?They?re pretty impressed with it. Especially at night time when the clouds cover, it?s a pretty spectacular show,? said Kirkwood Gas Coaliti...\n
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document.write("Joseph Davis plan gets green light from greenway commission
\n(Niagara Gazette © 01/18/2012)
GRAND ISLAND — \n A multi-million dollar plan to redevelop Joseph Davis State Park has cleared a significant hurdle.\n\n\n\n Members of the Niagara River Greenway Commission on Tuesday determined the first phase of the Town of Lewiston’s proposed $10 million park improvement project is consistent");
document.write(" with the regional vision for creating a seamless system of parkland along the Niagara River fro...\n
NCCC?s fitness trail gets thumbs down from greenway commission
\n(Niagara Gazette © 01/18/2012)
GRAND ISLAND — \n Plans for the development of a fitness trail at Niagara County Community College ran into a stumbling block on T");
document.write("uesday.\n\n\n\n During a meeting at Beaver Island State Park, members of the Niagara River Greenway Commission determined the trails project is not consistent with a larger regional plan for creating a seamless system of parkland along the Niagara River from Buffalo to...\n
Barclay refutes safety claims concerning Indian Point
\n(Oswego Palladium T");
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The potential closure of Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan is not justified, according to an area lawmaker who is refuting safety concerns regarding the facility.\r\n\r\nAssemblyman Will Barclay, R-Pulaski, who also serves on the New York Assembly Committee on Energy, noted Tuesday that the safety concerns cited by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other officials are unfounded, and the closure of the facili...\n
Cuomo unveils state budget
\n(Plattsburgh Press-Republican © 01/18/2012)
PLATTSBURGH — \n North Country officials liked much of what they heard from Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday about his 2012-13 budget.\n\n\n\n\n "I think it is very good. There are no new taxes or fees, and it looks like he really is trying to contain state government," State Sen. Betty Little (R-Queensbury) said.\n\n\n\n\n Little said the state made some headway last year toward reducing a more ...\n
NYISO Forms Working Group on Electric and Gas Coordination
\n(Read Media Newswire © 01/18/2012)
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NYMEX-Natural gas ends down slightly in 7th straight loss
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/18/2012)
* Front-month futures ease slightly after sharp drop Tuesday * Mild forecasts into early ");
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NYMEX-Natural gas off slightly midday after Tuesd");
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\n(Reuters Africa © 01/18/2012)
* Front-month futures ease slightly after sharp drop Tuesday * Mild forecasts into early February limit upside * Record storage, production also weigh on sentiment * Coming up: EIA, Enerdata natgas storage data on Thursday By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures lost ground again on Wednesday for a seventh straight day, with still-mild extended weather forecasts and r...\n
UPDATE 10-Oil falls as weak demand outlook trumps IMF hopes
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/18/2012)
* IEA pares global demand growth forecast * Keystone pipeline decision weighs on U.S. crude * Hovensa refinery to close, lifts U.S. RBOB * API: U.S. crude stocks down 4.8 mln bbls last week * Coming Up: EIA inventory report, 11 a.m. EST, Thursday (Updates with TransCanada statement, API data) By Gene Ramos NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures ");
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UPDATE 8-Oil falls as weak demand outlook trumps IMF hopes
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/18/2012)
* Coming Up: API inventory data, 4:30 p.m. EST (Updates prices, market activity, adds details) NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Brent crude oil futures dropped back in Wednesday's session as a weak dem");
document.write("and outlook from the International Energy Agency overshadowed hopes that the International Monetary Fund would be able to raise more money to help resolve Europe's debt crisis. U.S. crude futures retreat...\n
A sampling of editorials from around New York
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/18/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The New York");
document.write(" Daily News on earthquakes, underground aqueducts and regulating hydrofracking in New York.\n\n\nJan. 17\n\n\nTop-notch geologists have reached the following chilling conclusions about the potential impact of upstate natural gas drilling on New York City's water supply:\n\n\nFirst, that the drilling method known as high-volume hydrofracking could trigger small earthqua...\n
Gulf nations show growing confidence to stand with US against Iran
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/18/2012)
View full sizeSaudi Press AgencyChinese Premier Wen Jiabao (left) meets Sunday with Saudi King Abdullah (right) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during his six-day Mideast trip, which will also take him to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. The Iranians have watched as frustrated bystanders while the leader of its most influential ally, China, has toured the Gulf Arab states with talks in Tehran's top re...\n
Occupy London campers told to leave cathedral
\n(WAMC Albany FM 90.3 © 01/18/2012)
By Avril Ormsby\n\nLONDON (Reuters) - A British court ruled on Wednesday that a protest camp denouncing economic inequality should be removed from its site outside London's landmark St Paul's cathedral.\n\nDozens of activists from Occupy London, part of an international movement inspired by the Occupy Wal");
document.write("l Street protest that began last September, have been camping outside St Paul's since October.\n\nTh...\n
River Agency committee reviews 20 megawatt contract
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/18/2012)
LOUISVILLE — A draft copy of the contract that would grant the St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency 20 megawatts of New Yor");
document.write("k Power Authority-produced hydropower is under review by a recently formed committee.\n\nRiver Agency Chairman Robert O. McNeil said the committee met in early January to review the contract and plans to meet within the month to make changes that would need NYPA&#...\n
Wayne A. A. Weber
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/18/2012)
HAMMOND ");
document.write("— Wayne A. A. Weber, 71, of Triangle Road died Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at Canton Potsdam Hospital.\n\nBorn May 15, 1940 in Milwaukee, WI to William A. and Viola F. Boldt Weber and graduated from East Troy High School in East Troy, WI in 1958.\n\nMr. Weber enlisted in the U. S. Coast Guard and served from 1958 to 1962.\n\nHe married Dorothy Fitzgerald on June 3, 1961.\n\nMr. Weber was a fire...\n
Assemblyman Pete Lopez Calls on NYPA to Give Full Disclosure of Actions During Irene & Lee
\n(WBGH/WIVT NBC 20 &ABC 24 Binghamton © 01/18/2012)
From Assmeblyman Lopez's Office:\n\nIn a meeting in Assemblyman Pete Lopez’s (R,C,I-Schoharie) Albany office earlier this month with New York Power Authority (NYPA) Chairman and CEO Gil Quiniones, the Assemblyman advised NYPA of the importance of full disclosure to a community that continues to struggle with the effects of massive flooding from Tropical Storms Irene and Lee. \n\nDuring ");
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New York Power Authority CEO Visits Elmira
\n(WETM NBC 18 Elmira © 01/18/2012)
Elmira, N.Y. - The President and CEO of the New York Power Authority made a stop in Elmira Tuesday to answer questions about the Governor's new budget proposal.\n\nGil Quiniones spoke with government officials from across Chemung County.\n\nHe");
document.write(" came in town to address their concerns about Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget address Tuesday.\n\nHe said the issues raised yesterday that would affect our area the...\n
United Water gets draft permits for Hudson River plant in Haverstraw
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/18/2012)
United Water New York officials announced today that t");
document.write("he state Department of Environmental Conservation has issued draft permits for the company?s plans to put a water treatment plant along the Hudson River.\n\nThe state?s lead agency issued the draft environmental permits after deeming the project?s Draft Environmental Impact Statement complete and ready for public review.\n\nMichael J. Pointing, Uni...\n
Keystone Oil S");
document.write("ands Pipeline Rejected, For Now
\n(WPTZ NBC 5 Plattsburgh © 01/18/2012)
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Obama administration rejected a bid to expand the controversial Keystone oil sands pipeline Wednesday, saying the deadline imposed by Congress did not leave sufficient time to conduct the necessary review.\n\n\"The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact, especially the health and safety of ...\n
Albany hopes to see $7.8M
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/17/2012)
ALBANY — Inside the Capitol, lawmakers and advocates on Tuesday will begin poring over the tens of billions of dollars in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget.\n\nBut across the street in City Hall, all eyes will be on about 0.005 percent of it — or $7.85 million — that will make or break city finances this year.\n\nCuomo's promise of the ");
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To refuse $2 million, it takes a village
\n(Buffalo News © 01/17/2012)
When you hear the news that a wealthy local resident has made the almost unbelievable offer to donate $2 million so that a recreation center could be built in the heart of the community, you think of the saying: \n\nA)");
document.write(" ?Don?t look a gift horse in the mouth.? In this case, you are a realist. \n\nB) ?There?s no such thing as a free lunch.? In this case, you are a skeptic. \n\nC) ?No good deed goes unpunis...\n
Oil climbs above $100 in Asia amid Iran tensions
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/17/2012)
Oil climbed above $100 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after S");
document.write("audi\nArabia, the world's largest exporter of the commodity, indicated it\nthinks prices should be maintained around that level.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up $1.94 at $100.63 a\nbarrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New\nYork Mercantile Exchange. The oil market in the U.S. was closed on\nMonday for a ho...\n
Oil climbs in A");
document.write("sia on Saudi's support at $100
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/17/2012)
Oil climbed above $100 a barrel Tuesday in Asia after Saudi\nArabia, the world's largest exporter of the commodity, indicated\nsupport for crude at that level.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up $1.56 at $100.26 a\nbarrel at midday Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on the New\nYork Mercantile Exchange. The oil market in the U.S. was closed on\nMonday for a holiday.\n\n \n\nOil prices ro...\n
Will Community Bans on Hydrofracking Hold Up?
