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SNC-Lavalin, IMPSA Team Snags Bid for $900M British Columbia Powerplant Rebuild

2013-11-19 15:00:20| ENR.com: Headline News

Utility will build more of its replacement power station underground, using a public-private partnership financing approach.

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Public backs Keystone pipeline, power-plant emissions curbs, poll says

2013-09-26 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Baltimore Sun: In the debate over energy and climate change, the public continues to give support to both sides, according to a a new poll. By more than a 2-1 margin, respondents in a new Pew Research Center poll said they favor building the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry oil from tar sands deposits under Canada's western prairies through the Midwest to refineries in Texas. Republicans in Congress have strongly advocated building the pipeline, while President Obama has given mixed signals on the...

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Pro-coal Democrats distance themselves from Obama on power-plant proposal

2013-09-24 14:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Greenwire: Coal state Democrats, especially those in tough races, have emerged as among the loudest critics to the Obama administration's latest proposal to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants. On Friday, as U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy touted the potential new guidelines, Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) introduced a resolution for Congress to officially object to the Obama administration's move. The resolution says "the proposed rule would be detrimental to the Nation's coal mining...

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Obama moves to limit power-plant carbon pollution

2013-09-21 01:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and Republicans that it would dim coal's future. The proposal, which would set the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, is intended to help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner...

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