City administrators are predicting that not only will the Energy Division cover its $24.8-million dividend, but also produce a near $12.2-million contribution to the Community Capital Fund.
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Only Energy Isolation Equates to Energy Security
The United States could become nearly self-sufficient in oil within the next decade. Oil production from Texas, North Dakota and other shale-rich states means the country is less reliant on foreign oil than at any time since at least the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s. Production has reached the point that authorities are calling on U.S. lawmakers to consider exporting oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a cushion normally reserved for domestic markets. That level of energy independence is redefining the aspects of the global marketplace. It will do little, however, to isolate the United States from its dynamics.
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Washington Still Blocks Keystone as Canada Beats US in Energy Sustainability
The World Energy Council (WEC) has this week ranked Canada as number six in green energy credentials and environmental performance, nine places ahead of the United States. At the same time, environmentalist lobbies in the U.S. have stepped up pressure on the Administration in Washington to continue blocking any approval for the Keystone XL pipeline, even if Canada were to improve still further its regulations on carbon emissions.
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Gary Lamphier: Don’t blindly accept Jeff Rubin’s dark economic forecast
If you’re not familiar with Jeff Rubin’s views on the global economy, climate change or the energy industry, you haven’t been paying attention.
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How the Shale Boom has Effected the US Economy
I am a huge fan of in-depth research reports, for I relish the challenge of sifting through them to find the simple takeaways that make sense to me (while gracefully admitting defeat to the more complex bits).
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THE AMERICAN MANUFACTURING RENAISSANCE & ENERGY
“U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance is Fact not Fiction”
QUESTION: Is there a “manufacturing renaissance in the USA.”
ANSWER: Yes. This is developing for two primary reasons. First: the 2011 law that has blocked Americans from starting businesses overseas. Second: many companies including auto manufacturers who rushed to Mexico to manufacture cars are coming back. Ford no longer employs anyone at its Hofu Plant in Japan and the Cuautitian Plant in Mexico both opened in 1981.
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U.S. energy lifting economy more than expected
Newly found sources of domestic oil and natural gas are having an even bigger impact on the economy than first projected, adding more than $1,200 last year to the discretionary income of the average U.S. family, a new study says.
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US Energy Boom to Create 500,000 Additional Jobs by 2020
The Gulf Coast is expected to boom over the coming years, as more oil and gas companies drill offshore wells, the fracking industry produces more and more gas and oil which needs to be converted into LNG or refined into usable petroleum products, and plans exist to pipe Canadian crude down to ports in the Gulf for refining and export.
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The Cube – New Breakthrough Set to Alter the Energy Landscape Forever
Redox Power Systems has signed a partnership deal with researchers at the University of Maryland in order to develop and bring to commercial market a new distributed electricity generation technology that could change the relationship that many consumers have with the energy market and national grid.
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US Oil Demand Grows at Fastest Rate in Two Years
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has declared that the demand for oil in the US is growing at its fastest rate in over two years, mostly due to the increase in demand for industrial fuels.
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