\n(Gotham Gazette © 01/17/2012)
Photo by Bennett VProtestors in Albany demand a ban on hydraulic fracturing.\n\nCommunities across the state have passed legislation banning the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing. The movement brings up questions of home rule and is being followed closely by the natural gas industry. Cuomo administration efforts to open the New York");
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Talk to question shale-gas industry
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/17/2012)
Deborah Rogers, who left the financial industry to make artisanal cheese in Texas only to confront the shale gas industry, will give a talk at 7 p.m. Friday at the First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, Aurora ");
document.write("at Buffalo streets. Her talk will examine aspects of the push for shale gas extraction that have not been widely discussed in this area.\n\nRogers began her financial career in London working in co...\n
TWU President John Samuelsen, MTA Chairman Joseph Lhota display common sense during negotiations
\n(New York Daily News © 01/17/2012)
Middle East tension affects area gas, oil prices
\n(Oneonta Daily Star © 01/17/2012)
Tension in the Middle East is a key factor in a recent rise in gasoline and home heating oil prices, several local industry officials said Monday. \n\nThe price of regular gas has risen about 10 cents a gallon compared to December pricing. According to the AAA's Fuel Gauge Report, a retail gasoline survey available at the organization's website, the average state price for regular was $3.66 Monday. ...\n
State has a lot to consider on fracking
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/17/2012)
From every conceivable angle, the state has been deluged with opinions about whether and how it should allow a controversial natural gas-drilling method to take place throughout upstate New York.\n\nThe public activism displayed here is downright astonishing and refreshing.\n\nGroups on both ");
document.write("sides of the debate ? from the oil industry and landowners, to environmentalists and health experts ? have weig...\n
NYMEX-Natural gas prices crumble to near 10-year lows
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/17/2012)
* Front-month futures drop for sixth day to 28-month low * High storage, record production weigh on sentiment * Mild forecasts thr");
document.write("ough January also pressure prices * Coming up: Reuters EIA natgas storage poll on Wednesday By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures fell sharply for a sixth straight session on Tuesday, as mild winter weather and record high supplies drove ...\n
REFILE-NYMEX-Natural gas prices crumble, approach 2009 low
\n(Reuters ");
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(Clarifies headline) * Front-month futures drop for sixth day to 28-month low * High storage, record production weigh on sentiment * Mild forecasts through January also pressure prices * Coming up: Reuters EIA natgas storage poll on Wednesday By Joseph Silha NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - U.S. natural gas futures ended down sharply on Tuesday, their sixth straight session loss, as mild winter weathe...\n
UPDATE 2-Consol Energy sees lower Q1 coal output
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/17/2012)
Jan 17 (Reuters) - Consol Energy Inc expects lower first-quarter coal production as the coal miner looks to strengthen its gas business by investing a major part of its 2012 capital in it. Earlier this month, the company said it will invest $755 million in gas out of the capital budget of $1.7 billion it had earmarked. It sees gas production rising 12 percent this year. Consol had said in October ...\n
New York power
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/17/2012)
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo wants to close rather than relicense the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which he considers too risky for its proximity to New York City. The plant situated just 35 miles up the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan began operating in the 1970s, but its licenses f");
document.write("or the two reactors are due to expire in 2013 and 2015.\n\nOne of the unanswered questions in the ongoing debate over...\n
Waddington holds special meeting on land sales
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/17/2012)
WADDINGTON — A special meeting to discuss the potential sale of town-owned property on River Road will be held at 7 p.m. ");
document.write("tonight at the municipal building.\n\nThe board will address questions raised by residents who have expressed interest in purchasing the land.\n\nTown Supervisor Mark Scott said the town owns approximately 190 acres of land on River Road, which it received from the New York Pow...\n
AP opens full news bureau in North Korea
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PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) ? The Associated Press opened its newest bureau here Monday, becoming the first international news organization with a full-time presence to cover news from North Korea in words, pictures and video.In a ceremony that came less than a month after the death of longtime ruler Kim Jong Il and capped nearly a year of discussions, AP President and CEO Tom Curley and a delegat...\n
Closed fist or open hand
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/16/2012)
There’s been a barrage of articles about finances lately. Perhaps it’s because lots of folks are trying to play “catch up” with holiday debt.? Maybe it has to do with the questionable condition of the economy.? Or it could be just human nature to want to find easier ways to have more – more money, more stuff, more of just about everything.\n\n\nJust the other day there w...\n
Markets brush off S&P downgrades, focus on Greece
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/16/2012)
LONDON (AP) ? European markets responded calmly on Monday to Standard & Poor's decision to cut the credit ratings of a number of euro countries, including France.The downgrades, which were based on concerns over Europe's ability to handle its two-year debt crisis and the lack of");
document.write(" economic growth, had been anticipated for weeks so the market impact was muted, especially since much of the U.S. is...\n
Natural gas price plunge: Good for consumers, bad for drillers
\n(Corning Leader © 01/16/2012)
New York, N.Y. — \n \n \n\n\n\n The price of natural gas is plummeting at a pace that has caught ");
document.write("even the experts off guard.\n\n\n \n\n\n A 35 percent collapse in the futures price over the past year has been a boon to homeowners who use natural gas for heat and appliances and to manufacturers who power their factories and make chemicals and materials with it.\n\n\n \n\n\n The country is flu...\n
CCC introduces energy technology program
\n(Elmira Star");
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With an eye on the growing need for specialized technicians working in the energy sector or other industries, Corning Community College has introduced a 65-credit energy process technology study program.\n\nThe idea for the new program came about a couple of years ago, said Thomas Dunbar, physics professor at CCC. Dunbar is responsible for developing the program's concept and assembling the group of...\n
Oil above $99 in Asia amid Middle East jitters
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/16/2012)
Oil prices edged above $99 a barrel in Asia on Monday amid\nconcerns that tensions in the Middle East could hurt crude supply\nbut gains were tempered by jitters over Europe's ratings\ndowngrade.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery was up 48 cents to $99.16\na barrel at late afternoon Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading\non the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 40 cents to\nsettl...\n<");
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Guest Viewpoint: It's time for New York to pull the plug on RGGI
\n(Ithaca Journal © 01/16/2012)
Since 2008, New York state has participated in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade scheme that is doing little for the environment but is killing jobs, bankrupting power plants, reducing revenues for localiti");
document.write("es and jeopardizing the reliability of our electrical grid.\n\nNew Yorkers were dragooned into RGGI by executive order of then-Gov. David Paterson. Implemented by regu...\n
Asian Stocks Sink After Europe Credit Downgrades
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/16/2012) (Registration Required)\n
BANGKOK (AP) &m");
document.write("dash; Asian stocks sank Monday after a ratings downgrade rattled Europe and crucial talks aimed at nudging Greece toward solvency were mired in disagreement. \n\n\n\n\nBenchmark oil prices were slightly higher near $99 per barrel and the dollar rose against the euro but fell against the yen. \n\n\n\n\nJapan's Nikkei 225 index slid 1.5 percent to 8,372.67 and Hong Kong's Hang Sen...\n
Corning college offers energy process technology program
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/16/2012)
With an eye on the growing need for specialized technicians working in the energy sector or other industries, Corning Community College has introduced a 65-credit energy process technology study program.\n\nThe idea for the new program came about a couple of years ago, said Thomas Dunbar, physics professor at CCC. Dunbar is responsible for developing the program's concept and assembling the group of...\n
Staten Island's State Sen. Diane Savino poised to finish what she started
\n(Staten Island Advance © 01/16/2012)
Staten Island Advance/Steve ZaffaranoState Sen. Diane Savino's goals for 2012 include juvenile justice reform and enhancing day care options for working women.STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- State Sen. Diane Savino pointed to a number of her bills, alrea");
document.write("dy in the pipeline, that she's about to give a renewed push as topping her 2012 agenda, from worker safety to insurance fraud. \n\n But you won't find ...\n
Sunday outing at nature center highlights facilitys rebirth
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/16/2012)
MASSENA — Nearly two years ago, a fire devastated the nature center at the");
document.write(" Robert Moses State Park, doing considerable damage to the building housing the center’s interpretive museum and destroying the majority of the park’s winter recreation equipment.\n\nOn Sunday, and despite cold temperatures all day, the rebirth of the Friends of the Robert Moses State Park Nature Center was on d...\n
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in 2004 is running again. Steel maker Nucor Corp. is building a factory in Louisiana; Shell Oil Co. is planning a petrochemical plant in Appalachia; and Dow Chemical is building a type of chemical feedstock plant it hasn't built in the U.S. since 1995. \n\n\"A whole slice of American industry is benefiting,\" says Steve Wilson, the CEO of CF Industries, which makes ammonia and other fertilizer ingredi...\n
New Law Mandates Electronics Recycling
\n(WROC TV CBS 8 Rochester © 01/16/2012)
Piles and piles of outdated equipment sit inside Monroe County's Ecopark. Instead of heading to the landfill these tv's and computers are going to be recycled. \n\n\n"All this material comes into our facility and it is sorted into categories," says Mike Whyte, President of Regional Computer Recycling and Recovery. \n\n\nThere, workers take the electronics apart. T");
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On the Move
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/15/2012)
FINANCIAL\n\nThe Bonadio Group\n\nKait Bloss of Schenectady was promoted to manager. Bloss joined the firm in 2006 and serves commercial organizations. She is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association ");
document.write("of Women in Construction.\n\nKelly Saposnick of Clifton Park was promoted to manager. Saposnick joined the firm in 2006 and works in the Tax Divisi...\n
Cuomo OKs bill to shun companies trading with Iran
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/15/2012)
ALBANY ? Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a new law to exclude\ncompanies that invest in Iran?s energy s");
document.write("ector from entering into\ncontracts with state and local governments in New York.\n \n \n \n \n\nThe law also requires companies to certify that they do not hold\nsuch investments when applying for government contracts, and allows\naffected businesses to appeal. The law...\n
Numbers tell the story of AES? implosion
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AES Corp.?s power plants in Somerset and five other sites across New York didn?t just burn coal. \n\nThey burned money. Hundreds of millions of dollars of it over the past 13 years. \n\nAES? shockingly bad venture into the state?s power generation market moved into what?s likely to be its final chapter, when the entity that controls its New York power plants filed for bankruptcy protection just before...\n
Vision for Lewiston rec center blurred by issue of site
\n(Buffalo News © 01/15/2012)
LEWISTON?A site near Artpark and the Robert Moses Parkway within the shadow of the escarpment seems to be emerging as the preferred location for a proposed recreation and sports center. \n\nBut the larger question is whether such a center will ever be built. \n\nA large majority of residents attending two meetings of the Village Board and a public forum in the last two months gave their enthusiast");
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Carl E. Behm, U.S. Navy
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/15/2012)
E-5 Second Class Petty Officer (AME-2)\n\n Duty Stations - USS Enterprise CVA 65 1st Nuclear Powered\n\n Air Craft Carrier - USS Independence CVA 62, NAS Jacksonville, Cuba NAS Oceania, Attack Squadron 64, AME-7207\n\n Medals and Awards: Good Conduct and Cuban Campaign ");
document.write("Medal.\n\n Duties: On the U.S. Navy's F9S, F8TS, T28S Panthers AD 5/6 attack fighter, test and confirm that the hydraulic ejection seats ...\n
EPA weighs in on fracking in N.Y.
