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One year later, Hurricane Sandy fuels grid innovation
2013-10-25 11:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: For years, people talked about how important modernizing the grid is to our planet. But Hurricane Sandy proved to be a more powerful impetus, pushing states to accelerate spending on smart grid technology and distributed energy to make the electrical infrastructure more resilient. Next week marks the one-year anniversary of the arrival of Hurricane Sandy to the east coast of the United States, a storm responsible for dozens of deaths and massive economic losses. In the immediate aftermath, the...
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Fossil Fuels Dominate Primary Energy Consumption
2013-10-24 23:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Worldwatch Institute: Coal, natural gas, and oil accounted for 87 percent of global primary energy consumption in 2012, as the growth of worldwide energy use continued to slow due to the economic downturn, according to a new Vital Signs Online trend. The relative weight of these energy sources keeps shifting, although only slightly. Natural gas increased its share of energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent during 2012, coal rose from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, and oil fell from 33.4 to 33.1 percent. The International...
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Melting Arctic easing access to fossil fuels
2013-10-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
FuelFix: More direct routes may be opening up in the Arctic, as melting ice has made previously unnavigable routes a growing possibility for large ships, including tankers carrying oil and gas, an expert said Wednesday at the Third Houston Shipping and Offshore Conference. "The ice is melting and a new ocean is opening up," said Johan Vold, managing director of the Energy Policy Foundation of Norway and a former executive at Royal Dutch Shell and Statoil. The conference was held at the Houstonian Hotel...
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Oil Boomlet Fuels North Dakota Roadwork and Puts Pressure on Aggregate Costs
2013-10-16 20:13:06| ENR.com: Headline News
Aggregate sources and long winters challenge contractors
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Oil Boom Fuels Freight Rail Renaissance
2013-10-16 20:12:13| ENR.com: Headline News
Fracking operations in North Dakota and other locations are prompting the rail industry to upgrade capacity
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