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/15/2012)
ALBANY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's pro");
document.write("posed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conserv...\n
EPA weighs in on hydrofracking in N.Y.
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ALBANY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conserv...\n
Strictly Business: Is this the year for fracking in N.Y.?
\n(Elmira Star-Gazette © 01/15/2012)
I'm beginning to wonder if high-volume hydraulic fracturing, the method of extracting natural gas from tight shale formations underground, will ever be allowed in New York.\n\nI don't say that because opponents have successfully lobbied against it. I say that after looking at the enormity of the task now facing New York's Department of Environmental Conservation.\n\nAt midnight on Wednesday, the state...\n");
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Natural gas price plunge aids families, businesses
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/15/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- The price of natural gas is plummeting at a pace that has caught even the experts off guard. A 35 percent collapse in the futures price over the past year has been a boon to homeowners who use natural gas for he");
document.write("at and appliances and to manufacturers who power their factories and make chemicals and materials with it. The country is flush with natural gas as a result of new dril...\n
Steve Israel: Earthquake claims heighten fracking debate
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/15/2012)
Earthquakes in Ohio were caused by the injection into ");
document.write("the ground of waste from hydraulic fracturing, or \"fracking,\" for natural gas, says a seismologist from Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.More studies are needed to determine whether fracking \"poses a threat to human health,\" says a director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.As the comment period on the prop...\n
Hard to defeat");
document.write(" the high cost of living
\n(New York Daily News © 01/15/2012)
Here's why a $3 ice cream cone is a bargain.\n\nAs the flames of July reached the sky, so did all the prices. Nothing's fair anymore. The people are hurting. Gas prices are so ridiculous that people have started opting for mass transit. That looked like a silver lining to help reduce global warming. But as soon as the MTA saw an increase in ridership, they announced yet another rate hike, cashing in...\n
How Hollywood begat yet another insult to Christianity: 'The Book of Eli' slanders a great religion
\n(New York Daily News © 01/15/2012)
Denzel as Christian crusader? Only in Hollywood.\n\nThere's a kooky rumor floating around that Denzel Washington's latest film foray as badass road warrior is actually a paean to evangelical America. \n\nYes, to hear some people tell it, the machete-wielding, steel-toed, grenade-throwing \"missionar");
document.write("y\" Denzel plays in \"The Book of Eli\" is allegedly a flag-bearer for the Christian right. \n\nThe New York P...\n
N.Y. can help stop Iran from going nuclear
\n(New York Daily News © 01/15/2012)
The recent announcement of Iran?s second major uranium enrichment site, this one in the heavily fortified mountain facility, is cause for grav");
document.write("e concern in the international community.\n\n\n\n\n It was less than three months ago that federal officials unveiled details of a foiled international terror plot directed at the Saudi ambassador to the United States. Had the terrorists been successful, innocent...\n
Voice of the People for Sunday December 5, 2010
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Julian Assange is a real...hero?\n\nManhattan: I, for one, applaud the efforts of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. First of all, it's great fun to watch governments around the world, which routinely invade the privacy of their citizens, get a taste of their own medicine.\n\nBut more importantly, the absence of honesty among world leaders regarding the regimes in Iran and North Korea has made it impos...\n
Planned Regime Change in Iran and Syria
\n(NYC Independent Media Center © 01/15/2012)
- by Plans are longstanding. Timing alone isn???t known. Signs suggest 2012. If sanctions, subversion, cyberwar, and targeted assassinations fail, expect hot conflict to follow. On January 9, the Washington Post quoted an anonymous US intelligence official saying America's goal for Iran is \"regime change.\" A next day article retracted the statement, saying: \"An earlier version of this article repo...\n
Make the Finger Lakes a fracking-free zone
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/15/2012)
As the state Department of Environmental Conservation digests thousands of comments received before last week's deadline for weighing in on the natural gas-retrieval process known as hydraulic fracturing, one factor has become clear: the Finger Lakes watershed ");
document.write("must be protected.\n\nThe state's draft plan excludes watersheds for the sources of drinking water for Syracuse and New York City from hydrof...\n
Education: Academic Honors published Jan. 15, 2012
\n(Saratoga Springs Saratogian © 01/15/2012)
Zampella makes president’s listVALLEY CITY, N.D. — Justin I. Zampella, of Ballst");
document.write("on Lake, has been named to the president’s roll of honor at Valley City State University for the fall 2011 semester.The president’s roll of honor recognizes students who complete 12 semester hours or more with a grade point average of 4.0.BSHS senior earns VFW award Dec. 18BALLSTON SPA — B...\n
10 American presidents who could never be elected to");
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\n(Staten Island Advance © 01/15/2012)
In an effort to define who we are, what we have become and where the country ought to be headed, we Americans are fond of measuring ourselves by the genius of the nation’s founders, its great leaders and its most admired presidents. But if hindsight is 20/20, the lens of history has a soft focus. How many of those patriarchs of American democracy could be elected president in today’s h...\n
Eagles on the rise: Here's why
\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 01/15/2012)
\n\n\n\n\n A while back, Brian Judycki sent me a photo of a bald eagle.\n\n\n\n\n He took it December 20 near Oriskany.\n\n\n\n\n I’m sure it won’t be the last such photo I receive this winter. We get a lot of eagles now, a few residents, and others coming down from the north. The lower end of Oriskany Creek and much of the length of West Canada Creek are among the prime ar");
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Fracking in New York state: CON
\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 01/15/2012)
As a third generation New Yorker, I strongly oppose hydraulic fracturing in the shale beds of New York state. The technology is toxic and environmentally destructive. It has already proved disastrous for watersheds in Wyoming, Colora");
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Fracking in New York state: PRO
\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 01/15/2012)
The potential development of shale gas resources in New York state has initiated contro");
document.write("versy and public outcry that have detracted our communities from the real task at hand. While the debate is healthy for invigorating public participation in governance, it has unfortunately been based, all too often, on incomplete or incorrect summation of the facts, context and engineering aspects of hydraulic ...\n
Indian Point shutdown reignites nuke battle
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/15/2012)
BUCHANAN — A shutdown of the Indian Point 2 reactor last week triggered the latest round of skirmishes and public debate over the future of nuclear power ? and the plant itself.\n\nThe 38-year-old reactor was taken offline Tuesday after a massive water pump overflowed inside the containment dome, the 18th unplanned shutdown at Indian Point in five years.\n\nFederal regulators said neither the pu...\n
Cuomo signs Iran divestment act
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/14/2012)
Passed earlier this week by the Assembly and Senate, the Iran Divestment Act is now law; it blocks companies that invest in Iran’s energy sector from entering into contracts with state and local governments. It takes effect in 90 days.\n\n\nFrom the governor’s press office:\n\n\n“This new law ensures that companies that invest in Iran?s energy sector do not do business wi");
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JPMorgan leads bank stocks lower
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/14/2012)
NEW YORK — A rare disappointing earnings report from JPMorgan Chase battered bank stocks on Friday and helped push the rest of the market lower. Rumors of imminent downgrades for the credit ratings of European governments drove the euro d");
document.write("own and sent investors into U.S. debt.\n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.96 points to close at 12,422.06, a drop of 0.4 percent. Markets were little...\n
Mild, with chance of saving
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/14/2012)
NEW YORK — Out of a relatively balmy winter have sprung some economic surprises. People have more cas");
document.write("h in their pockets because they aren't turning up the thermostat. Airlines don't have to de-ice planes or battle blizzards. And shoppers are finding great deals on coats and boots.\n\nBut there are also disappointments. Merchants are stuck with unsold shovels and snow blowers. Drugstores say cu...\n
Balmy weather surprises businesses
\n(Buffalo N");
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NEW YORK -- Out of a relatively balmy winter have sprung some economic surprises. People have more cash in their pockets because they aren't turning up the thermostat. Airlines don't have to de-ice planes or battle blizzards. And shoppers are finding great deals on coats and boots.\n\n\nBut there are also disappointments. Merchants are stuck with unsold shovels and snow blowers. Drugstores say custom...\n
Pipeline company plays "green" card in NY
\n(Buffalo News © 01/14/2012)
MINISINK, N.Y. (AP) - For years now, activists have battled with energy companies over a natural gas boom, saying some of the industry's practices threaten the environment.\n\nNow, one gas company is playing the environmental card to its advantage.\n\nMillennium Pipeline Co. have asked federal regulators for permission to build a gas compressor station in the New York town of Minisink because putting ...\n
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JPMorgan disappoints; banks lead stocks lower
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/14/2012)
A rare disappointing earnings report from JPMorgan Chase\nbattered bank stocks on Friday and helped push the rest of the\nmarket lower. Rumors of imminent downgrades for the credit ratings\nof European governments drove the euro down and sent investors\nstream");
document.write("ing into U.S. debt.\n\n \n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.96 points to close at\n12,422.06, a drop of 0.4 percent. Markets were little cha...\n
Oil price below $99 on Europe downgrade concerns
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/14/2012)
Oil prices finished lower Friday on fresh concerns about\nEurope's economy as credit ratings age");
document.write("ncy Standard & Poor's\ndowngraded France, Austria and other European countries.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude fell by 40 cents to end at $98.70 per barrel in\nNew York. Brent crude, which is used to price foreign oil that's\nimported by U.S. refineries, fell by 70 cents to end at $110.35 per\nbarrel in London.\n\n \n...\n
Balmy winter brings plenty of economic surprises");
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\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Out of a relatively balmy winter have sprung some economic surprises. People have more cash in their pockets because they aren't turning up the thermostat. Airlines don't have to de-ice planes or battle blizzards. And shoppers are finding great deals on coats and boots. But there are also disappointments. Merchants are stuck with unsold shovels and snow blowers. Drugstores say...\n
Cuomo OKs bill to shun companies doing Iran trade
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a new law to exclude companies that invest in Iran's energy sector from entering into contracts with state and local governments in New York. The law also requires companies to certify that they do not hold such investments when applying for government contracts, and allows affected businesses to ap");
document.write("peal. The law takes effect in 90 days. Legisla...\n
Key US oil supplier may cut off spigot Sunday
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of the biggest suppliers of oil to the United States may shut off the spigot this weekend, pushing crude and gasoline prices higher for Americans. Nigeria, which ");
document.write("supplies 8 percent of U.S. oil imports, could see production halted if striking workers walk off the job Sunday. Workers are demanding the return of a vital government fuel subsidy that has kept gasoline prices lo...\n
Pipeline company plays \"green\" card in NY
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
MINISINK, N.Y. (AP) ");
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Solar farm deal near for old landfill in Esopus
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
ESOPUS — One town's trash heap will soon be a valuable treasure.Esopus is putting the final touches on a $4.5 million-to-$5 million proposal to be the first in New York state to install solar panels on a landfill.\"This new project is going to rock everybody's socks,\" said Esopus Supervisor John Coutant. \"I'm ecstatic about it.\"The one-megawatt system at the capped West Park landfill will be ...\n
Warm winter mixes things up in retail world
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/14/2012)
NEW YORK — Out of a relatively balmy winter have sprung some economic surprises. People have more cash in their pockets because they aren't turning up the thermostat. Airlines don't have to de-ice planes or battle blizzards. And shoppers are finding great deals on coats and boots.But");
document.write(" there are also disappointments. Merchants are stuck with unsold shovels and snow blowers. Drugstores say cust...\n
Radioactive tissue box holders yanked from Bed Bath & Beyond shelves
\n(New York Daily News © 01/14/2012)
We?ll stick with a plain old box of Kleenex.\n\n\n\n\n The New York State Dept. of Health yanked several tissue boxe");
document.write("s off Bed Bath & Beyond shelves after they were found to be radioactive.\n\n\n\n\n The Dual Ridge Boutique metal boxes were found to contain small amounts of cobalt-60, which can cause cancer with prolonged exposure.\n\n\n\n\n The ?brushed metal? tissue boxes were found contain the toxic ingred...\n
Evaluating Feedback on Fracking Rules
\n(New York T");
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As I report in today?s Times, New York State environmental regulators are sorting through more than 20,000 public comments as they develop the final rules for high-volume hydraulic fracturing, the much-debated process to extract natural gas from underground shale formations. \n\r\n\r\nOn Thursday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency posted its comments on its Web site advising New York official...\n
Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/14/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Gil Scott-Heron grew up surrounded by heroism. He distrusted empty promises and easy solutions. He also had a very hard time with himself. Whether you expect a memoir to explain how the third sentence relates to the first two will determine how you feel about this posthumous book. \n\r\n\r");
document.write("\r\n\r\n“The Last Holiday,” published eight months after Scott-Heron’s death at 62, provides ...\n
Israel Says Sanctions Hurt Iran
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/14/2012) (Registration Required)\n
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said in an interview publish");
document.write("ed Saturday that new economic sanctions aimed at stopping Iran’s contentious nuclear program appeared to be having an effect and, if combined with a threat of military action led by the United States, could succeed. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\n“For the first time, I see Iran wobble,” he told the newspape...\n
It's Still the 'Age of Anxiety.' Or Is It?<");
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\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/14/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. \n\nTags:\nAnxiety, History \n\n\nIt’s hard to believe that anyone but scholars of modern literature or paid critics have read W.H. Auden?s dramatic poem ?The Age of Anxiety? all the way through, even though it won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948, the year after it was published. It is a difficult work ? allusive, allegorical, at times surreal....\n
William Gibson?s Future Is Now
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/14/2012) (Registration Required)\n
On one of his trips to New York, William Gibson stopped before an antiques shop that would end up haunting him. He tried the door. It was locked. Over the years, he searched for the shop window many times — it seemed to wander around SoHo and materialize on unpredicta");
document.write("ble streets. Whenever he peered through it at the treasures within, he felt as if he were glimpsing the props from a drea...\n
The Bain Bomb: A User?s Guide
\n(New Yorker © 01/14/2012)
Now that Newt Gingrich?s campaign has gone nuclear and posted online a critical documentary about Mitt Romney?s career at Bain Capital, ?When ");
document.write("Mitt Romney Comes to Town,? I thought it might be useful to provide a handy guide to the story?explaining where it came from and how you can find out more about it. It?s not new, of course. Over the past decade, writing about Mitt and Bain has been something...\n
Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
\n(NYC Independent Media Center ©");
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would be Dr. King's 83rd birthday. The airwaves are filled with timid and nostalgic tributes to the great man. Except for WBAI and other non-commercial stations, only Dr. King's \"I Have a Dream\" speech ??- and even there but a tiny snippet of it -?? makes it onto the airwaves. Nothing about Dr. King's analysis in which he castigates the United States as being \"the greatest purveyor of violence in ...\n
Heading for More Middle East War
\n(NYC Independent Media Center © 01/14/2012)
- by Washington, Israel and rogue NATO allies seem headed for ruinous wars with Iran and Syria, besides others ongoing interminably. Former State Department official/now AIPAC-linked Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) fellow Dennis Ross said: \"There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act. The administration considers the risks of permit...\n
Community Calendar : Jan. 14, 2012
\n(Oneonta Daily Star © 01/14/2012)
The community calendar includes events that are free and/or sponsored by nonprofit organizations. To submit an event for the calendar, email community@thedailystar.com, fax 432-5707 or write to Community News, c/o The Daily Star, P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820. Changes to an existi");
document.write("ng listing can be made as above, or by calling 432-1000, ext. 259. \nSaturday\n\nCooperstown\n\nWinter snow tubing, 11 a.m...\n
Ocean, Wind Lash At Georgica Beach Again
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The view to the east at Georgica Beach on Friday. VIRGINIA GARRISON \n view all images\n \n \n \n \n \n * \n \n \n * \n \n");
document.write(" \n * \n \n * \n \n \n * \n \n \n * \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nWind and a high tide were battering Georgica Beach in East Hampton Friday morning, exposing boulders and detritus, while the sand below the already-eroded road end continued to collapse toward t...\n
AP News in Brief at 11:58 p.m. EST
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Coast guard: cruise ship runs aground off Italy, 3 bodies found; copters rescue others\n\n\nROME (AP) — A luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to a nearby island early Saturday. At least three were dead, the Italian coast guard said.\n\n\nAt least three bodies were recovered from the sea and...\n
The Post-Standard's weekly news quiz: Dust off your snowshoes, Syracuse
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/14/2012)
David Lassman/The Post-Standard 6. TRUE OR FALSE?These oyster mushrooms were imported to Cazenovia from Fukushima, Japan, which had a little nuclear accident caused by the earthquake and tsunami. If you think the mushrooms are big, you should see the toads. \n\n\n1. U.S. Rep. Richard Hanna, R-Barneveld, is entering his “sophomore year” as a freshman in the House of Representatives. Washi");
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: There will be no consulate in Miami
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/14/2012)
MIAMI _ President Hugo Chavez on Friday announced an \"administrative shutdown\" of the Venezuelan consulate in Miami, in response to the U.S. State Department's decision to expel the consul in that diplomatic post, Li");
document.write("via Acosta, who had been accused of participating in an Iranian plot against the United States.\n\n\nThe administrative shutdown, which Chavez described as an interim measure while his go...\n
What's going on: Bomb blast in Iraq kills more than 50 Shiite pilgrims
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/14/2012)
APA woman reacts while Security ");
document.write("forces inspect the scene of a bomb attack on Shiite pilgrims, killing and wounding scores of people, police said, near the southern port city of Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, Saturday. It was the latest in a series of attacks during Shiite religious commemorations that threaten to further increase sectarian tensions just weeks after the U.S. withdrawal.\n\n\nZUBAI...\n
Pa. families get no quick answer about fracking
\n(Utica Observer-Dispatch © 01/14/2012)
Residents of a small northeastern Pennsylvania town at the center of the political fight over natural gas drilling struck out Friday when they tried to take their complaints directly to the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\n\n\n\n\n A handful of residents-turned-activists from Dimock joined about 50 environmental activists from neighboring communities and elsewhere to rally outside a c...\n
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document.write("Bed Bath & Beyond Recall
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Laura CasoFriday, January 13, 2012\n\n NEW YORK (WENY)---Health officials say a dozen metal tissue box holders are off the shelves of Four Bed Bath and Beyond stores in New York. \nIt's the dual ridge metal boutique tissue holder, which has been distributed to the store in more than 20 states. \nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission says");
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New State Law Aimed At Iran
\n(WHAM AM 1180 Rochester © 01/14/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a new law to exclude companies that invest in Iran's energy sector from entering into contracts with state and local governments in New York");
document.write(".\n\nThe law also requires companies to certify that they do not hold such investments when applying for government contracts, and allows affected businesses to appeal. The law takes effect in 90 days.\n\nLegi...\n
Chefs Offer Suggestions to Save the Twinkie
\n(WNYW Fox 5 New York © 01/14/2012)
(FOX News) - After 82 years of cupboard d");
document.write("ominance the Twinkie, a snack most likely to survive a nuclear attack, could be relegated to the dustbin of culinary history as their maker Hostess has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. \n\nWhile the Irving, Texas-based Hostess has vowed to keep stores stocked with Twinkies and their other quilty pleasures -- Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and the like -- during the reorg...\n
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document.write("PA questions fracking study
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY — Opponents of natural gas hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, said Thursday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has fired a shot across the bow of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.\n\nIn a 26-page response to DEC's proposed environmental review of hydfrofracking, EPA Regional Director Judith Enck proposed dozens of improvements ranging from giving a voic...\n
Environmental groups release 'Green Playbook' for 2012
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/13/2012)
Hydrofracking, investing in solar energy and restoring the\nEnvironmental Protection are a few of the items pushed by a\ncollection of New York environmental groups in their 2012 Green\nPlaybook released Thursday.?\n \n \n \n \n\nThe groups, led by Environmental Advocates of New York, included\n10 memos -- or \"w");
document.write("inning plays\" -- in the playbook, with each memo\nfocusing...\n
3-MINUTE MOVIE GUIDE: Capsule film reviews & videos
\n(Batavia Daily News © 01/13/2012)
Capsule reviews of films playing in area theaters (click links\nfor full reviews):\n \n \n\nOpening\nToday\n \n\n\nThe\nArtist\n\nThe best validation for the nostalgia of");
document.write(" \"The Artist\" is the\nfilm, itself. A silent movie in tribute to silent movies, it puts\nits money where its mouth is, so to speak -- or not. Michel\nHazanavicius' black-and-white, near-wordless film is a loving,\nirresist...\n
EPA weighs in on fracking in N.Y.
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY -- The U.S. Environ");
document.write("mental Protection Agency is urging New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conserv...\n
EPA weighs in on hydrofracking in N.Y.
\n(Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conserv...\n
Oil price below $99 on new Europe debt concerns
\n(Buffalo News © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices are lower Friday on fresh concerns about Europe's economy.\n\nBenchmark crude fell by 49 cents to $98.61 per barrel in New York at midday. Brent crude, which is used to price foreign oil that's imported by U.S. refineries, fell by 67 cents to $110.38 per barrel in London.\n\nPrices dipped o");
document.write("n reports that credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's will downgrade France and A...\n
NY landowners weigh in on gas-drilling regs
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) ? Landowners hoping to sign leases with natural gas drillers say New York''s proposed regulations put some land off-limits to drilling for no log");
document.write("ical reason, under the guise of protecting water supplies. \r\n\r\nThe Joint Landowners Coalition of New York said in comments submitted to state regulators a day before Wednesday''s deadline that the proposed 4,000-foot buffer around New...\n
Calendar Jan. 13 to Jan. 19
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/13/2012)
friday\n\n \n\nbooksigning\n");
document.write("\n \n\nRobert House, 7 p.m., Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, Vt.\nAuthor of \"Jack the Ripper and the Case for the Scotland Yard's\nPrime Suspect.\"\n\n \n\nfilm\n\n \n\n\"The Way\" 7:30 p.m., Saratoga Arts Center, Saratoga Springs.\nInspirational drama by Emilio Estevez starring Martin Sheen.\n\n \n\nfor the kids\n\n \n\nLibrary Club, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Crandall Public Library, Glens\nFalls....\n
Crude rises as Nigeria strike threat looms
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/13/2012)
Oil prices rose to near $100 a barrel in Asia on Friday as\nnegotiations to avert a looming strike in major oil producer\nNigeria ended for the day without any result.\n\n \n\nPrices also rose as worries built up again about supply\ntightness this year following a sharp dip late Thursday on word\nthat Iranian oil would not soon be forced off European markets.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery rose...\n
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document.write("b>Crude rises near $100 on Iran, Nigeria fears
\n(Glens Falls Post-Star © 01/13/2012)
Oil prices climbed near $100 a barrel on Friday on revived\nconcerns over a possible embargo on Iranian oil and a strike in\nmajor oil producer Nigeria loomed.\n\n \n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery rose 77 cents to $99.85 a\nbarrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.\nThe contract fell $");
document.write("2 to settle at $99.10 on Thursday in New\nYork.\n\n \n\nBrent crude rose 68 cents to $111.73 p...\n
Cutting Emissions in Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic States
\n(HealthNewsDigest.com © 01/13/2012)
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Given the lack of federal action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S., several East Coast states joined toget");
document.write("her in 2008 to form the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), committing to a market-based system to cap carbon pollution and lower energy bills while creating more green jobs. Under RGGI, the 10 participating states???Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Mary...\n
Today in History: Friday, January 13
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Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year.\n\n\n \n\n\n Today’s Highlight in History\n\n\n On Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.’s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived. (Half an hour after the Air ...\n
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document.write("Indian Point backers, foes square off at hearing
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK — A group of New York businesses and labor leaders on Thursday urged state lawmakers to support the continued operation of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County, citing what they said is its fundamental role in the state’s economy and electric grid.Environmental groups, meanwhile, testified the facility should not be relicensed, and some called for it to b...\n
Seward outlines legislative agenda for 2012
\n(Little Falls Evening Times © 01/13/2012)
Senator James Seward outlined his keys for success for the 2012 session of the New York State Senate on Thursday morning, keys that focus on economic development, mandate relief, reform of the education aid formula and continued flood recovery assistance.\n\n\n “");
document.write("After a winning 2011, New York is once again a force to be reckoned with. However, there is a great deal of work left to be accomplish...\n
Radioactive Tissue Holders Pulled from 2 LI Stores
\n(Long Island Press © 01/13/2012)
This tissue box holder was pulled from shelves after it was found to be contaminated with Colbolt-60 (NYSDO");
document.write("H)\n\n\nTwelve metal tissue?box holders containing low levels of radioactive material have been pulled from the shelves of four Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in New York State, including two on Long Island, according to state health department officials.\n\n\nState Health Commissioner Nirav Shah sa...\n
Environmental groups issue their “Green Playbook”
\n(Mid Hudson News © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY – Environmental Advocates of New York has issued a list of 10 “winning plays” for Governor Cuomo and the state legislature that they say are designed to balance the state’s energy needs and bolster economic development while addressing high profile environmental challenges. Those include hydro-fracking for natural gas, climate-altering pollution, and the to...\n
State lawmakers brief business leaders on hot topics
\n(Mid Hudson News © 01/13/2012)
The session was well-attended\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n \n \n\nNEW WINDSOR – The MTA payroll tax and mandate relief topped the discussion among members of the Mid-Hudson’s state legislature delegation and members of the Orange County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.\n \n\nThe officials, along with New York Power Authority chief Gil Quinione");
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Contaminated tissue holders pulled from NY stores
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators say metal tissue holder contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond Inc. stores in more than 20 states including");
document.write(" New York. Nuclear Regulator Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the company has pulled the product from its stores. He says there is no threat to human health, but it is better to avoid...\n
Radioactive tissue boxes removed from NY stores
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Health");
document.write(" Commissioner Nirav Shah says 12 decorative metal tissue boxes contaminated with radioactive material have been removed from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in the state. The retail chain says no other stores in New York had the item, called Double Ridge Boutique. Shah says the products were not distributed to the public. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission n...\n
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document.write("Tissue holders pulled from stores in NY, elsewhere
\n(Middletown Times Herald-Record © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK (AP) -- Metal tissue holders contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in more than 20 states including New York, federal regulators said Thursday. Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the home products company had pulled the tissue holder from its stores. He said there is little to no risk to hum...\n
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document.write("b>Gilad Atzmon, vile anti-Semite, makes new Friends
\n(New York Daily News © 01/13/2012)
The Friends Schools around the country are legendary. They are regarded as among the most elite schools in the world. Presidents? children attend them; my own daughter and nephew were students. That is why it is so shocking that the Friends Seminary in New York has lent its imprimatur to a notorious anti-Se");
document.write("mite and Holocaust denier.\n\n\n\n\n Gilad Atzmon was invited to attend a celebration of Martin L...\n
Get Ready for Haute Charcoal?
\n(New York Magazine © 01/13/2012)
Hot Hot Hot: Could High-End Charcoal Actually Become a Thing? It's been nearly a century since Henry Ford and E.G. Kingsford first popularized charcoal briquettes, the ma");
document.write("shed and compressed mix of factory leftovers and sawdust that's since been fired up in billions of backyards. Now, as chefs look to make their food ever more personalized and heritage-focused, it should come as no surprise that a ...\n
Corrections: January 13
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/13/2012) (Registrat");
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FRONT PAGE \n\n\n\n\nAn article on Jan. 5 about the difficulty Americans face in rising through the economic ranks described incorrectly the concept of intergenerational income elasticity, used by economists to examine the persistence of income inequality across generations. When economists estimate the elasticity of father-son income to be 0.5, it means that for every 1 percent increase in a fa...\n
It?s the ?60s; Detach Yourself
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/13/2012) (Registration Required)\n
In a 1965 essay on postwar science-fiction films Susan Sontag noted a common ingredient: a “depersonalization” of the characters, a kind of emotionless zombie state that occurred when their minds were taken over by aliens or robots. Some of this, she wrote, reflected the basic conditions of modern life. But it also pointed toward something new in the nuclear ");
document.write("era. Now humans had to cont...\n
Roy Ash, Powerful Budget Director for Nixon, Dies at 93
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/13/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Roy L. Ash, who used tough-minded analytic acumen to build a multibillion-dollar conglomerate, Litton Industries, and to become a force in the Nix");
document.write("on White House, where he headed the creation of agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency, died on Dec. 14 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nThe cause was Parkinson’s disease, said his wife, Lila, who confirmed the death...\n
Today in History
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/13/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2012. There are 353 days left in the year. \n\n\n\n\nToday's Highlight in History: \n\n\n\n\nOn Jan. 13, 1982, an Air Florida 737 crashed into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and fell into the Potomac River after taking off during a snowstorm, killing a total of 78 people; four passengers and a flight attendant survived. (Half an hour after the A...\n
Vision for Affordable Energy Even if Indian Point Nuclear Plant Is Shut Down
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/13/2012) (Registration Required)\n
If anyone, or any business, can get a good deal on electricity, it ought to be Consolidated Edison, which buys loads of it every year and then sells it to three million customers in New York City and the suburbs. Like most traditional utility companies, it has gotten out of the power generation business in re");
document.write("cent years and is now a distribution company. It buys the electricity that it delivers fro...\n
Opposing Sides Clash At Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant Hearing
\n(NY1 New York News Network © 01/13/2012)
The fate of the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County is up to federal officials, but that hasn't stopped state ");
document.write("lawmakers from weighing in on its potential closure and what it would mean for the reliability of electric power in much of the state. NY1?s Josh Robin filed the following report.\n \nNuclear opponents got their message out Thursday, but so did supporters of the two Indian...\n
Community Calendar : Jan. 13, 2012
\n(Oneonta Daily Star © 01/13");
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The community calendar includes events that are free and/or sponsored by nonprofit organizations. To submit an event for the calendar, email community@thedailystar.com, fax 432-5707 or write to Community News, c/o The Daily Star, P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, NY 13820. \nFriday\n\nCooperstown\n\nDoubleday Dancers Western Square Dance Club of Cooperstown winter dance, 7:30 to 10 p.m., Cooperstown Elementary S...\n
EPA: Bolster fracking rules
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state?s proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conser...\n
Letters to the editor for 1/13
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/13/2012)
Current property assessment is not fair\n\nOur current representatives either aren?t smart enough or just plain lazy, they refuse to do what is necessary to correct the current method used to fund our schools. When you get to speak to a representative the best answer is that it has always been done that w");
document.write("ay. That is not an acceptable answer. The latest buzzword is fair. How can real estate be used a...\n
Radioactive tissue boxes removed from Bed, Bath and Beyond stores
\n(Poughkeepsie Journal © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY, N.Y. ? New York Health Commissioner Nirav Shah says 12 decorative metal tissue boxes contaminated with radioactive mate");
document.write("rial have been removed from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in the state.\n\nThe retail chain says no other stores in New York had the item, called Double Ridge Boutique.\n\nShah says the products were not distributed to the public.\n\nThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission notified...\n
National Grid Prepared for Anticipated High Winds on Friday
\n(Read");
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Banker: Local outlook for economy good
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/13/2012)
It's been a heady week for good economic news.\n\nOn Tuesday, the consumer confidence index for New York showed Rochesterians are more bullish about the economy than people anywhere else in the state. On Wednesday, Charles Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, was in Rochester predicting modest but steady growth of the economy.\n\nThen on Thursday morning Greg MacKay, the");
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EPA reaction mixed on DEC fracking review
\n(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY ? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state's proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a ");
document.write("midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the state Department of Environmental Conser...\n
AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EST
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/13/2012)
US assures Afghans of full probe of Marines video amid condemnation and fear of strain");
document.write("ed ties\n\n\nWASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.\n\n\nDefense Secretary Leon Panet...\n
EPA: New York should map hydrofracking wells, ");
document.write("set radiation limits
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/13/2012)
View full sizeFile photo / AP, 2011New York state Sen. Mark Grisanti speaks about proposed hydrofracking regulations during a Nov. 16 meeting led by the state Department of Environmental Conservation in Dansville, N.Y. The hearing drew a vocal mix of elected officials, environmentalists, struggling farmers and land owners eager to make money from their gas leases, as well as energy industry repres...\n
What's going on: Russian spacecraft turned space junk will crash soon
\n(Syracuse Post Standard © 01/13/2012)
View full sizeRussian Roscosmos space agencyTechnicians work on the Phobos-Ground probe at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in this photo from Nov. 2. The unmanned Phobos-Ground probe was supposed to explore one of the Mars twin moons, Phobos, but became stranded while orbiting Earth after its Nov. 9 launch. The spacecraft is expect");
document.write("ed to fall to Earth this weekend.\n\n\nFrom The Associated Press: \n\n\nMOSCOW (AP)...\n
Radioactive tissue holders pulled from store in NY
\n(WABC TV 7 New York © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK -- \nMetal tissue holders contaminated with low levels of radioactive material may have been distributed to Bed, Bath & Beyond stores in more than 20 s");
document.write("tates including New York, federal regulators said Thursday. \n\n\n \n\n Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesman David McIntyre said the home products company had pulled the tissue holder from its stores. \n\n He said there is little...\n
St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency is accepting grants
\n(Watertown Daily Times © 01/1");
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MASSENA — The St. Lawrence River Valley Redevelopment Agency has allocated up to $622,000 for community development projects and will accept grant applications until March 1.\n\nSeveral communities throughout the north country received funding last year, but many were unable to begin projects within the deadline. \n\nAgency Chairman Robert O. McNeil said the application deadline has been changed ...\n
Keidel: The Sad State Of Penn State
\n(WCBS TV 2 New York © 01/13/2012)
By Jason Keidel\n\n\n? More Columns\n\n\nLet?s understand this?\n\n\nA few oil men buy Eric Dickerson a new car, slide some envelopes under the table to some blue-chip prospects from blue-collar backgrounds, and SMU gets the death penalty.\n\n\nBut Penn State?s brass, led by the beloved Joe Paterno, harbor alleged serial child rapist Jerry Sandusky for years (if not decades) and, well, nothing happens. At lea...\n
Radioactive Tissue Boxes Removed From NYC Area Bed, Bath And Beyond Stores
\n(WCBS TV 2 New York © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY, NY (AP / CBSNewYork) -?New York Health Commissioner Nirav?Shah says 12 decorative metal tissue boxes contaminated with radioactive material have been removed?from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in the state.\n\n\nWCBS?880′s John Metaxas On Th");
document.write("e Story\n\n\n\n\nThe retail chain says no other stores in New York had the item, called Double Ridge Boutique.\n \n\n\nShah says the products were not dis...\n
Assembly considers future without Indian Point; offline reactor expected to be operational next week
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
NEW YORK — Indian Point 2 should");
document.write(" be back online by the end of next week, plant officials said Thursday, even as state lawmakers held a six-hour hearing on whether the entire nuclear plant should be shut down for good.\n\n?There?s a lot of conflicting information on these matters,? said Assemblyman James Brennan, D-Brooklyn, who chairs the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions....\n
EPA critiques N.Y. review of hydrofracking, urges stronger rules
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged New York regulators to take steps to bolster the state?s proposed hydraulic fracturing rules, providing a meticulous, line-by-line critique of its 1,500-page report.\n\nBeating a midnight Wednesday deadline to submit comments by less than three hours, the federal agency recommended dozens of ways for the Department of Environmental Conser...\n
Radioactive tissue box covers pulled from shelves in Westchester
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
Eight radioactive metal tissue box holders have been removed from the shelves at two Bed, Bath & Beyond locations in Westchester County.\n\nIn a statement Thursday, New York State Health officials said that the contaminated tissue box holders had been shipped to stores at 25 Wa");
document.write("terfront Place in Port Chester and at 251 Tarrytown Road in Elmsford. None were sold to the public.\n\nCaren Halbfinger, a spo...\n
Radioactive tissue-box cases taken off Bed, Bath & Beyond shelves
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
Eight radioactive metal tissue-box holders have been removed from the shelves at two Bed, Bath");
document.write(" & Beyond locations in Westchester County.\n\nIn a statement Thursday, state health officials said the contaminated tissue-box holders had been shipped to stores at 25 Waterfront Place in Port Chester and at 251 Tarrytown Road in Elmsford. None was sold to the public.\n\nCaren Halbfinger, a spokeswoman for th...\n
Radioactive tissue-box cases taken off Bed, Bath & Bey");
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\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
Eight radioactive metal tissue-box holders have been removed from the shelves at two Bed, Bath & Beyond locations in Westchester County.\n\nIn a statement Thursday, state health officials said the contaminated tissue-box holders had been shipped to stores at 25 Waterfront Place in Port Chester and at 251 Tarrytown Road in Elmsford. None was sold to the public.\n\nCaren Halbfinger, a spokeswoman for th...\n
Radioactive tissue-box cases taken off Bed, Bath & Beyond shelves: Westchester customers startled
\n(White Plains Journal News © 01/13/2012)
Eight radioactive metal tissue-box holders have been removed from the shelves at two Bed, Bath & Beyond locations in Westchester County, leaving customers startled and questioning the company's safeguards..\n\n?I certainly think a company this large would have standards the");
document.write("y go by to make sure they know where their products are coming from and that they are safe,? customer Christina D?Onofrio, 42, o...\n
EPA Weighs in on New York Fracking Plan
\n(WICZ FOX 40 Binghamton © 01/13/2012)
1/12/2012 (Updated 11:16:04 PM) (Source: Jason Weinstein)\n\nPublic comment on the state D-E-C's draft fracking environme");
document.write("ntal impact statement - or SGEIS - is done. Reaction to that comment is not. Especially the hundreds submitted late last night by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency. \n\nJoint Landowner Coalition attorney Scott Kurkoski hasn't combed through the dozens of pages of EPA sugge...\n
NYT: US sends top Iran leader warning on Hormuz threat
\n(W");
document.write("KBW MSNBC Buffalo © 01/13/2012)
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is relying on a secret channel of communication to warn Iran?s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a ?red line? that would provoke an American response, according to United States government officials. \n \n \n\nThe officials declined to describe the unusual contact between the two governments, and whether ...\n
Radioactive Metal Tissue Box Holders Pulled from NY Stores
\n(WNBC TV 4 New York © 01/13/2012)
Health officials said they've removed a dozen metal box tissue holders containing small amounts of radioactive material from four Bed, Bath and Beyond stores in New York.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n None of the boxes were sold to the public, said the company.\n \n \n ");
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Former Marine Facing Death in Iran Unlikely a Spy
\n(WNYW Fox 5 New York © 01/13/2012)
(The Wall Street Journal) - Former US Marine Amir Hekmati, caught up in the conflict between Washington and Tehran, has been portrayed by Iran as a spy, a suspicion fueled by his prior military service and past employment with ");
document.write("defense contractors. \n\nBut Hekmati's resume reads like that of many other former servicemembers making a living at the intersection of the defense and industrial establishme...\n
Tissue box holder from Bed Bath and Beyond maybe radioactive
\n(WTVH CBS5 Syracuse © 01/13/2012)
ALBANY -- State health officials say a popular store actu");
document.write("ally sold radioactive products.\n\nTests have confirmed low levels of a material called cobalt-60 in metal box tissue holders sold at?Bed Bath and Beyond. The radioactive material was found in 12 of the Dual Ridge Boutique model boxes sold at four stores. None of those stores are in Central New York. However, Bed Bath and Beyond says the boxes...\n
Editorial: Tough ");
document.write("yet sane against Iran
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/12/2012)
THE ISSUE:\n\nThe state Legislature votes for sanctions against Tehran.\n\nTHE STAKES:\n\nA better way, isn't it, than a purely military solution?\n\n \n\nNow it's on to South Carolina for the Republican presidential contenders. Let's see how the issue of how to best contain Iran -— and its nuclear ambitions and anti-Israel policies — plays out in one of the most conservative states in the count...\n
From Capital Region to Haiti, with love
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/12/2012)
ALBANY — After a year that brought the earthquake and nuclear disaster in Japan and severe flooding across the Capital Region, the woes of Haiti felt like they happened a long time ago.\n\nYet Haiti's heartbreak didn't really go away. Our attention just turned elsewhere.\n\nOn the second anniversary Thursday of the catastrophic earthquake, a cadre of volun");
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Lenhardt picked for Bethlehem seat
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/12/2012)
BETHLEHEM — A former Republican town board member was appointed to fill a vacant seat on the board Wednesday night, chosen from among at least eight candidates who wanted the post.\n\nGeorge Lenhardt, a 64-year-o");
document.write("ld lifelong Bethlehem resident who is retired from information technology work with Verizon and the New York Power Authority was unanimously named to the post by the Town Board. He was...\n
Prepared text of Colo. State of the State Speech
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/12/2012)
DENVER (AP) ? Prepared text of Gov. John Hickenlooper's St");
document.write("ate of the State speech on Thursday:When people think of the West, it's easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush.Cowboy hats come to mind . rocks . even beer . but let's talk about hats.John B. Stetson left Pennsylvania in the early 1860s, suffering from tuberculosis, and came west. He soon found himself ...\n
Tough but sane aga");
document.write("inst Iran
\n(Albany Times Union © 01/12/2012)
Our opinion:?The state Legislature votes for sanctions against Tehran. A better way, isn?t it, than a purely military solution?\n\n\nNow it?s on to South Carolina for the Republican presidential contenders. Let?s see how the issue of how to best contain Iran ?? and its nuclear ambitions and anti-Israel policies ? plays out in one of the most conservative states in the country.\n\n\nIt sure isn?t New Yor...\n
Moravia residents pack forum on fracking
\n(Auburn Citizen © 01/12/2012)
MORAVIA ? Nothing seems to draw a town together like\nhydrofracking. And with nearly 200 people present at its Wednesday\nevent, Moravia?s town forum on fracking was no exception.\n \n \n \n \n\nBefore the 7 p.m. meeting started, cars crowded into the Moravia\nVolunteer Fire Company?s parking lot, filling every gravel space\nand spilling over ");
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Greenwatch
\n(Buffalo Artvioce © 01/12/2012)
New York State is currently evaluating whether or not to allow a controversial natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing to take place across the state. This process allows extracting of natural gas from certain shale formations that lie unde");
document.write("rneath New York, including the Marcellus and Utica Shales, both which are found below parts of Western New York. \n\n\nThe public comment period o...\n
It's Not Fracking Over Yet
\n(Buffalo Artvioce © 01/12/2012)
The public comment period on the state?s proposed scheme for permitting fracking for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale exp");
document.write("ired on Wednesday. Still, the debate?over whether the practice is safe, whether it is the economic boon the oil and gas industry claims it to be, whether natural gas is in fact a reasonable ?bridge? energy source?is hardly over. \n\n\nConsider just these late additions to the con...\n
DEC receives late rush of fracking comments
\n(Buffalo Business");
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David Bertola Buffalo Business First Reporter - Business First\n \n Email\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\nOn Jan. 10, the eve of the close of a four-month public comment period on New York State?s hydrofracking proposals, the New York state Department of Environmental Conservation received a deluge of last-minute ...\n
Let?s safely cultivate vital energy sources
\n(Buffalo News © 01/12/2012)
When writers to Everybody?s Column praise the possible veto of a solid, reliable source of oil (Keystone Pipeline) for years to come from Canada while Iran threatens once again to cut off our shaky oil imports, and gas prices are sure to surge, I can?t comprehend their thinking. \n\nOften these people want no drilling of oil anywhere. They consistently fight fracking and drilling for natural gas; th...\n
NKorea signals its open to US disarmament deal
\n(Buffalo News © 01/12/2012)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - At first glance, it seems like business as usual: North Korea issues an indignant statement taking aim at the United States over a proposal to donate food in return for nuclear disarmament.\n\nBut between the lines are glimmers of conciliation. ");
document.write("In its diatribe this week questioning Washington's generosity and earnestness, North Korea suggests it remains open to suspending a...\n
energy A charge of optimism
\n(Dunkirk Observer © 01/12/2012)
There is reason for optimism from both Chautauqua County and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers regarding the future");
document.write(" of local energy.\n\nBoth entities were more than delighted to hear Gov. Andrew Cuomo discuss a $2 billion request for proposals to connect upstate power generators - such as NRG coal-fired plants in Dunkirk and Tonawanda - to increasing demand for electricity in New ...\n
Looking for More Progress in a New Year
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Senator Ritchie?s Weekly Column\n\n\nWhen Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his State of the State message this week, it was clear to me that he recognizes that we have a lot more work to do to get our Empire State back on track to create more jobs for New Yorkers.\n\n\nThat?s why I?m looking forward to working with him to find new and creative ways to get our economy moving and get more of our neighbors ...\n
Stage Set for New Legislative Year in Albany, but Will Albany Deliver?
\n(Fulton Daily News © 01/12/2012)
A legislative Column by Assemblyman Will Barclay\n\n\n It was good to be back in the State Capitol last week and embark on this legislative year. The week included the annual State of the State address by Gov. Cuomo. He talked about a variety of topics including creating the country’s largest convention center in New York City, investing $1 billion in Buffalo for job creation, forming an ener...\n
NKorea signals it's open to US disarmament deal
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/12/2012)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- At first glance, it seems like business as usual: North Korea issues an indignant statement taking aim at the United States over a proposal to donate food in return for nuclear disarmament. But between the lines are");
document.write(" glimmers of conciliation. In its diatribe this week questioning Washington's generosity and earnestness, North Korea suggests it remains open to suspendi...\n
Scientific American blog: NY to decide US future of hydrofracking
\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/12/2012)
A blog posting by Mark Fischetti, a senior editor");
document.write(" at Scientific American, asserts that the future of hydrofracking for natural gas in the United States will be decided by the regulatory direction to be determined by the state of New York. Hydrofracking is the injection of water and chemicals under high pressure into underground rock formations to extract natural gas.Fi...\n
Union threatens oil product");
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\n(Kingston Daily Freeman © 01/12/2012)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- While a growing nationwide strike and protests have already paralyzed daily life in Nigeria, the beating heart of its economy - crude oil - keeps pumping. Now a powerful union says it will shut down all oil and natural gas production Sunday in a nation that remains crucial to U.S. energy supplies. The union's ability to enforce the shutdown across the swamps of Nigeria's...\n
Environmentalists, gas industry oppose state proposed drilling regulations
\n(Mid Hudson News © 01/12/2012)
NEW PALTZ – Wednesday was the deadline for comments to be submitted to the state concerning the proposed revised draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement concerning the possibility of allowing hydro-fracking to harvest natural gas from the Marcellus Shale and other underground formations. \n ");
document.write(" \n\nEnvironmentalists and the natural gas industry both find fault with them,...\n
Utility companies form energy coalition
\n(Mid Hudson News © 01/12/2012)
ALBANY – Six investor-owned electric and natural gas utility companies in the state have formed Energy Coalition New York to provide public policy leadership on energy ");
document.write("issues.\n \n\nThe coalition includes Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corporation; Consolidated Edison, parent company to Orange and Rockland Utilities; and New York State Electric and Gas, all of which serve portions of ...\n
The clerics who really run Iran for strike on Israel
\n(New York Daily News © 01/12/2012)
The cabal of ");
document.write("clerics who really run Iran called Thursday for retaliation against Israel for rubbing out one of their top nuclear scientists.\n\n\n\n\n Speaking through a hard-line Tehran newspaper that sometimes serves as their mouthpiece, they demanded an eye-for-an-eye for the death of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan.\n\n\n\n\n ?Those corrupt people are easy to identify and are within our reach,? Hossein Shariatmad...\n
Adversaries of Iran Said to Be Stepping Up Covert Actions
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/12/2012) (Registration Required)\n
WASHINGTON — As arguments flare in Israel and the United States about a possible military strike to set back Iran’s nuclear program, an accelerating covert campaign of assassinations, bombings, cyberattacks and defections appears intended to make that debate irrelevant, according to current and former American officials and specialists on Iran. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nThe campai");
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India's Chronic Battle With Malnutrition
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/12/2012) (Registration Required)\n
Ruth Fremson/The New York TimesMalnutrition in India is worse than in many African nations, stunting the growth of children like this girl in Shivpuri, photographed in Nove");
document.write("mber 2008.\n\r\n\r\n?It is unrealistic to expect any major breakthroughs in dealing with the diets of impoverished Indians,? a correspondent wrote in The New York Times in an article on Oct. 23, 1981.\n\r\n\r\nWhile the words were written...\n
North Korea Open to Talks on Nuclear Program
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/12/2012) (Registration Required)\n
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea indicated on Wednesday that it was open to further negotiations with the United States, which it said demanded a halt of its uranium-enrichment program in return for food aid before the death of Kim Jong-il last month. \n\r\n\r\r\n\r\nThe day began inauspiciously as North Korea accused the United States of “politicizing” food aid, saying American n...\n
Oil Rises Above $101 in Asia Amid Supply Fears
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/12/2012) (Registration Required)\n
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Oil prices rose above $101 a barrel in Asia on Thursday as concerns loomed that a strike in Nigeria and heightened tension in Iran would threaten global oil supplies. \n\n\n\n\nBenchmark crude for February delivery rose 61 cents to $101.48 a barrel in late Kuala Lumpur time in electronic trading on ");
document.write("the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell by $1.37 t...\n
Pipeline Avoids Strait of Hormuz
\n(New York Times (State Version) © 01/12/2012) (Registration Required)\n
DUBAI — The United Arab Emirates has nearly completed an oil export pipeline from Abu Dhabi, on the Gulf, to the Gulf of Oman, b");
document.write("ypassing the Strait of Hormuz, Mohamed bin Dhaen al-Hamli, the U.A.E.’s oil minister, said this week. \n\n\n\n\nHis remarks came as tension was rising between Iran and Western governments over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. Over the past month, Iran has s...\n
Union Threatens Oil Production Shutdown in Nigeria
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A major union threatened Thursday to stop the beating heart of Nigeria's economy — crude oil production — as part of a nationwide strike and protests gripping Africa's most populous nation. \n\n\n\n\nWorld oil prices climbed on the news. Nigeria is the fifth-largest oil exporter to the U.S., and a shutdown would force American refineries to replace 630,000...\n
To-Do List: Romneymentum, Gangs of New York
\n(New Yorker © 01/12/2012)
To know: Mitt Romney easily won yesterday?s New Hampshire Republican primary; Ron Paul came in second ? An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a bomb blast that Iran blames on the United States and Israel ? Today is the tenth anniversary of the founding of the detention center at Guant?namo Bay ? Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies, has filed for bankruptcy.");
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Fracking absent from State of State - Queens Chronicle: Queenswide
\n(Queens Chronicle © 01/12/2012)
Gov. Cuomo received almost universal praise for his State of the\nState Address on Jan. 4, speaking boldly of where he wants the\nstate to go in terms of the economy, energy, infrastructure and\n");
document.write("jobs.\n\n\nBut some in New York City were hopeful this week because of\nsomething he did not say at all.\n\n\nA printed transcript of the governor?s 33-page speech devoted\nsix nondescript sentences to the subject of...\n
Letters to the Editor - Queens Chronicle: Letters To The Editor
\n(Queens Chronicle © 01/12/2012)
Who's immoral?\n\n\nDear");
document.write(" Editor:\n\n\nI thought President Obama was very arrogant in claiming that he\nis the fourth most accomplished President in U.S. history.However,\neven Obama cannot compare to Anthony Pilla, who acted as god when\nhe wrote in the Jan. 5 issue that ?The Republican Party is morally\nwrong on most issues facing America? (?Never vote GOP,?\nLetters).\n\nI am not a Republican, even though I ...\n
Green Groups Deliver 'Winning Plays' to Gov Cuomo, NYS Legislature
\n(Read Media Newswire © 01/12/2012)
2012 Green Playbook Outlines Policies for a Cleaner, Healthier & More Prosperous New York\n * by Environmental Advocates of New York \n \n \n window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n FB.init({status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true});\n };\n (function() {\n var e = document.createElement('script'); e.async = true;\n e.src = document.location.proto...\n
No decision on China CO2 tax, says official -Pt Carbon
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
The statement contrasts with earlier media reports saying China will introduce a tax before 2015 and underscores global interest in how China plans to address climate change in the years ahead. China emitted a quarter of mankind's greenhouse gas pollution in 2010 and emissions are e");
document.write("xpected to keep rising in line with growing energy demand. Speaking at the World Resources Institute in Washington, S...\n
NYMEX-Crude stays below $100 after Iran embargo delay
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
Oil prices also found support from a strong demand for Spanish and Italian debt sales that eased fears on the euro zone debt");
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NYMEX-Crude up on supply concerns in Nigeria, Iran
\n(Reuters Af");
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* On the New York Mercantile Exchange, February crude was up 47 cents a barrel at $101.34 as of 0022 GMT. * In London, ICE Brent crude was not traded yet after it settled down 0.92 percent at $112.24 a barrel. * Nigerian oil workers threatened on Wednesday to shut down output in Africa's top crude producer, deepening a national strike over the scrapping of fuel subsidies that led to a more than do...\n
UPDATE 1-Tanzania raises power tariffs by 40 pct
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Tanzania's energy regulator has approved an electricity price hike of 40.29 percent for the country's state-run power firm, a move expected to further stoke a rising inflation rate in east Africa's second-largest economy. The loss-making Tanzania Electric Supply Company (TANESCO) had sought a 155 percent tariff increase to revive profit margins and offset rental c...\n
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UPDATE 10-Oil falls on Iran embargo phase-in plan
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
* Coming up: U.S. consumer sentiment, trade data, Friday (Updates prices and market activity, adds analyst's quote) NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Oil prices tumbled on Thursday in a late sell-off sparked by a report that a proposed European Union ban on import");
document.write("s of Iranian crude would be phased in over six months, reinforcing news already published by Reuters. EU diplomats had said a consensus was e...\n
UPDATE 8-Oil rebounds as Nigeria output at risk, Europe worries ease
\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on T hursday after Nigeria's main oil unio");
document.write("n threatened to shut output and as the euro rallied, thanks largely to solid debt auctions by Spain and Italy. Nigeria's main oil union, PENGASSAN, threatened to shut output from Sunday as Africa's biggest oil producer entered its fourth day of nationwide protests over the loss of fuel subsidies. Industry official...\n
UPDATE 9-Oil turns negative on Iran embargo d");
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\n(Reuters Africa © 01/12/2012)
NEW YORK, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on T hursday after Nigeria's main oil union threatened to shut output and as the euro rallied, thanks largely to solid debt auctions by Spain and Italy. Nigeria's main oil union, PENGASSAN, threatened to shut output from Sunday as Africa's biggest oil producer entered its fourth day of nationwide protests over the loss of